Monday, February 05, 2007

Batman - Legend of the Dark Knight #213 - DC


This was an interesting book. First we have a nice cover by Walt Simonson. Then, with the story, they take an idea, and expound on it in it's next logical progression. We start out with the craze that the world has to have anything that may have come in contact with a famous person. I saw the other day where a cancelled rent check from Kevin Federline, went for about $800 on e-bay. That's insane. Well anyways, if we're in a universe that's filled with costumed vigilantes and heroes, wouldn't that be something of interest there? What would someone give for a discarded batarang, or a torn and discarded cowel, or any other number of things that may be left behind in the heat of the moment? And the next step would be to take that to a place where all the pop culture evolves around the trends in the states. And in this universe no one is bigger than the American heroes, or the JLA or JSA. So we move on to Japan. Batman becomes particularly embroiled in this case because in obtaining some items, someone was killed with one of his batarangs. We get filled in on some of the things that occur in Japanese pop culture, and twist it a little bit because of the different nature of the people that are watched under a microscope in this universe. And, we get some anime style villains. Steven Cummings does a nice job of giving the story an anime type style with his artwork. This was something that was truly different for Batman. But, it's ok to see him step out of his box sometimes. It was a nice change of pace.

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