Batman: Cacophony (Batman (DC Comics Hardcover))
Friday, December 11th, 2009 at
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| Manufacturer: DC Comics |
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| List Price: $19.99 |
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Best-selling comic book writer/director Kevin Smith (GREEN ARROW) steps into Gotham City to write this graphic novel featuring the mysterious masked killer known as Onomatopoeia who sets his sights - and sounds - against The Caped Crusader!
Will Batman be able to uncover the relationship between The Joker and Onomatopoeia in time to keep them from destroying Gotham City? Or are these villains too much for The Caped Crusader? The wild ride that caught Batman between The Joker and Onomatopoeia comes to a crashing halt as Batman is forced to choose between capturing Onomatopoeia and saving the Joker's life! Will Onomatopoeia have the final word with a deadly "Bang!"? Find out in this exciting conclusion!
Includes Batman: Cacophony #'s 1-3. |
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- ISBN13: 9781401224189
- Condition: New
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 Suprisingly Good |
| Review Date: September 26, 2009 |
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| This book turned out a lot better than I thought it would. I went to the bookstore and bought this, without reading about it. After I bought it I looked at the reviews. I saw it got 2 stars and was only 144 pages, so I was mad I paid $20 for I book I was probably going to fly threw and not even like. Wrong. I really enjoyed it, loved the villain "Onomatopoeia", and didnt fly threw it because it had more drawing panels per page and more words than the average graphic novel. A good read for a Batman fan. |
Cacophantastic!
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| Review Date: December 11, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Aaron Shover, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Kevin Smith is the best. Batman is the best. Together they are both times two. |
Cacophonous negativity from the Bat community!
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| Review Date: June 15, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Wiggles, Somewhere... over the rainbow... |
Having read the reviews on Amazon before buying the book I expected Smith and Flanagan to really have dropped the ball with their mini-series with Smith making Batman sound like Jay and Flanagan drawing Batman as a stick man. But y'know what? It wasn't bad. I've read worse Batman books and I kind of enjoyed this.
While in Arkham, Joker is targeted by DeadShot who is taken out by a mysterious new villain whose only utterings are the verbal sounds made by actions in comic books (Pow! Zap! Etc). Joker finds out that his joker-poison has been cut with ecstasy to become a popular party drug, "chuckles". Joker takes his revenge on Maxie Zeus, the guy who spread the drug, while Batman tries to lock up Joker and capture this new villain at the same time.
Smith's script isn't nearly as bad as some of the reviews would have you believe though there are some odd moments - "I knew your ego would trump what's left of your common sense!" says Batman to the Joker (cringe!) and "Baruch haba, scumbag!". It's not like Smith's the first Batman writer to drop howlers into his scripts - remember Frank Miller's All Star Batman - "Who am I? I'm the GODDAMN BATMAN!". Also if you're a Smith fan and listen to SModcast (his weekly podcast) you'll be familiar with his speech patterns and notice some of his own inflections in the voices of DeadShot and Joker throughout. Overall though Smith does a good job and I was interested to find out who Cacophony really was.
Flanagan meanwhile isn't Jim Lee or Andy Kubert when he comes to draw the Dark Knight but again I didn't think it was the worst depiction of Batman. What about Tim Sale's in Dark Victory? Sam Kieth's in Secrets? Even again (sorry Miller fans) Frank Miller's Strikes Again (a book seemingly written on the fly in snatched moments) ? I've seen worse and I feel Flanagan's getting better having seen recent issues of "Widening Gyre".
I'll say it's not the best Batman book out there and Smith deflates any high expectations you might have even before you've started the book with his introduction - "Enjoy the second best Batman book I've written!" - but having read a ton of Batman, it's a decent read and good fun. I really enjoyed it. |
Entertaining read for a Batman fan not looking to analyze the book
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| Review Date: June 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: E. Aguayo, San Francisco, CA USA |
I received this as a gift from someone who knew that I liked both Batman and Kevin Smith, so I had no expectations for the book prior to reading it. The reviews almost scared me off, leading me to believe that everything from the the art work to the dialog would be sub-par at best. Luckily to my surprise it was quite the opposite.
Kevin Smith does a good job keeping all the major Batman characters within their safe zones while still adding a spin on them that makes his versions unique to this story and his style of writing (though, having never read any of his other comics that's just a guess). I enjoyed Smith's Joker and feel that he was able to steal the show on this one. This isn't a story that is going to add anything particularly new or deep to Batman's character, but I feel that is true of 70-80% of all the good Batman stories. The truly great ones are those that pioneer new ground and develop the character in the new way never seen before and those are few and rare, hence the reason the stand out in fan's minds. With that said Batman is on point, all the usual notes are hit with a dialog/inner-monologue style that sets this piece apart from others.
Some of the art work does look a little funky at times, however there are a couple of full page and double page spreads that a pretty awesome and make up for it.
The suggested retail price of $20 does seem a rather high for a three issue mini series, and the bonus "script" for issues three featuring original/unreleased dialog included at the end of the collection did little for me as this wasn't one of those truly epic Batman stories that I want to get every little extra piece of information about. But I'm rating the content here, not the price.
While not the best Batman story I've ever read I'd recommend it to any fan looking for a good stand alone Batman tale. |
Kevin Smith's Batman
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| Review Date: September 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: JoAnna Neary, WA, USA |
Not every Batman fan will love this book. That much is obvious, but if I've learned one thing about Batman fans it's that they will rarely agree on anything. As a character, Batman has gone through many changes in the past 70-odd years and that's given a lot of room for interpretation among his writers. Each writer that takes him on has a different Batman in his head and every fan that reads it has one too.
Kevin Smith's Batman is not my Batman, but I was willing to go along for the ride and I'm glad I did. It's fairly quickly paced with a few nods to Batman history without wallowing in them. Onomatopoeia as a villain is a bit of a blank slate with both the Joker and Batman filling in all of the lines. Joker's rage at his toxin being used to create a designer drug is fiendishly funny; the concept that killing kids through overdose just wasn't quite evil enough for our dear Joker was one I could get behind.
If anything about this story bothered me it was the art, which was fair to mediocre. In the intro, Kevin Smith rather oddly admits, in the very first paragraph, that Walt got the job through their friendship. I wasn't surprised to read that. There have been far worse artists to tackle the Batman universe but there have been better ones as well, and some of the art choices pulled me out of the story (Joker's, uh, strange beard during a pivotal scene, for example).
Nevertheless, I'm glad I stopped to pick up this book and I think it's earned it's place on the shelf. |
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