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Bruce Wayne: Fugitive volume 2
Bruce Wayne's girlfriend, Vesper Fairchild, has been murdered. Wayne - and his bodyguard Sasha Bordeaux - were on Batman business at the time, and neither can provide an alibi to prove their innocence. Bordeaux remains in jail but Wayne has escaped to continue his work as the Batman.
Can the Dark Knight get to the bottom of the conspiracy that threatens everything he has built? And can Sasha Bordeaux escape the jaws of death as they close around her?
Nightwing #69, Birds of Prey #43, Batman #603-607, Detective Comics #771-775, Batgirl #29/33, Batman: Gotham Knights #30-32, Azrael: Agent of the Bat #91-92
Can the Dark Knight get to the bottom of the conspiracy that threatens everything he has built? And can Sasha Bordeaux escape the jaws of death as they close around her?
Nightwing #69, Birds of Prey #43, Batman #603-607, Detective Comics #771-775, Batgirl #29/33, Batman: Gotham Knights #30-32, Azrael: Agent of the Bat #91-92
452 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2020
About the author
Chuck Dixon
3,485 books1,088 followersCharles "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."
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."
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August 27, 2025
This is the one book of the 4 that actually flowed quite well. Overall the story wraps up quickly and then it basically has a few epilogues setting up new status quo.
I still enjoy this story overall but this collection could have cut a lot out and been 1 much more concise hardcover rather than 4 books.
Brubaker seems to be the main writer who brought more focus and enjoyment to this, honestly he probably could have just told the entire story without all the filler issues from the others.
I still enjoy this story overall but this collection could have cut a lot out and been 1 much more concise hardcover rather than 4 books.
Brubaker seems to be the main writer who brought more focus and enjoyment to this, honestly he probably could have just told the entire story without all the filler issues from the others.
December 7, 2021
All in all there wasn't a single issue I hated reading. Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker tell an interesting Batman and Police story. And with that being said...
The continuity event and the plot of this "Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugitive" arc did not match. The key focus of the plot is never about the murder mystery or Bruce's fugitive status.
At first the dilemma of not being able to provide an alibi due to being Batman was interesting. But after awhile it just seemed that that was all the GCPD had to build there case. If Bruce and the Bodyguard wont talk then their guilty right?
Then we just watch Bruce sit in jail and do nothing but brood over not being able to be Batman, while his bodyguard is waiting for him to rescue her, and the Bat-Family argues over the possibility he'd actually murder someone.
And then he breaks out of prison, simply because he can't stand not being Batman and not because he wants to find the real killer, and has one argument with Nightwing about letting his identity as Bruce go.
So then we just watch Batman be Batman while people try to subtly hint at being Bruce again, and Sasha rots in prison.
The whole event really makes no sense due to the simple fact that Batman just didn't seem to care. Which was rather disappointing and out of character that Batman didn't seem to care that an innocent women was dead or that another was in prison because of it.
The fact that we get to see both Sasha and Bruce's perspectives through this ordeal really makes Batman come off as a bad person.
The continuity event and the plot of this "Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugitive" arc did not match. The key focus of the plot is never about the murder mystery or Bruce's fugitive status.
At first the dilemma of not being able to provide an alibi due to being Batman was interesting. But after awhile it just seemed that that was all the GCPD had to build there case. If Bruce and the Bodyguard wont talk then their guilty right?
Then we just watch Bruce sit in jail and do nothing but brood over not being able to be Batman, while his bodyguard is waiting for him to rescue her, and the Bat-Family argues over the possibility he'd actually murder someone.
And then he breaks out of prison, simply because he can't stand not being Batman and not because he wants to find the real killer, and has one argument with Nightwing about letting his identity as Bruce go.
So then we just watch Batman be Batman while people try to subtly hint at being Bruce again, and Sasha rots in prison.
The whole event really makes no sense due to the simple fact that Batman just didn't seem to care. Which was rather disappointing and out of character that Batman didn't seem to care that an innocent women was dead or that another was in prison because of it.
The fact that we get to see both Sasha and Bruce's perspectives through this ordeal really makes Batman come off as a bad person.
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