Written by Pratik Kanjilal |New Delhi |Updated: July 27, 2019 9:07:07 am
Three novels set in the Batman universe take the superhero into the realm of prose
The three novels recently published by Titan Books in collaboration with DC Comics go out on a progressive limb from the family tree of the Batman novels. The authors are carefully chosen, the writing is crisp and the audience is exclusively adult.
Comic strips and graphic novels readily make the leap to other visual media to reach out to fresh audiences. They are ready-made storyboards and, as Frank Miller’s Sin City showed, even original frames including pencil and ink can be incorporated into film scenes, blurring the line between print and screen. But some comic book universes are so large, and cast such a long shadow over popular culture, that they can afford to be radically retro. The Batman franchise has had a hugely successful run at the box office and in graphic novels like Jeff Loeb and Tim Sale’s classic, The Long Halloween (DC Comics, 1998). Now, it has regressed back to pristine print — text on paper, no brooding pictures — with a series of three original novels set in the Batman universe. This is professionally produced fanfic, smoothly written and competently edited, which takes storylines beyond the pages of the comics. They are for grown-ups, as the covers indicate. Bipolar oils with palette knife work are certainly not child-friendly.
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