Batman: Broken City (part five)...

[fajrdrako]

I've been enthusiastic over Batman comics lately. The latest issue, Batman #624, just made me more crazy over it than ever.

It begins with narrative, like a voice-over while dramatic events are happening: "I wear a mask. And that mask is not to hide who i am, but to create what I am. And what that is, I've always thought, is a nightmare for the kind of people that scare other people."

I love Brian Azzarello's writing. I liked the art here too, by Eduardo Risso, heavily influenced by Frank Miller's style, but nicely effective. The layouts are fantastic - lots of panel variations and page contrasts, good use of perspective, viewpoint, close-ups and long-shots, lots of atmosphere in night scenes and rain scenes... I could practically feel the chill in the air.

I enjoyed the villains, Fatman and Little Boy. I'm sure I wouldn't have enjoyed them if the writing and art had been more pedestrian. As it was - I even enjoyed a bloody fight scene. That's unusual. Mind you, it's all in the style.

I'd love to link to the art, but I don't think there's a way. You can see it on Eduardo Risso's web page, as he has it for sale. (At prices higher than I can afford, or course. It doesn't matter. My walls are already filled with art and I already have the comic book art I most want.) I admire that man's style. The composition. Why are some comics banal, and others just full of mood and motion? - Mind you, though I love the art in the comic itself, I was unimpressed by the cover.

"In here there are no second chances. Gotham's stingy that way, since it has only so many chances to go around and eight million people fighting for just one.

"Eight million people - give or take who survives a night."

Comments

[digitalwave]

Hey sweetie,

I got to see an advance copy of Alpha Flight today, it's not Heather or Jeanne-Marie, two new characters completely. The only hold-overs are Walter and James Hudson.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I got to see an advance copy of Alpha Flight today,two new characters completely

No wonder they weren't recognizable! Interesting. I wonder what happened to Heather - ?