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This is considered one of the best Iron Man arcs for a very good reason. I'm glad I finally got around to reading this.

This story line takes place at the very end of the Knightfall Batman saga, but Bruce doesn't have much to do in the story. This is all about Dick Grayson and his journey. He takes over the mantle of the Bat after Bruce takes it back from John-Paul Valley, but apparently Bruce needs more time to ponder whether he really wants to be Batman still.

So Dick and Tim (Robin) go up against bad guys like the Tallyman and Two-Face, and try to keep up with it all when Two-Face screws up the justice systems' computers and no one knows who's supposed to be in jail and who isn't.

And finally Dick seems to figure out how he feels about the Bat Mantle and Bruce as well.

Remarkably good. Reminds me of Alan Moore, but lends itself well to an ongoing episodic format.

The basic premise is "What if Superman was raised by black slaves instead of the Kents?" The result is the superhero Icon, but he doesn't become a superhero until a young woman suggests it to him. She becomes his sidekick, Rocket. The characters are interesting and different, nodding toward the Superman origin but creating their own mythos with their own themes and topics. It does a great job of being politically relevant without being propaganda--I don't usually like gang stories or political stories, but the characters and writing make up for it.

The art is also great. I really enjoyed the whole experience of reading this and I wish more people had heard of it.

Que de souvenirs, après l'avoir lu dans les années 1980. Trop didactique, comme beaucoup de comics, et les coiffures ont vraiment mal vieilli. Un charme suranné, donc...

I enjoyed this one as much as I thought I would. Dick taking up the mantle of the Bat made much more sense than Azrael doing so, and to read about his struggle with all that - being Batman, not being Robin, not-quite being Nightwing - was really interesting. His confrontation with Two-Face was a nice touch, but the best thing about this really is the ending, plus the talk between Dick and Bruce. I've really taken quite the liking to these characters. (This is an understatement.)½

Iron Man has evolved a lot over the past few years, and for the better, in my opinion. (As an interesting character, I mean - not necessarily, like, morally.) This storyline consequently comes across even more old-school than it was, although David Michelinie was yer quintessential Marvel hack. But all the stuff that makes this kind of not work - "They stole my technology? They used it for . . . . EVIL?!" - weirdly also kind of makes it work, in that you can ignore the cheesines, distill it down to bare facts, and add that nugget to your "Iron Man history" tumbler - although I choose to imagine it occurring a lot earlier than it did - early seventies? Iron Man's first step toward sophistication? Maybe if he hadn't been hitting the bottle so hard he would have noticed that they were stealing his tech? Works for me. So I guess now there's two registers in which to evaluate superhero comics (and, incidentally, soap operas): 1. Is this awesome? 2. Is it consequential? Does it develop the character, ir is it essentially without meaning? This book has more of 2 than 1.½

A collection of stories from the Batman lines that follows Dick Grayson as he fills in for the still-recovering Bruce Wayne. The adventures are okay, but the best is near the end as Dick wrestles with his own feelings about Batman, then they work things out in person at the conclusion. A rare view of the fallible human that lies behind Batman's mask.½