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Dark Knight, Vertigo Style, By Paul Dini And Eduardo Risso

dktbms_ogn_cv1DC media partner The Hollywood Reporter reports that Paul Dini is writing an original graphic novel for Vertigo about a time when he was hospitalised after a vicious mugging on the street of Los Angeles in 1993.

And it's also a Batman comic.

Drawn by Eduardo RissoDark Night: A True Batman Story, is an autobiographical comic to join the likes of Stuck Rubber Baby and Wasteland on DC Comics' autobiographical shelf but also seems like it might sit alongside Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen's It's A Bird. It "features the Caped Crusader and his rogues' gallery as a kind of Greek chorus."

 

The 121-page book, drawn by Eduardo Risso, the acclaimed artist of Vertigo's crime series 100 Bullets, shines a spotlight on Dini, then a recent Emmy winner for Tiny Toon Adventures, who drinks too much and dates the wrong women (one woman bails on him as his Emmys date when she finds out the animation category isn't televised). Then one night he runs afoul of two thugs. In the days, weeks and months that follow, he tries his best to recover but has to navigate Batman and his infamous cohorts, who offer criticism and advice as if angels and devils on his shoulders.

Batman, a blunt parental figure, berates him and tells him ways he could have gotten away. The Joker, slyly evil, nudges him to take it easy and not leave his apartment (when just the opposite is what he really needs). Dini cites Woody Allen's 1972 film Play It Again, Sam, in which a film critic tries to get over a divorce with the help of Humphrey Bogart, as an inspiration. And he combined it with his writing process, which he says includes conjuring up characters who tell him their dialogue.

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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