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Justice Society (collected editions) #61
Doctor Mid-Nite
One of DC's classic heroes, Doctor's Mid-Nite, is reinvented for the 1990s in this colorful, painted graphic novel. When a dangerous, super-powerful steroid hits the streets of Portsmouth, Dr. Pieter Cross fights back, resulting in a tragic accident that cost him his sight! He soon discovers that the accident enables him to see in total darkness and turns this to his advantage as the costumed hero Dr. Mid-Nite.
This volume collects DOCTOR MID-NITE #1-3.
This volume collects DOCTOR MID-NITE #1-3.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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Matt Wagner
967 books231 followersMatt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist. In addition to his creator-owned series' Mage and Grendel, he has also worked on comics featuring The Demon and Batman as well as such titles as Sandman Mystery Theatre and Trinity, a DC Comics limited series featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
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May 21, 2015
The original Dr. Mid-Nite was a member of the Golden age Justice Society of America. There have been (only) three Dr. Mid-Nites. What each has in common is 1) they are all physicians, 2) due to some weird kind of blindness, they can only see at night, 3) they use “blackout” bombs to gain the advantage on their enemies 4) they have mad ninja skillz. Oh, and there’s a pet owl. The current one, Pieter Cross, a transplanted Norwegian (?), is a doctor who helps out the needy, loses his eyesight, by unknowingly drinking some of kind of mickey and finally, in tribute to the original character, takes the Mid-Nite moniker.
Matt Wagner created an excellent series, Sandman Mystery Theatre, which was a noir interpretation of the original Sandman, so he has some experience with re-inventing Golden Age characters. How did he do here?
The plot is on the pedestrian side. It involves a drug that turns people into all powerful zombie-like meta-humans, a real estate scam (in any context, this is boring), nuclear waste, a monster truck that crushes stuff (in any context, this is cool), and a quirky band of support players (Is there any other kind?). What I take issue with is the artwork. I’m all for pushing the boundaries on comic book art, but when I get a brain-cramp trying to decipher what I’m looking at through a haze of expressionistic artwork, it takes away from any enjoyment I might have had reading this volume.
Matt Wagner created an excellent series, Sandman Mystery Theatre, which was a noir interpretation of the original Sandman, so he has some experience with re-inventing Golden Age characters. How did he do here?
The plot is on the pedestrian side. It involves a drug that turns people into all powerful zombie-like meta-humans, a real estate scam (in any context, this is boring), nuclear waste, a monster truck that crushes stuff (in any context, this is cool), and a quirky band of support players (Is there any other kind?). What I take issue with is the artwork. I’m all for pushing the boundaries on comic book art, but when I get a brain-cramp trying to decipher what I’m looking at through a haze of expressionistic artwork, it takes away from any enjoyment I might have had reading this volume.
September 20, 2020
3.5 stars
"The explosion that altered his sight provides him with the perfect cover. Cloaked in the darkness that is now his world, Pieter Cross is free to pursue his private crusade of mercy . . . as Dr. Mid-Nite!" -- Camilla Marlowe, on page 65
Although this is the third incarnation of the character - he originally debuted in the early 1940's - Dr. Mid-Nite may seem a little too derivative and/or similar to better-known superheroic crimefighters like DC's Batman and Green Arrow (wealthy men using costumed alter egos on a crusade for justice in corrupt cities) and Marvel's Daredevil and Dr. Strange (blindness for the former, physician with a career-ending injury for the latter). However, this was still a decent origin story featuring Dr. Pieter Cross - who, try as I might with that name, makes me think of drummer Peter Criss from the 70's line-up of KISS - enlisting the help of a 'Gal Friday'-type (that would be Ms. Marlowe, who provides the helpful expositionary narration) in his nightly sojourns through crime-ridden Portsmouth City. The illustration style is often a muddy mess, but the storyline - featuring Doc and his associates taking down a powerful criminal trio - is pleasingly old-school in the best sense of the term.
