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Title: Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini ISBN: 1-56389-576-5 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Batman Gallery
Comment: This book, beautifully illustrated by Alex Ross and written by Paul Dini, is nothing short of spectacular. It brings a new and interesting look into the graphic novel format with a surreal/nostalgic look that transcends one's visual perception into a world of intense imagination.
This is done because this "comic" is dimensionally much larger than most; Therefore, the pictures are bigger. This extra size allows the viewer (I say viewer instead of reader because it is the strength of the art work by Ross that makes this novel so good) to become absorbed with the visual story first. Then read with the proper mind set (leaving the analytical mind at the door) one see's and thinks as Batman see's and thinks. Get this book today!
Rating: 5
Summary: Work of Art
Comment: The amazing craftsmanship of art truly does transcend words. a piece of art can speak volumes and in many different languages all together. The little subtle details truly makes the difference between that kind of art and that which is in truth can be rightfully called a masterpiece. Batman: war on Crime, albeit not a literary wonder, is a gem of a work of art.
Alex Ross popped into the comic world with MARVELS. A project so ambitious that it catapulted Ross into comic book stardom and helped bring in the world of realistic painted art and that of comic book storytelling. Ross became a very crucial and influential player in the comic book scene, where comic book fans would purchase a whole comic just to look at a cover he had painted without caring who really is drawing or writing the comic itself. His approach to characters was one of a kind and his take on certain heroes truly helped define them into the mainstream.
With this work, Ross teams up Paul Dini, the producer of the critically acclaimed animated Batman show. Though the story and plot is not thought-provoking and searing as one might want it to be, the art compensates for that. Here you look at Batman, with the most human of all attributes. He never looked more human, even in his movies. The physique is drawn just right with no bulging muscles ready to tear apart from the skin. The detail works into such that you can actually feel what the cape's material is even, which is more of a polyester, nylon look rather than the rubber associated with the movies. Ross excels in bringing out the right facial expressions with the right kind of actions. Any reader would feel he or she is reading through a photography book of a man wearing a Halloween costume of a large Bat, patrolling the streets of Gotham.
All in all, the book truly reads like a graphic novel. No dialogue bubbles to ruin the artwork which is a plus. Dini tries hard making the reader notice his story and what he's trying to say by it, but in the end, it is Ross who manages to pull things together and creates magic with painting brush.
Rating: 5
Summary: By a team who knows Batman like no other
Comment: Continuing the collaboration started with Superman: Peace on Earth, Dini/Ross continue their look at DC's Big Three (+ Captain Marvel) :-) with Batman: War on Crime.
No one--and I mean *no one* (I'm looking at you, Frank Miller!)--knows Batman better than Dini. How he continues to have fresh ideas after writing x number of Batman: The Animated Series episodes I'll never know, but god bless him for it.
His Batman is an amalgamation of the Batman shown to us by all the major creators who have come before: at once campy, grim, obsessive, frightening, determined, even possibly crazy.
And yet Dini puts his own mark on the Dark Knight Detective.
Ross's artwork, of course, is unspeakably gorgeous.
Highest possible recommendation.
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Title: Superman: Peace on Earth by Paul Dini ISBN: 1563894645 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Shazam!: Power of Hope by Paul Dini, Alex Ross ISBN: 1563897458 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: JLA: Secret Origins by Paul Dini ISBN: 1401200214 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Wonder Woman : Spirit of Truth by Paul Dini ISBN: 1563898616 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross by ALEX ROSS ISBN: 0375422404 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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