Detective Comics #846: Dustin Nguyen Page

DC Comics Sep 2008 cover date.

I don't have any particular problems with Dustin Nguyen's artwork for the recent run of DC Comics' Detective Comics. His distortions and cartoony feel are certainly not the pseudo-realism of the Neal Adams/Jim Aparo/Jim Lee wing of comic art, but it's still a nice batch of story telling on his pages. But on page 16 the lion just doesn't quite seem like a lion, but like a guy in a lion suit. This disrupts the story and makes it take on an unintended turn.