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A review by brucefarrar
Batman: Nightwalker #1: Special Edition by Marie Lu, Stuart Moore, Chris Wildgoose
4.0
This is a review of an uncorrected proof.
A cadre of murderous anarchists are targeting the wealthiest elite of Gotham City. Equipped with night vision goggles they break into the homes of the 1%, extort millions from them, and then cut their throats. Until one of their intended victims, eighteen-year-old Bruce Wayne, seizes an opportunity to halt their reign of terror and mayhem.
Moore and Wildgoose return Lu’s 2018 novel to the form in which Bruce Wayne’s detective work first appeared, but this version is in a darker shade. The Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics in 1939 was in full color. In contrast this tale is illustrated in black, white and shades of gray with the exception of occasional splashes of yellow. It introduces Wayne as an amateur high school detective doing community service for reckless driving in the asylum for the criminally insane. He has yet to don the cape and cowl of his alter ego. In Arkham Asylum he encounters Madeleine Wallace, a captured member of the Nightstalker gang. In a way she prefigures the character Selina Kyle (Catwoman). Madeleine has a crush on Bruce which he is happy to reciprocate, blurring the division between the proto-superhero with that of a proto-supervillain.
A cadre of murderous anarchists are targeting the wealthiest elite of Gotham City. Equipped with night vision goggles they break into the homes of the 1%, extort millions from them, and then cut their throats. Until one of their intended victims, eighteen-year-old Bruce Wayne, seizes an opportunity to halt their reign of terror and mayhem.
Moore and Wildgoose return Lu’s 2018 novel to the form in which Bruce Wayne’s detective work first appeared, but this version is in a darker shade. The Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics in 1939 was in full color. In contrast this tale is illustrated in black, white and shades of gray with the exception of occasional splashes of yellow. It introduces Wayne as an amateur high school detective doing community service for reckless driving in the asylum for the criminally insane. He has yet to don the cape and cowl of his alter ego. In Arkham Asylum he encounters Madeleine Wallace, a captured member of the Nightstalker gang. In a way she prefigures the character Selina Kyle (Catwoman). Madeleine has a crush on Bruce which he is happy to reciprocate, blurring the division between the proto-superhero with that of a proto-supervillain.