Batman: Year One by Frank Miller Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Batman: Year One
Book Review: Miller Time
Summary: 5 Stars
Miller and Mazzuchelli have a great understanding of film noir and apply it to one of the most popular comic characters. More so than the popular Dark Knight Returns, this is a gritty, down to earth look at Batman's early days. Very highly recommended reading and what comics should be about.Book Review: It begins here
Summary: 5 Stars
With "Dark Knight Returns", Frank Miller ended the Batman saga. With "Batman:Year One" he begins it again. Exploring Batman's origin and chronicling his first adventures, we are introduced for the first time to Detective James GOrdon (eventually to become Commissioner Gordon), Selina Kyle (Catwoman), and Harvey Dent (soon to become Two Face). Year One explores Gordon's relationship with Batman and is a great tale of police corruption which justifies the existence of a Batman. The artwork is fantastic and Miller's writing is in peak form. It's a shame he never returned to Batman after this. If you are a fan of Miller's writing, also worth checking out would be Daredevil and Elektra, two other great titles.Book Review: Pretty good, but...
Summary: 4 Stars
This is great story from Frank Miller and company. I bought it mainly because I was impressed by The Dark Knight Returns, and have to say that I was a little disappointed. This is really more the story of how Batman and Gordon became friends than it is the story of Batman's early adventures. It is a good read, but doesn't live up to Dark Knight.Book Review: The definitive origin of Batman
Summary: 5 Stars
Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli have outdone themselves with one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) Batman stories ever told! Ladies and gentlemen, if you have only seen the Batman movies and found them unsatisfying and if you want to learn the one, true story of Gotham's protector, then do yourself a favor and buy this exceptional work of art! Sleek, powerful, frightening, and liberating, BATMAN:YEAR ONE is must reading for Batman and comic book fans alike!Book Review: simply, a masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I didn't appreciate Mazzuchelli's art as a youngster, I now acknowledge his work on Batman:Year One as probably the best and most complete comic art that i've seen. Mazzuchelli's perfectly understated art accentuates the brooding tension that lies just below the surface of Miller's hard-boiled plot. This book is really, really great cinema, and I'd compare the impressionistic tone of mazzuchelli's voice in this work to filmaker Terrence Malick's, although the book itself resembles the film noir style on a superficial level. Of course, Frank Miller deserves a lot of credit as I'm sure that he had a lot of input towards the construction of the art. Lynn Varley, too, for the beautifully warm application of color.