Batman Begins

Batman Begins

BATMAN YEAR ONE (Hardcover)

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Two men come to Gotham City in January. The first is called Jim Gordon. Flic integrity and competence, Gotham is his punishment for criticizing corruption. The second comes from a long exile abroad. His name is Bruce Wayne and his return will change the town forever. Following the death of her parents by a criminal, the billionaire has vowed to fight crime. But in a city where the police are not safe and where violence reigns, he will have to find allies and invent an alter ego. Batman saw his first moments.

We already knew quUrban Comics operated a wave of reissue outstanding works of Batman. It is therefore more logical to see the famous Batman Year One reissued. After the Dark Knight who showed us a Batman older, Frank Miller returns to the youth of the masked vigilante. With the support of cartoonist David Mazzucchelli, the American book perhaps the best work of the founder of the superhero universe. An absolute must.

Separated into four chapters, Year One entangled fate of the Inspector Jim Gordon and of Bruce Wayne. Its great strength lies in the author's view of the genesis of one of the greatest heroic figures, that of Batman. We meet a Bruce still unsure of himself and beset by doubt about what to use to achieve his ends. But Miller makes us especially great pleasure to describe a man tortured by murder. Basically, we feel that Wayne is still that little boy kneeling face the corpses of his parents. Yet he has in him a strength and determination that there is no doubt. These will be implemented through the Batman. A figure as scary for Bruce as his enemies. The point may be the most interesting, however, revealed in the character of Jim Gordon and the importance given to it by Frank Miller. Inspector model in a corrupt world, it anchors the story in a more realistic view. It also allows and especially the author to demonstrate that Batman needs an ally, a man like him but chose to act openly and within the limits of justice. We discover with the character of Jim Gordon a strong personality but also has its weaknesses, because as Batman goes beyond the law, Gordon may not be the perfect white knight that he aspires to be.

More than the beginning of an epic is the density of Year One surprising. We find the other characters who will later of paramount interest. Miller introduced and the Deputy Attorney Harvey Dent, subtly showing that goes much further than Jim Gordon in his quest for justice, but it introduces two capital figures for the franchise (in particular we think of the long Halloween Loeb): Catwoman and Carmine Falcone. If the first is placed directly into a sort of variant of Batman with a more pronounced ambiguity, the second remains a shadow of the underworld that plagues Gotham City. We quickly pass on the character of Barbara, barely sketched, and which will be taken in the same year in the Killing Joke by Alan Moore. There remains the gallery of corrupt cops that haunt the pages of Year One, giving a special echo the need for the birth of Batman in the city.

Another strong and undeniably essential point presentation over the pages of Gotham City, black and impenetrable city where crime is rampant. As such, the design of David Mazzucchelli makes it particularly honor in the dark of the frame. Of course, a slight downside is it will remembering that the boards of the Year One does not attain the beauty of those of Dave McKean to Arkham Asylum and in the end, they are not so extraordinary than that. But regardless, they fit perfectly with the tone of Miller and that's what matters most. Miller's work draws its strength from the painting of the city. It instills in just a few pages an atmosphere that will make Gotham so black and particular place.

But finally, in so few pages (one hundred), how Batman Year One Can be a masterpiece? Just because Miller's talent lays the foundation for a realistic vision of Batman and sticky and opens up magnificent opus as a long Halloween. What appears prodigious reading of the book is the introduction of the main themes of the series, its characters and especially the parallel drawn between Jim Gordon and Bruce Wayne. Therefore, we should not be surprised that the comic is one of the main sources of inspiration for Batman Begins Christopher Nolan. Besides, who's complaining?
Note that some bonuses dot the Durban edition with afterword by David Mazzucchelli, a word of Frank Miller, the original covers, preparatory sketches and especially for the Blu-Ray lanime a sacred gift!

With the release of The Killing Joke by Alan Moore that year, Batman Year One will radically change the face of vigilante as already begun Batman: Dark Knight Returns Frank Miller of the same. By giving a realistic framework and presenting two of the most emblematic figures of the saga (see the three most emblematic taking into account the last moments ...) Year One stands out as one of the most essential album of 'bat man ... if not the most essential.
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