Wednesday Bat-Review– Batman: Year One

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You’ve eaten Gotham’s wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on—- none of you is safe.
–the Batman

Last week I reviewed The Batman Chronicles, Volume One, a compilation of Batman’s original adventures (1939-40). Our second retro-review of Batman looks at Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s post-Crisis account of the hero’s first year.

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The Dresden Files: Storm Front

technomancer writes, Finally, it airs.

Someone is using black magic to cause peoples’ hearts to explode
from their chests, and our friendly neighborhood wizard PI has to
investigate.

I think this suffered from being cut down to fit in the shorter one hour
time slot from a plot standpoint, and there are some potential
continuity issues depending on what follows, but hot damn Harry was a
Wizard with a capital W and the power that implies. I would personally
love it if future episodes took their queues from this one in that
department.