Dark Night: A True Batman Story
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1401271367 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A powerful tale of healing and redemption."--Neil Gaiman, New York Times best-selling author of THE SANDMAN and American Gods"Riveting form start to finish: so revealing, so poignant, so insightfula masterpiece."--Mark Hamill, Actor in Star Wars, Voice actor in Batman: The Animated Series and Batman: The Killing Joke“This graphic novel stands as one of the bravest, most vulnerable works of the medium in years”—PASTE MAGAZINE“DARK NIGHT: A TRUE BATMAN STORY an extremely personal work that still hedges even as it reveals, partly out of self-preservation.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Paul Dini, recounts the depression, alcoholism, and self-harm he endured during the height of the cartoon’s popularity, and Eduardo Risso provides brutally evocative artwork to accompany it.”—VULTURE<
. Paul Dini is a multiple Emmy and Eisner Award-winning writer and producer who has helped redefine the legends of the DC Universe in such series as The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Krypto and Justice League Unlimited. In comics he has authored The World's Greatest Super-Heroes, illustrated by Alex Ross. Dini has also collaborated with Chip Kidd on Batman Animated for HarperCollins. In doing so, he co-created one o
Empowering This is not a Batman tale, its a tale of how a Batman writer was mugged and humiliated then eventually learns from the Batman character, I thought it was an incredible short story that's both tragic and also motivating, I wont spoil it but for $ 15 you can't go wrong, I've read this 3x already and I encourage any Batman fan or anyone going through a difficult time in their life to read this story.. Visualizing Batman Helps The Healing Batman as a character means a lot of things to a lot of people as the long history of the character shows. This idea comes across in this book more than most as one of the writers of the characters uses the images of Batman in his head as a sort of spirit guide to help him recover from a hideous trauma- he imagines the Batman rogues gallery is impeding his progress yet Batman steps in to encourage his recovery. The author shows us how he used this inner dialogue and the idea of Batman to bring himself back from the brink and into the world again.. not a Batman story, but a good tale of overcoming trauma It's a true Batman story in this sense: Paul Dini was a 20-something writer for Batman the Animated Series in early 90s Los Angeles when he was mugged after a date gone bad (he liked the girl, she viewed him as a friend who may/may not help her career). The mugging was brutal, and Mr. Dini had to have corrective surgery. Already suffering from mild depression, Mr. Dini slid into a deeper funk made worse by alcohol, isolation, sloth, and self-pity.From early childhood, Mr. Dini always had an imagination that filled his space with various characters. Batman and a variety of villains speak to him (in his imagination, not in a fit of halluci
The #1 New York Times bestseller by the critically acclaimed author Paul Dini! DARK NIGHT: A TRUE BATMAN STORY is the harrowing and eloquent autobiographical tale of Dini’s courageous struggle to overcome a truly desperate situation. It is a Batman story like no other and one that will truly resonate with fans, with art by the incredible and talented Eduardo Risso (100 BULLETS, DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE). It was a golden era of television screenwriting, and Dini and his fellow writers were at the forefront of the