V থেকে Kanuja, Rajasthan, India
এক বন্ধু বলেছিল "ক্রোধ ও ক্রোধ" এর প্রথম অধ্যায়টি বুঝতে আপনাকে অবশ্যই মানসিক প্রতিবন্ধী হতে হবে! চালিয়ে যান: কেতাবদারখানায়.ব্লগফা.com/post-34.aspx
Irreverent, juvenile, crass, not well drawn. Not my bag.
Great work.....a unusual crazy idea...but yet beautiful.
** spoiler alert ** I liked this one even better than "The Long Halloween". After the killer known as Holiday has been captured, Gotham is once again under attack by someone using a similar approach: this time, the victims are cops, who are hanged one by one, and left with a note pinned to them, on which is a game of hangman. Batman at first tries to solve these crimes on his own, but it isn't until he finds a companion in the form of Robin that he finds out who's behind the attacks. The overall theme of this story arc is Batman's loneliness. Sometimes I wished the authors would've made it a little more subtle, but the lack of subtlety doesn't actually hurt. Well, it does hurt in that one really, really hurts for Batman and Bruce Wayne. So when Batman finds his Robin, it's a relief for the reader, too. I've read a few Batman comics now (still only a fraction of what is out there), and my feelings for Robin are ambivalent at best. I don't hate him, but I can see why some people might not like him. In here, however, I felt he was completely likeable; and I loved how Loeb and Sale chose to tell a story that every reader already knows anyway in a way that felt new and real. I especially loved the way the parallels between Bruce and Dick's fates were shown (and Alfred's reaction). In fact, that is something that's impressed me again and again, the more Batman I've read (and by the way, I doubt there'll ever be a point where I won't feel like a newbie to this) - the way the different authors always manage to give the myth a new shape, a new twist. Because the story of how Bruce Wayne became Batman is, at this point, one almost everybody in Western culture knows (ok, I'm probably exaggerating, but a lot of people know it). Still some manage to tell it in a way that still moves. And the pain. And the loneliness. I've found it gets a bit much after a while, so I'm trying to keep the dosage at an acceptable level, but overall I'm still loving the darkness of it. The world of Batman - definitely one of my favourite discoveries of the year.