Batman: Broken City
by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso (Illustrator)
Batman Vol. 1 (1940-2011) (collections) (Collections and Selections — 620-625), Batman
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The award-winning creative team of 100 Bullets puts its stamp on the Dark Knight! A dead girl's body is found in a Gotham City landfill, and the discovery sends Batman on a journey that pits him against The Joker, Killer Croc, and more! Gotham is a city of shadows, as twisted and dangerous as the monsters and maniacs who haunt it. As he pursues a murderer down a path that leads to some of his greatest enemies, can even the Dark Knight Detective withstand the city's psychological horrors?Tags
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A delicious neo-noir Batman story, with essence of Maltese Falcon, in which Batman tries to find the brutal killer of an underworld moll. The trail is complex, with many red herrings, and eventually leads to Killer Croc, Penguin, Scarface and the Joker. There are also a couple of new players in town, with abilities that are not quite made clear, nor how Batman is able to defeat them. And the Joker's connection is not quite clear, either. But the writing and artwork are perfect for the atmosphere here, and there are some bits that delve into Batman's psyche that, amazingly, can still wring some seminal meaning from the horrible event that created him. I look forward to more work from this team, if Azzarello can pay a little more show more attention to plot in addition to mood. show less
The inside jacket reads "Killer Croc as a street-hustlin' pimp? The Joker coming to the aid of Batman? You've never seen the streets of Gotham City like this before!"
That is a marketer trying to crap into your head.
It's just your basic dark knight angsting out in the dark night. He wigs out about his childhood, there are some incredible twists (as in not credible) and the ending makes little sense. But at least it isn't Batman in the suburbs.
Maybe we've all been a little spoiled by Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns", but this is all pretty Meh.
That is a marketer trying to crap into your head.
It's just your basic dark knight angsting out in the dark night. He wigs out about his childhood, there are some incredible twists (as in not credible) and the ending makes little sense. But at least it isn't Batman in the suburbs.
Maybe we've all been a little spoiled by Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns", but this is all pretty Meh.
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- Canonical title
- Batman: Broken City
- Original publication date
- 2004-07-01
- People/Characters
- Batman
- Important places
- Gotham City, New Jersey, USA
- First words
- All the chiseled granite and jutting spokes of steel give the impression that this city has an iron jaw...
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I hope, for your sake, that day is tomorrow.
- Publisher's editor
- Dennis, Will; Schreck, Bob
- Original language
- English
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- Graphic Novels & Comics, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
- LCC
- PN6728 .B36 .A97 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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- (3.22)
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- 5 — English, Finnish, German, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
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