"The explosion that altered his sight provides him with the perfect cover. Cloaked in the darkness that is now his world, Pieter Cross is free to pursue his private crusade of mercy . . . as Dr. Mid-Nite!" -- Camilla Marlowe, on page 65
Although this is the third incarnation of the character - he originally debuted in the early 1940's - Dr. Mid-Nite may seem a little too derivative and/or similar to better-known superheroic crimefighters like DC's Batman and Green Arrow (wealthy men using costumed alter egos on a crusade for justice in corrupt cities) and Marvel's Daredevil and Dr. Strange (blindness for the former, physician with a career-ending injury for the latter). However, this was still a decent origin story featuring Dr. Pieter Cross - who, try as I might with that name, makes me think of drummer Peter Criss from the 70's line-up of KISS - enlisting the help of a 'Gal Friday'-type (that would be Ms. Marlowe, who provides the helpful expositionary narration) in his nightly sojourns through crime-ridden Portsmouth City. The illustration style is often a muddy mess, but the storyline - featuring Doc and his associates taking down a powerful criminal trio - is pleasingly old-school in the best sense of the term.
May 8, 2017
This is just horrible. I've been trying to finish this for like a month and a half. And I've been on page 12 for that long. The artwork is really unappealing and there was some weird covert racism in character portrayals. So, I'll have to eternally retire this. Good thing I only got this for like $0.50.
October 4, 2019
A failed attempt at a sort of progressive pulp revivalism, along the lines of Wagner et al.’s “Sandman Mystery Theater.” The hero is a dark-of-night urban vigilante, but his civilian identity is that of a crusading outlaw doctor, tending to the poor and neglected, championing the marginalized and outcast, etc., and a gifted scientist to boot, staking out territory somewhere between The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Tezuka’s Black Jack. The best parts of the story are the early parts, dedicated to evoking the doctor’s twilit world as he goes about his rounds. Then the origin story happens, and the book wades deeper into cliche. The would-be progressive vibe sits oddly with the pulp elements: the main narrator, a desperate woman healed by the good doctor, turns into little more than his moll, a sort of underdeveloped Margo Lane type; also, the doc’s various street-level sidekicks are grossly racialized stereotypes of urban Blackness: imagine Doc Savage’s band of helpers redone as hip-hop era cliches, and you’ll get close. A bit distasteful, really. The doc comes off as the urban underclass’s great White savior, with an obviousness that belies the greater complexity of Wagner’s writing in “Sandman Mystery” (this doesn’t even come close).
Further, the villains turn out to be semi-mystical types — weird, cultish figures with animal masks — as well as avaricious corporate one-percenters, and so the story mashes together tones and genres in a lurching, unconvincing way, recalling the genre-busting mashups of Wagner and Snyder’s run on Grendel but without the satirical edge. By the end, things are happening because the plotting wills them to happen but not because they make any sense.
Snyder’s art is darkly stylized, at times technically impressive, but on the whole too dense, clotted, and grotesque to let any humanness show through. There is no sense of an urban “normal” to play up the doc’s nighttime adventures by contrast; this is a caricature of the superhero’s Pulp City, where raygun gothic meets plain ol’ gothic. It’s not a habitable world, but just a too-thick exercise in style. The visual storytelling and flow of action are stopped by Snyder’s painted excess; the result seems baroque and curious.
I get the feeling that this was a sort of orphan in Wagner’s career, i.e. a project left simmering on the burner for too long that finally fizzled into anticlimax when it did show up. (I seem to recall seeing pages or studies for this from Snyder at a comic-con in the, what, mid-90s?) In any case, it’s flat. Unfortunately, since then Wagner’s career has been dominated by this sort of pulp hero revivalism; perhaps this marks a moment where his resolve to do something different began to fade?
Bought for $3 at a sidewalk sale a week ago.
Further, the villains turn out to be semi-mystical types — weird, cultish figures with animal masks — as well as avaricious corporate one-percenters, and so the story mashes together tones and genres in a lurching, unconvincing way, recalling the genre-busting mashups of Wagner and Snyder’s run on Grendel but without the satirical edge. By the end, things are happening because the plotting wills them to happen but not because they make any sense.
