Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2009)
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When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to...
Dean (6926 KP) rated The Spirit (2008) in Movies
Sep 10, 2018
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Varley
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Written by Frank Miller; Art and Cover by Miller and Klaus Janson It is ten years after an aging...
High Noon (1952)
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A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must...
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls in Books
Jan 28, 2019
Unlike those previously two mentioned, this is a more contemporary tale, with Batman at the height of his crime-fighting powers, unlike the aging Batman of [b:The Dark Knight Returns|59960|Batman The Dark Knight Returns|Frank Miller|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327892039s/59960.jpg|1104159], or the still-relatively-green of the majority of [b:The Killing Joke|96358|Batman The Killing Joke|Alan Moore|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1346331835s/96358.jpg|551787], and also has the wider Bat-family (that sounds awful, doesn't it?) of Nightwing, Robin and Red Robin all in it.
The Court of Owls itself is an urban legend from Gotham of a secret society that lives in the shadows and watches/judges all: like Batman, an urban legend that soon proves not to be such after all.
While I may read volume 2 in the future, it's also not one that I'd be hunting out for.