Batman: Haunted Knight | Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale | Another excellent graphic novel by Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale

Batman: Haunted Knight | Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale | Batman Fights Scarecrow and Mad Hatter

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	Batman: Haunted Knight Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale DC Comics, 1996 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

In the city of the demented villains, Halloween brings out the worst of the lot. This edition collects three of Batman's Halloween adventures in which he takes on some of the most fearsome and twisted foes--The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, and The Penguin. Graphic novel format. Available in September.

Another excellent graphic novel by Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale

Just like Loeb/Sale's "Batman: Long Halloween" and "Batman: Dark Victory", "Batman: Haunted Knight" is another holiday themed graphic novel. It is a trio of short stories which are nothing short of amazing. In the first story, Scarecrow is prowling about Gotham on Halloween night. The second story is based around the Mad Hatter and his obsession with Lewis Carrol's "Alice and Wonderland". Finally, the third story is a batman christmas carrolesque story in which batman learns a life lesson from three spirits who take the form of people who have greatly influenced him throughout his years. ((Note: the final story is clearly meant to be like Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". At the beginning of the graphic novel it says "Ghosts based on a christmas carol"))
The artwork by Sale is amazing and as always, Loeb continues to prove he knows how to tell a great story.

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Batman Fights Scarecrow and Mad Hatter

The Scarecrow and Mad Hatter as real Batman villains, the way it should be! Not as filler characters as in other Halloween books like The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. Only problem is they are short stories since there are 3 stories in this book. The last story sucks so much as Bruce Wayne gets visited by spirits of his past a la A Christmas Carol.

Wanted to Read it Again the Second I Put it Down

These stories by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale are very impressive and longlasting. Their incarnations of Scarecrow and MadHatter were what really drew me in to keep reading. They weren't afraid to make these characters as sinister as possible. I'd have to say that the MadHatter's story was my favorite out of the trilogy. I was introduced to him through this graphic novel and I'm really hurting to read more of his stories. The concept of the villain is just incredible to me. My second favorite was their spin on "A Christmas Story." I really wanted more out of this story but It was still a very interesting take on the old Scrooge story. I think what saved these stories as a whole was Batman's angst and anxiety. I think if you can't delve into the hero's problems, then you must not know the character that well. Bat's emotions needed to be told through this story and Gordon's problems were equally as interesting. Scarecrow's issue was a little less interesting than the rest but I will still reread it someday. I usually don't like rereading novels, but I believe I will read this one over and over.

Bottom Line: Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb are valuable writers to the DC universe. They brought me back into the DC comics and I will continue to read more. Any Batman fan should read these stories by these authors.

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Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat

Once more Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale have done it again with their take on Gotham City, it's criminally insane inhabitants and the Batman. This is a collection of 3 short stories all taking place around Halloween. One that follows the Scarecrow and his fear-inducing ways, one that introduces a new line of continuity in the comics: Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) is actually Jim's niece who he adopted while already raising a son. He is afraid that the girl will be harmed in Gotham, she isn't used to big city crime and with the Mad Hatter on the loose, who know what will happen. This story also has Bruce struggling with childhood memories (extremely well written). The first two stories are great while the 3rd is ok, its nothing special. It takes the story of A Christmas Carol, places Bruce in the part of Scrooge and has various members of his Rogues Gallery as the ghosts...including The Joker. While moments of this story are very good, others are just ok. All in all this is another fantastic venture into the realm of the dark knight. A great addition to any collection.

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The worst of Sale/Loeb series

This was the last of the three graphic novels by Sale/Loeb that I read (the other two being Dark Victory and The Long Halloween). It added no value and was not worth reading. The major plus is the art other than that I would skip this collection.

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