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Gotham by Gaslight | Mike Mignola, Brian Augustyn

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Dirty, grimy noir for Victorian steampunkers. ⚙️🚂

AnnCrystal 🤩🦇💝💝💝. (edited) 5d

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Bookwomble

Gotham by Gaslight | Mike Mignola, Brian Augustyn

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Rereading some GNs to decide whether to keep or release.
Gotham by Gaslight is an Elseworlds story before Elseworlds was a thing. It's 1889, and Bruce Wayne returns from a European sojourn where he has honed his skills with Sherlock Holmes (a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference) & Sigmund Freud.
Jack the Ripper is terrifying Gotham, and the newly arrived Batman is out to stop him, while his alter ego is suspected as the killer. Mignola's art is ⬇️

Bookwomble ... superbly matched to the story and scenario, the story itself wraps up a bit too quickly, but it's a keeper, I think. 4🦇 ⬇️ 3mo

Bookwomble The sequel, Batman: Master of the Future, had the same writer, different artist, and a different tone: lightly steampunk rather than darkly Victorian gothic, which could've still worked, but fell rather flat.
The villain is a Verne-esque would-be technocratic global overlord, but never delivers on that promise, and his motivation and behaviour are muddy and disconnected. A squandered opportunity. 3🦇 It shall be released. 3mo

Luke-XVX I love the Elseworlds with Batman, Starman & Hellboy! 3mo

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quietlycuriouskate Totally tangential but I can imagine Rupert Everett condemning heretics with a wave of his hand and a chilling "It shall be released." ("It" being the soul, perhaps. Maybe they were guilty of painting the pope on a Harley... I have yet to let that go; it was just too good!) 3mo

Bookwomble @Luke-XVX I've read a fair few Batman Elseworlds, though not Starman or Hellboy, but I don't know the original material for those characters, which I think is a grounding you need for the alternate takes. I did find them becoming a bit repetitive after a while - new bottle, old wine. I think the execution of these things often doesn't match the conception. 3mo

Bookwomble @quietlycuriouskate I did feel rather imperious as I condemned it to the outer darkness with a casual sentence. Now you've invoked the spirit of Rupert Everett, I'm totally channeling that energy! 😄 Post-apocalypse Pope on a Harley was a mood 😎 3mo

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TieDyeDude

Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1 | Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola

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An excellent take on vampire lore by gothic extraordinaire Mike Mignola. Lord Baltimore travels Europe on the hunt for the vampire that killed his family; the vampire he awakened during a battle at the height of WWI. Fueled by guilt and revenge, Baltimore's hunt is complicated by the rising of ancient evil throughout the continent.

Luke-XVX I love this series! 3mo

TieDyeDude @luke-XVX I have read a few of Mignola's one-offs, but I haven't read much Hellboy or B.P.R.D. so I'm really enjoying his world-building and lore. Diggin into Hellboy might need to be a 2025 reading goal :) 3mo

Luke-XVX There‘s a lot of gaps in my Hellboy reading but a lot of it is still enjoyable as standalones.I‘d recommend his Witchfinder series and if you can track it down, he did the art for the Dracula comic adaptation of Coppola‘s film (edited) 3mo

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Baltimore, Volume 2: The Curse Bells | Various, Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola

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75/150 I didn't realise this was volume 2 going into it, but it was easy to pick up the story anyway. I also didn't plan to read another vampire story so soon after the last one, but this reminded me more of the old Universal monster movies of the 30s & 40s but with a bit more blood and gore. Very atmospheric artwork really set the mood for the story, and of course a cliffhanger ending to go on to the next volume. 3 ⭐⭐⭐💫

RamsFan1963 75th book finished for #Readaway2024 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @Andrew65 I'm half way to my reading goal for 2024!! Woot! Woot! 5mo

DieAReader @RamsFan1963 🥳❤️‍🔥Fantastic!!! 5mo

Bookwomble I did the same thing - picked this out at the library without realising it was #2, but found it easy to get into. Pretty good story and artwork 😊 5mo

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RamsFan1963

The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects | Mike Mignola

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4/150 I'm not sure how to describe this. It's dark, gothic, kind of steampunkish, but also has the flavor of old pulpy adventure stories. Screw-On head works for President Lincoln, as an agent investigating strange and occult events. It's actually pretty funny, in a dark quirky way.
3 ⭐⭐⭐💫
4th book finished for #JumpStart2024 @Lizpixie and #Readaway2024 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @Andrew65

DieAReader 🥳Great! 11mo

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Gotham by Gaslight | Mike Mignola, Brian Augustyn

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Baltimore, Volume 2: The Curse Bells | Various, Christopher Golden, Mike Mignola

A bit early for Halloween, but this GN caught my eye in the library. It's the 2nd in the series, but the setup is straightforward: WWI ended after 2 years due to a pandemic plague, followed by a resurgence of vampires! Lord Henry Baltimore apparently lost a leg to über-vamp Haigus in the last volume, not to mention having to send his undead family to their stake-death, so Baltimore's blood is hot for vampire slaying! Fangtastic! 🦇🧛🏻‍♂️🦇

Bookwomble (Sorry, I couldn't help myself 😔) 1y

Bookwomble Finished! It was pretty good, and I'd be happy to read the others in the series, though for some reason the big library I go to only ever has the books from the middle of a series, never those from the beginning or end - I'm barely organised enough to order them, but who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️ This worked ok as a stand-alone 'episode' in an ongoing arc, though, so 4🦇 1y

dabbe From what I've heard from some Litsy folk, it's never too early for Halloween. 🎃 1y

Bookwomble @dabbe It does appear that way! 👻🏚️😄 1y

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RamsFan1963

The Dark Horse Book of Monsters | Mike Mignola, Kurt Busiek, William Hope Hodgson, Evan Dorkin, John Reppion, Leah Moore

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83/150 If it wasn't for some nice artwork, this would have gotten a pan. None of the stories are scary, funny, mysterious, they seemed pointless mostly. The last story, A Dog and His Boy by Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson, was the best of the lot. A sad tale of a dog's loyalty to a strange, dangerous boy. 2 ⭐⭐
2nd book finished for #20in4 @Andrew65
8th book finished for #Rushathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Bookwomble Disappointing - the cover has such promise. 1y

DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1y

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