... sometimes it actually happens - that the film is better than the book. If these two can be even be described. What this is all about? -Well 'the Bat' of course.
Batman - the Dark Knight Returns as a film and comic can't really be compared on the same day so I won't, but that said - the comic is great and the film better.
The comic then, well it's Frank Miller and it is neatly drawn. I do like even more flashy crisp fully colorized drawings than this but it works. (I still hold a good Wolverine number of this over this compare: Blood & Sorrow)
The story on the other hand is a great one. The plot in short - Bruce Wayne has put his costumed alter ego Batman to a rest for ten years, Commissioner Gordon is a week from retirement but things get messy in Gotham City as they often do. Bruce can't resist the urge to clean the mess up and Commissioner Gordon wants to leave his post with a clear conscience and the town in a good shape.
Throughout the book we are pulled through the classical dramaturgic roller coaster, we get to see the rise and fall and in-betweens of Batman and his allies. But what I lack is the villains. Sure there's one or two tossed in here and there but the main enemy now is a horde, a grey mass of "Mutants" without personality and seemingly even without any other vicious grand motives than to destroy Gotham. Where's the Joker's world-wide-affecting smile-bombs and the Penguin's army of robot penguins or whatever.
Still we got some gadgetry and motors of the more evil kind - the "Batmobile" is nothing short of an indestructible truck and we get to see Batman bleed and torment, we get to see an aged Clark Kent steer off a Russian nuke as a little hint to cold war clashes between the US and them.
All in all this is indeed comics and especially super hero comics at its best but I expected even more. But then again I demanded nothing short of '300' of "This shit is the best I've ever read and seen"-level and I didn't get that. Can't wait to get down to the local dealer and get something new to sink my teeth into - Suggestions?
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SV: Självklart är det sådant vi kommer att skriva och det som är fokus! Men vi tänkte slänga in en flik med kostnader och transporter, för det är just andras resebloggar som gett oss den bästa uppfattningen om landet. :) Med "Allt" så menar jag snarare vad en taxiresa, en måltid, en öl, en natt på hotell och liknande kostar. Sedan har vi en Iphone med oss och via ett knapptryck har man sparat platsen man är på, haha. Busenkelt och fantastiskt bra!
De allra första sidorna vi tittade på om Filippinerna handlade om Boracay så ursprungligen hade vi tänkt oss det, men nu har vi strukit det från listan då det är väldigt mycket turister där. Vi ska bo på småöar med ett fåtal invånare och orörda korallrev. :) Men det blir nog några turistfällor också, typ Chocolate Hills på Bohol, vilket fototillfälle!
Vilka länder besökte du? Reste du själv eller med polare? :)
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