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Batman Confidential, Vol. 7: The Bat And The Beast (2010)

by Peter Milligan(Favorite Author)

2.92 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1401227945 (ISBN13: 9781401227944)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

DC Comics

review 1: I've read this arc in separate issues, not the trade. The story was quite good, although the writer or editor should have checked the Russian words and names. At least in the separate issues, the policeman and later on the thug call the girl 'babushka'. I hope in the trade this been fixed, because for someone who knows Russian (I do) it's clearly a mistake. From the context I guess the writer meant 'baby', but 'babushka' means 'grandma' or 'granny' in Russian, which of course makes no sense to call a teen girl or her mother. And also 'Sveti' is not a Russian girl's name, as all Russian female names must have the feminine ending -a, like 'Sveta', short for Svetlana. It's not a name at all. There can be a 'Sveti (Georgi/Vladimir/Nikolai etc)', but this just means 'Saint (Geo... morerge/Vladimir/Nicolas etc)', and 'Sveti' here has a masculine ending.All this said, I'd recommend this for someone who's looking not for a Batman story, but a superhero/mobsters story set in Russia. Also it's stand-alone, so you don't need to read anything else to understand it.
review 2: Wow! This was one hell of an awesome Batman book! First of all the art is unbelievably brilliant! Andy Clarke's flawless drawing does resemble the impeccable work of Frank Quietly, but is that a bad thing? (No!) And Peter Milligan's writing (often great) has been of varying quality in the past, it seems that with the right artist, his words really come to life. This is not your typical Batman story, the characters are realistic and engaging, and it was not at all predictable. Damn good! less

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