![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking his inspiration from the 1940s Batman to create a shadowy world capable of bursting into colour, Sale creates iconic versions the villains, and Gregory Wright’s colour work is excellent. Sale’s sparse and moody art, however, raises the story to another level. It’s an extremely satisfying formula, well applied, with twists enough to fool the seasoned crime reader right until the final disclosures, and many of Batman’s villains appearing. ![]() Each of the thirteen chapters takes place on a public holiday, and each moves the plot forward by a month as the Holiday Killer repeatedly murders, and early in his career Batman is constantly thwarted. However, as the story content is four graphic novels in print as paperbacks since their original publication, with the entire content available over three Absolute editions, is there anyone still left to buy the Omnibus? It is cheaper than the combined price of the Absolute hardcovers.Īlthough they’d previously collaborated on a trio of Batman halloween stories ( Haunted Knight), it was the Eisner Award winning The Long Halloween that cemented Loeb and Sale’s reputations. The work of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale on Batman has long been regarded as gold standard material, so an Omnibus edition might seem to make sense. ![]()
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