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xsBusiness - Batman: The Black Glove
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List Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: DC Comics
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781401219093
ISBN: 1401219098
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2008-09-16
Publisher: DC Comics
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Studio: DC Comics
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Summary: OK, but I'll pass
Comment: Maybe it's just me, but I didn't get it.
The first half of the book is a murder mystery featuring several obscure Silver Age Batman characters (the League of Batmen anyone?...yeesh), and the ending comes out of left field. That's not necessarily a bad thing, this was a murder mystery after all.
The second half is Batman facing down agents of the Black Glove and fighting his way through a few Batmen impersonators with an ending which leads directly into the Batman: R.I.P. storyline. The last half felt more like a Batman story than the first half.
When I read a comic, I expect to be entertained. I don't like having to "try" and understand what's going on in a book. It's escapist literature not Shakespeare. If I finish reading something I don't want to reread it again just to try and make heads or tails of what is going on. Honestly, I have this problem with a lot of Grant Morrison's work whether it's in New X-Men, JLA, Final Crisis, 52, Seven Soldiers, or even Arkham Asylum. I find myself just wishing he'd stick to the plot and enertain without all the obscure, overly kewl, heavy handed, metaphorical storytelling. Guess his stuff just isn't for me. To each their own I suppose.
The artwork by JH Williams was very good. The Tony Daniels chapters were OK as well.
As stated above, the second half of the book is better than the first, but not good enough to save the collection in my opinion. Honestly there's better out there to waste your time and money, especially in today's economic climate.
Save your twenty bucks and go find Batman: The Killing Joke, Batman & Sohn, or even Batman: Hush. I'm selling my copy and going after something new.
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Summary: More uneven Batman fair.
Comment: Had this collection only included the outstanding Black Glove storyline from Grant Morrison and JH Williams, I would have purchased it. This is a handsome hardcover volume with a beautifully rendered cover with contents worthy of the deluxe treatment.
The downside is that after the 3 issues illustrated by Williams, the art chores for the remainder of the book fall to Tony Daniel, who's usually good pencil work is ruined by inker Jonathan Glapion.
The editors seem to be trying to create a "Jim Lee-a-like" art style here, but what they end up with is a mess the reader will have to endure rather than enjoy. Check out Tony Daniel's online Batman pencil work without inks and you'll see what a botch job this is. While William's work is fluid, consistant and clean, Daniel & Glapion's work is scruffy, uneven and messy. They don't belong in the same book.
I wish DC would clean up their act when it comes to Batman. It is hard to believe they can't find a consistantly good art team to handle their most popular character.
Why bother bringing in big name writers like Morrison if his scripts are butchered by poor artwork. Can we get this series back on track please?
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Summary: Great read sullied by uneven artwork
Comment: The J.H. Williams art on the Club of Heroes story in the first half of this collection only serves to underscore how not-ready-for-prime-time Tony Daniel (the artist on the 2nd half) is. The last chapter is illustrated by Ryan Benjamin, and seems to be a prank DC is playing on the readers. I remember Ryan Benjamin from back in the early days of Wildstorm, and at this point he seems to be doing a parody of himself. It's TERRIBLE. I honestly have no idea what the editor was thinking when they hired him. Maybe he was willing to work for 50 cents a page? It's mystifying.
The story: Grant Morrison writing Batman (on drugs?). What else do you need to know? I'd give this collection 5 stars if it weren't for the meh Tony Daniel and the BLECH Ryan Benjamin. Definitely still worth picking up, unless you have something against Grant Morrison. Or Batman. In which case: GO BACK TO DRAWING YOUR BOWEL MOVEMENTS, CHRIS WARE.
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Summary: Rouges Gallery? The Black Glove is the real deal!!!
Comment: Let me start this off by saying, The Black Glove is one of the best batman stories i've ever read, dare I say, better than Jeph Loeb's HUSH!
First of all i recommend you buy "Batmand and Son" and read that before buying this book. Both books contribute to the build up of Batman RIP.
This book starts off with issues #667 - #669 for the first half. In these four issues, Batman goes to a remote island to meet up with a band of batman-inspired heroes known as the "Club of Heroes". Before the first issue is over, it turns into a "whodunit", as one by one the heroes start dying off. Grant Morrison has done an amazing job creating this unique batman wannabes and make them actually likeable. The art to me wasn't that great, sorry J.H. Williams III, but your art work looks like a watered down version of Alex Ross'. All in all the first half of this book is an absolutely amazing tale, and it really establishes The Black Glove as a force to be reckoned with.
The second half of the story is issus #672 - #675 and it picks up where the end of "Batman and Son" left off. It continues the tale of the three mysterious "Batmen". This is where Grant Morrison's style of writing truly shines, you will feel completely out of the loop until the last issue and it is simply amazing. Tony Daniel's art work is awesome. I love it. Its up there in my favorites with Jim Lee, J.G. Jones, and Alex Ross.
This collection can't be missed. The story is so complexed and it deserves to be Batman's greatest tale. I can't wait to see how R.I.P. will end and bring all these issues together.
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Summary: First thing I've ever liked by this guy.
Comment: I'm not a fan of Grant Morrison's work, but this is pretty good stuff I must admit. Several layers of stroy telling are going on in this work and you may need to read it through more than once to catch the little things. Pay close attention to the artwork in this one. You probably need a copy of THE GREATEST BATMAN STORIES EVER TOLD if you want to enjoy this and the RIP storyline that follows because he pulls heavily from some very old Batman stroies. The lead in to what seems to be a great mystery.
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