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Batman/Deathblow: After The Fire (2002)

by Brian Azzarello(Favorite Author)

2.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

140123772X (ISBN13: 9781401237721)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

DC Comics

review 1: Batman goes after some government agent in a plot that started many years ago. Or something. That I couldn’t fully understand the plot is one problem; that this volume couldn’t motivate me enough to bother to try find out says something about the plotting and overall quality of the work. Despite quite good art and pencils, the plot is simply far too unclear and the story not engaging enough to make me care to find out. I can only recommend it so far as the pictures and art are concerned.
review 2: I picked this up on the basis of Brian Azzarello and Tim Bradstreet. I usually enjoy Azzarello's writing, but here it just doesn't work for me. It's a story of doublecrosses and triplecrosses, spread across a decade. The time periods go back and forth, and there... more were several places where it simply isn't clear which time period we're in, which makes the already complicated story that much muddier.The artwork is well done, very dark and grim and textured. I might have gotten more out of it if I had been more familiar with who Deathblow is, but he wasn't part of the Wildstorm universe that I explored. So what I got was a gritty noirish story with an unsympathetic lead. There's probably some depth; if I wanted to reread it, I'd probably get a lot more out of it. But the story wasn't interesting enough for me to want to invest the time to read it again. less

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