Batman: Reptilian

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The Cameo: Most of Batman's Rouges Gallery become this, as they don't actively participate in the story and are mutilated after a villain meeting, some of them off-screen.

Hard to imagine how different it would have felt if Ennis' late long-time collaborator Steve Dillon had illustrated it instead. When you step back after reading it, it's a fairly basic Batman tale with the core idea of revamping the origin of Killer Croc. Deftly moving from psychological horror to splatter, it mixes the staple of any Batman narrative (that is, the idea of solving a mystery, the mark of the detective story) adding an element of science fiction and biological warfare.It used to be Batman, but something far more frightening than a mere man stalks the shadows—and it's after Gotham's villains. Liam Sharp greatly surprised me, working in a Bisley/Sienkiewicz style quite far from what he usually does. What really sunk the book for me though was Liam Sharp abandoning his usual style for a murky and ugly Arkham Asylum morass that looks like Bill Sienkiewicz painting over Sam Kieth. He takes the no killing rule that the ideal version of his character has, and uses it as a scare tactic.

Este quadrinho me provocou sentimentos ambíguos sobre o que os autores, Garth Ennis e Liam Sharp tentaram fazer com esta minissérie/encadernado Batman: Reptiliano. As expected, Waylon is confused and disgusted by all this, even wishing his alcoholic aunt drowned him to death as a child. Batman is depicted as cruel and harsh in his manner of dealing out justice, while conversely Killer Croc (one of the few Batman villains Ennis likes) gets a tragic backstory and helps defeat the monster. If you end up reading the book, really take the time to study all of Sharp’s pages, especially the panels that show the cityscape. The creature's streak of mutilations are not done out of malice, but out of confusion and frustration.Each of the last three issues seems to devolve further and further into a parody of itself, which given Ennis’s well-documented disdain for superheroes, could very well be the point.

And although the ending falls apart a bit, with Batman's characterisation wobbling and a big explodey showdown that really doesn't sit right with the style Sharp is using here, I mostly enjoyed this one. But what if there was something far more frightening, ruthless, and unpredictable hiding in the shadows than a billionaire dressed as a bat?Ennis and Sharp present a mystery/horror story that really highlights the versatility of the Batman character, and works as a page-turning whodunit. The book delves into a new take on Killer Croc and his evolution and, while there are some interesting ideas on display, the whole thing becomes extremely convoluted. An intelligent architecture, the way the mini-series unfolds manages to take us by surprise without playing the card of subverting expectations just for the sake of it. O desenhos são muito bons e encaixam de uma maneira extraórdinária na história e na transmissão da mensagem através de imagens.

Batman knows he represents justice, just as he knows that those who oppose him represent a kind of secular evil. An Übermensch who, in the hands of Mr Ennis, does not shy away from also showing tinges of sarcasm, a grotesque figure which connects to the reader who realizes that going around a city dressed up like a bat is something far removed from sanity.gave birth to the creature that is assaulting the villains during a meeting where they tried to ally against Batman.