Marks the appearance and career graph of Two Face and The Riddler under the penmanship of original batman creator Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Gardner Fox a to the talents of Neil Gaiman, Alan Grant, Mark Vermeiden and Andrew Helfer.
What is interesting to note in this anthology is that you can actually see the narrative changing in style as one moves decades away from the original creator. When one reaches the second half of the book where writers like Neil Gaiman starts, its almost like Batman now exists in a dystopian reality of Gotham City and perhaps that is the greatest change that is seen in the world of Batman from the point of view of the newer authors who have grown up idealizing the original comics and the villains, loving the fact that they get to handle that world, yet struggling to accept the fact that the realities of those comics cannot remain unchanged when creating for the present times. And from this struggle comes some intense and wonderful tales that only add to the Batman lore and take it to another dimension.
But What works for batman is always the fact the core is made of human struggle, like any good story is. Hence the outer trappings might change but the writers still have to handle the same and unending problem which only grows worse as the days progress.
What is interesting to note in this anthology is that you can actually see the narrative changing in style as one moves decades away from the original creator. When one reaches the second half of the book where writers like Neil Gaiman starts, its almost like Batman now exists in a dystopian reality of Gotham City and perhaps that is the greatest change that is seen in the world of Batman from the point of view of the newer authors who have grown up idealizing the original comics and the villains, loving the fact that they get to handle that world, yet struggling to accept the fact that the realities of those comics cannot remain unchanged when creating for the present times. And from this struggle comes some intense and wonderful tales that only add to the Batman lore and take it to another dimension.
But What works for batman is always the fact the core is made of human struggle, like any good story is. Hence the outer trappings might change but the writers still have to handle the same and unending problem which only grows worse as the days progress.
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