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5 (1) 4 (1) 3 (2) 2 (1) 1 (0) 3.4 starsAverage score of 5 user reviews
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Who is Diana Prince? 0
When a writer attempts to retell the origin story for household name characters like Wonder Woman, they have to start with a few difficult questions: Who is this character supposed to be? What are the fundamental qualities that define this character and make them endure? Zack Snyder got these questions wrong in two Superman movies, and all the marketing and special effects in the world could not save them from critical and audience backlash. Grant Morrison, a comic writer with a fairly good trac...
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Good Old-Fashioned Noire 0
Note: This is a review of the entire seriesThere are a lot of ways to get Batman wrong. There are a lot of ways to get Batman right.Batman can be gritty and grim. Batman can be campy and fun. Batman can be serious and realistic. Batman can be omnipotent and fantastical. It all comes down to a writer following three simple rules: Respect the character, add your own twist, be coherent. Jeph Loeb's The Long Halloween does all three and it gets Batman right.This is Batman in full-on noire mode. This...
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The Quintessential Wonder Woman 1
Of all the A-list comic book heroes out there few are harder to write than Wonder Woman. Batman, Spiderman, Superman, Wolverine - all of these guys represent such well-worn territory across numerous mediums that they practically write themselves.Wonder Woman is different. For such a recognizable hero, she has never had the same commercial success or exploitation of her peers. She's never had a live action film or her own cartoon. Though almost everyone has heard of her, few know her origin or pu...
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Flashes of Greatness 0
In 2005 Christopher Nolan gave us Batman Begins, a desperately needed reboot of a franchise that had gone astray. It was dark, mature, suspenseful, provocative - everything that the disastrous Batman and Robin wasn't. While it was not without its flaws, it masterfully established the character and set the stage for 2008's The Dark Knight, a film justifiably regarded as one of the best comic book movies of all time. The Dark Knight is held in high esteem because it transcended its genre and told...
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Fan Fiction 0
*This is a review of the entire series thus far, not just volume 1The term fan fiction has a negative connotation.It brings to mind lonely nerds conjuring up Mary Sues and fawning over some spandex-wearing vigilante. However it is important to realize that the works of people like Frank Miller and Grant Morrison are not fundamentally any different from fan fiction. They are, in most cases, fans, and they are writing fiction using beloved and established characters. The only difference is that th...
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
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