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Batman: Holy Terror (Batman)
by
Alan Brennert (Goodreads Author),
Norm Breyfogle
God is not the State, and the State is not God. Defiance of God's self-styled interpreters is not denial of God. I will serve Him in my own ways. By day I shal wear the holy cloth... and by night I will wear a different kind of cloth... a darker shade of vestments.
Paperback, 46 pages
Published
March 1st 1991
by DC Comics
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What if America were a Christian theocracy (Christianity - popular in America? The mind boggles!) and issues like abortion and equal rights for gays were outlawed (hmm.. is this “Elseworlds” or 21st century reality?), and there is no higher power than the Church. And the Church has killed Bruce Wayne’s parents because they were secret underground dissidents, working against Church dogma to help people – the sheer audacity of practicing Christian charity! This Church is obsessed with experimentin...more
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Aug 26, 2012
Rebecca
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3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Rebecca by:
Anthony - uncle and fellow geek
"Holy Terror" was the first of four DC Comics Elseworld books recently lent to me by my uncle. For those of you unfamiliar with the premise (as I was when they first came my way) the Elseworld books are stand-alone alternate universe stories involving the DC superheroes and their associates, with the focus generally on AU versions of Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent from what I've seen, but bringing in several others as well. Having now read all four (the other three, incidentally, were "Castle of the...more
I picked this up because it was on the sale shelf at Big Planet Comics, and I have a book of Alan Brennert's short stories that I liked. Once I picked it up I was intrigued by this brief but hard-hitting Elseworlds tale in which America is a theocracy (because Oliver Cromwell lived instead of dying of an illness) and Bruce Wayne believes he is about to find peace and a final healing from the death of his parents by putting aside his worldly goods and becoming a priest. But on his last night in W...more
May 08, 2013
Thom Foolery
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Shelves:
alternate-history,
comics,
fiction,
superheroes,
dystopia,
religion,
christianity,
repression,
revisioning,
library-public
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In a world where church and state are one, the "random" murder of two prominent citizens with ties to those in power has some lose ends swept aside. But they won't stay lost forever, and the surviving child named Bruce Wayne will have some dark choices to make when he's told the truth behind his parents deaths...
Batman: Holy Terror was the beginning of DC's Elseworlds stories. The "strange versions of familiar characters" theme had been done before, but the approach of these stand-alone stories...more
Batman: Holy Terror was the beginning of DC's Elseworlds stories. The "strange versions of familiar characters" theme had been done before, but the approach of these stand-alone stories...more
I do believe this was one of the first "Elseworlds" Graphic Novel I'd ever read, possibly even the first... wait do Dark Knight and Killing Joke count?
I wasn't expecting much going in as I have never been that big of a fan of the "What If" types of books. But the cover was nice and the square binding was novel at the time and it made it look nice.
I was uterly surprised by my reaction, this was, at the time, one of the best Batman stories I'd ever read, and the art was also pleasant and printed o...more
I wasn't expecting much going in as I have never been that big of a fan of the "What If" types of books. But the cover was nice and the square binding was novel at the time and it made it look nice.
I was uterly surprised by my reaction, this was, at the time, one of the best Batman stories I'd ever read, and the art was also pleasant and printed o...more
Really liked this concept and had me looking up cromwellian history on wikipedia for a fair while! Even though an elseworlds' story I didn't expect such deep religious and political themes- maybe the themes, but not the depth. The appearances of superman and the flash are both highly poignant. Breyfogle does a great batman.
In one of the first Elseworlds titles, Alan Brennert takes an opportunity to explore the very core of Batman by pitting him against a theocratic state descended from Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate. Its astonishing and complex ideas will change the way you see the Dark Knight, even over in our continuity. Brilliant.
Weak entry in the 'Elseworld' series. In this one young Bruce Wayne has joined the Priesthood.
On this alternate Earth the Church is running the dictatorship that runs the USA and has hunted down and killed most of the world's super heroes.
Too much jammed into this one shot and the fascist church run government is pretty cliche and badly done.
On this alternate Earth the Church is running the dictatorship that runs the USA and has hunted down and killed most of the world's super heroes.
Too much jammed into this one shot and the fascist church run government is pretty cliche and badly done.
Very good. Intriguing concept of the church as the corrupt government. Interesting to see what happened to other characters in this universe. It is all very sensitively handled. Could have been a good series.
An absolute bust! This “Elseworlds” graphic novel tried to place Bruce Wayne/Batman in an America that was linked with an England that never saw the end of the Puritan Revolution but failed as the writer did not have even the most basic understanding of the Puritans and Puritanism. Maybe the writer wanted to show an America under a conservative Roman Catholicism but could not get the plot worked out and was worried about revenue loss to offended Roman Catholics and decided to have his Inquisitor...more
ELSEWORLDS was a great concept--take the core of a character but then play around with that character in a new setting or conceit.
Holy Terror's mildly confusing for its alternate history with a religious spin, but this is one of the stronger "Alternate-Batman" stories ever done (the best, in my opinion, being Gotham By Gaslight).
The cameos and world-changes to many other DC heroes makes this a story that thinks about all the ramifications of altering history, not just hyper-focusing on one cha...more
Holy Terror's mildly confusing for its alternate history with a religious spin, but this is one of the stronger "Alternate-Batman" stories ever done (the best, in my opinion, being Gotham By Gaslight).
The cameos and world-changes to many other DC heroes makes this a story that thinks about all the ramifications of altering history, not just hyper-focusing on one cha...more
Another fine story and you got to love Norm Breyfogle's art
The mantle of the bat goes to medieval times...
Worth reading.
I like everyone else has had bats on the brain for a good couple weeks so I thought I'd reread some of the oldies....this one, an elseworlds tale, is okay..... I want to read Dark Victory!
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Alan Brennert's newest novel, Palisades Park, comes out 4/9/2013. Alan is the author of the historical novels Honolulu and Moloka'i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Pick and won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year. He is also the author of the thought-provoking fantasy novel Time and Chance. In addition to novels, he has w...more
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