Snyder’s art is darkly stylized, at times technically impressive, but on the whole too dense, clotted, and grotesque to let any humanness show through. There is no sense of an urban “normal” to play up the doc’s nighttime adventures by contrast; this is a caricature of the superhero’s Pulp City, where raygun gothic meets plain ol’ gothic. It’s not a habitable world, but just a too-thick exercise in style. The visual storytelling and flow of action are stopped by Snyder’s painted excess; the result seems baroque and curious.
I get the feeling that this was a sort of orphan in Wagner’s career, i.e. a project left simmering on the burner for too long that finally fizzled into anticlimax when it did show up. (I seem to recall seeing pages or studies for this from Snyder at a comic-con in the, what, mid-90s?) In any case, it’s flat. Unfortunately, since then Wagner’s career has been dominated by this sort of pulp hero revivalism; perhaps this marks a moment where his resolve to do something different began to fade?
Bought for $3 at a sidewalk sale a week ago.
November 21, 2015
A good olde pulp adventure. Excellent fun!
August 20, 2017
It pains me to say this because Matt Wagner is one of the best, albeit one of the most underrated comic writers out there, his work on Grendel and Batman are in my opinion unsurpassed, especially for the tone he was going through, but like allot of writers in the industry, their strength shows when they're writing characters with worlds they know all about, like Brian Michael Bendis, he's best at writing crime based comics, but give him a superhero book and he falls flat. Anyway, this comic reminds me of All Star Batman and Robin, in that it has great art. bit shitty writing. And at that, the artist seems to be copying Simon Bisely and Bill Sienkiwics. I struggled through reading this series, I kept waiting for something to happen, but it never did. Once I start reading something I have to finish it, and sometimes when I'm reading something I continue reading with the hopes it will pick up. This comic never picked it. Allot of the dialogue wasn't necessary either, which brings up the next problem. Allot of the things going on in this comic were needlessly stretched out, in my mind these things could have been covered in a page, it just seemed like the writer was running out of ideas so he ended up creating filler pages because he had nothing better to write about. Now I love bad comics, like early 90's Image comics, but them comics are so over the top and so bad that they become good, so they have that going for them, but this series offered nothing, and nothing that happened in it had last repercussions, sometimes the art distracted me from the mediocrity within these pages. I feel lucky that I read it, because I didn't have to pay for it, so really I have nothing to complain about. But yea, when I take a break between comics I generally read something better, or bury my head in a good book just to take a break. The dialogue in this comic is terrible, it's reminiscent of golden age comics, it also serves as a exposition.
Let's talk about the positives, the art work, it really sucks you into that world and makes you feel like a part of it, but then again the characters are all very retarded, so when the art takes you into that world it's like it sucks you into a home for retarded people, sure retards might be entertaining, but they have no substance, and when I say that, I mean the art is entertaining but the dialogue has no substance. Another thing about the art is, you could easily take a still from this comic and then hang it up in an art museum it's that good. Most people shit on the art simply because of the bad writing, but that's nerd logic, if it's a bad comic then attack everything.
I am happy to have all 3 issues in my collection, basically because I bought nearly early 90's comics, they're bad but I'm glad I have them there, they make for good reading when you want to switch off for awhile, same as this, it makes for good reading if you run out of meds for insomnia, because it puts you to sleep almost instantly.
If it was a different major DC character that was the star of the comic then maybe things would have been better.
I found the comic to be a little preachy, if you're a smoker and you read this then you know why, but then again I could just be reading too much into ir, while I really shouldn't, the story has no depth, it tries to pretend that it does, it pretends it's something more than it is. And once again I'm shocked at the writer of this comic, Matt Wagner, he has more hits than misses, but I think he was commissioned by DC to do this, maybe if he more freedom to do the story his way it would have been better, but since DC told him to do it in a certain way that it failed, and it's sad, because Wagner has more hits than misses, but again I think he was taken out of his comfort zone it would have been beastly. It reminds me of Bendis, he excels at dark and gritty comics, like Alias and Daredevil. Give Wagner a character like Grendel and he will excel, because that's the type of story he's used to telling.
