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Batman '89 Hardcover – August 30, 2022

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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.

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152 pages
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DC Comics
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August 30, 2022
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6.92 x 0.58 x 10.5 inches
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1779512686
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978-1779512680
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Sam Hamm is an American screenwriter known for the movies Batman and its sequel Batman Returns. He wrote a story in Detective Comics for Batman's 50th anniversary "Batman: Blind Justice", and is now back at DC to pull on a number of threads left dangling in Batman '89.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC Comics (August 30, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1779512686
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1779512680
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.92 x 0.58 x 10.5 inches

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NA001289

An Interesting and Fun Follow Up to Returns

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2022

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I mostly really enjoyed this. The art was really well done and the story was intriguing. My biggest gripe is how little focus there is on Catwoman and how she is basically a third-tier character (the marketing and covers made it seem like she would have a much larger role.) The story gets muddled and rushed at the end and is underwhelming. It seems like this story could have used two additional issues. A good read, but lacking.

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Landon Sirmans

The Batman sequel we deserve!

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2022

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This is just my opinion, and I’m sure some will agree.

This graphic novel is the sequel to “Batman Returns” that we should’ve gotten back in the 90s had it not been for the stupid parents with the stick up their asses. They complained and said that the movie was too dark and gruesome, and parents are saying that literally 30 years later with the premiere of the new Batman movie. Of course it’s going to be dark and gruesome. It’s BATMAN!

We may not have gotten this in movie form, but this was an amazing story. I really hope that they do a follow up to this. Because I would really like to see where the Tim Burton Batman would have gone had a continued.

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Jef Girard

Awesome!

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022

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This graphic novel continues the Batman story from the Tim Burton-verse following Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1991). It's very well done by the same team who did the original Batman (1989) movie comic adaptation. I highly recommend this '89 Batman graphic novel for any fan or collector. Thank you.

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022

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This isn’t that third Burton movie you’re looking for. (Sorry to say!)

And I was pretty excited to finally read it- it’s got the right writers and history. But man, Batman is a chump in this. Not one scene does he have under control.

In the 89 movie he could fight! And he could take down an insane clown posse in 92. But here he never gets anything going. And the action that exists is rather derivative. The first scene feels lifted from Batman Forever, minus the boiling acid (and even if it was that third movie which stole this plot point from this script, try to give us something new)!

As a comic, this isn’t great either. They cram every page full of exposition and dialogue to rush the plot along so fast that it’s a far cry from my preferred Batman comics. I’m not saying everything need to be Serious House, but let these panels breathe!

The artwork is OK. No real Burton inspiration though. They retread familiar sets like the kitchen and the TV room, and all new sets look under baked. Definitely not the off-kilter madhouse art deco from Burton’s mind.

Catwomen gets barely any time and Two Face is not an impressive villain- again just wasting Billy Dee, who I had been so excited to see in the role before we got robbed. The Marlon Waynes Robin appears, similarly underwhelming. Each of those actors would have done far better with the roles than what we get here.

The two Gothams subplot is pretty inspired at times, but it reads like a reflection of current politics (or even the 60s at times) instead of the 90s. The 90s were LA riots and Falling Down. It’s got some great ideas and seeing Wayne react to them actually works well, but it’s time out of joint. Like if Stranger Things had a character ask to “defund the police”. Or Ed Sheehan in Game of Thrones. Doesn’t quite belong.

At best this is like reading a first draft for a script that will get a substantial rewrite. It doesn’t work and- worst of all- it’s somewhat boring. Sorry to say, but skip this one unless you’re really desperate for some of that 89 Batman goodness.

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Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022

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This dudes review calling this woke just shows how little bigots know about the things they complain about. Marlon Wayans was supposed to be the original Robin in burtons universe and this guy complains about Chris Odonnel. Lol

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Anthony

Great comic after all these years

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022

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Such a great piece of cinematic history continued with this comic and how it actually would have played out ... Love the detail and imaging the characters to be played by the actors

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L. Henry Dowell-Playwright

A beautiful book.

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022

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The art for this series was great and this hardback collection is even better. I hope DC will continue making these extension series of our favorite live action Superhero movies and tv shows. 5 stars!

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Norman Bates

A terrible waste of potential (no major spoilers).

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2022

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The Story:

Written by Sam Hamm, a name famous to the dedicated audience of the Tim Burton Batman films. Lesser known to most is that despite the credits, almost the entirety of Hamm's contributions were replaced in re-writes (some credited, most not). As such, I didn't know what to expect but was cautiously optimistic it would carry the spirit of the films.

The book starts of relatively strong, echoing the beginning of Batman Forever, an interesting choice, but not unwelcome as it made for an interesting concept of one path diverging into two distinct alternate realities of two alternate sequels to Batman Returns starring Two-Face. A concept which is the only intellectual subtext comparable to the rich depths of the films.

Sadly, it quickly descends into something deeply unpleasant. The majority of the book comes across as a spiteful rant designed to appeal to the extreme Left-Wing proponents of the discredited propaganda known as "Critical Race Theory". It boils down to a ham-fisted (excuse the unintentional pun) diatribe of a divided society of two sides, the "noble Black community vs the evil White community" with Bruce Wayne being the sole noble White man desperate to atone for the cardinal Sin of being born White. It appears written to get multitudes of 'Likes' and reposts on the Twitter echo-chamber and get social media frothing rather than to entertain the reader or honour the legacy of the Burton films.

