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Aperto da Azrael, 21 Luglio 2018, 05:12:24

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Man of Steel

Letto #2
Per quanto mi faccia schifo questo concept e per quanto sia forzato, devo dire che questo numero era scritto molto bene. :sisi:
Tutto il discorso del cuore, la morte dei Waynes, l'ultimo gesto di Thomas ecc...tutte cose che si sposano bene con QUALSIASI versione di Bats, non solo questa merdaccia. :ahsisi:
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THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #4
written by SCOTT SNYDER
art and cover by OCK
variant cover by KAARE ANDREWS
Batman is on a desperate hunt through Gotham City, tracking down the dark version of himself known as the Grim Knight. But the serum Batman's been self-administering has started to transform his mind, making him into something much darker...something amoral...something like the Batman Who Laughs—and he's starting to lose his grip on reality. Toeing the line between vengeance and justice, Batman must struggle to keep his moral code as the Grim Knight gains control of the Batcave, sending all of his vehicles and weapons on a collision course with Gotham City. The Grim Knight, the Batman Who Laughs, even allies like Jim Gordon and his son force Batman to pull the trigger...and activate the Last Laugh. Will Batman be the savior of Gotham City once more? Or is he the kill shot?
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The Batman Who Laughs #2
Written by Scott Snyder
Art by Jock and David Baron
Lettering by Sal Cipriano
Published by DC Comics
Review by Scott Cederlund
'Rama Rating: 8 out of 10

After being exposed to the deadly Joker toxin in the first issue, Batman pumps so much antitoxin into his body but it appears to be a losing battle as we follow how infected his eyes look throughout this second issue from the sickly reddish tint colorist David Baron puts on them. At some points in the story, his eyes are as red as the words coming out of The Batman Who Laughs' mouth. Red is the color more associated with the Joker, but with his red, grinning lips. Baron has the color thematically connect all three characters in Scott Snyder and Jock's story that focuses on a villain that's as dangerous as Batman and the Joker combined because that's what The Batman Who Laughs is. Slipping into the diseased Batman's mind, Snyder, Jock and Baron try to define Batman not by who he is but by what he is not.

Jock's inky abyss that is Gotham City plays into the psychological trauma of the story. To essentially fight a twisted version of himself that was first introduced in Snyder's Metal event, Jock creates pages that make you feel like you are falling into this sickness yourself. His and Baron's take on Batman and Gotham City is haggard and old. It's not yet decrepit but it wouldn't take too much for this city to start falling apart, much like it won't take much for Batman to succumb to the Joker's poisons racing through his blood. But more than just being physically run down, Jock's art reflects the darkness in Batman's soul and the trauma caused by the death of his parents. Jock and Baron's pages show a Gotham where the darkness is less a mirror of the city and a more of the natural state of it and its inhabitants.

If you look at Batman stories of the past 15-20 years (and even possibly further back than that,) many of them try to define Batman by showing how other people aren't Batman. That was the crux of Grant Morrison's run on the character when he had Dick Grayson take over the cowl but it also led to Batman Incorporated, which formed a multinational legion of Batmen. Even Scott Snyder has taken repeated steps toward defining Batman by who he isn't, whether it was with a never-before-seen brother or recruiting Jim Gordon to be Batman for a while. Snyder and Greg Capullo continued that theme in Metal, showing dark and twisted What If versions of the character fighting the Justice League. Where that story was large, colorful and brash, The Batman Who Laughs #2 is much smaller yet the stakes for one man feel much greater than the fate of the multiverse ever did.

So Scott Snyder defines what his Batman stories have tried to express, the question of whether Bruce Wayne is doing the right thing being Batman, by having two characters give him two different answers. The loyal Alfred, seeing the doubt but Bruce's unerring ethics after he refuses to allow Alfred to permanently harm the Joker, tells him that it's the things that Bruce worries about that make him strong. Later in the issue, The Batman Who Laughs tells Bruce how all of the other multiversal Batmen look at him and judge him as ineffective because of his sense of right and wrong, something that other Batmen appear to lack. So which one is right? As he feels himself slipping away due to the Joker toxin, Batman is confronted by these two views of himself even as he feels their works battle in his soul.

It would be easy to accept Alfred as the voice of truth here but the rub is that The Batman Who Laughs is Bruce Wayne himself. When Batman hears the Batman from the Dark Multiverse analyze him, he's hearing his own voice and his own words. That's got to be a kick in the guts. It's not a voice inside his head that's filling him with doubt but himself, standing right there in front of him saying these things. That's the kind of troubling exchange that you won't get in a huge crossover event so it's great that Snyder has the opportunity to explore the knowing words of The Batman Who Laughs further in this miniseries. Fatherly Alfred's reassurances versus the proclamation of ineffectiveness and guilt from your own voice and experience sets up a fantastic conflict for the future battles between these two very different Batmen.

Bruce Wayne is sick in The Batman Who Laughs #2 and by the end, we have to question whether the Batman himself is a symptom of the illness or the sickness itself. Back in 2011, Snyder, Jock and Baron told their first Batman stories in the Black Mirror issues of Detective Comics so it's right that this issue hints at connections to that story. That was another story of a Batman fill-in, back in the days when Dick Grayson wore the cape and cowl to try to live up to Bruce Wayne's legacy. But Dick was just a substitute while The Batman Who Laughs is Bruce Wayne himself, one who is on a mission to reshape the world in his own blind, corrupt and grinning image. But more than that, The Batman Who Laughs wants to break Batman, to take the hero and turn him into every fear that he's ever had about himself.
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Letto #3
Non avesse idee di merda, leggere Snyder sarebbe uno sballo, e sarebbe uno dei top artists del momento.
Buonissimo storytelling, tutto sommato anche la storia non era male, il concept di base invece...heh...
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THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS #5
written by SCOTT SNYDER
art and cover by JOCK
variant cover by VIKTOR KALVACHEV
It's a battle to the death as Batman goes head-to-head with the Grim Knight! The Caped Crusader is forced to not only fight off the most evil version of himself, but the growing desire to turn his back on his moral code and commit cold-blooded murder. Any other time, Batman would be able to stay on the straight and narrow, but as the Joker serum finally takes over his body, Bruce Wayne may just succumb to pure evil, and kill the Grim Knight. All of this is foreseen by the Batman Who Laughs, who has been planning for the corruption of Bruce Wayne, banking on him activating the "Last Laugh" protocol and turning Gotham City into an incubator for evil. All the Batman Who Laughs needs is one last "Happy Bruce" from another dimension to make his serum work...but only Batman knows where the last Bruce is going to show up.
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Non mi attira molto, pero' aspettero' un eventuale volume ITA.
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Perché ita?


Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk
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Citazione di: Mr.Fox il 20 Febbraio 2019, 06:42:05
Perché ita?


Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk

Snyder non lo sopporto in lingua, troppo verboso.
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Man of Steel

La regia mi dice che lo strazio non terminerà con questa mini, ahimè, sarà dura toglierci dalle palle questo pg. :nono:
We're all searching for enlightenment.
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No Use For A Name

E' Snyder, ovvio che se lo porterà dietro, finché non farà la fine di Duke. :asd:
"I am Daenerys of the House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men,
Queen of Meereen, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Protector of the Realm, Lady Regnant of the Seven Kingdoms,
Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons"

Man of Steel

In realtà ha abbandonato molto in fretta pg come Harper Row e Duke, ma per qualche strana ragione è fissato con questi vari Batmen...
We're all searching for enlightenment.
But what is light?
Different for everyone. But everyone looking.

See what we want to see.
No matter how small...or big we are.