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MIKE W. BARR & BRIAN BOLLAND
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by Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland
Paperback: 312 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 0930289307
$14.95
The Once and Future King... In the Future

King Arthur returns to Earth in the year 3000 to save the world from Morgan Le Fey and invading Aliens. But as Britain's greatest monarch prepares for battle, and his knights gather around him, a fateful tragedy begins to play itself out once again...
This graphic novel collects the original 12-issue series published by DC Comics, one of the first deluxe, Direct-Only mini-series.

BATGIRL
Silent Running
by Scott Peterson, Kelley Puckett, Robert Campanella,
& Damion Scott
Paperback: 144 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563897059
$12.95
The New Batgirl burst onto the scene in Batman: No Man's Land, Volume 3. From the start, she made a huge impact on the flow of the storyline. From her new take on the Batgirl mythos, to her unusual personal situations, every moment of this book is exciting and interesting. I read this book 2 times in a row, right off the bat (no pun intended). Batgirl is a 17 year old girl with no speech development in her brain, all her life, she's been deprived of speech, and taught to fight instead. Her brain workes off of body language and movement instead of words and meanings. 
Her struggle to make a place for herself in light of this situation is very well written, truly a heartfelt and moving adventure. Her relationship with Oracle (Barbara Gordon, the former Batgirl) and Batman is a completely unique take on the Mentor-student role.
BATGIRL
Volume Two:
A Knight Alone
by Kelley Puckett, Damion Scott, Coy Turnbull,
Dan Davis, & John Costanza
Paperback: 156 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563898527
$12.95
Cassandra Cain, the young woman that inherited the Batgirl mantle from Barbara Gordon, rose from the cataclysmic upheaval of NO MAN'S LAND. During the aftermath of the earthquake that leveled so much of Gotham City, she became a hero and caught the eye of the city's fiercest protector: Batman. Her origins were mysterious, and-upon discovery-just as debilitating as the murder of her mentor's own parents.
Raised to be the world's most dangerous assassin, Cassandra was trained never to speak, never to think, only to act and react. In the second graphic novel of her adventures, Cassandra is dealing with the fall-out of having been given the "gift" of speech. Bereft of her usual fighting ability, she trains and trains, trying to get back what she once had and accepted so casually. Batman counsels Cassandra, and Barbara Gordon counsels her, but only when Batgirl steps into the field of fire of the dangerous living legend, Shiva, does she begin to come to terms with what she is, what she was, and what she wants to be. Only by agreeing to Shiva's terms can Batgirl reclaim what she lost-and those terms could mean the death of her. Even as Cassandra regains her old skills, they're immediately put to the test in the rest of the collected stories. David Cain, the man who raised Cassandra, steps back into her life as well, bringing more pain and tragedy as he tries to recover tapes of Cassandra's aberrant childhood and the training he forced on her. The last arc brings Cassandra under the watchful eyes of a government agency dedicated to bringing her down.

Kelley Puckett has been the regular BATGIRL monthly writer for years, with only a few time-outs for fill-in issues. He's also written for BATMAN ADVENTURES, GREEN ARROW, and LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE. Damion Scott has drawn for DETECTIVE COMICS and BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT.

Kelley Puckett's script work for BATGIRL: A KNIGHT ALONE is excellent. The story flows quickly through the action and meat of the plot. Driven along by razor-edged, lean dialogue and first-person narrative that adds tension, insight, and immediacy. Puckett has created a very savvy new heroine, yet at the same time gifted her with a vulnerability that draws the reader's interest. Cassandra Cain has basically been plucked from everything she's known and plopped down in an alien world. With the addition of the speech ability, she lost much of the nature of herself. Of course, having constant stories without the character speaking would become impossible after a time, and the way that Puckett chose to deal with the issue was good, solid work that comes from the character herself rather than the writer's need to erase a problematic point. Damion Scott's pencil work is a beautiful blend of reality and manga. He works with intricate backgrounds or with no background at all, drawing the eye naturally through the story and pushing the action scenes into sequences that explode from the pages. When someone gets hit in the book, Scott puts the reader into that impact, on both the delivering and receiving ends with equal skill. Most of all Cassandra Cain comes off as a real character, even when literally dodging bullets sprayed at her from an automatic weapon. Her relationships with Batman and Barbara Gordon have a familiar feel to them, adding layers to those characters as well as her own. Scott renders Cassandra as very human and very compassionate. She has wide, knowing yet innocent eyes, and can smirk in disdain or smile with real humor at the drop of a hat-just as the young woman she's written to be can. She wins and she loses fights in the graphic novel, and neither of those comes without a price. Batgirl is an endearing character, and one that has much to learn about herself and the world she's chosen to inhabit.

BATGIRL: A KNIGHT ALONE is recommended for any fan of Batman. And Kelly Puckett's authorial skills rank right up there with Chuck Dixon, Devin Grayson, and Denny O'Neill.

Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x 10.16 x 6.68
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BATMAN BEYOND
Volume One
by Hilary J. Bader, Rick Burchett, Joe Staton,
& Terry Beatty
Paperback: 136 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563896044
$9.95
Batman Beyond ("the future of crime-fighting!") got an excellent kickoff in the first few issues of DC's comic series starting in November of 1999. But before those comics appeared, DC issued a "miniseries" with six issues published separately from March to August of the same year, and now collected in this trade paperback. Beginning as a comic-book adaptation of the TV pilot (along with a nifty introduction that tells what happened between the BATMAN ADVENTURES and BATMAN: BEYOND), the series makes a great companion to the cartoon series.
Dimensions (in inches): 0.30 x 10.20 x 6.62
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