Batman: Digital Justice [Hardcover]

Pepe Moreno (Author), Doug Murray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 14, 1990

100 years into the future, a computer virus calling itself "the Joker" is menacing the world's banking and business systems. In this "Batman" adventure, the latest advances in high-definition computer technology have been brought to the comic-book medium.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (May 14, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852862742
• ISBN-13: 978-1852862749
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,052,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful experiment gone wrong, June 13, 2010

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Adriano1977 (Langen (Hessen), Deutschland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Batman Digital Justice (Hardcover)

In a future world overrun by digital technology, cop Jim Gordon is the only one willing to go against the macines in order to prove that aparently accidental killings are part of a devious plot. What he discovers is indeed a high-level secret dictatorship and to fight it, he undigs the legendary Batman vigilante persona. He will soo find out he is not alone, and that his enemy is indeed the original Batman's nemesis, now a sentient digital virus of incredible power ad reach: The Joker himself!

This is a very inventive re-imagining of the Batman mythos, way ahead of its time (it has a 1990 release date), with hints of The Matrix, still 9 years to come, and huge debts to the cyberpunk movement, especially William Gibson's influential creation and description of cyberspace.

The author, whose biography and curriclum are really quite impressive, has done a great job researching and building up his fictional world and it shows: The story and fictional reality are complex, dee symbolic as cyberspace itself and quite complicated. The execution leaves somewhat to be desired, though: It is indeed a boring read, some tings are explained too straight-forward and lack the subtlety and skill of better authors. Though absolutely stunning for 1990, digita art is only lately coming to the necessary levels to be good looking and in this book what is purely digital looks a bit too MTV-ish, while what is apparently modified regular art becomes cold Tanino Liberatore imitation. It is to be noted that some characters's faces look frozen in their expressions and that Jim Gordon's face looks very inconsistent throughout the book.

I don't really know what t make of this, but my closing comments are as follows: In intent and purpose, this book is a bit of a milestone, it shows the way digital art in comics could have gone. In execution, it leaves to be desired (even taking the time period into account), and the author's mediocre skills as writer and storyteller (possibly influenced by dialogue writer Doug Murray) don't help make it all really worthwhile. For completists, historians, total geeks and hopeless fans of any kind of digital art.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A High-Tech Plot in a High-Tech Comic, March 29, 2001

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K.H. - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Batman Digital Justice (Hardcover)

This hardbound graphic novel by Pepe Moreno is sophisticated and intriguing. Developed in 1990, this book takes the legend of Batman and gives his spirit life in the grandson of Commissoner Gordon, Sgt Gordon. Gotham may be high-tech, but it is still swalloed in crime.

Sgt Gordon is after serious criminals and part of the enemy is not human; but a computer virus established by the Joker himself to cause such havoic in the city. The art work is computer generated and the paper it is produced on is high gloss.

The plot is well developed and even though so many things are going on, it is easy to follow. This comic has some neat little extras after the story that contribut to a well made book just right for any comic fan. A must have.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Graphic SF Reader, September 2, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Batman : Digital Justice (Hardcover)

This was around the time of the massive Bat-craze. The book was a look at all digital and computer art, and that was also the premise of the story.

In the future, the Joker is a computer virus, and the Batman of that time and type has to try and track it down and stop it from doing crazy Joker type things.