Every week, we send out our amazing newsletter that outlines everything coming in to our store, some exciting comic news, and any important information the Swap needs to let you know. Additionally, every week, we highlight some of the incoming items that we are particularly excited about. These are usually items we love, though sometimes they're just items we're excited about or items we think our customers will be excited about. Every now and then, someone asks us why we recommend what we recommend. This new addition to the Comic Swap blog will provide exactly that service.
In this week's installment, we'll be taking a look at...
The Batman/Doc Savage special from DC Comics. This one shot is a pulp throwback team-up story written by Brian Azzarello and penciled by Phil Noto. Azzarello is one of our favorite crime writers (100 Bullets, Filthy Rich). This won't be his first time taking on the caped crusader either. His OGN, Joker, was a huge hit last year and before that he wrote a terrific Batman arc called Broken City.
This special will team up Batman with the classic pulp character, Doc Savage. Expect Azzarello to push the envelope with this story and take the dark knight places that not every fan will be happy about. If Frank Miller's Batman wielding a gun bothered you, than you might not be thrilled with the places this book is going to go. We had a chance to listen to Azzarello talk about the project at a retailer summit a few weeks ago and he got all of us really pumped for the book. He plans to show a Batman that is more like the early Batman of the pulp era. If you have ever read any of the early Batman stories (maybe in the Batman Chronicles collections), you'll know that he was a pretty different character back then.
The best part about this special is that it is a prelude to the upcoming First Wave miniseries by Azzarello and Rags Morales. The miniseries will explore Azzarello's vision of a dark and shadowy DCU, where the line between hero and criminal is hard to distinguish and nobody is sure who to trust. We had a chance to see some preview pages from First Wave at our summit and they looked phenomenal! Rags and Azzarello make an amazing team and I think that book has a ton of potential.
If you don't mind seeing a new spin on some of your favorite classics, you will definitely love this book. We'll leave you with an awesome photo of Rags Morales' cover for the special:
And puppies, of course:
..in a wagon.
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