Batman: Jazz

Batman: Jazz #1-3

by Gerard Jones, Mark Badger (Illustrator)

La musica di un misterioso artista di strada e la violenza portano il Cavaliere Oscuro nei meandri della scena jazz di Gotham City, dove il leggendario musicista Blue Byrd sembra essere tornato in vita, dopo essere morto in circostanze misteriose. Un mistero legato proprio al passato del jazzista, che sarà la chiave di volta per risolvere l'ennesimo mistero della città che Batman ha giurato di proteggere. Grazie alle scrittura sincopata di Gerard Jones e al tratto underground e graffiante di Mark Badger, preparatevi a scoprire una Gotham City cupa e deforme, dove il ritmo bepop fa da sottofondo alle avventure del Cavaliere Oscuro. Contiene "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight: Jazz" 1-3.

84 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Gerard Jones is an award-winning American author and comic book writer. From 1987 to 2001, Jones wrote many comic books for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Viz Media, Malibu Comics and other publishers; including Green Lantern, Justice League, Prime, Ultraforce, El Diablo, Wonder Man, Martian Manhunter, Elongated Man, The Shadow, Pokémon, and Batman.

Jones is author of the Eisner Award-winning Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book (2004); Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence (2002), and Honey I'm Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream (1993). Jones is co-author with Will Jacobs of The Beaver Papers (1983), The Comic Book Heroes (1985, 1996), and the comic book The Trouble with Girls (1987-1993). From 1983 to 1988, Jacobs and Jones were contributors to National Lampoon magazine. He and Jacobs began writing humorous fiction again in 2008 with the online series My Pal Splendid Man and Million Dollar Ideas

Reviews

[drown_like_its_1999 · Rating 1 out of 5]

A celebrated jazz musician disappears during the height of his fame and reappears decades later performing on the streets of Gotham. Batman serendipitously interacts with him during a mugging and is drawn into a criminal conspiracy that seeks to murder the musician.

What is it with Gerard Jones and contrived music storylines involving Batman? While nowhere near as laughable as "Fortunate Son", which develops an Elvis centered criminal narrative, "Jazz" is still incredibly contrived and full of hackneyed plot points / forced dialogue. Batman gets a table at a jazz club, fights a set of cartoonish goons that speak in scat, and delivers music based one liners during sleepily framed action scenes. The art can also be horribly muddy and dark, to the extent I occasionally couldn't tell what character was in frame.

[Абрахам Хосебр · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ультра андеґраунд, про який ви точно нічого не чули.
Тут є таємнича історія легендарного джаз-виконавця, є Бетмен, детектив і лиходійські Bop Brothets.
Малюнок жорсткий, різкий і сюрреалістичний, нагадує молодого Сінкевича.
Три випуски і по всьому, на фоні звучить композиція John Coltrane" In sentimental mood".