A "real" world take on Batman. I love how Alfred has been changed to be a bad-ass. Gary Frank's art is phenomenal. I'm been a big fan of his since his early Marvel UK days. This series should be the basis of the next Batman trilogy.

Many fan boys don't like it when writers mess around with their favorite characters and try something new. But for me, one of the most frustrating things about getting into superhero stories are the convoluted histories and plot lines, so I always welcome a restart!DC's Earth One line of graphic novels do just that. They take our popular heroes and granting mostly complete freedom to the writers to start from scratch and bring entirely new ideas to the characters for the modern era. In this firs...

Back in the day Earth 2 was where the Justice Society of America lived separately from the Justice League of America on Earth 2 but then that all changed after FINAL CRISIS and a number of other graphic novels too long to list here.Tale focuses upon a very new Batman who is trying to find out if his parents were murdered by a Mayor Cobblepot (yeah, The Penguin but he's thinner in the artwork). He's still learning to use gadgets he designed himself and the tale opens with him making a big mistake...

It's not your Daddy's Batman …We all know Batman’s origin story – Joe Chill, the string of clutched pearls falling to the sidewalk, a young boy witnessing his parents murders … We all know this is the beginning of the Batman. Geoff John’s Batman: Earth One remixes, remakes and remolds the Bat’s mythos, and, for the most part, he is largely successful.Genealogies are changed. Backstories are thrown out. Alfred is embittered, Gordon is almost unrecognizable, Bullock is a heartthrob. And let’s not

3.5 stars!Soooooooooooo Earth one, by Geoff.Not bad, not bad indeed. You get to see young little Bruce be a little shit then his parents get killed because he was being a little shit. Slight exaggeration, but it gives better prospective to his guilt.I wasn't hot on the artwork for the characterisations, apart from maybe cobblepot. I liked that it was more adult themed and I enjoyed the fact that they themed and framed it about the death of his parents, almost like a year one.The way bullock was

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Let’s get something out of the way. Sometimes, you just got to dive into a book without having expectations. Expectations are destructive and prone to send you reeling down deception and disappointment. It is true that one out a thousand times, expectations has you jittering, at the edge of your seat and ready to jump out of the comfort of your bed and sky-rocket through the concrete ceiling. This isn’t due to the fact that the author conveyed a...

Holy great book, Batman! This is the first volume in a DC Comics Elseworlds series, setting Batman in a different “Earth” than the used for its main storyline. Instead of being a monthly comic book title, it’s published as a graphic novel per volumes with non-determined publishing schedule.Creative Team:Writer: Geoff JohnsIllustrator: Gary Frank A TALE AS OLD AS CRIME I think that the best thing about Batman character, his origin, his interesting cast of supporting characters, and the rest

This had strong writing and great art. I have no major complaints. My Batman critical meter is high and I felt that while it did revisit the genesis of Batman with some unique tweaks, it really concentrates what makes Bruce Wayne/Batman who he is. You see Bruce as a raw vigilante, making plenty of mistakes, with a worried Alfred looking on and discouraging his kamikaze approach. I liked how prominent Alfred's role is in the story. It almost seems to go closer in the direction of "Gotham", but st...

A very interesting story by an excellent writer- Geoff Johns. I've had the pleasure of reading some of Johns other work in a variety of his comics and he has joined a short list of modern writers whose comics have always been top level. The art of this series is beautiful. The story is one we are mostly familiar with. It's the origin of Batman- but with a different take on it (hence the Earth One designation). There are many things that people familiar with the Batman legend will find, but there...

Thank God.I've had a shitty reading week. I really needed for something to not suck. And Batman: Earth One did not suck.The reimagining of Batman's origin was interesting, the story was crisp and engaging, and the artwork was stunning.It was a slice of heaven.Except...Why the hell did Gary Frank feel the need to make Bruce Wayne look like Christopher Reeve? I understood his creepy fanboy art when he drew Superman: Secret Origin. However, it makes no sense in a Batman comic.Stop it already, Frank...

Nowadays portraying Batman as anything less than a total badass is not de rigueur; therefore, Geoff John’s back-to-the-drawing-board Batman as candy-assed greenhorn crime fighter shows a bit of game.Bruce Wayne’s new at the pummeling-ne’er-do-wells-into-unconsciousness thing, so he’s bat-grappling by the seat of his pants; therefore, coming-to behind the Gotham City Waffle House takes some adjusting too.Note to Batman: At least you’re still wearing pants.He’s single-minded in his attempt to take...

Starting with the positives the art work is great, the plot is strong, and villains are truly despicable. You see the more cold blooded side of the Penguin. I am all for modernising characters, to make them more realistic and relatable, but I don't feel they got Batman right at the core. I understand that he is young, inexperienced, emotional (angry) and sloppy. This take on Batman is Bruce dressing up in a bat costume and deciding to take on the Gotham underworld. When the thing about Batman is...

Batman is just a man, his legend unbuilt. Bruce Wayne, young and arrogant, makes mistakes, takes bullets, and falls from buildings to discover the truth. And with the help of Alfred, ex-mercenary, he finds it.

Not really my favorite Batman cycle. Just OK. But them, I read it in French so perhaps the original English would bump it up a star or two.

Well, that was pretty awesome!Another Batman Origin story. But since I haven’t read any others I went into this without any baggage.Well, of course I know the character. And I’m accustomed to him being very dark and very bad-ass. But here he’s still trying to find his feet. And it led to a few awkward moments in the beginning.Anyone else thinking of Dirty Dancing here?Well, he doesn’t end up in the lake (or in Patrick Swayze’s arms). This is Gotham City!And Gotham City is what made Batman. And i...

It all started because Bruce Wayne wanted to see a movie with his parents, only for them to get shot to death in the theatre alleyway by a common crook. After the tragic incident, Bruce is adopted by a friend of the family, an ex-marine turned humble butler; Alfred. Alfred uses his military knowledge to train Bruce in martial arts, teaching him to defend himself and to stand up against the many thieves, murderers and corrupt officials that pollute Gotham. Harboring a lust for vengeance and a hat...

"Earth One" puts Batman in a parallel universe where his well-known story is flipped around so different aspects of it read differently to the Batman canon. This is "Year One" written another way and Geoff Johns does a fine job with it.Bruce Wayne's parents were killed by an unknown murderer and Bruce was raised by his parents' faithful friend Alfred. When he becomes a man he decides to hunt down his parents' killer and bring him to justice while wearing a suit designed to terrify. He will becom...

I haven't read a lot of Batman stuff, so I can't really judge how this one is compared to the others, but what I can say is that, I absolutely enjoyed this!Batman: Earth One is Bruce Wayne's origin story. Yeah. Origin stories have been done multiple times, and I get it if you're going to roll your eyes and say, "Shit. Not again." But hear me out, this is not like any Batman origin story I have seen yet. But you also keep in mind that my knowledge of Batman's origins depended solely on what the m...

The Earth One lineup is an out-of-continuity universe where comic-writer icons write a modern retelling of a familiar character's origin story. This time around, Batman!Right off the bat, I really liked the element of realism in regards to the world that Batman inhabits, illustrated by Gary Frank. It has vibes of grimness and roughness, which makes it seem very cinematic in scope.I liked the fact that they added more to the lore of Bruce's family, very interesting.I love the fact that this Batma...

Batman: Earth One is essentially a reworking of Batman’s origin with enough tweaks to recognize it, but with enough differences to make it quite different than the origin we’ve all read hundreds of times. It seems to combine elements from Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One and Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, adding more material to make the story unique. At the start of his crime fighting career, this Batman is far less experienced; he’s quite human and gets hurt, alot. This makes the character