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Title: Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive Vol.1 by Ed Greg/Brubaker Rucka ISBN: 1-56389-933-7 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good read, but...
Comment: I know that there are a fair number of comic book fans that were not impressed with Bruce Wayne: Murderer. I read this TPB with that in mind and was pleasantly surprised. This is a great story with decent artwork - well, most of it anyway. The biggest problem with this TPB is, as another reviewer pointed out, all of the title jumping. Why can't DC just do a Batman story and keep it in Batman & Detective Comics? Being familiar with the DCU, I knew who most of the characters were, but who the heck is Spoiler? And it seems like everyone and their brother knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman now. Having Robin as a sidekick is one thing, but having a whole army of mostly kids following you around is downright silly - Robin, Spoiler, Batgirl, Nightwing, Oracle, and now Sasha. Sheesh.
Anyway, don't let my ranting deter you from reading this book. It really is worth it. Unfortunately, the bean counters at DC decided to release the follow-up story, Bruce Wayne: Fugitive, in two separate, smaller TPBs.
Rating: 5
Summary: Just Read It, Cover to Cover ...
Comment: ... and I can't tell you how thrilling it is, for a change, to deal with a story that is primarily about what the Batman does best: detection.
BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER is about many things, but on the surface it only poses one question: how far is faith worth following?
After a long night of chucking bad guys, Batman and Sasha Bourdeaux (his latest in a growing list of sidekicks) return home ... Sasha a few moments later than her mentor. However, in one of the upstairs rooms, Vesper Fairchild -- one of Wayne's many conquests -- is found shot to death. A 911 call circumstantially points all fingers to the billionaire-playboy, and, thus, Batman is thrust behind Blackgate Prison's slim bars ... a place where he's housed so many of the city's treacherous underworld.
In the interim, all of the principles in the Batman universe -- Robin, Oracle, Batgirl, and Nightwing, primarily -- are left to explore the possibility of whether or not the man who has meant so much to them in their lifetimes COULD have committed the deed. Bruce Wayne's not speaking. He's not declaring his innocence, leaving second-guessing to overcome second nature, and the merry band of Batfamily members will be forever challenged and possibly changed by the graphic novel's climax.
Once again, DC Comics has produced evidence that graphic storytelling can be so far advanced than what it has long been considered: folly best left to juveniles. This book explores adult themes in an entirely adult reality, and the consequences of a single act may irrevocably change the world of Gotham, for better or for worse. Smartly, the storytellers let the reader decide, and they don't force feed morality down the throat.
While BRUCE WAYNE: MURDERER isn't a complete tale (it's only a set-up for a series of events to follow), it could be read as a stand alone tale ... the paradigm has shifted in the Batman universe, and Bruce Wayne -- long considered the true 'mask' character in the playboy/crimefighter duality -- is gone, leaving our hero to face the grim reality of his never-ending battle to free Gotham from the clutches of pure evil.
Rating: 3
Summary: Could have been a really great story
Comment: This collection has a couple of its moment and the story starts off great but sadly, dwindles in the middle due to the appearance of too many players. All of a sudden, Spoiler, Canary and many other memebers of the Bat-family jumps in and causes major confusion of a great story. But despite that, the stories are decent, particularly the ones where Bruce Wayne is in jail and has no more masks to hide behind. And the final story is any comic-readers dream when Batman goes toe-to-toe w/ his former partner. This story takes a disturbing look at the man behind the mask and despite all the problems that he has faced head-on, Batman decides to run from this one.
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Title: Batman: Bruce Wayne Fugitive, Volume 3 by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka ISBN: 1401200796 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Batman: Hush Vol. 1 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams ISBN: 1401200613 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Batman: No Man's Land by Devin K. Bob/Grayson Gale ISBN: 1563895641 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Batman : Officer Down : New Gotham 2 by Greg Rucka ISBN: 1563897873 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale ISBN: 1563898683 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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