Batman: Night Cries
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scans_dailyComing out in 1992, Night Cries is a bit of a contradiction in terms. It's something of a Very Special Episode of Batman dealing with child abuse, with the main plot revolving around a serial killer attacking those who harm children. So it's trying to deal with a very heavy subject matter, but in a way that's still appropriate for children. Oh, and still a gripping Batman adventure et al et al. I think it pulls it off--coming across as tasteful with its bleak material, but without softpedaling what it's talking about. You be the judge.
It's a full graphic novel, so we have time for some pages that's just Bruce Wayne or Batman doing his thing.
This is one of the cottage industry of Batman books set vaguely post Year One, so Batman and the police end up at loggerheads over a child witness pegging Batman as the killer.
Beyond the Batman hunting killer storyline and the Bruce Wayne storyline where he meets the character that is (spoiler) going to turn out to be the murderer, there's also a subplot on how James Gordon was abused and him trying not to take out the frustrations of his office on young James Gordon Jr.
It's a full graphic novel, so we have time for some pages that's just Bruce Wayne or Batman doing his thing.
This is one of the cottage industry of Batman books set vaguely post Year One, so Batman and the police end up at loggerheads over a child witness pegging Batman as the killer.
Beyond the Batman hunting killer storyline and the Bruce Wayne storyline where he meets the character that is (spoiler) going to turn out to be the murderer, there's also a subplot on how James Gordon was abused and him trying not to take out the frustrations of his office on young James Gordon Jr.
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Date: 2025-05-05 10:50 pm (UTC)Because there's no way they turned James Gordon, Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department and one of the few "good ones," thus earning Batman's trust, into a wife beater, right?
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