![]() Tim Sale’s drawings also harken back to less formal days, those Golden Age days when shadows covered a lot of the background, where exaggerated faces and simple panel compositions were more than enough to entertain. The dialogue font has a retro look, resembling the olden days of yore hand-lettered balloons. Letterer Richard Starkings’ captions are rendered in upper and lower case, making for smaller letters and slower reading. It’s fun to read, part theatrical self-parody, part straightforward thriller. There are loads of support characters who hover in the background.Ĭolourist Brennan Wagner keeps a palette full of weird bright greens and oranges, never shying away from lurid 1940s tones. ![]() Loads of Dick Tracy-style disfigured villains, pursued by a Batman who is quiet and angry. It’s an interesting, many-faceted, two-faced kind of story. And Batman is kicking heads and taking names, looking for a reckoning day with the Calendar guy. ![]() Writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale return to Gotham City, with the Calendar Man now teaming up with a bunch of nasty crooks. And it’s dark, with patches of brightness. ![]() It’s an eight-dollar return to the scene of long ago drama, this new special comic from DC: it’s Batman: The Long Halloween, “Nightmares”. By Alan Spinney # Batman, # Comic Reviews, # DC Comics, # Jeph Loeb, # Tim Sale ![]()
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