Batman: War on Crime TP

by Paul Dini; painted art and cover by Alex Ross

The war on crime is a bitter struggle, claiming many innocents. For any one man to end crime is a near-impossible task. For Batman, it is his life's work... an all-consuming obsession. When the Dark Knight encounters a young boy whose parents have been murdered (echoing the tragedy that created Batman himself), it raises fundamental questions about his own life in Batman: War on Crime, writer Paul Dini and artist Alex Ross' fully painted, oversized follow-up to their best-selling, award-winning Superman: Peace on Earth. Written by Emmy Award-winning producer Dini (The Batman Adventures: Mad Love, Batman: Harley Quinn), with staggering painted art by Ross (Kingdom Come, Uncle Sam), Batman: War on Crime finds the Dark Knight questioning the true nature of the evil he has dedicated himself to eradicating - crime itself - taking him from Gotham City's grimmest alleys to its shining corporate towers. Combining traditional comic-book storytelling and the illustrated-text format of storybooks, Dini and Ross have created a worthy successor to Superman: Peace on Earth, one that stands on its own as an indisputable classic. SC, 10x13, 64pg, FC