Batman: El Rastro de la Pólvora

Batman and Catwoman: Trail of the Gun #1-2

by Ann Nocenti, Ethan Van Sciver (dibujo)

Batman y Catwoman luchan por la posesión del arma definitiva, una pistola que nunca falla su diana. El primero quiere retirarla de la calle, la segunda desea consagrarse como reina de los ladrones. ¿Conseguirán su cometido o perecerán ante el desastre que representan las armas de fuego? La sorprendente Ann Nocenti y el espectacular Ethan Van Sciver te invitan a presenciar una de las aventuras más inquietantes del Caballero Oscuro en un volumen que no te dejará indiferente. Publicado en Batman La Colección #64.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman

190 pages, Hardcover

First published October 13, 2005

About the author

Ann Nocenti is most noted as an editor for Marvel Comics, for whom she edited New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men. She made her comics writing debut on a brief run of Spider-Woman (#47-50) and subsequently wrote a long run of Daredevil (1st series) #236-291 (minus #237) from 1986 to 1991, directly following on from Frank Miller's definitive Born Again storyline. She also wrote the 1986 Longshot limited series for Marvel, and in the same year produced the Someplace Strange graphic novel in collaboration with artist John Bolton. She wrote "the Inhumans Graphic Novel" in 1988. In 1993, she wrote the 16-issue run of Kid Eternity for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo.

In Incredible Hulk #291, published in September 1983 (cover date January 1984), Ann Nocenti made a cameo appearance, talking to Dr. Bruce Banner, in a history written by Bill Mantlo, drawn by Sal Buscema and inked by Carlos Garzón and Joe Sinnot. That time Ann Nocenti was Assistant Editor for Larry Hama on Incredible Hulk and X-Men.

She is noted for her left-wing political views which, particularly during her run on Daredevil, caused some controversy among some fans who didn't agree with her politics.

She created several popular characters, including Typhoid Mary, Blackheart, Longshot and Mojo, and wrote the 1998 X-Men novel Prisoner X.

Although Nocenti left comic books in the '90s after the industry sales collapsed, she later returned to the field, penning stories such as 2004's Batman & Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows.

In Ultimate X-Men, a reimagination of the X-Men comic, the character Longshot, who was invented by her, has the civil name Arthur Centino. His last name, Centino, is an anagram of Nocenti and a homage to Nocenti. The name Arthur is for the co-creator of Longshot Arthur Adams who was Ann Nocenti's artist on the Longshot Mini Series.

She edited High Times magazine for one year (2004) under the name Annie Nocenti and is the former editor of the screenwriting magazine Scenario.

Reviews

[Arturo · Rating 1 out of 5]

I bought this 4 years ago and didn't like it at all. I just gave it another chance. Once again the whole TV screen talking and going on for way too long in the beginning kills it for me. The writing didn't do it for me, and I really like Van Scivers art but it wasn't saving this book. There's a big commentary on gun use and gun control, hence the title 'Trail of the Gun' which this a reprint of. The story is about Catwoman wanting to pull a heist for a new advanced gun.
I ended up losing interest in the middle and skipping a lot, but I knew that was cheating and really tried to see if there was any good in the book. There's 2 things.
1. There's 3 stories 3 people are telling, which are about family and some are sad and some are tragic.
And 2. The narration boxes aren't bad, they're pretty good, it's just the dialogue that holds nothing of interest.

[Max Z · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, nothing says Batman/Catwoman comic like Batman reading off gun statistics. Guns are bad, mmkay? They kill people. We need more preaching in comics, right? The only saving grace of this is Ethan Van Scyver's art. It's excellent, plus one star for that. Catwoman regains her senses in the middle of the pile of corpses and on the run from the whole city while remembering how she got there. If not for the shoehorned anti-gun agenda, it would be a fine heist story.

[Luke Quinn · Rating 3 out of 5]

lol, all of the Americans getting mad over the anti gun commentary in the reviews

[Sebastián]

Wow, this was bad BAD.

[leti-leto · Rating 1 out of 5]

Es un cómic correcto sin más, si te lo quieres comprar por Batman no lo hagas porque no es una historia transcendental en él (y sale dos veces contadas), más bien es una historia para los amantes del personaje de Catwoman.

Es una historia rápida de leer donde Catwoman esta implicada en un crimen y atreves de esto se hace una reflexión sobre el tema de las armas (a favor o en contra) creo que es más bien una reflexión para aquellos que viven en países donde las armas sean legales (que no es mi caso por lo tanto para mi se queda un poco vacío con respecto a ese tema).

[Fugo Feedback]

Uno de los tomos de "Batman la colección" de Planeta que nunca llegó, y de los que más me gustaría tener. A ver si me pongo las pilas con los comics de Nocenti que tengo en lista de espera, que el talento de esta autora se merece más que mis lecturas esporádicas.