Batman: Noel
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So I figured I'd try something different this time around. Rather than posting 1/3 of a comic with excerpts that span the entire story from beginning to end, I'm instead just going to post the first third as-is. This is in part because it would be difficult for me to select the right pages (given the presentation of the book; there are a lot of double-page spreads), but also because I feel it really should be read in its entirety and not just selected bits and pieces. So hopefully this introduction will provide you enough incentive to check out the full book yourself.
Also this was a full length (98-100 pgs or so) graphic novel.
...and that's where I'm going to stop. Clearly it's not too hard to guess where the story is going, but it's still a clever take on Dickens' tale and an interesting perspective on Batman as well. Definitely worth checking out.
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Date: 2011-12-25 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-12-25 04:56 am (UTC)This doesn't look too bad, though--I wonder who the ghosts of X-Mas past, present, and future are...
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Date: 2011-12-25 05:07 am (UTC)**spoilers**
Catwoman's the Past, Superman's the Present and Joker's the Future.
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Date: 2011-12-25 05:31 am (UTC)I was thinking the exact same thing as well, but I keep leaning more towards Jason for the whole sense of 'loss' theme that seems to be going on in these pages.
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Date: 2011-12-25 04:55 pm (UTC)Um, why? Because Bruce's memories of him aren't uniformly dark?
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Date: 2011-12-25 10:36 pm (UTC)I don't agree. Bruce has described Jason as his light and as a source of hope many times. Come on, Jason made him laugh in Crime Alley on the first night they met. Sounds like he inspired optimism to me.
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Date: 2011-12-26 12:29 am (UTC)Most of his "edge" has been retconned in since then.
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Date: 2011-12-27 01:11 am (UTC)is to be believed (and one of the things I really liked about Winick's portrayal is how he wrote Jason as cocky and trash-talking as the Red Hood, but reserved and quiet when he's in his civillian guise).
But yeah, Jason still made jokes post crisis, and he wasn't uber dark anger-issues-boy all the time, even towards the end.
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Date: 2011-12-27 08:23 pm (UTC)Mia totally looks like she is pondering there. Pondering carefully.
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Date: 2011-12-27 03:25 am (UTC)Aren't *all* adaptations of A Christmas Carol grim-n-gritty? At least when they get to the "Ghost of Christmas Future" sections. Even "Mickey's Christmas Carol" had Uncle Scrooge get knocked into a flaming grave by Pete.
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Date: 2011-12-25 05:06 pm (UTC)Batman, if anything, always has faith that people can change.
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