Drz
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Nemesis: The 3rd collabaration by Mark Millar and Steve Mcniven brings forth the super villain pitched as "what if Batman was the Joker?" or "what if Batman was the villain?" this 4 issue action packed story introduces a whole new Millarworld and the while this is Nemesis' story, i cannot call him as the protagonist as the hero of the story is the Police chieftain Blake Morrow, whom Nemesis wants to murder. Nemesis has billions of money and all the cool James Bond gadgets that you can suspect Batman aswell would have, but he comes off with a very potty mouth but ultimately when he gives his origin in #4 in a simple dialogue exchange it all makes sense, his entire motivation into murdering Blake Morrow is beatiful and simple, i love it when Millar writes a villain-centric story. The very last page twist is something i feel "eh" about, but i like the idea behind Nemesis as a whole and reserve my judgement on the last twist when the 2nd volume starts. Sadly the actual tradepack barely comes with anything exclusive, infact it doesn't even bring all the scripts that the 4 issues provided funnily enough. It's a thrillful pop corn rush with great action and explosions that you can except Millar and Mcniven to deliver, simply put.
Rating: Ultimately this is a rather casual comic that you give to your friends who tell you that Heath Ledger Joker, Jack Nicholson Joker and villains like Hannibal Lecter are the coolest villains out there and you'd love to see a "what if Batman was Joker" twist and show how the world would crumble beneath them, definatly also recommended for Batman fans who would like to see an Owlman comic, like James Woods' awesome portrayal as Owlman in Justice League: Crisis for Two Earths. The last page ending is questionable a silly plothole unless things work out in Volume 2, but yeah for casual people this might be the coolest thing since digital watches, but my rating for it shall be 75/100
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne: Reading this in a delicious oversized hardcover was a thing of joy. Each issue has a great artist (well granted i didn't find #4 art that great, but it wasn't awful or anything, just not as good as the other artists pulled off) and each issue delves onto Batman's ability to survive and escape traps of any kind while the Justice League is on his trail trying to save him from destroying the 21st century as Darkseid has booby-trapped him. The issue itself is a tribute to the idea of a man making himself a god, while also humbling Batman and facing reality that some writers have put Batman in denial and even it's fans: Batman asks for help, and he hasn't ever been alone. That is how the story concludes and delivers that message, and there is no shame in that!I absolutely loved how much extra content this trade delivers in. Andy Kubert's character sketches, even the victorian era Batman design he made is there! The different artists show how they made the covers and some panels here and there along with their own character sketches. Simply put this is Batman escaping a death trap in a universally large scale, while the "escaping traps" template might have been done to death, the fresh and huge scale makes it all the better and enjoyable read.
Rating: The ending here and story is all perfectly done for people who simply wish to read this story alone, theres no major needs to read anything previous, but it enchances the read thru, but i think the ending is much weaker for Morrison fans because it's just one of the major chapters and really the "Bruce is Back!" awesome comes alive in Batman & Robin and the great new chapter for Bruce begins in "Batman Incorporated" but yeah the story itself, the art and the scale of things make this a really fun comic book and tributing Batman. 96/100
Batman: Haunted Gotham Doug Moench & Kelley Jones are known from the Vampire Batman story arc they did, but this is a lesser known elseworld they've done together. It's about Gotham literally being a cursed place of hell, where demons haunt the good guys and among other things. Bruce is 30 years old and has been trained by his Father into a secret weapon, but yeah ultimately the Wayne parents die at the first pages.It's pretty much about Batman and this secret club going againts the demons of Gotham, with really cool new twists on Joker and Catwoman. 2/3 of the book was great, but i felt the last arc (like the last 30-45 pages) was abit too dragging. There was just *so* much going on! I still found it a fun story nonetheless.
Rating: It's a bit too long but the concept is cool and "trippy" i guess but hey c'mon it's a cursed Gotham with Batman and this secret cult slaughtering demons and protecting Gotham. Art is great and again: Concept is awesome! 80/100
Batman: Gotham After Midnight 30 days of Night writer Steve Niles and the artist Kelley Jones team up for a 12-arc story of all kinds of horror! New anti-hero Midnight appears in Gotham doing all kinds of havoc. You got a really horror-style take on Clayface, Joker on drugs (he's creepy!!!!) among many characters made perfectly work for the story. Tho it suffers the "obvious bad guy" syndrome since it's a new mystery character and well... You know it's pretty easy to guess these things.It's still intriquing horror story with a good variety of villains from Man-Bat to Catwoman being a pure villain!
Rating: Steve Niles' story is pretty good and this tradepack can be received for a good price, Kelley Jones art is horrible when it comes to anatomy but he's just so great with the horror feeling he's achieving here like he's Da Vinci himself or something, but yeah the villain is rather obvious but it's still interesting to see Batman solve this case and all the villains out there written in such a great way, especially Clayface whos portrayal is so cool haha. Joker is as always awesome, but yeah i'll give this a solid 80/100
Captain America Lives! The 3rd Bru's Captain America omnibus keeps the great quality of story telling as Bucky continues his adventures as the Captain America, we got cool fight scenes againts Batroc, but i seriously enjoyed the chinese scientist story arc the most with Bucky's stuff on this trade. His guilt from the sins of his past craving him to redeem himself and make him worthy of wearing the mantle. I found #600 rather lackluster but i loved Crossbones and Sin's moment of kiss, and poor Sharon when she saw her scar! One thing that i was confuzzled was with after Reborn event, the trade shows me #601? Why didn't they just put that after #600? Baron Blood seems like he could make a really cool villain, but yeah i just felt underwhelmed after reading the main treat of the omnibus: Reborn.
I loved this, i mean it was obviously written like a good event comic. You had great amount of splash pages showcasing stunning action, you had Bryan Hitch deliver close face shots or one page shots of a hero and villain, i especially loved his shot of Baron Zemo, that was awesome! I also loved how it balanced around 3 sections, the heroes, the villains and Steve trapped in the time lock. The last 2 issues we're just stunning to look at, but whats up with Hank Pym? He's a Wasp now? Did he start missing Janet that much or something? Confuzzled! Again tho i feel abit bleh how much less these omnibuses carry extra material compared to the 1st Captain America omnibus, but all those Captain America Reborn covers we're great to gaze upon, especially Leinil Francis Yu's!
Rating: It's a good story in itself with lots of heart warming stuff like the Sharon Carter stuff and the Reborn Event itself was amazingly illusturated by Bryan Hitch and the story was highly action packed aswell! It's an conclusion to some chapters and the beginnings of some aswell with Steve's return and Bucky still carrying the Mantle and so on. I guess my rating would be 90/100 oh and i really liked the Bucky + Namor team up story at the start.