Batman: Ego and Other Tails

by Darwyn Cooke

Overview

DC proudly presents Darwyn Cooke's tales of the Dark Knight in one graphic novel, including the acclaimed BATMAN: EGO and the original graphic novel CATWOMAN: SELINA'S BIG SCORE! Also included are stories from BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #23 and 33 and SOLO #1 and 5

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401213596
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	11/18/2008
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	152,341
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	9 - 18 Years

About the Author

Darwyn Cooke was an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and animator. After spending several years as a magazine art director and graphic designer, Cooke switched careers and began working in animation, where he contributed to such shows as Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, and Men in Black: The Series. DC Comics then approached Cooke to write and illustrate Batman: Ego, which Cooke had pitched unsuccessfully several years earlier. The critical success of the title led to the relaunch of the Catwoman series with writer Ed Brubaker. Cooke then spent several years writing and drawing the ambitious epic The New Frontier. He was also the writer/artist of Before Watchmen: Minutemen and co-writer of Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre.

Editorial Reviews

Gr 4 Up
With Bruce Wayne's psychotic breakdown and subsequent conversation with his alter ego in Batman: Ego (DC Comics, 2000), Cooke shows readers Batman at his weakest point, while stark black-and-white drawings of "The Monument" allow them to see that hero worship has its downside. The full-length graphic novel "Selina's Big Score" offers more insight into Catwoman's life of crime. The graphics in this compilation vary from the familiar comic-book style of "Date Night" to the bright whites and dreary blacks of "Here Be Monsters," and offer something for every Batman fan. If your collection is lacking either "Ego" or "Selina's Big Score," then Cooke's compilation is a wise purchase. Otherwise, with no plot and very little stylistic connection among the seven "tails," this one is a better fit for collectors than for libraries.
—Sarah KrygierCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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