Doug Moench

Batman & Dracula: Red Rain is a Hammer inspired story about Dracula infiltrating's Gotham City's underground, feeding on the destitute, and Batman attempting to solve the mysterious murders that are taking place that are linked to Dracula. But, the clues lead to a confrontation for the ages which results in Batman truly becoming a creature of the night.

This is an operatic Horror comic that seamlessly blends two of my favorite things: The Dark Knight and vampires. It's a bit corny but that's part of the appeal.

It's an Elseworld classic for a reason.… (lisätietoja)

A quintessential early Batman story. Batman is still trying to figure out how to coexist with the police force in Gotham so he won’t have to be up against both them and the criminals. He knows his greatest link is Gordon, but Gordon too must walk a tight rope within the force.

Amidst this, Dr. Hugo Strange is brought in as a specialist to assist the force in catching Batman once and for all. But the police have no idea how obsessed Strange is with Batman and he quickly takes the mission off the rails.

There was some more theming that questions how Batman is different than the criminals themselves and some great scenes between him and Catwoman in this volume.… (lisätietoja)

So at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Part One: Broken Bat* I summarized the Broken Bat storyline, and in this one I’ll summarize the Who Rules the Night storyline.

So after Batman’s back is broken, he is rushed to the Batcave where Alfred takes care of him. For some reason then there’s a story that takes place three weeks earlier about Batman and Robin capturing Two-Face, but it’s not necessary. So Robin gives the cape and cowl to no one other than the religious sect assassin who was trained from birth to be an avenging angel, A.K.A Jean-Paul Valley. I will be calling him AzBats. So he goes out and fights some people, and then Scarecrow who wants to be a god or something. Scarecrow’s fear gas makes the subliminal messaging from the Order of St. Dumas (known as The System) to start to take hold. So he gets the brilliant idea to banish Robin forever and create CLAWS for himself. So he goes out, fights some more, people, and then attempts to take on Bane. He fails, so he immediately makes a super crazy mecha-batsuit. He fights Bane, succeeds and bam. It’s over.


Continue reading my Knightfall summaries at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2: Knightquest.


*I own Knightfall Part One, and I checked out Knightfall Vols. 1-3 at the library.… (lisätietoja)