BATMAN # 623 pg 17

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Title:	BATMAN # 623 pg 17
Artist:	Eduardo Risso (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	429
Likes on CAF:	11 12
Comments:	7
Added to Site:	3/25/2023
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After Sale's art ,here is my second foray , even more extreme, into the noir/hard boiled . Azzarello/Risso paint a dirty, filthy city that not even the pouring rain can wash . In this " broken city" with no possibility of redemption, roam around characters with monstrous features to connotate their inner rot . Risso's art is perfect in capturing all of this . His Batman is a night's creature and it couldn't be otherwise. He embraces it ,but he hates it ,fears it because can't close his eyes...to waiting for him is the same terrible nightmare that has been haunting him since fateful day when he heard two " bang "...but not the third .
He is still searching for an answer to the guilt of having survived his parents or the sense of helplessness of not being able to save them . The child in him is still looking for a way to process/overcome all this .. but certain tragedies cannot be overcome.
They are part of us, they become us .
Risso puts all this and more into a single page .
A painted nightmare where the use of black&white is magistral and every line exudes remorse, regret and despair.
I loved this page from the moment I saw it and will be always grateful to Aleksandar for letting it go .

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Boris B
Member Since 2012

1 - Posted on 3/25/2023

Breathtaking page, use of b@w on this one is pure perfection

Brent S
Member Since 2016

Posted on 3/25/2023

This is one heck of a gritty page by Risso. Beautiful!

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 3/25/2023

A great roundabout way to retell the often used Batman origin. Risso's retelling is hunting and traumatic.

Aleksandar Dordevski
Member Since 2007

Posted on 4/1/2023

Happy it found a good home. Enjoy !

alessandro gentili
Member Since 2011

Posted on 4/1/2023

Aleksandar Dordevski wrote:

Happy it found a good home. Enjoy !

Thanks Aleksandar!

Bill J
Member Since 2009

1 - Posted on 4/20/2023

Wow! The master of black and white, Eduardo Risso, strikes again! Stunnning page with powerful images. That top panel blows me away. As does that second panel with the thug holding a gun on Batman. But really, it's the whole mood set by Risso's undeniable talent that's the star here. Congrats on a phenomenal pick-up!

Mark Levy
Member Since 2004

Posted on 6/9/2023

I see this page and think, I need one of these - gorgeous!

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