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Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 7 (DC Comics) Author Louise Simonson scores top-grossing seventh novel collection of late 1980s/early 1990s detective comicsinclude ‘Technology #634-638add Chapter 641 and Chapter 643 and Annual #4and a question batman and dark knight legend. (As for the question Chapter 640which is part of the “Idiot Root” crossover, and Chapter 642 Part of The Return of Scarface, all collected elsewhere). The period covered was when the Alan Grant/Norm Breyfogle team moved to batmanand there is no fixed creative team, which gives the book an anthology feel.
In addition to the annual report, Simonson wrote a three-part storyline that amounted to much of the work. Drawn by Jim Fein and Steve Mitchell, the trilogy follows a young boy with the superhuman ability to bring video games to life, which he seemingly uses to track down and kill an Arkham escapee , and then uses more and more abilities to devour more of Gotham.
Commissioner Gordon and Sergeant Essen were obsessed with the video games the boy used as inspiration, playing them for research, while Batman was mentored by video game enthusiast Robin Tim Drake.
I’m not a gamer, in fact I probably haven’t actually played a non-Pac-Man video game since this comic was originally released, but seeing old guys like Alfred and Gordon talking about video games is very interesting. Parts of the story have a real geriatric rap quality, and it’s interesting to see Fern and Mitchell, along with colorist Adrienne Roy, try to influence the old-school video games that are now invading reality.
Simonson’s other contributions, Detective Comics Annual #4 (They probably should have used that cover for the series; it’s an image so powerful that it kept me interested in the issue, and it was one of the first Batman comics I ever read, and one of my early comic period one) is end of the world 2001 yearly.
I’m glad it was included because it was a pleasure to read it again and from the perspective of someone who hasn’t read hundreds or thousands of Batman comics, but it did interrupt the flow of the book Process, otherwise a fine anthology of Batman short comics. If you don’t remember, end of the world 2001 It tells the story of a hero from the distant future who travels back ten years to discover which 20th-century hero will become the “Monarch,” the fascist masked tyrant of his dystopian era. To do this, the Heroic Waverider touches certain characters and uses his powers to “read” their futures. This mainly means a series of The Dark Knight Returns——style dark future story starring every DC hero; he explains that some of the strongest need to be tested again and again, which explains the many encounters between Batman and Superman in their multiple games (participating batman The Annual also has a pretty nice cover, and is another one I’ve read from the series, as well as Superman, which was an early example of the Superman-turned-evil genre that had long since proliferated).
DC doesn’t seem to have found a way to collect their annual crossover events yet, which will probably require some kind of clunky omnibus, or a series of deals, but I would eagerly buy a collection of these events, and this one in particular, I’m so Miss it.
Anyway, Simonson collaborated with the great Tom Grindberg, who colored his work and painted that excellent cover, which was actually another (if final) encounter with the Al Ghul family ) round.
In media res, Batman battles the Ra’s Clan over a vat growing the plague virus, an adventure that ends in a very unusual ending when Batman’s batrope snaps while he’s dangling from a mountain, causing him to fall and break his back. While Batman mopes around, Gotham City about a decade later is out of control enough for an adult Tim Drake to take over the mantle of Batman.
When he is shot and killed on the job, disabled Bruce Wayne is forced to pull himself together and seek revenge. He does this by creating a new version of the cyborg brace, the one we see an elderly Alfred Pennyworth wearing. After much trial and error and training montages, Batman finally created a cyborg suit that could be worn under normal clothing.
The new, bulletproof, super-strong Batman takes to the streets to find out who killed the boy in the Batman costume, and the answers lead him back to Al Ghul. At the climax, Batman finds himself stripped of his cyborg suit and dead again, this time about to be thrown into the Lazarus Pit himself. He chooses a rather un-Batman-esque method of escape, although it fits the idea of a “final” Batman story.
It’s a very engaging story and, of course, wonderfully drawn. I think it affected my view of Batman at one point, but then, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns Casting such a long shadow over the Batman of the early ’90s, a Batman more aware of his own mortality and more concerned with his mission than a life like Bruce Wayne, more invested in the form of the terrifying monster in the night.scare criminals, as it is difficult to compare Simonson’s use of these tropes to those of her peers and from dark Knight Overall, as I said, this seemed to have some sort of impact on the whole thing. (I’d need to read more to know for sure, though, DC, so start collecting! Check Wikipedia; there seem to be only a dozen or so participating almanacs, plus the bookend chapters of the story, so I think a pair of bulk trades would be fine process the entire series).
