Accompanied by his faithful butler Alfred Pennyworth and his young wards Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Timothy Drake, they take the cadaver-who-will-be-Freeze and head back home.Īlso: a dark omen that “the Thing is coming.” This is initially spooOOOooOoooOOoOoKy, but it, uh, doesn’t really coalesce. Freeze, and Oswald Cobblepot strip naked and join his flippered friends.Īfter twenty-some years of traveling abroad, Bruce Wayne feels the call back to Gotham City. I mean, in the first ten pages you see a giant Cthulu-esque creature frozen in ice, a new take on Mr. What initially seems like a good successor to one of my favorite Batman stories, Gotham by Gaslight, wastes no time in demonstrating just how bizarre of a story it’s going to be. Let me just get this out of the way up front: this book is weird. That seems strange considering the pedigree and level of talent involved, but better late than never I suppose. Published in late 2000 and early 2001, the Mike Mignola penned series had inexplicably not been collected until just a few weeks ago. Taking into consideration that Arkham Asylum was named after a fictional town found in Lovecraft’s lore, and that natural fit turns into a no-brainer. Given that Lovecraft’s works were steeped in the macabre and filled with no small amount of gothic horror elements, the Dark Knight of Gotham seems a natural fit. That is the question that the recently collected miniseries Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham seeks to answer. What would Batman be like had he been written by H.P.
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