2013 | DC | 21 pages | Crime/Superhero
Written by
Derek Fridolfs
Dustin Nguyen
Art by
Dustin Nguyen
Colored by
Dustin Nguyen
On October 31st, will Robin be able to tell the difference between real evildoers and costumed children, or will the kids get clobbered while the villains escape?! Then, on Thanksgiving, Batman and Robin join the families of Gotham City around the table for a holiday feast.
Fresh off of Comic-Con I found this little gem from 2013's Halloween ComicFest. The first thing that jumps out at me was the odd art style by Dustin Nguyen. For me, it was strange at first with the simple use of watercolor and crude drawing style. But once the story gets going you quickly lose
yourself in the book.
The story opens up with Robin not knowing it was Halloween, not sure what rock he came up from but let's roll with it ok? So being Halloween he starts to clubber the "Bad Guys" not understanding what was going on he relizes he is attacking children. So Batman goes on to teach him how to trick or treat.
By the last page, you are kind of bummed it's over, the fast read hits on a high note as the villains get to go out in pubic like normal people thanks to the holiday. After the first ten pages, we jump into the Thanksgiving story arch. During the Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Penguin release an attack of the turkeys. Soon our winged ones save the day and we are then treated to Robin being a little bratty at the family dinner table. **Sigh** come on Robin.
Batman Li'l Gotham Special Edition was a fun little holiday read but I'm not sure I could read to many of these if they stick to the watercolor art and Robin being a brat. The Halloween story was wonderful and Thanksgiving was worth the time put into it.
So Batbrains Batman Li'l Gotham Special Edition gets a simple
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| 3 out of 5 stars |
Interesting - it has a feel like an anima manga.
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