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Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
This story was just sooooo good, and in some ways I don't even know why. It was kind of like wrapping yourself in a warm, comforting blanket. Don't get me wrong - I don't mean that it's safe or something we've seen before, but the atmosphere is familiar and perfect for a Batman book. At this stage I have no clue as to what is going on but it made me feel as though I was reading everything that's great about Batman all in one book. I've been reading regularly since I picked up # 387 off the shelf in a newsagents back in the mid-80s, and have then read new stories and old. Gaiman has set out a delicious little mystery, but in doing so he's given us these vignettes which are tributes to various ages of the Bat over the last 70 years. Batman history didn't actually happen this way, but it feels as though it did.
In amongst the strangeness we see old comrades like Jim and Barbara Gordon, Bullock, Montoya et al, and the comments they make are exactly what they should say at the funeral of the world's greatest detective, a man who was a friend or someone they fought alongside. It's in those moments that I think Gaiman has also written a fitting farewell to such a noble character. I know Bruce will be back some time, and probably not before too long, but for right now this is an elegant way of sending him off.
Andy Kubert hasn't always been a favourite of mine, but I can't complain here. He's really playing at the top of his game. The detail in this work is phenomenal, for example the panels of Joe Chill cleaning glasses, or the various homages to past Bat artists throughout the story.
In the end, the perfect tale for a British winter's night. I might be seeing it through overly sentimental, nostalgic eyes but right now I have only one thought in mind - can't wait for part two!
Art: 5 - Excellent
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