Mall Entrance
Posters
T-shirts
Comic Book Artist
Heroes
Aquaman
Batman
Captain America
Daredevil
Fantastic Four
Green Lantern
Justice League
Hulk
Spiderman
Superman
Teen Titans
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Time-Rider
Transformers
X-men
Wonder Woman
The place for fans of DC & Marvel Comics heroes. Where the super heroes live.
Shop for the super hero collectibles your looking for. Buy your Batman: Crimson Mist
Christmas gifts here for the superhero fan in your home! Merry Christmas!
Batman: Crimson Mist Books
In association with Amazon.com
- Batman the Vampire - May God Have Mercy on Our SoulsOne reviewer claims this is not a Batman tale like the first two, but instead a vampire tale using Batman as a device (my paraphrase). His point is well taken and understandable, but ultimately, I disagree. Batman is brought back from the grave. The Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Penguin, and Two-Face are the villains at center stage and Gordon is disparate and needs the Batman.
Batman fights against his nature where he can, buy giving into the bloodlust where he can - essentially, Gordon and Alfred and other "decent" citizens are safe (so much so he tells him to stay back because he can hear his pulse) but the evildoers, Batman uses his lust as a pre-text to drink their blood.
In the end, Batman compartmentalizes his morality and knows it is wrong. So when Jim Gordon, before the rocks form an explosion fall on him, prays for God's mercy on their souls, the Batman has no doubt Jim and Alfred deserve and will receive that mercy; however, he doubts he will. He is full of sin, blackened.
This ending alone can stir debate and discussion. Does Batman receive mercy, after all, isn't his end a form of repentance? This third installment richly weaves a narrative with the two previous books. This is a Batman story and is a great graphic novel trilogy.
Rating:
- It's not a Batman story.The main character of this piece was a vampire in a Batman suit, not a vampire Batman. By that, I mean the author never got inside Batman's head the way the first two installments in the trilogy do.
I understand that he is supposed to have been driven insane by the blood thirst, but what "remained" was not recognizably a characterization of Batman. You could take this story, replace Batman with one of the generic European aristocrat vampires from bad horror stories and the final product would essentially remain unchanged.
The ending was especially egregious. He "suicides" by voluntarily walking into the sunlight just as the female vampire from the first volume did. There is no real reason he couldn't have done that at any point in the story from volume 2 on. All the over-the-top slaughter of familiar characters in the third volume was completely gratuitous. In terms of the Batman character as he has long since been established, destroying himself before he became a murderous beast would have been completely in character and believable. By showing him do it, they establish that he could do it. By not having him do it until after the slaughter, they lost what could have been a moving ending to the trilogy.
Rating:
- Damn, don't read this without bracing yourself, Batfans!...I make my way over to the graphic novels, and low and behold I find part 3 in the Batman/ Vampire trilogy! Of corse, I have not read the first 2 books but I picked this one up since it was in paperback and all the other copies I found were in hardcover...being the avid Batman Graphic Novel reader I am, I expected Batman to cure himself from being a vampire (that's all I had heard. That he became a vampire, and knowing my folklore, there is a cure to gaining your humnaity back). No such luck. :(
Batman is dead, I'll tell you that much. For you Batfans like me who expect him to always survive in the end, give up hope now, because he's already dead at the beginning of this book.
Boy, and another thing, if your like me, you'll have a sick feeling after reading this book. But that's because you see practicaly every famous Batman character hacked and slashed beyond reconition. And trust me, it's not all that great to see your favorite childhood characters treated that way. No sir. :(
But all in, this everything I didn't expect it to be, and that's why it's a good read. It's dark, it keeps true to Vampire folklore and the art is great! I just love Kelly Jone's art, it's so gothic!
You must pick this book up! It is a damn fine Batman novel. And if you don't like Batman, pick it up anyways because it's also a damn fine Vampire novel.
But word to wise, read the 1st 2 books beforehand... oh... and bring a barf bag.
Rating:
- Not As Good As the First Two Books, But Get It AnywayDon't get me wrong, Batman as a vampire is the most compelling concept I've come across in comic-land. The first two books were so cool and intense that years later I still read it with eyes intent on the page. I can't say for others, but for me it speaks of the heart's deep inner urges, longings, appetites, and pent-up rage and regrets. Bloodstorm was, for me, the penultimate description of the human condition. Only Christie Golden's book, "Vampire of the Mists," can touch what the creators have done in this trilogy.
Having said that, I must admit that the third installment here carries two basic flaws:
First of all, it loses touch with what makes Batman a living, pulsing character. I can't speak for others, but I can't identify with an unleashed, hell-bent-for-slaughter-and-mayhem Batman pushed past an insanity even the Joker never had. This Batman kills without compunction, guilt, recrimination, or reserve. He's ten times worse than any criminal he savages, and he's SCARY in ways that Batman never was meant to be, even in Elseworlds!
Second and more importantly for me, he looks U-G-L-Y ...with a capital UGH! I don't WANT to look at an animated rotting dessicated corpse of a once-Batman-turned savage killer running about tearing out necks and cutting off heads! I can only handle so much gore, and the creators gave more to spare here!
Call me silly, but one of the reasons I loved the first two installments is that Batman looked so COOL as a vampire! All shadows and cape and fangs ...he was creepy, but in a COOL way. He was all that Batman pretended to be... for real! But this Batman is just an ugly, insane monster.
Aside from all that, it was still a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. The end of Bloodstorm left me hanging, sad, and wanting more. Crimson Mist left me with a feeling of closure, as Batman dissolves into dust, leaving his cape behind to find that peace that he so longingly searched for.
Rating:
- Fanaticos del Murcielago no seran decepcionadosEste es un muy buen libro que completa la trilogia de vampiros (Red Rain y Bloodstorm siendo los otros dos), el arte es continuo con los libros anteriores y el relato excelente. Personalmente creo que Red Rain cuenta la mejor historia, Bloodstorm (mi favorito) entra de lleno en el mundo del detective y Crimson Mist da un buen termino a la serie. No considero cinco estrellas ya que me hubiera gustado ver a un Batman un poco mas humano en Crimson Mist, y quizas una historia un poco menos apresurada.
page 1 of 2
1 2
1 2
Books : Batman: Crimson Mist
Get your Batman: Crimson Mist Christmas presents today!