Coleccionable Batman, tomo 15 de 40. Portada de Graham Nolan Traducción de Ana Calvillo 1ª Historia Batman: Shadow of The Bat #18 El dios del miedo: Conclusión (24 págs.) Título Original: The god of fear: Conclusion Guión: Alan Grant Dibujo: Bret Blevins
2ª Historia Batman #499 La conexión del veneno (22 págs.) Título Original: The venom connection Guión: Doug Moench Dibujo: Jim Aparo Entintado: Scott Hanna 3ª Historia Detective Comics #666 El demonio que conoces (22 págs.) Título Original: The devil you know Guión: Chuck Dixon Dibujo: Graham Nolan Entintado: Scott Hanna 4ª Historia Batman #500 El ángel oscuro I: La caída (24 págs.) Título Original: Dark angel I: The fall Guión: Doug Moench Dibujo: Jim Aparo Entintado: Terry Austin
Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s.
His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. His big break came one year later, when editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' The Savage Sword of Conan.
In 1986, he began working for Eclipse Comics, writing Airboy with artist Tim Truman. Continuing to write for both Marvel and (mainly) Eclipse on these titles, as well as launching Strike! with artist Tom Lyle in August 1987 and Valkyrie with artist Paul Gulacy in October 1987, he began work on Carl Potts' Alien Legion series for Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, under editor Archie Goodwin. He also produced a three-issue adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing Marc Spector: Moon Knight in June 1989.
His Punisher OGN Kingdom Gone (August, 1990) led to him working on the monthly The Punisher War Journal (and later, more monthly and occasional Punisher titles), and also brought him to the attention of DC Comics editor Denny O'Neil, who asked him to produce a Robin mini-series. The mini proved popular enough to spawn two sequels - The Joker's Wild (1991) and Cry of the Huntress (1992) - which led to both an ongoing monthly series (which Dixon wrote for 100 issues before leaving to work with CrossGen Comics), and to Dixon working on Detective Comics from #644-738 through the major Batman stories KnightFall & KnightsEnd (for which he helped create the key character of Bane), DC One Million , Contagion , Legacy , Cataclysm and No Man's Land . Much of his run was illustrated by Graham Nolan.
He was DC's most prolific Batman-writer in the mid-1990s (rivalled perhaps in history by Bill Finger and Dennis O'Neil) - in addition to writing Detective Comics he pioneered the individual series for Robin , Nightwing (which he wrote for 70 issues, and returned to briefly with 2005's #101) and Batgirl , as well as creating the team and book Birds of Prey .
While writing multiple Punisher and Batman comics (and October 1994's Punisher/Batman crossover), he also found time to launch Team 7 for Jim Lee's WildStorm/Image and Prophet for Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios. He also wrote many issues of Catwoman and Green Arrow , regularly having about seven titles out each and every month between the years 1993 and 1998.
In March, 2002, Dixon turned his attention to CrossGen's output, salthough he co-wrote with Scott Beatty the origin of Barbara Gordon's Batgirl in 2003's Batgirl: Year One. For CrossGen he took over some of the comics of the out-going Mark Waid, taking over Sigil from #21, and Crux with #13. He launched Way of the Rat in June 2002, Brath (March '03), The Silken Ghost (June '03) and the pirate comic El Cazador (Oct '03), as well as editing Robert Rodi's non-Sigilverse The Crossovers. He also wrote the Ruse spin-off Archard's Agents one-shots in January and November '03 and April '04, the last released shortly before CrossGen's complete collapse forced the cancellation of all of its comics, before which Dixon wrote a single issue of Sojourn (May '04). Dixon's Way of the Rat #24, Brath #14 and El Cazador #6 were among the last comics released from the then-bankrupt publisher.
On June 10, 2008, Dixon announced on his forum that he was no longer "employed by DC Comics in any capacity."
Abandonadas las subtramas de otros villanos, los números aquí incluidos demuestran que no hace falta relleno, que las líneas principales tienen suficiente entidad para cargar con todo el suspense de la historia de un modo sobradamente interesante. El progresivo aumento de la violencia en los métodos del Batman suplente establece un debate interno que apunta a la posible obsolescencia del código moral correcto y la pertinencia del uso de métodos más duros para combatir un mal que ya ni siquiera respeta los códigos antiguos. Combatir el fuego con el fuego o seguir manteniendo distancia con el mal y evitar el uso de sus mismos métodos para diferenciarte de él. Dicho de otra forma, se pone en duda la utilidad de lo correcto. Más allá de lo moral, en cuanto a la acción en sí, este aumento de agresividad y violencia en el nuevo Batman favorece del todo el diafrute de la historia, colocando a Bane ante alguien que utiliza su misma falta de escrúpulos en un enfrentamiento desatado que oara el lector es adrenalina pura. Esto sube.
Seguimos la pista al nuevo Batman (Jean Paul) tras el enfrentamiento de Bruce con Bane. El nuevo Batman se considera legitimo heredero del manto y pronto comienza a azotar a los villanos mediante la brutalidad. Esto ocasiona una serie de pequeños conflictos personales. La trama del arco se desarrolla lento pero hay mucha acción lo que lo hace ligero. En el último número en particular, cuando Jean se enfrenta a Bane, tenemos un diálogo con Robin (Tim Drake) muy interesante sobre la ética del caballero oscuro que representa Bruce Wayne, y que a ojos de Jean ha quedado desfasada por la violencia criminal. La oscuridad requiere una oscuridad similar argumenta Jean. Pero Robin cree que sólo la luz puede acabar con las tinieblas.
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Libro de historietas con ISBN propio. Además de en este coleccionable, estos comics tuvieron varias reediciones más tanto en castellano como en el original en inglés.
¿Primer tomo de Azra como Batman? Por el traje de la tapa, todo indica que sí. Además, este arranque de saga en su momento me encantó, así que no voy a andar indagando por puntajes ahora.
Edición española. Tomo 14 de 40 del primer coleccionable de Batman de Planeta. Sí, es el primer tomo con Jean-Paul como Batman, antes de que se pase a la armadura loca.