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Batman: Nevermore #2
Batman: Nevermore Vol. 2
A 5-issue Elseworlds miniseries that brings the World's Greatest Detective together with the inventor of the modern detective story: Edgar Allan Poe! In Baltimore in the late 1800s, a number of high-ranking citizens' have been murdered in ways that defy explanation. The only thing linking the murders are sightings of a giant raven fleeing each crime scene
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24 pages, Comic
First published July 1, 2003
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About the author
Len Wein
1,585 books154 followersLen Wein was an American comic book writer and editor best known for co-creating DC Comics' Swamp Thing and Marvel Comics' Wolverine, and for helping revive the Marvel superhero team the X-Men (including the co-creation of Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus). Additionally, he was the editor for writer Alan Moore and illustrator Dave Gibbons' influential DC miniseries Watchmen.
Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.
Wein was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.
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May 12, 2017
Getting even worse! Poor Poe! Why am I still reading this?
September 17, 2017
I am not very good at doing written reviews, because I often just update my status from the app and leave it at that. However, I am going to try to get better about reviews here.
'Batman: Nevermore' is a small little saga/series/whatever you might coin it, that I have been wanting to read for some time. I have actually had this issue sitting on my desk for a little over a year. Admittedly, I purchased it because the bookstore I frequent had all five issues, but this one's cover art was the most enticing. And I knew, even if I didn't care for the content, I would want to have this framed/hung up with my other things.
I started here, mainly curious for the tone and prose that I might be getting myself into, and because I already had it on-hand.
The writing in this issue (though I will be interested to see how everything pans out for poor Poe) was very indicative of Poe's writing and voice. It felt like I was reading a more succinct Poe with this comic. He was expansively poetic and drawn out with phrases like, "And as the good professor spoke on, expounding his theories on this peculiar new science, I felt my eyes grow strangely heavy - as if I were being dragged down unwillingly into the stygian waters of sleep." This, of course, distinctive to Poe's writing style, and each new narrative (inner-monologue) of Poe's felt like there was a hint of macabre hiding under it.
The art style was also very fitting for such a series. Beyond the capturing of the petticoats and old, towering clocks, Batman's cowl even has a very elongated point to it, which makes it feel more 19th century horror. It was an interesting meshing of worlds that I am enjoying thoroughly and I intend on revisiting the others soon.
'Batman: Nevermore' is a small little saga/series/whatever you might coin it, that I have been wanting to read for some time. I have actually had this issue sitting on my desk for a little over a year. Admittedly, I purchased it because the bookstore I frequent had all five issues, but this one's cover art was the most enticing. And I knew, even if I didn't care for the content, I would want to have this framed/hung up with my other things.
I started here, mainly curious for the tone and prose that I might be getting myself into, and because I already had it on-hand.
The writing in this issue (though I will be interested to see how everything pans out for poor Poe) was very indicative of Poe's writing and voice. It felt like I was reading a more succinct Poe with this comic. He was expansively poetic and drawn out with phrases like, "And as the good professor spoke on, expounding his theories on this peculiar new science, I felt my eyes grow strangely heavy - as if I were being dragged down unwillingly into the stygian waters of sleep." This, of course, distinctive to Poe's writing style, and each new narrative (inner-monologue) of Poe's felt like there was a hint of macabre hiding under it.
The art style was also very fitting for such a series. Beyond the capturing of the petticoats and old, towering clocks, Batman's cowl even has a very elongated point to it, which makes it feel more 19th century horror. It was an interesting meshing of worlds that I am enjoying thoroughly and I intend on revisiting the others soon.
November 12, 2014
And it keeps getting better and better.
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