NML Crossing, Episode 019 – Batman: Shadow of the Bat #75 (1998)
NML Crossing, Episode Nineteen
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #75 (June, 1998)
“Aftershock, 1: By Fire… or By Ice?“
“A Long Slow Death”
Script – Alan Grant
Pencils – Mark Buckingham & Norm Breyfogle
Inks – Wayne Faucher & Mark Buckingham
Colors – Pam Rambo & Android Images
Letters – Bill Oakley
Edits – Gorfinkel & O’Neil
Cover Price: $2.95
Kicking off the Aftermath Era, with an extra-sized issue of SotB! We’ve got a pair of baddies to TAKE down… and a man who’s lost it all to TALK down. Lotta interesting chatter to be had today!
Also: Chatting up the Alan Grant letters pages!
Plus: Yet another extra-stuffed NMaiLbag!
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Grant was a damn fine writer. The ability of a writer to call back on their previous works really came from staying on one title or one character or group of characters for an extended length of time. Even when writers stay on a title today it is only in service to the one large overarching story they came in to tell. The soap opera like nature of comics from this era, with a never ending ongoing story that could organically grow and double back on itself, is a lost art.