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Batwoman: Elegy New Edition - by Greg Rucka (Paperback)

Batwoman: Elegy New Edition - by  Greg Rucka (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> "A madwoman known only as 'Alice' is terrorizng Gotham. Inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland,' [she] sees her life as a fairy-tale fantasy, and everyone around her just as expendable as shadows in a dream. Batwoman must stop Alice from unleashing a poisonous cloud over Gotham city. As the two women battle for the fate of the city, Batwoman discovers that Alice has more up her sleeve than mere poison--and Batwoman's life will never be the same"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A formidable foe is sucking Gotham into her dark fantasy, only Batwoman can bring a madwoman back to reality and save the city!</b> <p/>THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS... <p/>By day, Kate Kane is a glamourous socialite with a troubled past. By night, she is a warrior. <p/>She is the Batwoman, Gotham City's newest protector. <p/>Battling her at every turn of her still-young crime-fighting career is a crazed cult called the Religion of Crime. Led by a Lewis Carroll-quoting madwoman known only as Alice, they plan to turn Gotham City into a wonderland of carnage. <p/>But Alice has something special in store for the Batwoman--something that will show her everything she thought she knew about her life as a caped crusader is wrong. <p/>Is this one-woman army fighting a war she can't win, against an enemy with more power over her than she ever could have imagined? <p/>Writer Greg Rucka (<i>Wonder Woman, Action Comics</i>) and artist J.H. Williams III (<i>Batman, The Sandman: Overture</i>) proudly present one of the most intriguing storylines DC has ever published! <p/>This volume collects the first seven pulse-pounding, visually stunning issues of Rucka and Williams's landmark collaboration (<i>Detective Comics</i> #854-860)--a bold tale of triumph, trauma, and the nature of heroism.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Greg Rucka</b> is a novelist whose work on Batman brought fresh attention to the character and to the inhabitants of Gotham City. He won the Eisner Award for Best Story with <i>Gotham</i> <i>Central</i>'s Half a Life. His other DC credits include <i>Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Wonder Woman</i>, the Batwoman adventures in <i>Detective Comics, </i> and <i>Superman: World of New Krypton</i>. He was one of the co-writers of DC's weekly series <i>52</i>. <p/><b>Greg Capullo</b> is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed <i>Batman</i> series for DC Comics. Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' <i>Spawn</i>, created by Todd McFarlane. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics' <i>X-Force</i> and <i>Quasar</i> (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). He is also the creator of <i>The Creech</i>, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics. Greg has provided art for Blizzard Entertainment's <i>World of Warcraft</i>, contributed lead character designs for the award-winning HBO animated <i>Spawn</i> series, was the cover artist for many popular musical groups including Korn and Disturbed, and worked behind the scenes on many projects ranging from toy design to video games for TME.

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