El crepúsculo del murciélago

The Bat #2

by Josh Simmons, Pat Keck

Una visión retorcida del fin del mundo, donde los únicos dos habitantes sobrevivientes de la tierra han sido rivales toda su vida. La historia cuestiona la naturaleza de su larga historia postulando una sádica dualidad psico-sexual entre Héroe y Villano.

Genres: Comics

20 pages, Unknown Binding

First published November 1, 2017

Reviews

[Plagued by Visions · Rating 5 out of 5]

Astonishing, bleak, hilarious—such a careful balance of these modalities, and still entirely unserious throughout. This is sordid, uncompromising glory.

[Joshua O'Brien · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fan fiction at its finest.

Would be even better in colour.

[Rick Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second of Josh Simmons' bootleg Batman comics demonstrates a marked improvement on the formula. Here, the "Bat" is joined by his old foe, the "Joke Man", as the pair wander the apocalyptic ruins of G--- City. Though a lot of the backdrop will be reminscent to those who have read Simmons' "Black River", this ends up delivering a much tighter narrative surrounding post-apocalyptic tropes. Simmons and Keck also pull from a plethora of Batman comics - the aged Batman is a familiar concept as previously explored in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, and the hysterical bouts of laughter shared between the Bat and the Joke Man is a pointed nod towards Alan Moore's and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke. Though there isn't much ground to cover in just twenty or so pages, Twilight of the Bat does a solid job exploring the space of superhero parody and deconstructionism without wearing the concept out.