Missing pages in Brian Azzarello's Batman: Broken City?

["V"]

Hi, I bought Broken City from Forbidden Planet before Christmas and have just started to read it. All was well until I started part three and within a few pages chapter four had started! Is part three only four pages long in anybody else's copy, or have I got a dud one?

I'd be most grateful for any help.

- V

 

[OneKnight]

That sounds strange.

Broken City is Batman comic issues #620 thru #625.

I suppose the way the TPB is ordered, you may not be missing pages. Tell me what's on the last page of chapter three and I'll check my issues.

 

["V"]

Thanks for the reply.

Chapter three starts with Bats interrogating/torturing Scarface with the caption: "I'd turn the entire city into my doctor..." then the next page seems to have him chasing some Japanese guy and being confronted by a female assassin.

It just seems strange that the previous chapters are around twenty pages and then this one only has four.

 

[JTStarkiller]

That page with Scarface you described is the very last page of part 3 (which is the same length as the others). If you don't have scenes involving Bruce's parents' death, Penguin, and Ms. Farr, then I'd take it back.

 

[metropolitanpsy]

batman takes such a beating by that japanese girl

probably second after knightfall!

he all black and blue lol

 

["V"]

That page with Scarface you described is the very last page of part 3 (which is the same length as the others). If you don't have scenes involving Bruce's parents' death, Penguin, and Ms. Farr, then I'd take it back.

So the part that I think is the start of part 3 is actually the end of it?

As I've read it, part 1 begins with the interrogation of Croc. Part 2 begins with Bruce's dream about his parents. Part 3 appears to begin with the torture with Scarface but then seems to go into part 4 within a few pages (see pictures below.) None of the other parts seem to have had a new credits panel a couple of pages after them.

Beginning of part 3:

Next page:

Next page, which appears to have the start of part 4:

Apologies if I'm being dense here.

If anybody else's copy follows the pattern that my photos do, then mine must be fine. But the way I currently see it, there seems to be a very small gap between the credits for part 3 and part 4 in comparison to 1-2 and then 2-3.

 

[Joker]

the one you think is the first page of Chapter 3 is actually the last page of Chapter 3, and the one you think is the first page of Chapter 4 is actually the 4th page of Chapter 4.

Where the title is changes from issue to issue...sometimes its the first page, sometimes they have a little teaser before the title to have it be in a better place, and sometimes they save it till the end of the issue.

 

[OneKnight]

Listen to The Joker.

Your copy is fine.

 

[BubbaGump]

Lawl.

 

[Joker]

you do have one problem...you actually bought that horrible book...I had forgotten all about Fat Man and Little Boy (who's a girl ...way to just sort of throw in an a-bomb refference there, despite it not making any sense Azzraello).

 

["V"]

the one you think is the first page of Chapter 3 is actually the last page of Chapter 3, and the one you think is the first page of Chapter 4 is actually the 4th page of Chapter 4.

Where the title is changes from issue to issue...sometimes its the first page, sometimes they have a little teaser before the title to have it be in a better place, and sometimes they save it till the end of the issue.

Ah, got ya. Thanks for all of the help everyone.

I have to admit, I've been a bit disappointed with the book; I mainly bought it on the strength of the Risso illustration of Batman in the lightning. Hopefully the purchase of Batman: Black & White Volume 3, which I thought had some great little stories in it, has redeemed me.