Graphic Novel Friday Batman/ Gotham Underground Frank Tieri

[Giovanni Gelati]

Are you a Batman fan of any kind? I am and this is just the graphic novel for any size Batman fan: passive /aggressive or in the middle. Frank Tieri along with J. Calafiore as Penciller and Jack Purcell/ Inker make
an amazzing team (this is so good I had to use two z’s).You want villains:
Biff, Pow, Wham, you have almost all of them in these pages.

I give no spoilers but here is the synopsis from the back page: ”Gotham City may be under Batman’s protection, but what if the Dark Knight detective wasn’t there when his city needed him? With an underworld power
vacuum caused by the death of Black Mask, Gotham’s gangs are running riot in
the streets. A war is brewing between the masked super-villains and the
anti-mask mobsters, led by Tobias Whale and the Penguin who supposedly went
legit months ago. To confront the growing crisis, Bruce Wayne goes undercover
as his gangster alter ego, Matches Malone…and ends up incarcerated in Blackgate
Prison with a price on his head and no means of escape. With almost all of
Batman’s Rogues Gallery caught up in the gang war, it will take Robin,
Nightwing, Oracle, and the rest of the extended Bat-family to prevent Gotham
from falling into utter chaos. If they fail, the next person to wind up
underground in Gotham could be Batman himself.”

I enjoyed Tieri’s work on Batman and the Outsiders; he has the Dark Knight down pat. The dialogue is crisp and the banter fresh and exciting. The number of villains is too much to keep up with in just one
reading. The penciling and ink by the team of Calafiore & Purcell really
brings the story to life and adds a totally new dimension to the graphic novel.
The action is intense; the pages turn quickly the first time around. These are
the many faces of Batman and his Bat Family versus just about everybody. This
is a great read; add it to your reading list and enjoy it.

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