{"id":20938,"date":"2019-10-19T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=20938"},"modified":"2019-10-18T17:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:41:48","slug":"batman-the-doom-that-came-to-gotham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2019\/10\/19\/batman-the-doom-that-came-to-gotham\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Mike Mignola<\/strong>, Richard Pace<\/strong>, Troy Nixey<\/strong>, Dennis Janke<\/strong> & Dave Stewart<\/strong> (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-4012-5806-1 (TPB)<\/p>\n

The origins of the Dark Knight are so well-known now that it’s simple to twist and tweak them to suit almost any tale. It doesn’t hurt that the character has a universal recognition factor that holds up in almost any imaginary scenario\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Released in 2015, available in trade paperback and digital formats and collecting the 3-issue Elseworlds<\/em> miniseries (from November 2000 – January 2001), The Doom That Came to Gotham<\/strong> was written by horror moodmeister Mike Mignola (Hellboy<\/strong>; duh!) and Richard Pace (Negative Burn<\/strong>; Ashes<\/strong>; Imaginary fiends<\/strong>) with art from Troy Nixey (Harley Quinn<\/strong>; Trout<\/strong>; Only the End of the World Again<\/strong>), inker Dennis Janke & colourist & Dave Stewart.<\/p>\n

In case you came in late: During the 1990s, DC regrouped and rebranded its frequent dalliances with alternate reality scenarios under the copious and broad umbrella of a separate imprint. The Elseworlds<\/em> banner and credo declared that heroes would be taken out of their usual settings and put into strange places and times – some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t<\/em> exist\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

No doubts here, however, as the tale deftly takes us back to Roaring Twenties America, dishing out a daring dose of pulp fiction plumb centre in the ghastly spine-chilling mythos of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and their darkly-demented contemporaries\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

It’s 1928 and orphaned Bruce Wayne is returning to Gotham City two decades after his parents were murdered by a maniac. He’s been roving the world, and recently uncovered the fate of long-lost Professor Cobblepot<\/em>‘s Antarctic expedition. That resulted in a clash with a naked madman who talked to penguins and a large slab of ice with a creature inside it: a thing that never evolved on this world\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

By the time he and his close associates Alfred<\/em>, Dick<\/em>, Jason<\/em> and the rest have docked in his bleak and daunting home town, they have all had more than enough of the vile dreams the thing in the hold has generated\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

There are more surprises when he reaches his long-closed mansion: a dead man who somehow speaks and a mysterious stranger named Jason Blood<\/em> who has been sent to deliver a dire warning. Turning into an actual demon the visitor warns that to save Gotham, Bruce must cut out its heart\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Although shocked, Bruce is ready to act, and dons the strange uniform that makes him look like a human bat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

And thus begins a skilful, macabre pastiche as the desperate driven mystery man haunts the alleys and byways of the city, testing corrupt cops, self-serving officials and outright villains – all with names most comics fans will recognise – uncovering a long-suppressed, centuries-old secret even as literal Things From Beyond human comprehension and the borders of time and space congregate.<\/p>\n

Can even a heroic Bat Man triumph against such odds and if so, at what cost\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6?<\/p>\n

Complementing the eldritch epic is a full cover gallery by Mignola and a hefty sketches and design section, featuring pencilled pages by Pace (originally slated to illustrate the tale) and layouts by Nixey.<\/p>\n

Bold, compelling, potently stylish and chilling in all the right places, The Doom That Came to Gotham<\/strong> is a supernatural romp to delight and impress: once read and never forgotten\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n 2000, 2001, 2015 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mike Mignola, Richard Pace, Troy Nixey, Dennis Janke & Dave Stewart (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-5806-1 (TPB) The origins of the Dark Knight are so well-known now that it’s simple to twist and tweak them to suit almost any tale. It doesn’t hurt that the character has a universal recognition factor that holds up in … <\/p>\n

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