Batman: Nevermore Vol. 5

Batman: Nevermore #5

by Len Wein, Guy Davis

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

Genres: Comics

24 pages, Comic

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Len 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.

Reviews

[Earl · Rating 5 out of 5]

The whole series is just fantastic. Batman was inserted quite well, and Edgar Allan Poe's role and character was quite neat. Now, excuse me while I take a look at my Poe collection.

[Matthew Ulstad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some fun reimagining of characters and designs from Bat-lore. Still, overall it was a very predictable, on-the-nose read that felt more melodramatic than either dramatic or highly themed in the alternate timeline it is set. Also, the very concept and title really make the ending fall flat, because you know exactly where it will end from page one of book one.