Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast! A theme that has worked well in All-Star Batman is the separate arcs devoted to showcasing individual villains and this one for Mr. It is always interesting to see Batman out of his comfort zone and this volume adheres to its title “Ends of the Earth” very well. However, Snyder is able to retain that tragic spin to the literally cold-hearted villain, providing moments of arctic horror as Batman fights Freeze’s army of cold zombies in Alaska in illustrated prose form. When The New 52 revamped the origin of Victor Fries, we lost much of the sympathy evoked by the classic episode of Batman: The Animated Series‘ “Heart of Ice”. However, despite an interesting premise of a Mad Max-styled road journey with Two-Face, the initial five issues didn’t leave an entirely good impression as John Romita Jr’s art made it a rough and sometimes ugly visual read.įortunately, this volume takes a step-up Snyder reunites with The Black Mirror co-artist Jock to tell one helluva Mr. After fifty-one issues on the main Batman title during The New 52 with artist Greg Capullo, writer Scott Snyder did not leave the Bat-world completely - his helming of All-Star Batman allows him to tell any story featuring the greatest rogues gallery in all of comics, as well as collaborating with big name artists.
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