BATMAN ’89
100% Joel Schumacher free
The smell of Bisto drives Batman into a frenzy.
★★★★☆
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► Publisher DC Comics
► Writer Sam Hamm
► Artist Joe Quinones
ISSUES 1-3 There are plenty of “What if” questions in the history of superhero blockbusters, and one of the biggest centres on what could have happened if Tim Burton had continued helming Batman movies (as was the original plan with 1995’s Batman Forever).
New six-issue miniseries Batman ’89 doesn’t exactly answer that question, but it does pick up the story of the Michael Keaton version of the character for more darkly gothic, action-packed heroics. It also finally pays off the Burton movies’ set-up relating to ambitious DA Harvey Dent (played by Billy Dee Williams), who here becomes the focus as his quest to reform Gotham turns him into the villainous Two-Face.