The art work was amazing, it was all beautifully pained, it's taking me a long time to read this because I need breaks in between, either a good book or comic just to wind down. It reminds me of Liefelds Youngblood, good ideas, but bad execution, but the difference is, Youngblood is so bad that it's good, but Doctor Mid-Nite is so bad that it's bad. I can see why some people like it tho, but the dialogue is terrible, it's all by the books, it was like no work was put into the dialogue itself, that it was all typical comic speak. I will go back to it and finis it soon, but I just know that the ending will leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Let's talk about the positives, the art work, it really sucks you into that world and makes you feel like a part of it, but then again the characters are all very retarded, so when the art takes you into that world it's like it sucks you into a home for retarded people, sure retards might be entertaining, but they have no substance, and when I say that, I mean the art is entertaining but the dialogue has no substance. Another thing about the art is, you could easily take a still from this comic and then hang it up in an art museum it's that good. Most people shit on the art simply because of the bad writing, but that's nerd logic, if it's a bad comic then attack everything.
I am happy to have all 3 issues in my collection, basically because I bought nearly early 90's comics, they're bad but I'm glad I have them there, they make for good reading when you want to switch off for awhile, same as this, it makes for good reading if you run out of meds for insomnia, because it puts you to sleep almost instantly.
If it was a different major DC character that was the star of the comic then maybe things would have been better.
I found the comic to be a little preachy, if you're a smoker and you read this then you know why, but then again I could just be reading too much into ir, while I really shouldn't, the story has no depth, it tries to pretend that it does, it pretends it's something more than it is. And once again I'm shocked at the writer of this comic, Matt Wagner, he has more hits than misses, but I think he was commissioned by DC to do this, maybe if he more freedom to do the story his way it would have been better, but since DC told him to do it in a certain way that it failed, and it's sad, because Wagner has more hits than misses, but again I think he was taken out of his comfort zone it would have been beastly. It reminds me of Bendis, he excels at dark and gritty comics, like Alias and Daredevil. Give Wagner a character like Grendel and he will excel, because that's the type of story he's used to telling.
The art work was amazing, it was all beautifully pained, it's taking me a long time to read this because I need breaks in between, either a good book or comic just to wind down. It reminds me of Liefelds Youngblood, good ideas, but bad execution, but the difference is, Youngblood is so bad that it's good, but Doctor Mid-Nite is so bad that it's bad. I can see why some people like it tho, but the dialogue is terrible, it's all by the books, it was like no work was put into the dialogue itself, that it was all typical comic speak. I will go back to it and finis it soon, but I just know that the ending will leave a bad taste in my mouth.
March 7, 2024
Після того як прочитав лімітку "Golden Age" мені захотілося почитати щось про героїв Золотої Доби та учасників JSA. У своїх пошукав я наштовхнувся на лімітку "Dr Mid-Nite" Метта Ваґнера у якій нам представили нову ітерацію цього персонажа. Сам Метт відомий тим, що створив такого персонажа як Ґрендель, а також своїм раном на серії "Sandman: Mystery Theater" про пригоди Веслі Додса (оригінальної Пісочної Людини).
Сюжет крутиться навколо розслідування наркотику А39 яке проводить доктор Пітер Кросс. Сама оповідь ведеться від лиця Каміли Мерлов, яка змушена купляти цей наркотик через свою хворобу. Однак все змінюється коли одного вечора в її апартаменти проникає Кросс з пропозицією вилікувати її.
