Batman / Deathblow: After The Fire #3 P.9 (2002) by Lee Bermejo & Mick Gray

What a month! I didn’t just succeed in getting a proper Lee Bermejo Batman commission, but Comic Art Live allowed me to snag a published page of his, too!

This is page 11 of the third and final issue of “Batman/Deathblow: After The Fire”, published in 2003, featuring the very first collaboration between the Iconic & Dynamic Duo: Brian Azzarello & Lee Bermejo. It's been great reading up on the story behind the story in Lee's artbook. Apparently, Lee & Brian agreed to never work together again, in order to remain friends. Obviously (and luckily), that didn’t stick.

Considering he switched to digital work early during "Rorschach" in 2011-2012, I’m very happy to have one of the fewer traditionally pencilled pages by Lee, with great inks by Mick Gray.

In this page, we follow Agent Fante as she gets into her car & gets a phone call. Nothing too exciting, you’d think, but Lee makes it work in a cinematic way. Big fan of the closing close-up, which immediately drew me in.

Signed by Lee at the bottom.