Ignoring the heavy-handed lecture of the propaganda, it bizarrely comes across that Hamm hates these beloved versions of the characters and wants to tear them down and utterly bury them. Bruce Wayne is unpleasant to our beloved Michael Gough Alfred, completely at odds to the beautiful Keaton/Gough scenes we loved on screen. But it's Michelle Pfeiffer's iconic Catwoman who gets the worst treatment. I would love to know Hamm's intentions when he wrote this; but the overwhelming impression is that he wants to destroy the version of the character we saw on screen because it was a complete departure from the version he pitched to Burton and he resents this. Her character arc ends in a nonsensical way, contradicting plot points of the films and completely inconsistent with the psychology of the screen performance. There's no page development to bring us to this point, it just plot twists out of nowhere. It's an unhappy ending which doesn't make any sense, running in the opposite direction to everything we know and love about the character. At least the sombre ending of Returns was beautifully told and consistent with everything leading up to that point.

Billy Dee William's Harvey Dent doesn't escape the disservice. He too is terribly written and disrespected. Unexpectedly, his plot arc feels like a retread of Aaron Eckhart's portrayal in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, with some Critical Race Theory thrown in for bad measure. In fact, some lines feel ripped from Eckhart's Dent and even some lines from Tom Hardy's Bane from The Dark Knight Rises. Rather than feeling like a successor to the Burton pair, it seems like Hamm obsessively rewatched the Nolan Trilogy and emulated that instead.

The only legacy screen character treated with any respect at all is Marlon Wayan's Robin (who was ultimately unrealised on screen but brought to life here). It grates that he is inexplicably better than Batman at absolutely everything, but he and his mentor at the car garage are ultimately the only likeable characters in this book and certainly the only pair written with any passion.

Commissioner Gordon is there, like he is in the films, he's there. That's probably all there is to say. His presence is increased but he doesn't feel especially developed. The bulk of the focus is given to this version of Barbara Gordon (to my eye based on Winona Ryder) who is more developed, but a bit inconsistent in her personality throughout with some strange leaps in characterisation. If she was supposed to be this way as some sort of Two-Face counterpoint, the writing is not good enough to successfully pull it off.

There are precious few moments where the classic screen characters shine through. Keaton Bruce has two or three lines in the entire book that will bring a smile to the reader as they are consistent with the screen portrayal we love. But they are quickly stomped on when the main plot drops back in like an anvil and the useless incompetent Batman leaps back into action and the character lurches back into the unrecognisable imposter present for the majority of the book. A far cry from the films.

The Art:

The art is simple but solid. The book opens on Halloween with revellers dressed as various Tim Burton characters, which gets the book off to a great start; it's a real highlight, but sadly that's the highlight of the book. Colours which looked garish and tonally inconsistent with the moody films in the online previews look significantly better sunk into the matte paper of the book where they are darker and deeper. Nonetheless, the art is completely devoid of the Anton Furst gothic designs which made the films so iconic. The art of Gotham would have no trouble being in Christopher Nolan's sterile real-world design, it certainly isn't the gothic 'otherworld' conveyed in those rich fairytale sets.

There are some strange anachronisms. First the book sets itself up as one year on from Returns (the films lack any time placement, but if we assume year of release that would place this book as Halloween 1993), yet one scene features a Sony Playstation released in the USA in December 1994. It's not a launch model either (identifiable by the multitude of ports on the back). Rather this is a late in life revision from the late 90s. It's hardly an unforgivable error and will probably go unnoticed by all but the most obsessive (yes I'm one of those), but it's of the many strange quirks which take you out of the illusion that this is supposed to be consistent with the films.

The Conclusion:

I went in cautiously optimistic. Pulling this off was always going to be hard, but by no means impossible and I really wanted to love it. I was expecting an effort to ground this in the gothic fairytale of the late 80s / early 90s Burton films. But what we got was a Christopher Nolan Batman tale mangled through political propaganda. Tim Burton's Batman was for everyone, a 30 year old gothic fairytale is not the place for 2020s political lecturing. It is not a worthy successor to the films, it's not even a worthy book when regarded in total isolation. It's just such a terrible waste of wonderful potential.

Overall:

The art deserves 3 Stars, it is simple and inconsistent with the source material, but it's perfectly competent. The writing is so egregious, making the book such an unpleasant experience, it drags everything down to a 1.

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AdamJBurke

A quirky little miniseries

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2022

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I didn’t pick this 6 issue mini series as single issues as it came out because I’ve started to buy these short runs as hardback books. Batman 89 is a really nice little package with a cool retro VHS style hardback (under the standard dust cover). The book has nice high quality matte pages. The artwork is different but high quality and fun with lots of nods to the 89 movie.

The story isn’t what I expected but I will say I was happily surprised with the direction it went in. I think I expected it to be just another retelling of the movie or something similar and that it is not. With interesting takes on Harvey Dent, Selina and even Robin! Yes a robin in the world of Batman 89. As a reader of all current Batman books I actually found this series to be well worth adding to the collection.