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Batman: Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb |
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30/06/09 (16 review reads) |
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Advantages: Possibly best written Batman of all time
Disadvantages: none
The Long Halloween is the natural follow up of the critically acclaimed Batman Year One, written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Tim Sale.
In Batman Year One, Batman's foes were all from the mob, no rogues gallery had yet appeared. This book is set a little after the end of Year One, after the majority of the characters (i.e. the Joker) had appeared.
Previously no-one had attempted to tie up the loose ends of the Roman's mob empire that Year One revolved around; it was assumed they got pushed out of control by all the new villains in town. This book was written by Loeb to tie up those loose ends, to see what ever happened to those poor mobsters.
So not to ruin the story for you, the plot is basically that a killer has started murdering one person on each holiday, this is essentially causing problems for everyone in Gotham and has to be stopped before it's too late. It is a classic who dun-nit which keeps you guessing right until the end; I challenge you to guess who it is, as I bet you wont see it coming.
Throughout the whole book the concept of moving from a realistic crime-ridden town to one full of all sorts of villains. The most obvious example is the story of Harvey Dent.
When this book was written there the origins of Two-Face were sketchy at best, in this book his origins are cemented that were then put into the recent film 'The Dark Knight'.
The story is gripping from the very first page, the artwork really captures the story and adds to the depth of the story. Without doubt this is at the very least in the top 3 Batman titles of all time, if not the greatest.
Standing at almost 400 pages for under a tenner, you will be hard stretched to find a reason not to give this book a try.
Summary: If you liek Batman and haven't even tried reading this, then it's about time you do.
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