Alan Grant (1) (1949–2022)

So at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Part One: Broken Bat* I summarized the Broken Bat storyline, and in this one I’ll summarize the Who Rules the Night storyline.

So after Batman’s back is broken, he is rushed to the Batcave where Alfred takes care of him. For some reason then there’s a story that takes place three weeks earlier about Batman and Robin capturing Two-Face, but it’s not necessary. So Robin gives the cape and cowl to no one other than the religious sect assassin who was trained from birth to be an avenging angel, A.K.A Jean-Paul Valley. I will be calling him AzBats. So he goes out and fights some people, and then Scarecrow who wants to be a god or something. Scarecrow’s fear gas makes the subliminal messaging from the Order of St. Dumas (known as The System) to start to take hold. So he gets the brilliant idea to banish Robin forever and create CLAWS for himself. So he goes out, fights some more, people, and then attempts to take on Bane. He fails, so he immediately makes a super crazy mecha-batsuit. He fights Bane, succeeds and bam. It’s over.


Continue reading my Knightfall summaries at my review of Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 2: Knightquest.


*I own Knightfall Part One, and I checked out Knightfall Vols. 1-3 at the library.… (mais)

One of the few 2000AD judges that are not Dredd to get their own strip, Anderson is from the Psi department, using her psychic abilities to track down the more difficult crimes.

This is actually a collection of strips from 2000AD, starting with Shamballa. Anderson is still reeling from the suicide of her closest friend when she gets to go to Tibet (via Russia) to find the source of the outbreak of psychic crimes. Once again she loses someone close to her in the process.

There are additional stories, some of which focus on the religions that have been lost to the Megacities. She fights Satan, and delves into the mind of a man preaching the second coming of Jesus

Whilst Dredd does have a certain level of humour and violence, Anderson has a different take, being feminine and cerebral and also a little cocky against her superiors. The artwork is not always clear and crisp, (some would call it naive?) but is often detailed… (mais)