![]() ![]() ![]() Batman is joined in the middle of a fight with a devotee of a bigger bad, during which he inadvertently knocks the baddie into a wrought iron fence, impaling the baddie, and himself falling through the roof of a mausoleum, landing on the grave of the baddie's boss, Osric Drood. ![]() In many ways, you could consider this a dry run for some of the themes and ideas that Mike Mignola would explore later in Hellboy. Which leads me to one of my favourites, “Sanctum” in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #54 by Mike Mignola, Dan Raspler, Mark Chiarello, and Willie Schubert. There's something deeply appealing about it. Blending the Bat and the spooky has given us everything from the Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale Halloween Specials collected in Haunted Knight to series like Ray Fawkes & Ben Templesmith's Gotham by Midnight. Even when that horror goes from understated to overt action like in something like the Red Rain trilogy, it still works. There's a darkness inherent in Batman that tends to work well in a horror or spooky setting. ![]() emerson eddy - I'm a firm believer that some of the best Batman stories are steeped in the supernatural and the occult. ![]()
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