Сама Історія вийшла похмурим детективом та оріджином нового героя. Написано все було теж дуже пристойно в результаті я просто не міг відірватися та із захопленням спостерігав за розвитком сюжету. Мені сподобалося, що Ваґнер не спішить з тим щоб підвести Кросса до нещасного випадку через який він в результаті й стане Міднайтом, завдяки цьому нам вдається побачити, що ж за людиною є Пітер. І цей його образ чоловіка який розуміє, що його місто знаходиться в не найкращому моральному стані, але тим не менш невеликими справами намагається йому допомогти мені дуже сподобався. Щодо антагоністів то тут ними є Жахливе Тріо, які в цій серії отримали підвищення і тепер є не джоберами Бет-родини, а власниками корпораціями яка й виробляє наркотик, а також їх посіпака містер Ларґо з пунктиком на замітанні слідів. Взагалі мене досить таки розсмішив їх план, який звучить аж занадто переускладнено на фоні того, для чого вони це взагалі роблять.
Як я вже зазначав оповідь тут ведеться від лиця Каміли. З одного боку я розумію що це було зроблено для того, щоб ми читачі асоціювали себе з нею і як вона занурювалися у світ у який вона потрапила завдяки Пітеру і в цьому немає нічого поганого. Тим не менш Кросс, особисто мене, дуже заінтригував і хотілося б більше дізнатися про нього саме з його перспективи.
А тепер до того, що може відлякати багатьох від серії. Малюнок Джона Снайдера 3 вийшов дуже і дуже специфічним. Головним його плюсом є те, що він задає досить непогану атмосферу, а також локації в яких відбувається серія реально запам'ятовуються. Тим не менш до дизайнів персонажів я звик далеко не одразу, плюс дуже сильно постраждали екшен сцени. Коли у фінальному номері була сутичкв під водою я взагалі не зразу розумів, що відбувається.
Загалом мені лімітка сподобалася, Кросс вийшов досить непоганим персонажем і наскільки я знаю пізніше стає учасником ТСА в рані Джеффа Джонса (в якому його підв'язали до оригінального Доктора Міднайта, як я розумію) тому якщо колись візьмуся за цю серію, то буду радий його бачити. Якщо вас не відлякує досить специфічний малюнок Снайдера, то загалом можете прочитати цю серію.
Сюжет крутиться навколо розслідування наркотику А39 яке проводить доктор Пітер Кросс. Сама оповідь ведеться від лиця Каміли Мерлов, яка змушена купляти цей наркотик через свою хворобу. Однак все змінюється коли одного вечора в її апартаменти проникає Кросс з пропозицією вилікувати її.
Сама Історія вийшла похмурим детективом та оріджином нового героя. Написано все було теж дуже пристойно в результаті я просто не міг відірватися та із захопленням спостерігав за розвитком сюжету. Мені сподобалося, що Ваґнер не спішить з тим щоб підвести Кросса до нещасного випадку через який він в результаті й стане Міднайтом, завдяки цьому нам вдається побачити, що ж за людиною є Пітер. І цей його образ чоловіка який розуміє, що його місто знаходиться в не найкращому моральному стані, але тим не менш невеликими справами намагається йому допомогти мені дуже сподобався. Щодо антагоністів то тут ними є Жахливе Тріо, які в цій серії отримали підвищення і тепер є не джоберами Бет-родини, а власниками корпораціями яка й виробляє наркотик, а також їх посіпака містер Ларґо з пунктиком на замітанні слідів. Взагалі мене досить таки розсмішив їх план, який звучить аж занадто переускладнено на фоні того, для чого вони це взагалі роблять.
Як я вже зазначав оповідь тут ведеться від лиця Каміли. З одного боку я розумію що це було зроблено для того, щоб ми читачі асоціювали себе з нею і як вона занурювалися у світ у який вона потрапила завдяки Пітеру і в цьому немає нічого поганого. Тим не менш Кросс, особисто мене, дуже заінтригував і хотілося б більше дізнатися про нього саме з його перспективи.
А тепер до того, що може відлякати багатьох від серії. Малюнок Джона Снайдера 3 вийшов дуже і дуже специфічним. Головним його плюсом є те, що він задає досить непогану атмосферу, а також локації в яких відбувається серія реально запам'ятовуються. Тим не менш до дизайнів персонажів я звик далеко не одразу, плюс дуже сильно постраждали екшен сцени. Коли у фінальному номері була сутичкв під водою я взагалі не зразу розумів, що відбувається.
