Norm Breyfogle's Batman, Planet New collaboration
is now in bookstores the first of five volumes
Comics Metro dedicated to collect all the interesting work of this artist-centered universe of Lord of the Night.
recognize that the particular view
Breyfogle gave us at the time of this comic icon fascinates me, maybe not as much now as then, when one was young and impressionable, but still be read with pleasure, thanks - in large part - the excellent scripts
Alan Grant, in addition to the extra plus of nostalgia that gives the passage of time and memories of a happier and more naive.
Breyfogle was one of the pillars the core editorial line of Batman comics after I
Year of
Miller &
Mazzuchelli (1987). For nearly a decade since the late eighties until well into the nineties, our artist illustrated dozens of comics from the Lord of the Night with the usual complicity
Alan Grant and timely collaboration of other writers as Mike W.
Barr, Mary J.
Duffy or
Denny O'Neil. And although the bulk of its production is centered in the header
Detective Comics, its popularity led him to draw too many specific numbers, prestige (as
Batman: abduction 1998) or Graphic Novels as
The Birth of Evil (1992).
Breyfogle was not a perfect artist, but effective and very colorful. As Rob Liefeld
, belongs to that class of artists able to mask its flaws and enhance its strengths with a dynamic visual style and appeal. The Lord of the Night of
Breyfogle drinks from many sources (The Batman has some of the essential mystery of Kane
, the majesty of
Adams, Miller
musculature or stiffness anatomical Ross Andru, including other references memorable) that the artist is able to assimilate so harmoniously to deliver the best graphic interpretations of the character. Norm Breyfogle
is also a mystery. After several years of success and intense professional activity disappeared almost without trace to the point that it is little more than a stranger to the new generations of readers who can only know (and appreciate) their job through reissues as we now occupies. Is to applaud, then, the editorial initiative to rescue the work of this artist, one of the highlights of his time and I remember best has left all who had occasion to enjoy it at the time.
This first installment (of five) can recover their initial collaborations with the writers
Alan Grant and John Wagner
in Detective Comics series
which became a classic reference in the late eighties. It also includes, by way of preface, two other previous work with Mary Jo Duffy
("Sole Survivor", DC No. 582) and Mike W.
Barr ("The Crime Doctor's Crimson clinic", DC 579). As anecdotal detail, this latter includes black and white after failing to have the publisher of the original color.
OVERVIEW:
- Title: Norm Breyfogle Batman
Vol 1 (of 5).
- Author: Norm
Breyfogle plus several writers.
- Editorial: Planeta DeAgostini.
- Format: 340 pages approx. full color hardcover and 26x17, 5 cm.
- PVP: 30 €