Batman 89 By Sam Hamm

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Nice as it is to see the REAL Harvey Dent get his due, the story is burdened with racial and social commentary that just has no place in Burton-Batman land, making it an unworthy sequel to the two films. Hardcover They nailed it completely. If they made a third movie to the original Batman trilogy this would have been the perfect trilogy ending. If I was really looking for something to complain about it is the fact that this book is set a year after Batman Returns, but Bruce seems to have aged 10 years where as all the other characters have not. However I do understand why an older Bruce works better in this story.

Batman has been active in Gotham for a while now but what has actually changed. Ambitious DA Harvey Dent has had enough, but is his bid for power and new crusade going more pain? There are two ways this could possibly go. I also like the new hero that Gotham needs.

I really like how the book brings in classic Batman characters and put the movies spin on them. I love everything about the book, the story and artwork are great. The touches of making the hardcover look like VHS tape, and using 80-90s technology all has a great nostalgic feel to it. The book finishes with a characters sketch gallery, and variant covers gallery. Hardcover This was fun I guess!

So yeah we get the story continued from the movie if this had continued and we get the origins of Two face again albeit a different version and I love the way it happens. How Harvey becomes this famous guy of sorts and running for Governor positions and what happens that leads him to embrace his dual side and the writer captures that perfectly and his relationship with Barbara Gordon and mainly dealing with Bruce aka Batman and how he responds to it and I love the new Robin, Drake and he has a kick-ass Robin costume design which was awesome and the face-off between Batman and Two-face is different than you usually imagine but its so good and the role of Selina here good too and also there is enough material for a sequel and the setting of which seems so exciting!

So yeah I definitely recommend it. Its a very fun series and yeah not the best Batman stuff but still a good read and considering its written by the same guy who wrote the movie its a perfect read for sure. Also I like the way they use the 90s noir setting here and the coming of Internet then and Selina here is quite the tech-whiz which you normally don't see so that was fun to witness here and also her relationship with Bruce.. seems like Bat vs Cat next. The art btw is fantastic and captures the look and feel perfectly! Hardcover Batman ‘89 collects issues 1-6 of the DC Comics series written by Sam Hamm and art by Joe Quinones.

Set after the events of the movies Batman and Batman Returns, Harvey Dent has set his eyes on improving Gotham City. This catches the eyes of the political elite who want to set him up to be the next Governor.

Even though this book is written by the same writer as Batman and Batman Returns, it doesn’t feel like the Tim Burton movies. The gothic Art Deco style is missing which I think is what really defines Burton’s style for Batman. The story itself is pretty good, but I just don’t see this as what could have been the third Batman movie. It feels way more political than anything Burton would have done. The art is similar to the Superman 77’ series in which there is a not quite there likeness for Michael Keaton and Billy Dee Williams but that is where the likenesses end. Overall I would say this is pretty good Batman book, but will probably be largely forgettable. Hardcover Sam Hamm, who contributed to the script and story for Tim Burton's two Batman movies, spins an alternate sequel to replace the generally reviled Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Michael Keaton's very white Bruce Wayne flounders around in a story about race relations and police brutality that sees Billy Dee Williams' Harvey Dent finally getting his chance to be Two-Face (Nuts to you, Tommy Lee Jones!) when some white supremacists wearing Batman logos commit arson. Batman spends more time dogging after the Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman than chasing Two-Face, but that's okay, because there's a new Robin on hand to carry the weight, and he sure isn't Chris O'Donnell.

The story is a boring muddle -- and I really could have done without a couple of severely stupid dream sequences -- but a project like this really hangs on capturing the likenesses of the original actors and the design aesthetic of Burton's Gotham, and while Joe Quinones gets close, he doesn't quite clinch the job. Hardcover

Continuing the adventures of the Dark Knight from Tim Burton's classic movie Batman, Batman '89 pulls on a number of threads left dangling by that film while continuing in the tradition of DC's very successful Batman '66 series.

In 1989 moviegoers were amazed at the new vision of the Dark Knight brought to the screen by filmmaker Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton as Batman and Jack Nicholson as The Joker. Now, in the tradition of DC's very successful Batman '66 series, Batman '89 is set in a truly gothic Gotham City and features colorful villains including The Joker, Two-Face, and many more.

Collects the first 12 chapters of the Batman '89 digital comics series. Batman 89

Super meh Hardcover Let me preface this review by saying that I hate Batman. Which is not to say that I have always hated Batman. It’s a fairly recent thing. Probably whenever Ben Affleck was hired on to play Batman, but, honestly, it was long before that. It was around the time that George Clooney played Batman in that god-awful piece of shit movie “Batman and Robin”. Clooney was awful, but Chris O’Donnell (the most boring actor in the world) was a pretty atrocious Robin, it must be noted. That film destroyed the franchise for me.

(To be fair, I liked the Christopher Nolan films, but I actually don’t like to consider them Batman movies. They are action/adventure crime thrillers that happen to feature Batman.)

The last Batman movie I loved was Tim Burton’s 1992 “Batman Returns”, partly because of Michelle Pfeiffer, who looked great in a leather skintight Catwoman suit. She and Michael Keaton also had way more sexy chemistry than he and Kim Basinger ever had in the first Burton film. Pfeiffer is, also, hands-down the best Catwoman to date. She got royally screwed out of a spin-off movie.

A third Burton Batman film was never meant to be, but in the wonderful world of “what-if?”, DC recently came out with a six-issue run entitled “Batman ’89”. Writer Sam Hamm (who wrote the original Burton films) was given the chance to write the third installment of the Burton series in the form of a comic book.

Returning as Batman, of course, is Michael Keaton. Also returning is Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent. Sadly, few people recall Williams’s (too brief) part in the first film, a storyline that was clearly meant to be concluded in another film.

Thankfully, Two-Face gets his origin story in this one.

Also returning is Catwoman, although artist Joe Quinones’s Michelle Pfeiffer isn’t all that Michelle Pfeiffer-ish. It’s close but no cigar. Minor quibble, though.

This is not only the first Batman comic book I’ve read in about 20 years, it’s the first I’ve wanted to read, and it’s one that I actually liked. A lot.

I still hate Batman, though. Unless Michael Keaton decides to come back as Batman in the next film. That would be awesome… Hardcover Not bad. I like what they did with Robin and Two-Face, but there wasn’t much Batman throughout this. The artwork is pretty nice, the characters look a lot like their film counter parts. Hardcover If you know me, you know I am a huge Batman fan. You also know I am huge fan of the Batman films by Tim Burton. All that bias is on show for my review haha.

This was just a fun little run that I thoroughly enjoyed. Billy Dee Williams returning as Harvey Dent and eventually Two-Face was amazing and I imagined this being portrayed directly to film and I would have loved it most likely had that happened. Seeing Keaton as the Dark Knight and Pfeiffer as Catwoman again was a sight to behold.

The story is definitely Harvey Dent focused and tries to dive more into his mind than other attempts try to go (most just say He's got a split personality, the end but this one tries to make you comprehend what that could be like. Whether it's accurate or not, I'm not sure but I appreciate the attempt). A new Robin was refreshing even with a different origin. While the social commentary is pretty up front, I do not mind it and enjoyed it. It's refreshing to see more diversity in comics and long overdue.

I can see how people who may not be big fans of the films may not be too into it and how hardcore fans could be disappointed but overall, I really, really liked this...a lot. Hardcover This was great fun, and gives us Bat-fans of a certain vintage the Harvey Dent story we always wanted. Hardcover