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This is Batman who makes a lot of mistakes, who is looking to find his path, and is beginning to make his mark on Gotham City. Frank Miller is very good at making human characters. A very intriguing story from beginning to end. It also tells of how James Gordon gets his start in Gotham. Never before have you seen this Batman. This tells the tale of when Batman first dons the cowl.
But least I hope it's see his origins, and a criminal boss as a main enemy, who is presented and defeted at the end of the story. But not THAT funy. It's funny and realistic to see Batman in his origins, as a rockie, avoiding the Police, being wounded. But then what. I still want one story to follow over the pages. Gordon and Bruce Wayne come to the city and they start to push criminals. You turn the page and there is no more. But it's not only this.There is no any real story.
I bought the comic because I read a lot of reviews about how good was this comic. It's over.So, the art is good. "What. I know Batman can't triumph over all the criminals forever and not in a single comic. The film showed us how he started to train, to improve his suit and then the story goes on. There are main enemies and Batman wins over them. Well now I can't say I disagree. It's not a masterpiece at all.
And yes, it's funny to see a rockie and a Dark Batman. Gordon story is good. Isn't Batman going to rock any bad guy." No, e isn't. The problem presented at first (criminal mobs) is not resolved. Batman just didn't confront any main anemy and send him to jail.
But I want to see progresion. Please, watch the film if you want to see Dark Knight origins and Watchmen if you want to now the darkest aspects of heroes. Even if he returns in the future. Perhaps I'm trying to compare it with the great film Batman Begins or just with the antiheroe master piece Watchmen. But ther is no really an argumental line to foloww.
He only appears to save Gordon child and everything is over. Gordon's story is very good, but Batman's isn't. Here it's not that way.
Compared to other Batman stories - basically anything Denny O'Neill wrote, Venom, Long Halloween, Hush etc - Year One falls down. There are some inspired moments but mostly I was asking the question, "Yeah, okay, interesting - but when's the freaking story gonna start." Its not enough to say "It's Millar, shut up" or "Its untouchably masterfully brilliant." cos it really isn't. Over-hyped with some good ideas but no real payoff. Only four issues long, this is meant to tell the story of Batman's formative year. I went into this riding high on the wave of adulation for this work and came away feeling cheated and like I'd gotten screwed with my pants still on.
The learned processes put through the paces on petty thieves, before being honed on crime bosses.The artwork's crudeness (or for lack of better word) matched perfectly the beginnings of hero. His actual hardship well before he donned the cape and cowl. The making mental notes to make sure his mistakes aren't made a second time. A book that Ive looked for a while. I was never a big fan of Frank Miller, but this made me give Frank another looksee. Also i heard through the pipeline that this was the book that helped Chris Nolan iron out the story that would become the movie "Batman Begins." A side that attracted Christian Bale to the role. I've always said when the ROOTS aren't ignored, it makes for a better story. A side of the story that hasn't been explored a lot.
If you have a place in your heart for batman, and nostalgia for a rememberance perhaps not quite accurate, but nonetheless valid and real, year one will nurture those memories like chicken soup. Completing his visualization of the alpha (year one) and omega (dark knight returns) of the caped crusader's career, miller's delicate and thoughtful rendition of batman manages to blend the innocence and simplicity of the 1960s character colored by the context of all we've learned about him in the decades since.
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