Product Description

This all-new, all-action graphic novel is the prologue to a war that threatens to lay waste to the home of one of comics' greatest icons! Batman finds himself being pulled apart by one disaster after another; a talented pop star goes missing; Leslie Thompkins, the most important woman in his life, vanishes; he is fighting an all-out gang war; and Robin's identity is blown, forcing Batman to get a decidedly unwelcome replacement! Things look ready to fall apart and the only thing to fill the centre is war on the streets of Gotham! Written and drawn by a crack cadre of comics creators, War Drums announces one of graphic novels' epic 'events' that will see Gotham City torn apart!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #312240 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
www sci-fi-online.com review by Nick Smithson: " ...this is a great collection which should certainly find its way into all serious batman fans collections. 9/10."

About the Author
Anderson Gabrych is an actor and comics writer on Batgirl. Bill Willingham is a writer and artist whose work includes The Elementals, the acclaimed series Fables and The Sandman Presents: The Thessaliad. Pete Woods has artist credits for Excalibur, Robin and Adventures of Superman. Damion Scott has contributed to Detective Comics, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight and Batman: No Man's Land.

Customer Reviews

Do we really need Robin?
For the first half of this 'Graphic Novel'(?) things are going great guns. The man himself is swooping atmospherically through some punchy one or two edition stories. There's a decent narrrative thread to justify collecting the editions of "Detective Comics" together and a few interesting peripheral characters flit in and out of the main protagonist's path.
But then the Green Arrow turns up, we get some mystical guff about a bald female fighting monk and the entire shift of the story turns to a new, female Robin. And really, who cares?
This isn't a criticism of this collection as such, more a ponderous question as to what the editors of the Batman titles are trying to do. If you want to see the whole "War Games" story arc through to its conclusion you're probably going to have to read this as it sets the scene for several characters' roles in that collection. If you want a decent Batman read you can do much better. First half we have a dark, brooding Batman in well plotted, mature stories dealing with some pretty heavy issues.
Second half we have an ineffectual Batman reduced to (at times bumbling) supporting character and reams of insufferable 'Valley Girl" dialogue. It's like a sillier edition of "Beverley Hills 90210".
When we pay the cash for a book with 'Batman' in the title we expect the eponymous hero to be the central character, not a half baked cheerleader. Save this dross for the kids titles like "Batman Adventures".
So three stars for the first, "Detective Comics" stories.
And, like, HELLO? Zero for, like, the rest.