No picture for it tonight: my wife’s reading it at the moment, and it’s her birthday so there you go. Gotham by Gaslight was good, though. Batman generally comes close to a Victorian aesthetic anyway — it’s sort of implied by the word “Gotham” — so having the comic just drill down and embrace it fully works pretty well. Fair warning, though: it’s more of a mood piece than an action comic.
Tag: gotham by gaslight
DC doing Gotham By Gaslight Batman animated flick.
It’s supposedly leaked, but I have to wonder whether I should be writing ‘leaked.’ After all, what is the downside of people learning a month and a half early that the upcoming Batman and Harley Quinn DVD is going to have a sneak peek at a hitherto-unannounced Gotham By Gaslight project? The original title is popular,* and strategically revealing the feature on the DVD may spark both sales and interest.
I mean, I may now pick up B&HQ. Because Gotham By Gaslight would be pretty cool, if they do it right. And if it works, they could do The Doom That Came To Gotham, which would also be pretty cool (and is exactly what you’d expect it to be, from the title).
Moe Lane
*For those who don’t know, it’s a Mignola/Augustyn Batman story that reimagines him in Victorian England, hunting Jack the Ripper. The favorable reception of this caused DC to come up with their alternate DC history Elseworld series. So, pretty seminal, there.