I have wanted to read this for ages and I'm so happy I finally got my hands on it. It was fantastic, I loved both stories but especially the Jack The Ripper one. Gotham suits this era perfectly and everything fits nicely. The Ripper letter at the beginning as well was really well written. The next thing I'm going to say is slightly spoilery so stop reading now if you don't want to read it! Finally someone said what we've all been thinking for years "That mask does not disguise the eyes of the ma...

Interesting idea but kind of short and missing elements in the story telling that could have made this really work. There seems like so much more that could have been made between the Batman and Jack the Ripper, but instead the story breezes through to a very unsatisfying but obvious conclusion.

Batman in the Victorian Age! This TPB edition collects “Batman: Gotham by Gaslight” and “Batman: Master of the Future”, the two part of the elsewords miniseries “Victorian Batman”.Creative Team:Writer: Brian AugustynIllustrator: Mike Mignola & Eduardo BarretoInker: P. Craig Russell Letterers: John Workman & Willie Schubert Introduction: Robert Bloch GOTHAM BY THE GASLIGHT I’ve known about this story since some years ago, but until now, knowing about the incoming direct-to-video animated mov

I didn't bother with the second story becuase I was so disappointed with the first, and the reviews on here have said that it's honestly not that good. So the rest of this Listen to that phrase: "steampunk batman." What a lovely phrase it is! What promise it shows! Especially when Jack the Ripper is also involved. Ah, what a gorgeous premise. But ah, what boring execution.The fact is, the story just isn't all that interesting. We've seen it a million times before (and executed far better) in oth...

I've been going back to Mignola's pre-Hellboy work. I read this Batman elseworld ages ago. The art was part Steampunk, part Year One. The story was fantastic: Batman versus Jack the Ripper. I loved it then and I still loved it today.

The concept behind this was so intriguing to me I could not wait to devour the story, and then, it was classic mystery pattern.Innocuous secondary character, introduced early, forgotten, then is the villain.Yawn.The part I really liked, was how well Bruce Wayne was framed and nearly hung for the crimes.I do hope they do more with this era, but with better long term writing and thought-out plots.

When you create an alternate universe you get more power to build up interesting backstory and potray the characters differently. But Bryan Augustyn here, couldn't make the most of it. So Gotham By Gaslight ended up pretty typical. It's a shame really.Illustrations are stunning though.

Wait, wait…let me get this straight: you’re going to give me Batman in a Victorian-tinged Gotham? And he’s going to face off against Jack the Ripper? And people will say things like “toff” and “rubbish” and “tartlet”? (Okay, well, maybe just the first two.) Sign me up for those shenanigans! Sounds pretty good, right? Well, turns out its…fine. Like, it’s better than a cucumber sandwich (then again, what isn’t?), but it’s not exactly a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, you know? Aside from Mike Mignola mak...

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is a collection of two elseworld Batman stories set in the Victorian era. The first story, Gotham by Gaslight , is drawn by Mike Mignola. And his art is always a win. He perfectly captures the Victorian vibe and also manages to provide a sense of Gothic atmosphere. The story is mediocre, revolving around murders done by Jack the Ripper, which would have been much better if it hadn't been so predictable. The second story, Master of the Future swims in the sea of

★★★✬ 3.5 Stars The Year Is 1889. Wealthy Gentleman Bruce Wayne has returned from his long and mysterious Europe trip after years of absence. He is a man with a mission, and the mission compels him to don the cape of the bat to fight the evils of the dark. Alas, Just like the bat, someone else has found his home in Gotham. Someone who had a spell of notoriety in London. Someone.... sinister.Gotham by Gaslight is the very first elsewhere story published by DC, and it's been quoted as one of the

We’re at the fin de siècle here in Batman: Gaslight. With (seemingly) well researched history to match, this story would seem unique and enjoyable, until we linger too long and finally read beyond the first ten pages. Just as the initial depiction of Sigmund Freud seems more akin to a cardboard cutout that an actually fleshed out individual, so too does the rest of the story amount more to a visual success than a properly bodied tale.Just as mentioned, we get the appearance of that (in)famously

So after deciding that I’m going to read the full Knightfall saga, I thought now would be a good time to crack on with my elseworld stories and where else to start than Gotham by Gaslight!The story is set in the Victorian era and is two short stories, the first a sort of retelling of Batman’s origin for this time period and his run in with Jack the Ripper and the second was a story about a fencing madman wanting to destroy a fair (I’ll just be talking about the first story but this was still enj...

The foremost thing I have always loved about Batman and his stories is the air of dark mystery and malicious intrigue that surrounds its pages. I also grew up with detective fiction and I remember that the very first Batman comic book I read in passing had the same elements I enjoyed about said genre in the first place. I was so drawn to this brooding and reticent watchful guardian of the night in a very inexplicable sense, and I knew that he needs to be a constant thing in my life from there on...

Batman AND Jack The Ripper - two of my interests combined! Turns out Gotham City set in the 1800s does make for a decent story. Short and sharp, I give it : 3.5 Stars, rounded down to a 3 overall.

Like X-Men Noir, this is a great idea with a kinda pathetic execution. The writing is so-so, the artwork is shabby, but the book's worst crime is that the world of Victorian Gotham is never explored. I wanted to see gaslight versions of our favorite villains, but all I got were paint-by-numbers steampunk hijinks. Selina Kyle as an Irene Adler-like lady thief, Oswald Cobblepott as a vicious new-money social interloper, the Joker as Jack the Ripper: now that would be a comic book. If only.

Fun fact: The story Gotham by Gaslight was the very first elseworlds story published by DC Comics.The book is comprised of two short stories (Gaslight and Master of the Future) both are set in the Victorian era.The first story - Gaslight - is about Jake the Reaper continuing his horrendous killing acts, only now, in Gotham City... The second - Master of the Future - there is a new threat in Gotham, more accurately, from above the sky in the shape of a zeppelin...The first arc was a little bit be...

There's a certain expectation when you see something claiming to be Victorian Era Batman, and that expectation is what you mostly get. Unless, of course, you wanted some detective to shine through since there won't be any gadgets... because there isn't any mystery solving in here. Not really. I mean, a mystery or two gets solved, but only between panels. Look, when I see something claiming to be some alternate reality Batman, I immediately assume it will be 'fine'. Because they're never great, a...

Two parts. The first is much better, specially the parts drawn by Mike Mignola:I guess it would have been much better if the villains in the first part and the second part were The Joker and Superman (respectively). It was very doable.

Two alternate stories of the Batman set in the 19th century from such star artists as Mike MIgnola and P Craig Russell. The first, "Gotham by Gaslight" is arguably the best. A retelling of the Jack the Ripper murders with a continuation in Gotham where the Batman confronts him. A great short story with some magnificently gothic drawings by the excellent Mike Mignola it's no wonder his talent took him on to bigger projects like Hellboy and BPRD. "Master of the Future" is the second and longer sto...

There are two stories in here: the original Gotham by Gaslight and a follow up. You could safely ignore the follow up story. It isn't as good as the original, and has Batman in a much more action oriented, pulpy sort of role. The original story pits Batman against Jack the Ripper. Now this was really good. Bruce is at the start of his career as Batman, and the case doesn't come easily to him. This story also felt more authentic, much more like what Batman would have been like in the Victorian er...