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I'm trying to read more graphic novels this year. To that end I dropped a truly frightening amount of money at Excelsior Comics over the last month.
I started with The Doom That Came To Gotham because it's a stand-alone. It is based in alternative Batman universe based on the Lovecraft mythos where the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents is linked to other dimensional weirdness, and Bruce leaves Gotham at an early age to sail around the world.
The story opens in Antartica where Wayne is tracking down the Cobblepot[1] expedition where there is weirdness in the ice, and, naturally, brings it back to Gotham.
I'm not sure how qualified I am to comment on this. The only other Batman comic I've ever read is Arkham Aslylum, over 20 years ago. I only caught some of the Batman references because I watch the new Gotham series and have started working my way through Arrow. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
[1] Yes, that Cobblepot.
I started with The Doom That Came To Gotham because it's a stand-alone. It is based in alternative Batman universe based on the Lovecraft mythos where the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents is linked to other dimensional weirdness, and Bruce leaves Gotham at an early age to sail around the world.
The story opens in Antartica where Wayne is tracking down the Cobblepot[1] expedition where there is weirdness in the ice, and, naturally, brings it back to Gotham.
I'm not sure how qualified I am to comment on this. The only other Batman comic I've ever read is Arkham Aslylum, over 20 years ago. I only caught some of the Batman references because I watch the new Gotham series and have started working my way through Arrow. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
[1] Yes, that Cobblepot.
