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Batman Villains: Secret Files & Origins 2005 by Bradley Walker, Mike Mignola, Jimmy Palmiotti, Guy Major, Eddy Barrows, Sean Murphy, Ramón F. Bachs, Steve Purcell, Mike Huddleston, Fernando Blanco, Bruce Jones, David López, Jay Leisten, Kevin Nowlan

roseblight's review

4.0

Only read this for the Mignola story If a Man Be Clay which is a near panel-to-panel remake of an original Detective Comics issue. The dialogue is cheesy, the scenarios are strange, and it's all perfectly told through Mignola's art. I liked the fact that this was a self proclaimed pre-crisis story, something I don't think we get enough of.

The expressionist flair of the art really gave a new tone to this story, especially reading it back to back the original issue. I know he really doesn't like Batman that much but I could easily read a whole book of Mignola retelling Golden Age Detective Comics.