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"Batman/Doc Savage Special"
(2010)
Doc Savage comes to Gotham City; his mission: to track down the masked vigilante known as--the Batman! One-shot prelude to the FIRST WAVE miniseries serves to introduce the alternate DC universe in which pulp adventurers, not superheroes, reign.
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| Issue #: | 1 | | Publishing Date: | January 2010 |
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| Title: | Bronze Night | | Credits: | Brian Azzarello (writer), Phil Noto (penciler)
Phil Noto (inker), Phil Noto (colorist), J. G. Jones (cover penciler) | | Score: | ¶¶¶¶ (out of 5) | | Synopsis: | “The world is full of it…wonder.” Those are the words mysterious vigilante known as the Batman hears from dying porn producer Dan Dowd on a late night visit to a nightclub. Discovered by a waitress, Batman engages in gunplay with Dowd’s henchmen and leaps out the window, swooping away on a rope and grapple. In New York, Doc Savage postpones a ...
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| Pro Review: | By Peter Silvestro
Prologue to the FIRST WAVE miniseries, presenting an alternate universe in which pulp adventurers, not superheroes, protect the world. The major change for this new timeline is that Batman is like the Shadow, a gun-wielding vigilante and a young, cocky force for a dubious justice, as he is just starting his mission and still questioning it himself. Doc Savage is presented with a similar mission, also related to his father, and is portrayed as a self-contained, coolly competent adventurer who does not need to prove anything, hence his low-key introduction. Visually he is rather bland, a large solid man with a blond widow’s peak and blond eyebrows, dressed in normal clothes. Renny, depicted as a big handsome man with close cropped hair, is the only aide to appear.
Azzarello’s writing is of a piece with his 100 BULLETS work—dark criminal conspiracies and all that—but it’s largely just another “two heroes meet and fight” story. The point of this tale, aside from giving us a teaser for the coming miniseries, is for Doc Savage and Batman to size each other up, possibly leading to a working relationship similar to the Batman/Superman one in the mainstream DC universe; not surprisingly it’s also similar to the Shadow/Doc Savage interplay from their earlier DC crossover.
Noto’s art is the star: all muted colors and sharply delineated faces, resembling fashion illustration circa 1960, with a slight Art Deco flair. The big question is: when does this series take place? The date is kept ambiguous though the presence of a cassette player and other trappings (including the promise of a second-generation team of Blackhawks) seem to point at a 1970s setting but a cell phone seems to suggest an even later decade. The cassette player and the phones are owned by Doc Savage so they may be examples of “advanced technology,” though.
Verdict: Doc Savage is back, and so far DC seems to be treating him with more respect than they did in the 1987-88 miniseries. I really hope they can pull this off.
Score: 3 (out of 5) |
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