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A review by apageinthestacks
Batman: No Man's Land by Greg Rucka
5.0
4.5/5. This was surprisingly really, really good. I’m not really a fan of novel adaptations in general (films, games, comics, etc), as I always find it incredibly hard to, for lack of a better word, “believe” in the world through prose. Reading about a guy dressed up as a Bat jumping over rooftops just reads as really dumb, at least to me. But watching that in a couple panels when done well in a comic, or in a scene in a film? Awesomeness. And I really don’t know why.
This, though, didn’t have too many of those moments. A couple times I sorta skimmed some description, but for the most part I was actually fully invested in the stories and characters. Two Face and Joker and Batman and all the other characters didn’t sound dumb, like they usually do for me in prose.
That alone earns it high marks. It also helps that I’ve never actually read the No Man’s Land story before, and it was a great story. Looking forward to reading the comic version sometime.
This, though, didn’t have too many of those moments. A couple times I sorta skimmed some description, but for the most part I was actually fully invested in the stories and characters. Two Face and Joker and Batman and all the other characters didn’t sound dumb, like they usually do for me in prose.
That alone earns it high marks. It also helps that I’ve never actually read the No Man’s Land story before, and it was a great story. Looking forward to reading the comic version sometime.