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55 reviews for:
Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham
Troy Nixey, Dennis Janke, Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, Bill Oakley, Dave Stewart
3.58 AVERAGE
55 reviews for:
Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham
Troy Nixey, Dennis Janke, Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, Bill Oakley, Dave Stewart
3.58 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
batman turns into a man-bat like creature (yes, there's a difference), harvey dent goes full body horror, bruce was shooting people with a gun and gotham gets infested by frogs. i have to stan.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book just felt messy to me. It features some of the classic Mignola imagery, with strange lizard me and Lovecraftian monsters. Unfortunately, some of the characters were very hard to differentiate though, especially some of the companions of Bruce Wayne/Batman. It felt like a slightly ham-fisted attempt of throwing Batman into a [b:Hellboy|102458|Hellboy, Vol. 1 Seed of Destruction|Mike Mignola|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1486039246l/102458._SY75_.jpg|98784] story. It would have been more interesting for me to just have some 1920s [b:B.P.R.D.|111828|B.P.R.D., Vol. 1 Hollow Earth & Other Stories|Mike Mignola|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1403208800l/111828._SY75_.jpg|346515] characters involved instead. Perhaps, this is due to my ignorance of some DC canon and characters, like Etrigan the Demon.
It did have fun little asides, like a polar expedition led by Oswald Cobblepot, and Harvey Dent being corrupted to become a portal for an elder god. Green Arrow makes some important contributions to the plot too. The transformation of Batman, losing his humanity and becoming a bat monster in the course of defeating the doom, was a new wrinkle to me as well.
It did have fun little asides, like a polar expedition led by Oswald Cobblepot, and Harvey Dent being corrupted to become a portal for an elder god. Green Arrow makes some important contributions to the plot too. The transformation of Batman, losing his humanity and becoming a bat monster in the course of defeating the doom, was a new wrinkle to me as well.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Batman and Cthulhu - Sucker for weird Batman stories
A quick disclaimer: I am such a sucker for Batman and especially so for any of the weird Batman stories. Some examples are Gotham by Gaslight and Dark City, Dark Night. This was definitely another story in that vein and it was a really cool imagining of some of the Batman characters in an 1800s Cthulhu story. It's a pretty quick read but a really fun and cool story.
Though I haven't watched Batman Ninja yet so what do I really know?
A quick disclaimer: I am such a sucker for Batman and especially so for any of the weird Batman stories. Some examples are Gotham by Gaslight and Dark City, Dark Night. This was definitely another story in that vein and it was a really cool imagining of some of the Batman characters in an 1800s Cthulhu story. It's a pretty quick read but a really fun and cool story.
Though I haven't watched Batman Ninja yet so what do I really know?
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
You ever want to read a Batman book that takes place in the Hellboy? Because that's what this feels like. That isn't a slight. Mike Mignola does a great job creating this new version of Gotham that's both noir and horror rich. The art is Mignola-esque and perfect for the book. I would love to revisit this world.