Tag: Batman
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DC: The New Frontier TPB Review
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DC Comics Story, Art: Darwyn Cooke Colours: Dave Stewart It would be easy to dismiss Darwyn Cooke’s The New Frontier as another retro inspired reinterpretation of the currently stagnated superhero genre. Essentially, that is all it is. Comparisons to James Robinson’s The Golden Age are also inevitable, but Cooke avoids that book’s descent into darker…
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Batman and the Monster Men TPB Review
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Originally published 2006, DC Vertigo Writer: Matt Wagner Artist: Matt Wagner Colours: Dave Stewart Matt Wagner presents the Dark Knight’s first foray into the bizarre, in this Frankenstein flavoured pseudo-sequel to Miller’s Year One. The Batmobile, Robin and crew are all absent, and Batman’s relationship with James Gordon, not yet commissioner, is under development. Wagner’s…
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Batman Year 100 TPB Review
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2006, DC Story, art: Paul Pope Colours: Jose Villarrubia Strangely, the Year 100 trade paperback has not been tattooed with the Elseworlds tag; like Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Pope’s rendition is more a possible future for our current Batman. When he inevitably reaches his 100th birthday, I am confident the caped crusader will have…
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Batman: Face the Face TPB Review
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2006, DC Writer: James Robinson Art: Leonard Kirk, Don Kramer Inks: Andy Clarke, Wayne Faucher, Keith Champagne, Michael Bair Colours: John Kalisz Reading Face the Face I was reminded of the old comic adage, “nobody stays dead in comics except Bucky and Uncle Ben.” Similarly, when a Bat-villain is captured and sentenced to ten years…