Nice collection of one of the more disturbing but interesting Batman Elseworlds stories. While I was not a fan of the art the story was exceptionally well written. Very recommended

The art is, to my mind, some of the worst ever, and completely distracts from any value that the story itself may have. It was a chore to finish.

The vampire batman stories are not definitely not your usual batman stories!

Collecting Batman & Dracula: Red Rain (4 stars), Batman: Bloodstorm (4 stars), and Batman: Crimson Mist (3 stars), this is one book you can really sink your teeth into!One of the more interesting (and disturbing!) Elseworlds tales DC Comics ever published, the collected Batman: Vampire may not be for everybody, but if I could enjoy it, I believe anyone can. The writing is consistently good, but I think the real 'draw' here is Kelley Jones' art. The weakest part of the trilogy was Crimson Mis...

Batman: Vampire is a collection of three Elseworlds imprint. Written by Doug Moench and pencilled by Kelley Jones. It deals with Batman’s encounter with Count Dracula and the effects that his vampirism to Gotham City. This trade paperback collects the three Elseworld stories, Batman and Dracula: Red Rain, Batman: Bloodstorm, and Batman: Crimson Mist.This trilogy takes place where vampires are not only real, but also that Count Dracula exists. In Red Rain, we have Batman encountered Count Dracula...

Close to greatness. Jones's art has its impressionistic, visceral moments but hasn't dated well. His faces are uneven to say the least (Alfred goes from a gaunt old man to what appears to be a human chipmunk) and no female character is spared from undignified poses, even in death.* The contrast-heavy inks in the third volume goes a long way toward rectifying some of these issues but by then the story's on its way out.Monech fares better. The plot is suitably tortured and bleak, and takes a few n...

This has become my favourite Batman book. i love the Dark Knight returns and Batman year one, but as a fan of the Caped Crusader and of horror, this book delivered on so many levels. The book does nothing to expand the Batman Mythos, as it is a stand along, else world tale, but I think the Dark Knight lends himself very well to the theme and setting. I've always loved the Batman stories set away from the reusable villains, because it forced the comic to commit and this commits whole heartedly. K...

DC's done a bit of a bait and switch here. This was previously published as Batman: Vampire. It's a trilogy of Elseworlds stories where Batman becomes a vampire. This should be fantastic. Batman fights Dracula, then becomes a vampire himself. But the writing is awful. Kelley Jones's art is horrendous. Batman has about 30 ribs. Everyone looks as if they are in a funhouse mirror. The women are all ridiculously large-breasted with misshapen boobs. They look like they had plastic surgery gone wrong....

Collected here are the three "Elseworld" comic series of Batman vs. Dracula, then vs. the Joker (plus vampires) and then the worst of the DC baddies before he himself is finally laid to rest. It is a very different view of the Batman universe, one where Batman is not only a tortured soul but also a lost man who gives in to the evil within his veins. The first book vs. Dracula was interesting, the subsequent stories of a vampiric "batman" were dragged out way too much to try and prove the point o...

This series, in which Batman fights Dracula, becomes a vampire himself, and goes crazy, has absolutely no business being good. And yet, Moench approaches the material with such an even-keeled, character-centered, gothic flare that it not only works, it's actually great. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's still a pretty wild, over-the-top story. But I found myself gleefully reading what could've been classic Elseworlds bullshit.A huge star of this collection is Kelley Jones. Jones's exaggerated, da...

I love this concept of batman being a vampire and fighting vampires. I like this elsewhere story a lot and the art is decent, sometimes the art style looks weird like close ups of Alfred's face and there is a point where cat-woman falls into a river and her clothes melt off? But if you want to see Batman at his most brutal you should probably pick up this volume because it has all 3 of the vampire Batman tales. ~Ashley

This collections is Doug Moench's revisiting Batman as a vampire, from BATMAN & DRACULA: RED RAIN, BATMAN: BLOODSTORM and BATMAN: CRIMSON MIST. This is a much darker take on Batman and a tragic one, the art is very dated to the 1990s now, but the gothic color scheme and lettering is effective. The story arch is bleak but comes to a definitive end.

I read these individualy. I really enjoyed the stories.

I liked bits and pieces, but I mostly found the dialogue trying to hard to pass as deep and dark. Also I couldn't truly understand half of what was written for the internal dialogue of Batman; I felt like I was prying into some Goth kids wet dream in their diary.

Eh, I was excited by the idea of this book, but didn't end up enjoying too much about it. These Elseworld Collections DC is doing are a great idea, and this one having three Elseworld stories set in the same world seemed like a good place to pick one up, but there just wasn't too much for me.I would have liked to see more of Batman fighting vampires before he becomes one himself. I guess the point of the story WAS that he becomes a vampire, but I just wasn't feeling it.I would say don't pick thi...

I'd say the main positive of this collection is that vampire Batman has a pretty good design, at least in the first two parts. The story went on far too long for what the concept required. Other than the design of a few characters the art is pretty bad, with several panels verging on unintentionally hilarious.

Read for TLP.I'm so mad this book exists.

Maybe my favourite comic of all time now. The trilogy is well plotted, and the art just gets weirder and grosser and better as it goes on, and the lettering is so delicious. Batman’s inner-monologues toward the end verge on the melodramatic, but there’s real suffering there, and compared to newer comics, his speeches are nowhere near silly, and in fact, the dialogue in all three sections is sharp and odd and great to read. A really great pace, no weird loose ends, and a perfectly contained story...

The same team who did Batman: Dark Joker - The Wild bring us this trilogy with a slightly better reputation.It works better as an Elseworlds story than that one because it basically takes the established lore as a starting point and then goes wild, continuity be damned, instead of creating a whole new mythology from the ground up. In fact, I’d like it better if it was closer to canon - if Catwoman is her usual self BEFORE her transformation, if Two Face is already himself...There’s lots of littl...

Firstly I would like to say that ever since vampires became the new Justin Bieber of the entertainment industry and you could not go more than 5 seconds with out either hearing about Twighlight, or some other new moronic emo teen fantasy butt glitter, that I pretty much have grown to despise all things vampire. However my deep abiding love for dark and bloody Batman comics made it impossible for me to pass this one up and I am more than pleased to have Batman: Vampire now in my vast and ever gr