13 DAYS OF THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Gallery Edition: Day 9 | 13th Dimension, Comics, Creators, Culture - For a COMPLETE REVIEW of the book, click here.13 DAYS of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS Gallery Edition INDEX | 13th Dimension, Comics, Creators, Culture - FULL REVIEW of The Dark Knight Gallery Edition.Sometimes it’s a single panel, sometimes an entire page. Throughout the book are translucent overlays that allow you to see Janson’s inks and how they were reworked by Miller. That makes the most interesting feature of the Gallery Edition the conflict between what Miller envisioned for the page and the inks produced by Klaus Janson. You see the art from his point of view, even if you can’t replicate actually being there. When you see the bold line work, the use of letters, the way dialogue fits into the storytelling, you’re seeing up close the choices Frank Miller made. Me? I see a book like this as a trip into someone else’s head. Obviously, when Graphitti Designs and DC Comics announced The Dark Knight Returns Gallery Edition, I was all over that like Batman on the Mutant Leader.Ĭracking open the 13 x 20 book, you immediately see the feverish imagination that went into creating this classic story, the kinetic lines, the crammed layouts, the bold splashes.Ī lot of art fans enjoy these books, which meticulously reproduce original comic art as it was drawn on the boards, because you can see the notations, the white-out, the erasure marks. That was 30 years ago and the remarkable thing is that it stands up just as well now as it did then, despite the dated pop-cultural references. I collected everything I could that was connected to the series, including multiple hardcover and paperback collections, a grand poster, a plastic store advertisement and t-shirt.
This was something new and powerful and utterly unlike anything I’d seen in my young age. I read it when it came out in 1986 and it was like a thunderbolt went through me (sorta like the one on the cover).
Well, The Dark Knight Returns is special to me, as it is for many Batfans. They’re an expensive proposition and if I’m gonna spend that kind of money it pretty much has to be something that is really special to me. I’m not a huge collector of Artist’s Editions or Gallery Editions or whatever you’d like to call them, depending on the publisher.
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