"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. As nifty a package as mainstream superhero comics has to offer. Not to be outdone, Flanagan swims upstream in a genre filled with one indistinguishably sleek, streamlined figure after another to provide rough-hewn images and classical figure work that are a throwback to the days of highly distinctive visual styles. In the first issue, Batman is nearly killed before a mysterious new vigilante dressed as a goat rescues him at the end of the issue. Hollywood writer-director and comics scribe Smith, who has an impressive knowledge of Batman mythology, delivers not only crisp, sharp dialogue but also strong action, three-dimensional characters, and a distinctly R-rated dose of gore and sexuality in a deceptively lighthearted adventure that opens things up for the next installment. Smith and Flanagan returned for a follow-up mini-series, The Widening Gyre (with inks now by Art Thibert), which took eleven months to come out with six issues. Wayne takes up with the vivacious, intelligent Silver St. So when he is not busy breaking in a mysterious new crime fightera laid-back fellow with a rather eerie goatlike appearance named BaphometMr. However, one of the Bat-Familys only permanent betrayals has been left both unexplored and unconcluded for over a decade. After training three sidekicks and putting countless criminals in jail (well, putting the same 10 criminals into jail countless times, anyway), it only stands to reason that old Bruce Wayne was due for a midlife crisis.
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