Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire - Softcover

Azzarello, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401247229 ISBN 13: 9781401247225

Publisher: Dc Comics, 2014

Synopsis

One is the World's Greatest Detective with unlimited resources for his vigilante quest for justice. The other is a soldier; a black-ops killer who does whatever it takes for the greater good. What happens when the two meet? We'll never know because Michael Cray, code-name Deathblow, is dead. The Dark Knight faces the daunting task of finishing a job that someone else started, but for reasons that remain a mystery, refused to finish. That someone was Michael Cray.

The 3-issue miniseries by Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS, WONDER WOMAN), with stunning, evocative art by Lee Bermejo (JOKER, BATMAN: NOEL), Tim Bradstreet (HELLBLAZER, Punisher covers) & Mick Gray (PROMETHEA) is presented here in a new deluxe hardcover edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Brian Azzarello is the writer and co-creator of the award-winning Vertigo series 100 BULLETS.  Azzarello's other writing credits for DC Comics include the graphic novel JOKER, as well as BATMAN: BROKEN CITY, LUTHOR and HELLBLAZER. Brian has been featured in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and other publications. He is currently writing WONDER WOMAN, as a part of DC COMICS--THE NEW 52.

From Booklist:

Azzarello's Batman is a dark, angry, bitter man, way beyond kissing anyone--certainly not the woman here, who is just another spy-cum -dirty-trickster in a cast full of them. Batman gets involved with the spooks when an intelligence-officer friend of Bruce Wayne's is incinerated in a flash fire, and all clues point to a psychic firestarter, one of two guys whom Bruce's friend and a gunman code-named Deathblow failed to get 10 years ago. Their other quarry was the firestarter's supposed boss, the Falcon, and finding him becomes another objective of Batman's investigation. Batman gets ever grimmer as his pursuit lengthens; finally, he seems to drop out of the story. Artist Lee Bermejo makes a flashback-strewn tour de force of the tale. He limns every wrinkle, crams panels with veristic detail, and doesn't allow a scintilla of daylight anywhere. Wash-tinting makes other colors struggle through blue, green, and brown veils and keeps the aura foreboding and the mood seething as whiplash scene-shifting tips the reader deliciously off-balance. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dc Comics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1401247229
• ISBN 13: 9781401247225
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Illustrator: Bermejo Lee, Bradstreet Tim, Gray Mick, Friend Richard