I read the comic book version (Good stuff!) but supposedly
the novel is
even more in your face! Do you know if it's the same
storyline? Vachss
hass written several rather hardboiled comic book series over
the years,
and there was even an anthology series called Hard Look a few
years
back. They're certainly worth checking out.
Then again, I find Vachss' Burke novels to sometimes be a bit
TOO comic
bookish, so what do I know?
By the way, anyone expecting the cheesy, gimmicky cornball
antics of the
sixties TV series will be blown away by the various Batman
comics
available these days. Many recent storylines could be called
hardboiled,
and some almost noirish, by almost any definition of those
words. Not
bad for a comic featuring a guy dressed as a flying
rat.
There's also a couple of anthologies of original Batman prose
stories
around, by several writers (such as Max Allan Collins, Joe
Lansdale,
Stuart Kaminsky, Ed Gorman and William Nolan) who should be
familiar to
Rara-Avians. Some of the stories are surprisingly good, an
off-beat
combination of hardboiled detective fiction, supernatural
shenanigans
and old-fashioned pulp adventure.
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