Summer Reading: 'Batman: Cataclysm'
It is a foe Batman can see and hear...
...but cannot touch.
It will strike only once...
...yet will change his life forever.
Already weakened by a debilitating plague, Gotham City is struck by a devastating force of nature -- an earthquake that registers over 7.5 on the Richter Scale.
IN A SINGLE INSTANT...
... THE BATCAVE AND WAYNE MANOR ARE LEFT IN RUINS...
... THOUSANDS ARE DEAD...
... AND THE BATMAN IS AMONG THE MISSING.
From the writers and artists of BATMAN: CONTAGION and BATMAN: LEGACY comes one of the most tragic and powerful Batman stories ever, as the Dark Knight and his allies try to save what is left of Gotham in the wake of a disaster from which the city may never recover.
Art: 3/5 - serviceable, very generic superhero.
Story: 2.5/5
Notes: Not a good comic to come into without some prior knowledge; there's a rundown of the cast of characters in the front that helps a bit but I imagine the story would be so much better if I had a deeper understanding of the Batman universe. The omniscient narrative uses exclamation points in the action writing which is probably normal (?) but weird for someone coming from a fiction background where that doesn't tend to happen; there's also a sudden switch to the first person without a font indication (there are other switches of narrator, but those (of Huntress, of Oracle, and so on) all have their own changes of font so it's not nearly as confusing).
comics, comics: batman
...but cannot touch.
It will strike only once...
...yet will change his life forever.
Already weakened by a debilitating plague, Gotham City is struck by a devastating force of nature -- an earthquake that registers over 7.5 on the Richter Scale.
IN A SINGLE INSTANT...
... THE BATCAVE AND WAYNE MANOR ARE LEFT IN RUINS...
... THOUSANDS ARE DEAD...
... AND THE BATMAN IS AMONG THE MISSING.
From the writers and artists of BATMAN: CONTAGION and BATMAN: LEGACY comes one of the most tragic and powerful Batman stories ever, as the Dark Knight and his allies try to save what is left of Gotham in the wake of a disaster from which the city may never recover.
Art: 3/5 - serviceable, very generic superhero.
Story: 2.5/5
Notes: Not a good comic to come into without some prior knowledge; there's a rundown of the cast of characters in the front that helps a bit but I imagine the story would be so much better if I had a deeper understanding of the Batman universe. The omniscient narrative uses exclamation points in the action writing which is probably normal (?) but weird for someone coming from a fiction background where that doesn't tend to happen; there's also a sudden switch to the first person without a font indication (there are other switches of narrator, but those (of Huntress, of Oracle, and so on) all have their own changes of font so it's not nearly as confusing).
comics, comics: batman