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Batman: Dark Knight Returns Book

If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller--known recently for his excellent Sin City series and, previously, for his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil--is probably the supreme contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children's cartoon character into a hero for our times. In his introduction the great Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, the arguably peerless Watchmen) argues that only someone of Miller's stature could have done this. Batman is a character known well beyond the confines of the comic world (as are his retinue) and so reinventing him, while keeping his limiting core essentials intact, was a huge task.Miller went far beyond the call of duty. The Dark Knight is a success on every level. Firstly it does keep the core elements of the Batman myth intact, with Robin, Alfred the butler, Commissioner Gordon and the old roster of villains, present yet brilliantly subverted. Secondly the artwork is fantastic--detailed, sometimes claustrophobic, psychotic. Lastly it's a great story: Gotham City is a hell on earth, streetgangs roam but there are no heroes. Decay is ubiquitous. Where is a hero to save Gotham? It is 10 years since the last recorded sighting of the Batman. And things have got worse than ever. Bruce Wayne is close to being a broken man but something is keeping him sane: the need to see change and the belief that he can orchestrate some of that change. Batman is back. The Dark Knight has returned. Awesome. --Mark ThwaiteRead More

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    Containing 28 pages of new sketches and a four-page gallery of cover art from the original comic series, this is a revised edition of a Batman graphic novel first published a decade earlier.

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    This ground-breaking synthesis of comic-book icons and modern cinematic sensibilities redefined an American myth and reshaped the face of modern graphic novels. And now a decade later it's back...to inspire a new generation! This edition contains 28 pages of never-before-seen sketches art and text with a new cover designed by Chip Kidd. This is the tale of a tortured hero's twilight and his efforts to save the city he had once sworn to protect from spiralling relentlessly into chaos. Batman's struggles with a new breed of criminal the training of a new Robin and his fateful final encounters with Superman Two-Face and The Joker are all woven together seamlessly to mark a warrior's mythic rite of passage.

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    Frank Miller, Klaus Janson (Illus), Frank Miller (Illus)

  • 1852867981
  • 9781852867980
  • Frank Miller
  • 16 May 1997
  • Titan Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
  • New ed of 2 Revised ed
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