The younger James is popularly suspected of being a criminal, and Barbara 'Still Oracle' Gordon suspected him of even being a serial killer, although there was never any proof.

At the start, Jock was drawing the lead stories and Francavilla the back-ups, which starred Commissioner Gordon and turned on his personal, family life specifically, the return of his son James Jr. Now, the format of Detective Comics was, at the time, a book with a full-length lead story and a short, back-up feature (although DC called them 'co-features,' as 'back-up' apparently sounded slightly dismissive). Francavilla's art, meanwhile, has a much more classic comics look, with a touch of Mazzucchelli in the design, which turns out to be so appropriate I imagine it was one of the reasons he got the assignment.

There's a sketchier, more indistinct and energetic line to Jock's work, which features lots of open scenes and un-filled in spaces. Their styles aren't too terribly compatible, aside from both being good and both being quite dynamic.

Snyder was certainly lucky to have such high quality collaborators: The art for all 300 or so pages of the collection is drawn by either Jock or Fancesco Francavilla, two of the better artists to put pencil to paper in order to draw a man dressed like a bat in the last few years. Overall, it's a pretty fine example of superior super-comic making, and one of several comics evidencing a Not Broken, Doesn't Need Fixed level of quality being produced on the ever of The New 52. The entirety of his TEC run is collected in the relatively fat trade paperback Batman: The Black Mirror. The Batman comics Snyder was writing before Batman were issues of Detective Comics (and the miniseries Batman: The Gates of Gotham, which he co-wrote with Kyle Higgins and Ryan Parrott), a series Snyder was on from issue #871 until the September 2011 reboot, at which point he and Batman writer/artist Tony Daniel swapped books. Before he began his critically-acclaimed, fan-favorite run on Batman for DC in the fall of 2011, writer Scott Snyder was.writing Batman comics for DC (As has been pointed out many times before, DC Comics didn't look very far for creators to reinvent their comics line as part of 'The New 52' effort in fact, for the most part, they didn't look any farther then the credits of the comics they were already publishing).

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