Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9781563891007
ISBN number: 156389100X
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 112
Printing Date: June 10, 1993
Publishing house: DC Comics
Release Date: June 10, 1993
Sale Popularity Level: 459982
Studio: DC Comics
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Batman comes into conflict with Azrael. This man is an agent of the Order of St Dumas. However, he is also rather unstable, and take that, along with superhuman type abilities and an overweening arrogance, and you end up with a lot of problems.
One of those almost supervillain type characters that doesn't mind a large bodycount.
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I had been looking forward to starting the Knightfall saga at some point, but knowing that Azrael plays a major role in that, decided I would hold off until I had read this first, which is his introduction to Batman's universe. I was also intrigued due to the fact that it was written by Dennis O' Neil who is considered to be one of the great Batman writers as well as editors.
Azrael's origin is interesting, but wasn't as exciting as I would have liked. We are very first introduced to the old Azrael at the start, the Angel of Vengeance, and his demise. He then passes on his legacy to his son, Jean Paul, as his father before him did, so he was predestined to become Azrael.
Batman gets involved and he and Alfred head off to Lucerno in search of Azrael. During this time, Nomoz, an ugly, despicable character, is training Jean Paul in the ancient order of St. Dumas. While I enjoyed having Alfred along for the ride and seeing him out of the bat cave for a change, I really detested Nomoz and his ongoing instructions to Azrael, but I suppose the point was that he wasn't meant to be a well-liked character.
To top it off the main villain, LeHah, left a lot to be desired. He seemed to take on the powers of the lord demon Biis, but I won't even bother trying to explain that aspect. His motives were pretty clear, but not very captivating. By the end, there doesn't seem to be much of a resolution, and the fact that as Azrael, Jean Paul murdered several guards doesn't seem to matter because now he's decided to change his ways. I figured this story would be a teaming of Batman and Azrael, but to my surprise, Bruce is not Batman for the majority of this story and is held captive. It is more accurately an Azrael story and Batman plays his co-star. Overall, I expected better things out of this one.
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This book, a collection of comics but in book form, pictures and all, introduces a new powerful character to the DC universe in Azrael. Azrael is from a secret holy order, The Order of Saint Dumas. In Christian mythology, Dumas was a saint. This gives a specific character much needed depth desides just artwork and a role model or hero to gloat over. All DC characters have an achille's heel. Azrael was brainwashed by the Order of Saint Dumas, given super human strength, etc and his powers come from his mask. He has good body armour and a flaming sword. Cool and intimidating, but he's not an alien or anything like Superman, all his powers come from his self made suit. Azrael is introduced as Batman's protege, the last in order of assasins from Saint Dumas. The Azrael as Batman was a menorable storyline from the 1990s and was controversial. DC comics was looking to boost sales by killing off Superman and crippling Batman, two of of its most recognizable characters from the start to today. Azrael is a super hero but with villanous tendencies- he has a psychotic disorder. Later on in the Azrael saga, he and Robin and Nightwing fight over who is the real Batman. Azrael was later given his own comic, but forever remained in the shadow of Batman. I had given up comics years ago but still had a casual observer interest as icons of pop culture. A famous band started his own comics company, crossing over and sexualizing comics with rock music and even porn. Well we all have reproductive organs, don't we? Anyway, my personal favorite comics character starts here. He is tougher and smarter than Batman.
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not a bad read but not as good as i have come to expect and look forward too.But to understand other issues or should i say shed more light on future encounters you really need to read it.
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Believe the 5 star reviews, this is an incredible book. The artwork is some of the best. So many comics have expressionistic style drawings, this one is drawn the way, as Joe Queseda says in his introduction, that makes a comic a collectible. The story is very good; Azrael is an interesting character, and this helps set the rest of the story. I really enjoyed this book, and would recommend it to anyone.
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