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luana420's review
4.0
Alan Davis' art coupled with Mike Barr's writing were the Batman combo I didn't know I needed! Dynamic (hehhh) and expressive, Davis imbues Gotham with so much life you'll just breeze through this unfortunately fairly overpriced collection in a few hours.
I hadn't really been aware of Mike Barr, but his take on the Dark Knight -- essentially a slightly more serious Adam West in a 1980s Daredevilesque colorful crime world -- may have become my personal favorite all in the course of one collection.
Buyer beware! The run of Detective Comics that Davis did ends with #575, the first issue of the Year Two storyline. However, the book then immediately jumps into Batman: Full Circle - a one-shot sequel to Year Two featuring a new person taking up the identity of the Reaper. This is confusing as fuck and the book has no text intros or interstitials explaining this!
I hadn't really been aware of Mike Barr, but his take on the Dark Knight -- essentially a slightly more serious Adam West in a 1980s Daredevilesque colorful crime world -- may have become my personal favorite all in the course of one collection.
Buyer beware! The run of Detective Comics that Davis did ends with #575, the first issue of the Year Two storyline. However, the book then immediately jumps into Batman: Full Circle - a one-shot sequel to Year Two featuring a new person taking up the identity of the Reaper. This is confusing as fuck and the book has no text intros or interstitials explaining this!
plaidbrarian's review
5.0
It's an odd duck of a Batman run, with writer Mike W. Barr combining bits of the grim Dark Knight and the lighthearted Caped Crusader (made all the more odd by being more or less contemporaneous with Miller & Mazzuchelli's Batman: Year One), but if you don't worry about how and where they fit they're a hell of a lot of fun. The real star, though (and the nominal reason for this collection's existence), is the amazing artwork of Alan Davis (with inker Mark Farmer), which is enhanced by the high quality presentation of this volume. Davis's work has never looked better. If you're a Davis fan you need this. If you're a Batman fan and you haven't read these stories before, you should probably check it out, too.
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