{"id":2632,"date":"2008-12-03T05:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T12:27:38","slug":"batman-the-last-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/12\/03\/batman-the-last-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: The Last Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2633\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/batman-the-last-angel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2633\" title=\"batman-the-last-angel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/batman-the-last-angel-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: The Last Angel\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/batman-the-last-angel-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/batman-the-last-angel.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Batman: The Last Angel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By <strong>Eric Lustbader<\/strong>, <strong>Lee Moder<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Scott Hanna<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-56389-156-5<\/p>\n<p>Great looking art from Lee Moder, but a rather disappointing tale from the acclaimed novelist. A Batman who&#8217;s much more welcome to the Gotham authorities hunts a killer, while crash victim Selina Kyle has bloody nightmares about being hunted by a jaguar.<\/p>\n<p>As Catwoman she is obsessed and bored in equal measure, but with Gotham&#8217;s gangs seemingly at each other&#8217;s throats, a Mayan exhibition of the Bat God Balam is focusing everyone&#8217;s attention from where it needs to be. And her planned heist is just a catalyst for a repeat of the events that destroyed the Mayan Empire!<\/p>\n<p>When the mask possesses Batman himself, Selina is forced into the uncharacteristic role of saviour\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>With everybody playing a double game and such villains as Rupert Thorne and the Joker further muddying the waters, plus a lame subplot about Selina&#8217;s lost father, this overly-convoluted tale tries just a little too hard to be all things to all people, but it does have great pace and, as I&#8217;ve already said, a superlative art job from the under-appreciated Lee Moder.<\/p>\n<p>Silly, but fans will find a lot to enjoy here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1994 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Lustbader, Lee Moder &amp; Scott Hanna (DC Comics) ISBN: 1-56389-156-5 Great looking art from Lee Moder, but a rather disappointing tale from the acclaimed novelist. A Batman who&#8217;s much more welcome to the Gotham authorities hunts a killer, while crash victim Selina Kyle has bloody nightmares about being hunted by a jaguar. As &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2008\/12\/03\/batman-the-last-angel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Batman: The Last Angel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-Gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}