World Famous Comics: Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 1
Batman: No Man's Land, Vol. 1
By: Bob Gale, Devin Grayson Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 200 Publication Date: September 01, 1999 Release Date: September 01, 1999
Product Description: Fans of Batman are lucky to get Greg Rucka--the talented, gritty young author of Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.) DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, +á la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes
Amazon.com: Fans of Batman are lucky to get Greg Rucka--the talented, gritty young author of Keeper and Finder, among others--sharing time with their favorite licensed character in this novelization of DC's complete No Man's Land comic series. (And fans of Rucka--assuming they get around to reading this at all--will still likely hold the opinion that Atticus Kodiak could take Batman in a standup fight any day.)
DC shook up Gotham--literally--in its 1999 Batman plot arc: a 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, à la Escape from New York, blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too. Could this possibly get any better? Sure, No Man's Land is derivative fiction, but the appeal of Rucka--and, of course, Batman--can make this one worth the read. --Paul Hughes
A True Epic This book is an example of why Batman is so great. Much like the current Captain America run the story goes on even thought the main character is MIA. The best part of Batman, in my opinion, is the Rogue Gallery. And this epic tale features a majority of the Rogues and most of Batman's allies and is pretty much a who's who of Gotham. One of my favorite Batman tales and highly recommended
good Batman trade but I could use a little more Batman in the story I would not pay 18 dollars for this book. The 12 dollar price seems more appropriate especially with free shipping. This book contains 2 different stories in the No Man's Land saga. I preferred the first story over the second but they were both enjoyable. The first story has a lot to do with the Gotham City Police Department which I liked. The second story was very much about Huntress which probably isnt a bad thing for a lot of people. I personally want to be reading about Batman in a Batman trade, not Huntress, so I didnt enjoy it as much. After reading I bought Vol. 2 and plan to see it through to Vol. 5.
Great read Great read. I left the comic book scene right after this happened in the comics and was able to catch up easily with this graphic novel!
A good Build up to Volume 4... First of all, I found volume 3 far better then volume 2. This Volume is worth a read and those missing Nightwing and Robin will be glad to see their return. Also, there is a great story involving poison Ivy and Clayface and even Superman makes an appearance. Very enjoyable. If you found Volume 2 to lack some of the qualities of Volume 1, as I did, Volume 3 renews faith in where this epic story is going.
I gave it 3 stars simply because at the same time...It didn't blow my mind. Sure there were some great twists to the story, The new Batgirl and so forth but generally this is still a build up to the next Volume.
Also, another reason why I took a Star away from this is because this volume does not include Nightwing #35-39 which deal with Nightwing going to BlackGate, It's simply mentioned in this volume but not shown at all.
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One of the Best Batman Tales To me, No man's Land is a little less than entrancing. I was hooked from Volume One to Five. To incumpus all the great Batman villains and heroes in one series with such importance, and will testing moments is truly epic. A definant must read for any Batman fan or even any comic fan.
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