Книги жанра DC/Vertigo Comics
Название: Green Lantern: Secret Origin
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2011
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Before he became the Green Lantern... before he unwittingly brought about the downfall of the Green Lantern Corps... before his rebirth as the universe's most powerful protector... Hal Jordan of Earth was just a washed-up test pilot with no way to fly... until the dying alien Abin Sur granted him his power ring, the most powerful weapon in the universe — and his entry into a reality he could never have imagined. Hal Jordan's metamorphosis from cocky test pilot to the role of the intergalactic guardian Green Lantern makes its way to the big screen in June 2011 from Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE) and starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. In preparation for his roll as Hal Jordan in Green Lantern, Ryan Reynolds, who also contributes the introduction to this new edition, has pointed to Geoff Johns' GREEN LANTERN: SECRET ORIGIN as his bible for shaping his portrayal of Hal Jordan:
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2010
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»New York Times» best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. In PRELUDES & NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story «The Sound of Her Wings», which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death.
Название: The Death of Superman
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 1993
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The bestselling edition that tells the staggering story of Superman's demise has been one of DC's best sellers since its release in January, 1992. THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN, the opening volume of the saga of Superman's death and rebirth, introduced the unstoppable death dealer known as Doomsday.
Название: Batman: The Black Glove
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2009
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Mysterious Batman impostors begin to appear on the streets of Gotham. One of these impostors begins to kill cops, working his way towards Police Comissioner Jim Gordon as he tells his tale and waits for his prize: the life of the Dark Knight, in exchange for the lives of the precinct cops. After being capture and subsequently tortured by one of the impostors, Batman falls into a coma and his mind flashes back to a defining adventure in the life of young Bruce Wayne... the hunt for his parents' killer!
Название: The Sandman 7: Brief Lives
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 1995
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Delirium, youngest brother of the Endless, prevails upon her brother, Dream, to help her find their missing sibling. Their travels take them through the world of the waking until a final confrontation with the missing member of the Endless and the resolution of Dream's relationship with his son change the endless forever.
Название: The Sandman 9: The Kindly Ones
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 1996
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Here's the latest in Vertigo's award-winning series. The Lord of Dreams has killed his own son and now must face the consequences as his fate becomes entwined with the Kindly Ones, primal powers who revenge blood debts. Full-color illustrations. Graphic novel format. Suggested for mature readers.
Название: Batman Versus Bane
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2012
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Bane, the man who broke Batman's back in the KNIGHTFALL saga, returns once more and embarks on quest to find his father — with leads him to a team up with the villainous Rasal Ghul. The two then launch an attack on Gotham City with only the city's Dark Knight protector to stop them.
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2000
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What would you do if you were given the opportunity and the means to get away with murder, scot-free? That's the question posed in 100 bullets , a new graphic novel that combines elements of hard-boiled crime stories and paranoid espionage thrillers as the mysterious Agent Graves offers his clients a gun and immunity from prosecution, enabling them to get revenge against those who ruined their lives... if they decide to go through with it.
Название: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2004
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The Dark Knight Strikes Again is Frank Miller's follow-up to his hugely successful Batman: the Dark Knight Returns, one of the few comics that is widely recognized as not only reinventing the genre but also bringing it to a wider audience.Set three years after the events of The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again follows a similar structure: once again, Batman hauls himself out of his self-imposed retirement in order to set things right. However, where DKR was about him cleaning up his home city, Gotham, DKSA has him casting his net much wider: he's out to save the world.The thing is, most of the world doesn't realize that it needs to be saved — least of all Superman and Wonder Woman, who have become little more than superpowered enforcers of the status quo. So, the notoriously solitary Batman is forced to recruit some different superpowered allies. He also has his ever-present trusty sidekick, Robin, except that he is a she, and she is calling herself Catwoman. Together, these super-friends uncover a vast and far-reaching conspiracy that leads to the President of the United States (Lex Luthor) and beyond.The Dark Knight Strikes Again is largely an entertaining comic, but much of what made The Dark Knight Returns so good just doesn't work here. Miller's gritty, untidy artwork was perfect for DKR's grim depiction of the dark and seedy Gotham City, but it jars a bit for DKSA, which is meant to depict an ultra-glossy, futuristic technocracy. Lynn Varley's garish coloring attempts to add a slicker sheen, but the artwork is ultimately let down by that which worked so well for DKR — this time around, it just feels sloppy and rushed. The same is true of the book's denouement, which happens so quickly that it leaves the reader reeling and looking for more of an explanation. Moreover, DKSA is packed full of characters who will mean little to those unfamiliar with the DC Comics universe (e.g., the Atom, the Elongated Man, the Question).Perhaps the book's biggest failing is that where The Dark Knight Returns gave comic book fans a base from which to evangelize to the uninitiated, The Dark Knight Strikes Again is just preaching to the converted. Comic book superhero fans will find much to enjoy here, but others would be better off sticking with the original.
Название: Batman R: I. P
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2010
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Tying into his other blockbuster stories of 2008 Final Crisis and Batman: The Ressurection of Ra's Al Ghul, the legendary Grant Morrison confronts readers with the unthinkable... the death of The Dark Knight. The troubled life of Bruce Wayne seems to spin out of control when his releationship with the mysterious Jezebel Jet deepens. Soon Bruce Wayne drops out completely, having seemingly become the victim of mental illness and abandoning his Batman identity for a life on the streets of Gotham City. Capitalizing on the fall of their greatest foe, the Club of Villains begin a crime spree through the streets of Gotham that threatens to bring the city to its knees.
