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I was prepared not to like this, as I happened to see a reviewer I immensely respect, Sam Quixote, give it two stars (though I also know he dislikes Gaiman, and Gaiman's mentor Alan Moore, though does seem to like another superstar compadre of sorts, Grant Morrison). I see this book, which I had never read, as part of the whole rethinking comics project I associate with Moore in Watchmen, Millers' Dark Knight, and part of this opportunity many took to rethink earlier comic heroes like Moore with
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Cameos by Batman, Swamp Thing, Poison Ivy and probably others I didn't recognize. Beautiful drawings.
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After being viciously murdered, a girl was reborn as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, in order to avenge her own death. What a very interesting concept. Somehow it reminds me of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, which I'm crazy about. Absurd yet gorgeous. Only I'm not really a big fan of what the story flew into. Fortunately, McKean's mesmerizing's drawing and the guess characters such as Swamp Thing, Batman, or Poison Ivy were definitely a magnet.
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Mar 12, 2008
Laughinglioness
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Rabya
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Adam Daniels
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