The second half of the fourth season of the Batman-based television series Gotham is inspired by Batman: Year One. For those of you who are big fans of the Christian Bale Batman films, you can definitely see where segments of this book has been adapted to the Batman Begins reboot - and that shows how much quality this graphic novel has. Near fine/very good condition, slight over all wear to book and dustjacket, small scratches to front of dustjacket, top edge of dustjacket spine faded.

It features the voices of Benjamin McKenzie as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Bryan Cranston as James "Jim" Gordon, Eliza Dushku as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Katee Sackhoff as Sarah Essen, Grey DeLisle as Barbara Gordon, Jon Polito as Commissioner Loeb, Alex Rocco as Carmine 'The Roman' Falcone, and Jeff Bennett as Alfred Pennyworth. Melding Miller's noir sensibilities, realistic characterization, and gritty action with Mazzucchelli's brilliant iconic imagery, "Year One" thrilled readers and critics alike. Phantasm was a Batman story with Year One elements, while Batman Begins was a Year One story with added features".His interpretation of Gotham City was designed to symbolize corruption, featuring muddy colors that gave the impression of the city being dirty and needing a hero. Wolfman's plans for the DC Universe after Crisis on Infinite Earths included relaunching every DC comic with a new first issue. His multi-award-winning graphic novel 300 was brought to full-blooded life in the 2007 motion picture of the same name, and in 2008 he directed the feature film Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT. Gordon tries to focus on purging corruption from the Gotham City Police Department after witnessing his partner, Detective Arnold Flass, abuse his power as a cop.

He left the core elements, such as the murder of Bruce's parents, intact, but reduced them to brief flashbacks. Gotham needs a symbol that will strike fear in the hearts of bad men and Bruce Wayne will give up everything to be that symbol. Now, this is probably because the story is so good and i was left wanting more, so i wouldn't mark it down for that. Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli produced this groundbreaking reinterpretation of the origin of Batman who he is and how he came to be.

This new edition includes artist David Mazzucchelli's original pencil pages, sketches and script pages from Frank Miller, along with other bonus materials.

Batman: Year One feels, to me, a lot like an old film-noir crime movie from the 50s, as does most of Frank Miller’s work (his Daredevil run, for example). A Rare Interview With Frank Miller: 'Dark Knight,' the Unmade Darren Aronofsky Batman Movie, and Donald Trump". Launched in 1989, following the success of the film Batman, the title Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight examines crime-fighting exploits primarily, not exclusively, from the first four to five years of Batman's career. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In 1996 and 1999, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale created Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory, two 13-issue maxiseries that recount Batman's early years as a crime-fighter following the events of Miller's original story and retold the origins of Two-Face and Dick Grayson.O'Neil, who had been asked to edit several issues of Batman, was friends with Miller and was able to learn of the story. His many works have not only redefined classic characters, but also, on a few occasions, revitalized the comics industry. Over 60 pages of bonus materials are also included, including Miller's complete scripts in Book Two.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Director Matt Reeves cited Year One as one of the inspirations for The Batman, with Robert Pattinson portraying a younger Bruce Wayne who is in his second year as a crime-fighter. Essen, however, chooses to leave Gotham upon learning he is going to be the father of Barbara's child. Year One was followed by Batman: Year Two, but the 1994 Zero Hour: Crisis in Time crossover erased Year Two from continuity. This is a reworking of the Batman origin story, and has had lots of praise heaped on it over the years - it was published for the first time way back in 1986! In addition to telling the entire dramatic story of Batman's first year fighting crime, this collection includes loads of reproductions of original pencils, script pages, promotional art, unseen Mazzucchelli Batman art and more!