Название: Batman: Knightfall, Broken Bat
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 1993
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The three volumes that saw Batman fall and rise again are back in print with new, unified cover trade dress! In this, the first part of the trilogy, Batman encounters a powerful new foe, Bane, who takes the Dark Knight beyond the limits of human endurance by engineering the escape of the inmates of Arkham Asylum.
Название: Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2012
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A time-spanning graphic novel featuring Bruce Wayne's return to Gotham City to take back the mantle of Batman written by award-winning writer Grant Morrison and illustrated by a stable to today's hottest artists including Chris Sprouse, Frazer Irvingand Yannick Paquette. This is the final chapter of the epic storyline that began in the best-selling graphic novels, BATMAN: R.I.P. and FINAL CRISIS where the original Batman was lost in time after being bombarded with the omega beams of evil Des-pot, Darkseid and continued in BATMAN & ROBIN: BATMAN REBORN where Dick Grayson, the original Robin, took over wearing the cape and cowl of the Dark Knight after the world's heroes believed his mentor to have died.
Название: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2010
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Best-selling author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) joins a murderer's row of talented artists in lending his unique touch to the Batman mythos for this Deluxe Edition hardcover! Spotlighting the story «Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader» from Batman #685 and Detective Comics #852, Gaiman joins artist Andy Kubert and inker Scott Williams for a story that shines a new light on the Batman mythos. Batman: «Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader» also collects Gaiman stories from Secret Origins #36, Secret Origins Special #1, and Batman Black And White #2. This collection is not to be missed!
Название: Arkham Asylum
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2005
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Arkham Asylum is Batman on the cutting edge, as he faces not only his most dangerous foes but his own inner demons as well. Full-color illustrations.
Название: The Dark Knight Returns
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 1997
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If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre, then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller — known also for his excellent Sin City series and his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil — is probably the top contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader and turning this laughable, innocuous children's cartoon character into a hero for our times. The great Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, the arguably peerless Watchmen) argued that only someone of Miller's stature could have done this. Batman is a character known well beyond the confines of the comic world (as are his retinue) and so reinventing him, while keeping his limiting core essentials intact, was a huge task.Miller went far beyond the call of duty. The Dark Knight is a success on every level. Firstly it does keep the core elements of the Batman myth intact, with Robin, Alfred the butler, Commissioner Gordon, and the old roster of villains, present yet brilliantly subverted. Secondly the artwork is fantastic — detailed, sometimes claustrophobic, psychotic. Lastly it's a great story: Gotham City is a hell on earth, street gangs roam but there are no heroes. Decay is ubiquitous. Where is a hero to save Gotham? It is 10 years since the last recorded sighting of the Batman. And things have got worse than ever. Bruce Wayne is close to being a broken man but something is keeping him sane: the need to see change and the belief that he can orchestrate some of that change. Batman is back. The Dark Knight has returned. Awesome.
Название: Life After Death
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2011
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Tony Daniel returns to the BATMAN series as the new writer and artist after his best-selling BATTLE FOR THE COWL miniseries! With Batman pounding the pavement in search of a new crime figure calling himself Black Mask and the completion of the new Arkham Asylum looming close, Gotham City has reached a boiling point! But when pandemonium breaks out at the inaugural ceremony of the new Arkham Asylum, the combined forces of Oracle, Huntress and Catwoman aren't enough help for Batman and The Caped Crusader takes on an unlikely ally — The Penguin! Chock full of fan-favorite characters and the debuts of new supporting cast members, this high-speed adventure is sure to hit the spot for Batman fans who like their comics bursting with mystery, action and fun. And you won't believe your eyes when Batman uncovers the Black Mask's true identity!
Название: The Long Halloween
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2011
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Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery that has the reader continually guessing the identity of the killer, this story also ties into the events that transform Harvey Dent into Batman's deadly enemy, Two-Face.
Название: Time and the Batman
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2012
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Grant Morrison returns to BATMAN with an all-star roster of artists along with him including Andy Kubert, Tony Daniel and Frank Quitely to celebrate The Dark Knight's milestone 700th issue featuring stories spotlighting each of the Batmen from different eras — Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne.
Название: Joker
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2008
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An original hardcover graphic novel that tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City — from the creative team behind the graphic novel LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL. The Joker has been mysteriously released from Arkham Asylum, and he's none to happy about what's happened to his Gotham City rackets while he's been away. What follows is a harrowing night of revenge, murder and manic crime as only The Joker can deliver it, as he brutally takes back his stolen assets from The Penguin, The Riddler, Two-Face, Killer Croc and others. Brian Azzarello brings to THE JOKER all the visceral intensity and criminal insight that has made his Vertigo graphic novel series 100 BULLETS one of the most critically-acclaimed and award-winning series in all of comics.
Название: Sandman: The Doll`s House
Жанр: DC/Vertigo Comics
Год: 2010
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New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. During Morpheus's incarceration, three dreams escaped the Dreaming and are now loose in the waking world. At the same time, a young woman named Rose Walker is searching for her little brother. As their stories converge, a vortex is discovered that could destroy all dreamers, and the world itself. Features an introduction by Clive Barker
