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Summary: Puts a bit more MAN in the BAT.
Review: Following the quake in Gotham City, the US congress has decided that it would take too much money to rebuild Gotham so they shut it off from the mainland and declared it a No Man's Land. Those that had nowhere else to go, criminals and the released Arkham Asylum prisoners are all that's left. It's up to Batman and co. help keep the peace.The story is told in different points of view through either Batman, The Huntress, Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon relating events that are occurring to them at the time making the character portrayal better than any comic can give, where their thoughts, fears and despair are all noted in detail and help add to humanise the characters from the two-dimensional characters we've seen in the past. The Batman being the most interesting, having being victim of destruction and adaption throughout his whole life, with the death of his parents, death of Jason Todd (Robin II), having his back broken by Bane, both cases of the Clench disease and now finally the destruction of his beloved city, we see him have to try and change his whole attitude to survival, fighting crime and guardianship over his colleagues just to survive in this new destroyed Gotham. If you're a follower of the comic series, you'll find that not all the NML adventures were able to put into print. i.e. there are no mention of little known players like Azrael. But this does not lessen the novelised version of the NML story in anyway. So, if you feel you need a change from the comic adventures of the Batman or you feel like reliving and adventure of a childhood hero, you'll find that you cant go wrong by reading this book. RECOMMENDED for a fantastic read!
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Summary: Batman No Mans Land
Review: This book was awesome. Greg Rucka takes you inside NO MANS LAND with the other characters. He shifts off from just Batman so you get a well rounded view of the thoughts of NO MANS LAND. I just wish there was another book out there like this one. You Will love this book if you are a BATFAN.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS MY GOD
Review: This is the greatest book that I have ever read!This book made me become a hard-core Batman-Fan!!!!!!OMG, words cannot describe this books' perfection...wait, yes it can!I really loved how Rucka didn't just frame it on Batman, but entire community of No Man's Land.The fact that all the greatest batman villians were lose and especially insane, made their actions become intertwined. for them, it was either partnerships, or back-stabbings, this book had so many different viewpoints that you could understand EVERYTHING that was happening, or what the narrating characters were feeling. I liked very much the special touch Rucka put in with the Oracle's Journal. I was Barbara's input that I liked reading the most because her theories always left you puzzled.But the strange thing on my part was that I quite enjoyed the beginning.....the absece of Batman.......?
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Summary: Great book but too short
Review: No Man's Land gets into the dark side of Batman and Gotham City after an earthquake devastates the city. It shows us how even Batman is in reality just another human being and can have doubts about his career as a crimefighter. It shows us a tough Commissioner Gordon, introduces us to a new Batgirl and brings Robin, Nightwing, Oracle and even Huntress to assist Batman. It shows us how even the good cops can go bad given the right circumstances and how the characters will make sacrifices, some ultimate, to bring Gotham City back from the depths of disaster. I was hooked right away on No Man's land but it left me wondering what happened to a few characters like the Penguin and Two Face, they just kind of faded away without any reason. What happened to other villans like Poison Ivy and the Riddler after they escaped Arkham? I'm not going to get into detail but as I said, some characters faded from view. There was talk of Alfred assisting a doctor in a MASH unit but it didn't expand on it too much. No Man's Land was a suspenseful book with a few surprises but it really could have been much longer.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This is one of the best books I've ever read. It kept me on the edge of my seat, and I couldn't put it down for hours. The descriptionsa are some of the best I've ever read. I loved the book and there are many twists and it has a very good ending. I think every suspense fan, and every Batman fan should read it. (I hope he makes a new book soon)
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Summary: An Awesome Book
Review: This book as to be perhaps one of the best i've read. If you love batman or super heroes then get it. I read it in 2 days probably the fastest i've read a 400 page book. The characters are realistic and the story unfolds perfectly. NML if short rules. I lent it to a friend the day after i read it. And he loves it. It takes place after Gotham is hit by a massage earth quake and totally destroyed. After 3/4 the population leaves its condsidered No Man's Land and is illegal to enter and so the bridges to gotham are cut off. Batman is missing. Its complete anarchy and it really is a story of Survival of teh Fittest.
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Summary: Read this book....It's that simple.
Review: As a serious fan of Gotham and all of its inhabitants, I wanted to let all people thinking about buying this book to not think twice about it. If you want to see what Batman and his world is really about, then this is a must read. I'm not going to bother writing a 1,000 word review on this book, because I won't be able to do it the justice it deserves. Buy this book and enjoy it.
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Summary: Excellent read
Review: As a fan of the Batman movies, I was uncertain of how good the book would be. But it was entertaining to see all the different characters like the Joker and Two-Face being evil. I would have liked to see Barbara in action, as Batgirl, but at least she was in the story. There were so many characters in the story, you will wonder who Batman will be up against next. If you like Batman, you will enjoy this book.
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Summary: Excellent read!
Review: When I first saw this book in the bookstore, I got so excited since I am such a huge Batman fan. I waited a few weeks to read the book so that it would be a reward for all my hard work during finals. Anyway, the book was so amazing! It really lived up to my expectations and portrayed all the Batman mythos in the appropriate light. I have not read a book for fun in almost 8 years, but after reading this one, I'm going to see if the author has written anything else and I'm definitely going to see if there are any more Batman books.
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Summary: A brilliant continuation series to Batman: Cataclysm
Review: In Batman: No Man's Land Vol.I, Gotham, recently rocked to its foundations and utterly devastated by the apocolytic-size earthquake that hit it, has been cut off and barricaded from the U.S. Bruce Wayne, the Batman, tried to intercede on Gotham's behalf, but the U.S. Government denied his proposal. Now all the citizens of Gotham have been ordered by the U.S. Government and Military to evacuate the city. All that now remains in the broken and shut off city are the poor, the destitute, the valiant, the venal, the insane, and of course, The Batman.
Crimelords, insaniacs, and vicious gangs have now taken over Gotham, plunging the city into a dark age feudal-system. The crimelords, and the gangs that enforce their power, demand tribute from the poor, and all the remaining innocent residents of Gotham City. If the tribute isn't paid, the citizens are brutally killed.
The ravaged city is now begging for a messiah, a savior that will save them from this hellish darkness that has descended upon them. And Commisioner Gordon and the GPD, along with the help of his superintelligent computer-hacker daughter, Barbara Gordon, also known as The Oracle, are determined to answer that call. Gordon and the GPD must take barbaric and war-like measures to take back their city from the vicious and evil crimelords that have taken it over.
Batman, watching from a disclosed distance, is preparing to return to his city to save it from the evil that has now dominated it, but not yet, he has decided he will return when the time is ripe. But in Gotham there is a new vigilante taking his place, a new Batgirl, whose identity no one knows. She is determined to become the city's messiah, if all else fails.
In this first volume of the Batman:NML Saga, we see four vicious criminals of evil fame make their reapperance after the great earthquake, the wealthy crimelord and vicious opportunist, The Penguin, the schizophrenic God of Fear, The Scarecrow, the puppetmaster with a spit-personality that posseses an evil gangster dummy, The Ventriloquist and Scarface, and a cameo appearance from the psychotic clown prince of crime, The Joker.
As I said in the title, this is a brilliant, epic continuation series to the events that happened in Batman:Cataclysm. If you're a Batman fan and you've read Batman:Cataclysm, but haven't read No Man's Land Vol.I
yet, I strongly urge you to buy and read the first volume of this epic, monumental series in the Batman mythos. However, if you haven't even read Batman:Cataclysm yet, I strongly suggest you should read that before you start on Batman: No Man's Land, in order to better understand the plot and storyline.
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