Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Batman: Sword of Azrael. By Dennis O'Neil


I picked up this book after reading several reviews saying that if you could find it, it was a good prequel to the Knightfall story line. (Bane)  This book easily goes for $30 or more online, but I found it in my local comic shop for under $10.  Couldn't pass that up.  I had no idea who Azrael was before this. But come to find out, the concept of an Azrael type character is a really cool idea.  It is almost a parallel idea to Batman.  The Azrael character and the order of St Dumas are very interesting and mysterious and really fit well in the the Batman mythos.  For a 20 year old story the art was very good.  As a stand along four part series it's pretty good, but I think the true test will be how it leads up to the Knightfall series once I'm able to read through it.

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