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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Review: Batman: Arkham Unhinged Vol. 1

 

Cover of Batman: Arkham Unhinged TPB collection

Description:

You’ve played the bestselling game…now dig deeper into Batman: Arkham City‘s gritty streets of Gotham

The mysterious Dr. Hugo Strange has turned an entire Gotham City neighborhood into the new Arkham Asylum, with the worst of the city’s scum and psychopaths are trapped inside. Only two criminals remain at large — Catwoman and Two-Face — and Strange will stop at nothing to bring them in.

To discover the truth of this new villain’s rise to power, the Dark Knight has no choice but to go inside the walls of Arkham City. But will he unravel this deadly mystery before a gang war between Penguin and the Joker destroys Gotham? Or in time to save Catwoman…from herself?

BATMAN: ARKHAM UNHINGED stars Batman’s entire rogues gallery with a supporting cast from the hit game Batman: Arkham City, including Nightwing and Robin, Bane, Harley Quinn, Killer Croc and many more. Writer Derek Fridolfs (JUSTICE LEAGUE BEYOND) is joined by some of the hottest collaborators in comics, including Pete Woods (LEGION LOST), Brian Ching (Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic), Simon Coleby (2000AD) and Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series)!

Collects: Batman: Arkham Unhinged chapters 1-13 and Batman: Arkham City Digital Chapters 6-7
Authors: Derek Fridolfs, Paul Dini
Artists: Various
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Aug. 13 2013
Parental Rating: Teen

Review:

A video game series based on the Batman comics has now produced comics based on the Batman video game series. Inspired by the scenario, characters and game play of Batman: Arkham City video games, this TPB collects several digitally published multi-part stories set in that universe.

All stories are written by Derek Fridolfs, with different artists in each mini-story, including Pete Woods, Brian Ching, Simon Colevy and Mike Miller among many others.

In the opening set, "Inside Job" we see Dr. Hugo Strange and his minions tracking down Two-Face and Catwoman, to add them to the Arkham City mayhem. Mike S. Miller's rendition of Catwoman is stunning, a sharp contrast to the gruesome disfiguration of Two-Face. There are some facile plot twists to drive our protagonists together, but the narrative is fast-paced and draws you in.

None of the rest of the mini-stories rise to its level of interest, although "Observations" comes closest. With art by Brian Ching, it bring Oracle, Nightwing and Robin into the mix, and we see through a slow-paced plot how Batman is neither outnumbered nor outgunned, nor out-schemed in this battle.

Penguin, Joker, Harley and more make central appearances. Penguin in particular is rather repulsive, drawn as a large, lumbering gangster with clipped speech. Each subsequent story seems an effort to outdo its predecessors in gruesome action intensity. Overall this set is a dark, violent, menacing thrill. I score it 2.5 capes

ISBN-10: 9781401240189
ISBN-13: 978-1401240189
Language: English
Pages: 160 pages


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