Patrick Keck's years-in-the-making scopophilic epic – that was largely, but not completely, serialized on Study Group – has at last now touched down in our physical reality in this hefty hardcover volume, published in a limited number by Fantagraphics Underground.  Weighing in at well over a kilogram, this volume delivers over 200, eye-popping 9" x 11" pages of full color comics designed to stimulate optic nerves.  Anyone who has yet to do so, should carve at least a few minutes out of their schedule to check it out in its online form, HERE. 

Anyone looking for a way to put their childhood Batman fixation firmly behind them should consider Dream of the Bat as their ticket to freedom.  What we have here is the swellegant second edition.  It is published by the Paris, France-based Mansion Press (but is, neverthless, completely in English), with high quality production throughout.  This edition is a French-flapped (naturellement!), 164 page, 8 1/2" x 11", softcover – with minor embossing – printed on a nice, heavy, light cream paper stock.  Sixteen-years-in-the-making, this satiric deconstruction of a superhero mythos is composed of four separate tales:

The four tales run roughly 120 pages in total and were all created in black & white; the roughly 40 pages of illustrations and bonuses are, for the most part, in full color.

After finishing this, you'll at last be able to kiss Batman goodbye and move on to the better things that comics have on offer.   Also, you may come to the conclusion that Fredric Wertham was right about Batman all along...

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