The book also collects “The Destroyer,” a multi-book crossover (here’s where those issues go) batman and dark knight legend Come in). The real-world rationale for the book was to bring the Gotham City in the comics more in line with the Gotham City in the movies, batman Production designer Anton Furst’s designs were imported into the comics in 1989. The rationale in the comics is that a demolition expert obsessed with the architecture of old Gotham performed a series of explosions that blew up the newer, squarer, more authentic buildings, revealing the older, weirder designs they hid.
這個故事由格蘭特、布雷福格爾、丹尼·奧尼爾、克里斯·斯普羅斯、布魯斯·帕特森以及格蘭特、阿帕羅和德卡洛創作，標誌著哥譚在漫畫中出現方式的正式inflection point. I’m not sure that’s necessary per se; like, I can’t imagine Kelly Jones no When he took over Batman a few years later, he drew some weird looking towers filled with weird gargoyles, but it used to be Stories about the architecture of Gotham. (Interestingly, this book was published in 1992, the same year Grant Morrison’s Gothic was released, which also focused on the spiritual aspects of the architecture of Batman’s hometown).
The rest of the book was written by multiple authors. Perhaps the best of them all is “Bomb” written by Peter Milligan and drawn by Jim Aparo and Mike DeCarlo, which I remember picking up from a back issue not too long ago After taking it out of the box, it made me feel very uncomfortable. It’s basically a new take on the Golden Age suicide bomber character; That The guy doesn’t show up, but a guy with the bizarre superpower to blow himself up and cause explosions does, and they’re treated very differently than wartime superheroes.
Milligan and Aparo have reunited for another one-off, a murder mystery called “Library of Souls,” about a librarian gone bad who treats his victims like books , and try to organize them into stories.
Finally, the series kicks off with Kelly Puckett and Luke Macdonald’s The Third Man, in which Batman must try to solve a series of particularly puzzling murders… and a pair of old ladies are also on the hunt for this case.
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Zom 100: The Dead Man’s Bucket List Vol. 9 (visual media) On the list of 100 things Akira and company want to do before becoming zombies in the zombie apocalypse they’re currently experiencing is running a bar, which doesn’t seem like the most feasible ambition, in the midst of the whole zombie apocalypse thing.
However, things change when our heroes arrive in Osaka, where Akira and Kenmachi reconnect with their college friend Takemina. They discover a thriving market, a strange economy in which canned goods serve as a unit of currency, and an enclave of elites who live in a castle and host elaborate gambling nights. These include a particularly scary game in which one bets all their cans on a 50/50 game of running through one of two doors. Behind one door is a pit full of cans, and behind the other door is a pit full of zombies.
Our heroes had some trouble with the bar concept to find business, but things really started to look up when they incorporated the bucket list into the bar itself, used it to scratch off some of the items on it, and help patrons achieve some goals .
However, things took a strange turn when things became super successful and Akira found himself a millionaire, at least in the canned food economy. As the book reaches its climax, he appears to have betrayed his friends and joined the castle’s elite, prompting them to declare their attention on a two-door gamble.
Like the series, it’s a nice, fun farce on the surface, but there are interesting ideas underneath – concepts about money, economics, and what wealth can do to a person. It remains one of my favorite comic series.
Nella and Din (Vikings) Ismin Omar Atta tells the story of Ramadan in Neira, which brings with it some struggles and complications, chiefly a deity who flees his homeland and seeks refuge in Neira. In stories where supernatural entities break into the mundane world, things unfold differently than they usually do. This is a genius comic that is well worth reading.
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Donald Duck’s Happiest Adventures (Fantasy Picture) The creative team of Lewis Trondheim and Nicolas Kerimidas reunite for 2017’s sequel mickey’s craziest adventures album, which is also their discovery of the “lost” classic era of Disney comics. In this movie, Donald embarks on Uncle Scrooge’s most challenging quest yet: finding true happiness. Predictably, this is good stuff.
