Batman Thrillkiller
by Howard Chaykin
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Author: Howard ChaykinEdition: Comic
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-01
ISBN: 1563894246
Number of pages: 127
Publisher: DC Comics
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Book Review: Thrill Killer is right
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an Elseworlds Batman story. I bought part one of this graphic novel as a comic book which I purchased from a craft store that was selling old comic books from an estate sale for 50 cents each. I loved the artwork and was very intrigued by the beginning of this story and therefore was very happy to eventually find the complete graphic novel for sale. Well, the ensuing chapters proved to be a bit of a letdown. To give you an idea, Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) is Batman at first, in a manner of speaking, and Dick Grayson is still Robin. Barbara bought Wayne Manor and she and Dick live there because Bruce couldn't afford the place after his parents were murdered. Bruce is now a cop working under Jim Gordon and he's basically penniless. Barbara and Jim are very much at odds with each other ever since the death of Jim's wife. He wanted Bruce and Barbara to get together, but Barbara loved the younger Dick Grayson, whom she met after trying out for the circus (seriously). As for the other characters, the Joker character has been replaced by Bianca Steeplechase, looking disturbingly like Joan Crawford with green hair. Dinah is here for some reason portraying the wife of a murdered cop (no Ollie in sight, her husband's name is Lance), and she and Bruce have an affair accompanied by some of the corniest narrative I've ever read ("They're weak...emotionally bruised...unprepared...He wants her...She wants him...") Yeah, you get the picture. Selina Kyle makes a brief appearance as a pole dancer until she gets murdered. Dick gets murdered by Bianca Steeplechase. In her grief, Barbara cuts her hair like Dick's and dons his costume. Harley Quinn even makes an appearance as a young woman named Hayley who falls in love with Bianca Steeplechase. Whatever. And the artist, Dan Brereton, is really very good, but apparently rather limited in models because Bruce, Dick, and Roy Harper all look EXACTLY THE SAME. The storyline itself of a Nazi drug lord was uninteresting to say the least. It was an interesting premise for an Elseworlds Batman story, but the execution of it left something to be desired.
Summary of Batman Thrillkiller
In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places - some that have existed or might have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. This is one of those stories.The year is 1961, a time of transition between the fifties - the decade of Ike, McCarthyism and Jack Kerouac - and the dawn of the Sexual Revolution, the Vietnam War and turning on, tuning in and dropping out.
Like the rest of the United States, Gotham City is filled with giddy optimism. And no one could guess at the dark days that lay ahead - especially her two masked defenders Batgirl and Robin!! For them, the joyride was about to end... and the last stop was Death!
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