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Batman: Noël by Lee Bermejo

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Batman: Noel is a combination of Batman and the Christmas Carol. The surprising story sets a cynical beaten down Batman who is willing to use a criminal who is the father of a young boy as bait o catch one of his greatest villains.

Batman in this story is a picture of John Bunyan's man with a muckrake. He's been in the slough of evil and despondency so long that it's all he sees. It would probably not be advisable to compare this Batman to the one in the DC mainstream universe as that wasn't Bermejo's point in this short yet engaging and conversational tale.

Bermejo does this art on this book and the art is absolutely stunning. The art is the best thing in a comic you'll see this side of Alex Ross with great colors, shading, and mood.

If there's a downside to the book, it's that it does try a bit too hard to shove Batman into the Christmas Carol mode and when it does, the results are a tad awkward. ("Reduce the surplus criminal population." Really?)

But overall, this book is still a lot of fun with a great story and fantastic art, and with good Christmas graphic novels hard to find, this one is a worthy read.



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