Загалом мені лімітка сподобалася, Кросс вийшов досить непоганим персонажем і наскільки я знаю пізніше стає учасником ТСА в рані Джеффа Джонса (в якому його підв'язали до оригінального Доктора Міднайта, як я розумію) тому якщо колись візьмуся за цю серію, то буду радий його бачити. Якщо вас не відлякує досить специфічний малюнок Снайдера, то загалом можете прочитати цю серію.
July 21, 2019
Nesta história de origem, um médico-cientista independente que se vê cego ao envolver-se com traficantes de uma droga perigosa, assume o manto de herói que, nas trevas, combate o crime. No seu primeiro caso, terá de desvendar e aniquilar a complexa conspiração centrada numa empresa que fabrica drogas capazes de causar mutações e provoca acidentes ambientais como estratégia de valorização de propriedades imobiliárias. Doctor Mid-Nite é essencialmente uma versão da trope "personagem com meios financeiros e conhecimentos usa gadgets, capacidade dedutiva e força para combater o crime". Ou seja, um Batman, mas dedicado à medicina e com a coruja como animal totémico. Sendo semi-cego, Mid-Nite depende de óculos especiais que lhe conferem visão aumentada. Personagem clássico da Charlton, discretamente integrado na continuidade da DC, foi um daqueles que Alan Moore reinventou como Nite Owl no clássico Watchmen. Aqui, Matt Wagner tenta uma integração direta no universo DC, com um argumento interessante, imbuído com surpreendentes mensagens ecológicas e anti-capitalistas. A ilustração de John Snyder segue um caminho pictórico, sinalizando que esta série se destinou a um público mais prestigiante. A cor sobrepõe-se ao traço, e a pintura é fortemente atmosférica.
May 2, 2024
The story was… fine, I’m all for reimaginings and new canons for characters that have been seeing as long as Dr. Midnite but what the hell was up with the art style? So many times I found myself just flat out confused regarding what I was looking at. Especially in the totally-not-even-remotely subtle racism in the portrayal and dialogue of black characters throughout. The most insensitive, to me, was the good doctor escorting a small black child home to her mother’s apartment in what appears to be the projects of Hub City and proceeding to lecture the mother about the value of a healthy diet. A millionaire lecturing a woman below the poverty line about her food budget didn’t sit right with me.
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December 28, 2025
Amazing quality.
Very good read. There's just something about Golden age hero's in a modern city setting that clicks just right. Matt Wagner delivers another beautiful tale while John K. Snyder brings a unique art style together to make a perfect comic. We need more comics like this. A nice grounded story. I like that it doesn't get too big for its own good. Very good read. A must read.
Very good read. There's just something about Golden age hero's in a modern city setting that clicks just right. Matt Wagner delivers another beautiful tale while John K. Snyder brings a unique art style together to make a perfect comic. We need more comics like this. A nice grounded story. I like that it doesn't get too big for its own good. Very good read. A must read.
September 12, 2024
Wagner's writing and Snyder's art were an intriguing pair. I enjoyed the characterization of Pieter Cross AKA Doctor Mid-Nite and the art was unique. I just found the plot and especially the villains, to be somewhat forgettable. I think this would have benefited if it was allowed to continue past a mini-series.
July 4, 2021
Kudos for making a character like this so strange and unsettling through the art, but it does make the book hard to read at times. Probably not the best book to read when feeling under the weather because the art is very much quite the thing
August 26, 2022
Pretty sure this was written under the influence of shitty weed, and drawn under the influence of expired ketamine and bootleg Four Loko.
This doesn't deserve a star. It's got one use - to show you how bad the 90s revamp trend could get.
This doesn't deserve a star. It's got one use - to show you how bad the 90s revamp trend could get.
June 10, 2017
Il volume raccoglie la miniserie che ha lanciato il nuovo Dr. Mid-Nite. Il personaggio è molto intrigante, ben definito e la storia è, nel complesso, decente almeno quanto i disegni.
