Batman: Year One - Frank Miller Reviews

When Frank Miller was tasked to give the Dark Knight a fresh perspective and try reboot the characters for a new generation, nobody would have foreseen that Batman: Year One would become one of the most classic story among the countless stories of Gotham City's protector. Year One retold the original story of how Bruce Wayne's ...  Read the complete review

When Christopher Nolan arrived on the scene to direct the latest spark in the Batman film franchise, inspiration had to come from somewhere. The films had taken an almost farcical turn which meant that true Batman fans had seen their dark and atmospheric crime fighting hero go from the black caped bat who instils fear into his enemies to ...  Read the complete review

Batman: Year one is one of the most important comic books in the past 25 years and this re-telling of the the dark knight origins. The book pack alot into its 144 pages and has been the inspiration for numourous Batman films and espisodes of cartoons. The graphic novel tells the story of Bruce Wayne's first year a Batman. The ...  Read the complete review

Batman Year One retells the story of Bruce Wayne's first year as the crime fighting vigilante Batman. it shows him returning to Gotham city, with a plan to clean up the city of the crime that killed his parents when he was a child. At the same time, a younger James Gordon is assigned to Gotham and tries to fit in with the corrupt cops of ...  Read the complete review

Batman Year One is another excellent installment in Frank Miller's Batman graphic novel adaptations. The book primarily focuses on Bruce Wayne's start of his crime fighting career and the steps he took to become the Caped Crusader. It also contentrates on Jim Gordon's transfer to Gotham City and struggle to adapt and come to terms with ...  Read the complete review

Batman Year One stole my comic book virginity...and it was good (which is surprising considering other lost virginities). There was the expected turbulence; such as the illegibility of some of the writing, and having to go back through pages which were stuck together, but all in all it was an excellent experience. Within an hour of ...  Read the complete review

'Batman: Year One' is a classic Batman story written by Frank Miller and illustrated by David Mazzucchelli that first appeared in DC comics in 1987. The collected story in book form was chosen as the greatest Batman graphic novel ever by IGN Comics, who commented; 'No other book before or since has quite captured the realism, the grit ...  Read the complete review

I'm a relatively new fan of graphic novels - been reading them for about a year and having thoroughly enjoyed The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, I wanted to read Year One as well. Firstly I would say that while I did enjoy David Mazzuchelli's artwork in this book, I preferred the art work of Frank Miller in Dark Knight ...  Read the complete review

In the mid-eighties DC comics decided to reinvent their universe. Not in the way they do on Elseworlds or alternative universes. No, this was to give all the main characters an upgrade and start from scratch. This was partly due to DC Comics running for so long, with so many writers and so many different versions of their heroes that ...  Read the complete review

Batman: Year One is Frank Miller's tale of Batman's first days under the hood. It is a very different Batman than many have become accustomed to - in this story, Batman makes mistakes, and you'll also find no supervillains - the crime that Bats fights in this story is the corruption within the Gotham police department, ...  Read the complete review