Batman: No Man's Land Vol. 3

Batman continues to slowly bring justice back to Gotham. Joker decides to run for president of no man's land after Harry Quin suggests it. Bane and Killer Croc enter into the scene.

The third installation in the incredible “No Man’s Land”. A must read for any fan, just wish it included Batman Harley Quinn 1.

The individual issues in this one were published from September, 1999 and until January, 2000. That's another four months of real time and who knows how much of Gotham time, it's never mentioned anywhere. Any semblance of structure and direction is abandoned at this point. Gone is the Gotham map and Oracle is somewhere in the background, not documenting much of what's happening. Not that there is much to document in the meta-plot of the event since the majority of the stories is just filler material which is getting old. A bunch of fill-in writers and artists dominate the second half of the book with passable stories that don't get anywhere.There are only three issues that are important here, they're called Homecoming and Goin' Downtown parts one and two. The first one describes how Bane comes into town and the other two are about his mission - he destroys Gotham's Hall of Records hinting that this is what his employer wants. The first one is written by Larry Hama and pencilled by Mike Deodato, Jr and has its moments of awesome. Though the latter are written by Chuck Dixon, I'm not a fan of Mat Broome's art.We finally get a full story about the Joker. Up to this point he was lurking in the background making cameos here and there. But now he's trying to win the bonkers election and get into the good graces of his girlfriend Harley. And we get some fun Robin stories from Chuck Dixon as well.The final story that deserves a mention is called The Message and is about a guy hearing a voice of the city in his head that commands him to bring a message to a certain place in the Gotham cemetery. It is set at a point in time just before the bridges are destroyed so its inclusion here is a dubious thing. For this one they've used one of the artists from the Sandman series, Michael Zulli. Alisa Kwitney as the writer does a good job of emulating Neil Gaiman.At this point I'm fairly certain that half of the total content for this event should be moved into a separate "companion" series like they usually do with DC universe events. A single "main" narrative would work much better than this sad heap of detritus.

The massive "No Man's Land" story across all the Batman related titles is a dark, gritty, frightening look at a fictitious series of events reminiscent of Escape From New York. The base of this story could easily happen, and it is interesting to see how the hereos, Gotham P.D., and the villains interact & jostle for control of a veritable wasteland.

This is the wrong picture for the product, as this product is, in fact, the newer release of NML volume 3, which contains so much more of the omitted story that you will not be disappointed.

This third volume of No Man's Land continues the saga as Batman and his allies sustain their efforts to retake and restore Gotham City. Bane enters the fray, but other than that, there's not a lot that makes this particular volume stand out, and it's at this point in the No Man's Land arc that things feel really bloated and slow. There's not as much progress or notable movement in the main story as there was in the first two volumes. I wrote in my reviews for the previous 2 volumes that it takes some getting used to the variation between different artists and writers given that this is a crossover, but if you're this far in, you already know that. Overall, I think this is a decent collection, but it's definitely one of the less interesting books in the series.

This is a great volume to continue the NML story from the previous two volumes. Don't read this if you haven't read 1 and 2, things will be a little confusing as it builds upon the previous books. The artwork is great, standard late '90's comic art. Any Bat-fan should own all four volumes of the NML story.

Roughly half of the stories are quite good. The other half diverge from the main storyline, and are silly, confusing, or both. However, the main storyline is told well, and going somewhere interesting, so I'll gladly read the next volume and watch it unfold.

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Couldn't be better.

This epic Batman storyline, along with the Knightfall storyline, forms the basis of Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. If that does not say enough about the book, then nothing else will. The events take place after the Cataclysm that turns Gotham into a wasteland, with the US government declaring it to be a no-man's land, with every man to fend for himself. Almost all major Batman characters make an appearance in this epic storyline. Even if we are not to consider it among the haloed list of the best Batman comics, this would still be rather epic, establishing Batman as the brawling superhero rather than a pacific one.

A la place du raz-de-maree 'Katrina' en 2005 à la Nouvelle Orleans, Gotham est detruite par un tremblement de terre et l'etat federal refuse d intervenir. Gotham ne fait plus partie des USA. Batman continue de me surpendre car ses histoires font beaucoup moins penser à des histoires de superheros et plus à de la critique sociale en presentant son heros et ses allies à des choix moraux. Plus de 500 pages en couleur à 23€, c'est vraiment une bonne affaire. Un crossover de tout l'univers Batman.

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