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Denys Cowan

Autor(a) de Batman: Blind Justice

31+ Works 495 Membros 23 Críticas 1 Favorited

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Batman: Blind Justice (1989) — Ilustrador — 91 exemplares
The Question: Zen and Violence (2007) — Ilustrador — 78 exemplares
Batman: Lovers and Madmen (2008) — Ilustrador — 75 exemplares
The Question: Poisoned Ground (2008) — Ilustrador — 53 exemplares
Superman Red & Blue (2021) — Ilustrador — 23 exemplares
Green Arrow: Last Action Hero (2016) — Ilustrador — 22 exemplares
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child Vol. 1: Requiem (2012) — Ilustrador — 20 exemplares
Black Panther Epic Collection: Panther's Prey (2021) — Ilustrador — 11 exemplares
Deathlok: The Living Nightmare of Michael Collins (2012) — Ilustrador — 11 exemplares
Black Panther (1988) #1 - Cry, the Accursed Country! (1988) — Ilustrador — 10 exemplares
Batman: The Ultimate Evil (Graphic Novel, Part 2) (1995) — Autor — 10 exemplares
Batman: The Ultimate Evil (Graphic Novel, Parts 1-2) (1995) — Autor — 7 exemplares
Batman: The Ultimate Evil (Graphic Novel, Part 1) (1995) — Autor — 5 exemplares
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #2 (2012) — Ilustrador — 4 exemplares
Deathlok: Book Three, Dam If He Don't (1990) — Ilustrador — 4 exemplares
Deathlok: Book Four, Ryker's Island (1990) — Illustrator and Cover artist — 4 exemplares
Static Shock: The Complete First Season — Creator — 4 exemplares
Static Shock: The Complete Second Season — Creator — 4 exemplares
Static Shock: The Complete Third Season — Creator — 4 exemplares
Static Shock: The Complete Fourth Season — Creator — 4 exemplares
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #5 (2012) — Pencils — 3 exemplares
Prince : Alter Ego (1991) — Ilustrador — 3 exemplares
Black Lightning/Hong Kong Phooey Special #1 (2018) — Ilustrador; Artista da capa — 2 exemplares
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #3 (2012) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #4 (2012) — Ilustrador — 2 exemplares
Steel [1994] #46 — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Big Book of Urban Legends (The Big book Series) (1995) — Ilustrador — 313 exemplares
DC Comics: Zero Year (2014) — Ilustrador — 80 exemplares
Green Arrow Volume 5: The Outsiders War (2014) — Ilustrador — 49 exemplares
Batman: Second Chances (2015) — Ilustrador — 33 exemplares
Robotech RPG Adventures: Ghost Ship (1988) — Ilustrador — 24 exemplares
Convergence: Infinite Earths Book One (2015) — Ilustrador — 21 exemplares
DC Meets Hanna-Barbera, Vol. 2 (2018) — Ilustrador — 15 exemplares
Strange Adventures (2014) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Badger Goes Berserk #1 (1989) — Ilustrador — 3 exemplares
Badger Goes Berserk #2 (1989) — Ilustrador — 3 exemplares
Badger Goes Berserk #4 (1989) — Ilustrador — 3 exemplares
The Flintstones [2016] #10 — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar

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I read this novel in order to find out more about mysterious Henri Ducard, mercenary/detective that used to train Bruce Wayne before Bruce decided to become Batman.

Story in itself is solid one - Bruce trying to find himself and get out under the Batman's shadow with just a slight twist of silliness (mind control and other SF elements that I wont mention in order not to spoil experience for other readers).

But main character for me is Henri Ducard. Batman's evil twin, man who Bruce might have become if he left cynicism to take over his life, man who manages to uncover Bruce's alter-ego in a very short time but decides to keep it as a secret because Batman's actions are distractions to true criminal mastermind actions - actions in which Ducard also partakes.

Recommended for all Batman fans.
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Zare | 5 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |
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After Don McGregor's Black Panther run from Jungle Action was cancelled back in 1976, he actually got invited back two more times: he did a story called Panther's Quest published in Marvel Comics Presents in 1989 and a four-issue prestige miniseries called Panther's Prey in 1991. This "Epic Collection" collects both of them, along with five short Black Panther tales by other creators from the same era.

Panther's Quest sends the Black Panther into South Africa in order to find his mother, missing since childhood. Sure, we did apartheid in a thinly fictionalized version of South Africa in the immediate previous Black Panther storyline, but why not do it again in the real place? This story ran twenty-five biweekly installments of (usually) eight pages... and it is interminable. Like, eight pages will go by and all that's happened is Black Panther has punched a guy. One thing I liked about McGregor's Panther's Rage was how it really made you feel the difficulty of what the Black Panther did, but this goes too far with it, because everything is immensely difficult, everything is enormously slowed down, it never feels like we're getting anywhere, being crushed under the weight of McGregor's enormously wordy style. Being set in South Africa means we again lose the worldbuilding that made Panther's Rage so interesting, too. It has it moments, including some nice side characters in South Africa, but ultimately, a tedious slog with little to say.

Panther's Prey almost has the opposite problem: this is made up of four forty-page installments and is all over the place. Wakanda is modernizing, connecting with the outside world more—this is nicely demonstrated by the appearance of a food court selling pizza. But with the benefits of connecting to the outside world also come the downsides, and someone is smuggling crack into Wakanda and vibranium out... using an army of cyborg pterodactyls, of course! The story follows this main storyline, but also T'Challa's mother acclimating to life in Wakanda, what Monica Lynne's been up to in the U.S. since we last saw her in Jungle Action (McGregor ignores her later appearances), the guy organizing the drug smuggling operation, and updates to various members of Black Panther's Wakandan supporting cast. There's a lot of nice moments here but overall not much actually seems to happen despite the fact the story runs over one hundred and fifty pages. Black Panther doesn't even meet the villain until about ten pages from the end, and beats him by luck in about six seconds. And in the end, crack is still a problem in Wakanda! Way to cheer me up, McGregor.

The other stories here are nice to have for completism's sake, but not very memorable.

What's interesting to me reading Black Panther in terms of publication chronology is to see the development of the character I know from the movies. His mother, Raimonda, debuted in this volume, but she's not the imperious ruler of screen, but a South African woman romanced by T'Challa's father who returned to her homeland after her husband died. Many elements of the mythos have yet to appear at all. There's also still no sense of cohesion: McGregor doesn't really acknowledge that anyone used the character other than him since 1976. (Can't imagine why the "Black Musketeers" don't come up in discussions of T'Challa's family!)
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Stevil2001 | Oct 30, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
31
Also by
13
Membros
495
Popularidade
#49,936
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
23
ISBN
26
Línguas
2
Marcado como favorito
1

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