...and SPECTACULAR it is, Friends! I was over at the Fantasy Shop on my Tuesday off and couldn't resist picking this one up- I have a pile of graphic novels I'm working on, but this looked like a lot of fun and I wasn't disappointed. It was a corny, campy, all-star retro romp through the DC Universe- the kind of book I was craving :D
Bruce Wayne shows up unexpectedly to find the uninvited crowd leaving his wrecked penthouse! The innuendos & character references to the DC Universe of yesteryear make this a great little "what-if"...
In another tale from this spectacular one-shot, Batman & Robin's brawl with the Riddler & subsequent rehabilitation of his pretty, young protégé results in a falling out with Commissioner Gordon, the murder of Dick Grayson's aunt, a team up with Batman & the Riddler, and Robin's suicide... but not all is as it may seem! Jay Stephens' simple pencilling is well done throughout this whole book, and here in Batman A-Go-Go he pays tribute to the character actors, sets, & props from the 60's Batman TV show with pleasing results. The coloring and simple, retro-graphic style remind me a lot of the art in both Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier and David Mazzacchelli's Batman: Year One (story by Frank Miller).
An Hour With Hourman, Fourth World Wager, & Comic Book Clubhouse, round out the special with more Golden/Silver Age DC characters than I've ever seen in one comic book issue- I'd recommend you pick one up! In an era of comics that sometimes takes itself too seriously, I often just want to read something fun, and this book served that purpose.
Speaking of fun comics, check out MarvelGenesis.Com, a blog that looks at the Marvel Comics of the early 1960s, of particular interest to me as I've been reading some of that material in the past year, most recently some of the early Avengers stuff. GREAT blog!! Also see the tireless postings of SteveDoesComics blog if you are into comics nostalgia- really good!
This looks like great fun - I love Allred's style!
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