November 30, 2018
Retro - but fun, as a stand alone - not sure I'd follow a series further though.
April 19, 2019
The last issue kind of undermined how beautiful this was. But still, the art was beautiful and the story was okay in the first two issues.
February 23, 2008
Finally. A DC comic book with art to back up the story. Those of you who i talk to about comic books know that i've been reading them forever, and that i'm not as partial to super-hero stories as i used to be. Also, i often complain that as a visual medium, there are too many folks who get away with writing amazing stories that have sh!t for art.
Well, Doctor Mid-Nite has some amazing paintings from John K. Snyder III, which is reminiscent of Simon Bisley's work. Meaning that the art is gritty, detailed, and uses amazing colors. The story is somewhat Batman-esque with a rich guy, a physician, that has some kind of commitment to social justice. The main issue tackled is environmental destruction by a trio of greedy crazies- something that is perhaps a bit more progressive than fighting bad guys intent on destroying the world for no real reason.
Enjoy.
Well, Doctor Mid-Nite has some amazing paintings from John K. Snyder III, which is reminiscent of Simon Bisley's work. Meaning that the art is gritty, detailed, and uses amazing colors. The story is somewhat Batman-esque with a rich guy, a physician, that has some kind of commitment to social justice. The main issue tackled is environmental destruction by a trio of greedy crazies- something that is perhaps a bit more progressive than fighting bad guys intent on destroying the world for no real reason.
Enjoy.
April 14, 2016
this was a bummer. i really like matt wagner, and his art
was good, but this was just a terrible ripoff of batman.
apparently, it's a "real" DC character from way back,
but it was clearly DC ripping off their own successful
property. wagner tried to stay close to the original,
which would be the correct choice if the character
were original and interesting, but was a mistake here.
as for the story, it moved ridiculously fast, but in circles,
and never went anywhere. every single character was a
cardboard cutout. it seems as though he got the project,
thought up some cool paintings, then just strung them
together in some sequence, logical or not, trying to
hit the expected number of pages.
was good, but this was just a terrible ripoff of batman.
apparently, it's a "real" DC character from way back,
but it was clearly DC ripping off their own successful
property. wagner tried to stay close to the original,
which would be the correct choice if the character
were original and interesting, but was a mistake here.
as for the story, it moved ridiculously fast, but in circles,
and never went anywhere. every single character was a
cardboard cutout. it seems as though he got the project,
thought up some cool paintings, then just strung them
together in some sequence, logical or not, trying to
hit the expected number of pages.
May 12, 2014
Actualización de un viejo enmascarado de las historietas a cargo de Matt Wagner, un experto en estas lides que esta vez se decanta por una historia sencilla (pero bien orquestada) que pasa del cuento urbano a la premisa en plan James Bond. Un argumento parejo, diálogos sólidos y la gran labor gráfica de Snyder son los mejores puntos de una miniserie cuyo alicaído tercio final destiñe en comparación a su potente despegue, siendo de todas maneras una recomendable lectura para el aficionado.
December 6, 2016
Just the perfect kind of grit and Vertigo-esque painterly haze with urban decay that I live for. Pretty scattered, repetitive, and nonsensical at places, but ultimately a great experience and reimagining of the character.
February 3, 2011
Art: 4/5
Story: 2/5
Story: 2/5
April 30, 2013
Something new, something different, something entertaining. It's what I liked about this miniseries.
May 28, 2015
It took me a year and a half to finish this one. The story is pretty generic, but the artwork is awesome.
March 3, 2016
The first issue was great! Really nice origin to the character. But the art is hard to keep looking at, and then the story became boring and cliche, so I just didn't care anymore.
January 31, 2016
Beautiful, but unfortunately the quality of the story (which is fine but not great) doesn't match it.
July 23, 2016
As a reintroduction of the character Doctor Mid-Nite to the DC Universe, this is a great story. I read it too fast -- there is a lot of nuance and subtlety to both the text and pictures.
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