by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale
Again a great story with great art work!
What can I say...Loeb and Sale are masters of their craft
The Long Halloween is a great book, but it did leave some loose threads hanging. It was probably inevitable that a sequel could come along, so here we have Dark Victory. The writing is pretty solid, but it's a little derivative of Long Halloween at times. The stories mirror each other too much for m...
Loved it Justyn. There's just something about the writing even more so than the story, both of which were amazing. But I really love how neatly and concisely the thoughts of Batman are kept on the sides of the frames all the way throughout the story. Is there a follow-up to this novel?
A decent follow-up to Loeb's "Long Halloween", Dark Victory re-tells Robin's origin story.
I thought long and hard before giving two stars to this one. It's possible that I should have given it three.It was long, and a decent enough read. In many ways it resembles Frank Miller's acclaimed Batman: Year One miniseries. Much of the art closely resembles David Mazzucchelli's subdued, semi-rea...
I thought long and hard before giving two stars to this one. It's possible that I should have given it three.It was long, and a decent enough read. In many ways it resembles Frank Miller's acclaimed Batman: Year One miniseries. Much of the art closely resembles David Mazzucchelli's subdued, semi-rea...
Much better than Haunted Knight as a follow-up and conclusion to the year one cycle begun by Miller and continued by Loeb. This, like The Long Halloween is a brilliantly complex story about organized crime and a follow-up to the fall of Harvey Dent. Dent defies moral categorization and at times yo...
All told, even better than The Long Halloween, in my opinion. It builds on what was the most interesting theme of that book (crazy Batman style villains supplanting the old school mob villains) and provides a mystery with a more satisfying conclusion to boot.
Borrowed from the local public library. See my short note on the book: [http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/12/short-notes-on-graphic-novels-8.html]
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