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seawolf10 (seawolf10) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-27 21:42:00

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char: batman/bruce wayne, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: robin/red hood/jason todd, char: robin/red robin/tim drake, char: talia al ghul, creator: mike mignola, creator: troy nixey, genre: elseworlds, theme: halloween

An old favorite of mine for Halloween Week (1 of 3)
The Doom That Came To Gotham.

Mike Mignola writes an Elseworlds crossover between Batman...

...and the Cthulhu mythos.

Antarctica, 1928. Global explorer Bruce Wayne, accompanied by his intrepid adopted sons and faithful butler, has been sent to rescue the Gotham University Antarctic Expedition.

Unfortunately, they're rather late, since the Expedition's ship has been reduced to "an icebound wreck with lots of bodies." Bruce goes scouting while the boys stay behind to pick up the pieces.

Bruce spots Cobblepot and chases him into a cave.

Grendon promptly charges Bruce...and gets pistol-whipped into submission for his efforts. Bruce finally pays attention to what Grendon was trying to break out of the ice. He's just a bit unsettled by it.

Bruce, Alfred, and the boys head home for Gotham, taking their "guest" with them.

Upon arrival at Gotham Harbor, there's a brief flashback to the murder of Bruce's parents by a crazed madman with a knife. (It's an important plot point later, but for now, it's just a way to explains why this version of Bruce uses guns.)

Bruce and company (minus Jason, who gets to keep an eye on the Mr. Freeze expy) arrive at Wayne Manor to discover a mutilated corpse tied to a chair in the parlor. Bruce promptly subjects the remains to forensic analysis, only to be interrupted when a mysterious stranger appears in a blazing fireball.

Eventually, the corpse is identified. In the process, Bruce turns up a last-minute warning...

Batman stakes out Professor Manfurd's office.

Etrigan attacks Daitya so Bruce can get away and chase after Talia and the book.

Talia kidnaps Bruce and sends her pet off on a mission: "Creature, you have your own task to perform. Go..."

Page count: 16 out of 48. And man, I had to cut a lot of good stuff (snarky commentary, homages, references) to pare it down that far. Since this is out of print and pretty hard to find, is there any chance of being allowed to post more than the usual 1/3 limit?

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	volksjager 2009-10-28 02:52 am UTC (link)
	This looks really cool. Seems based on Shackleton's first attempt at he south pole. Is this meant to be on the same "Gotham by gaslight" earth ? How many of those Batman elseworlds used the GbG character ???? (Reply to this) (Thread)

seawolf10
2009-10-28 03:12 am UTC (link)

"Is this meant to be on the same "Gotham by gaslight" earth? How many of those Batman elseworlds used the GbG character ????"

Nope, just a similar one. As for GbG emulation -- I'm afraid I have no idea. Sorry.

"Seems based on Shackleton's first attempt at he south pole."

I was reminded more of the Scott expedition, since things went horribly wrong. And since you're a history buff, pick up Apsley Cherry-Garrard's account of the Scott expedition -- "The Worst Journey in the World." GREAT book.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=worst+journey+in+the+world&x=0&y=0

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	volksjager 2009-10-28 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Well Shackleton's ship got frozen in the ice and he left for help and it was bitch and a half of a journey. Shackleton wised up tho' and wanted nothing to do with Scott and "called it" when new reached London of Scott's fate. I saw "the last place on earth" when I was little and read the book it was based on. Norwegians regard Amundsen as a real hero. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-28 06:47 am UTC (link)
	How many of those Batman elseworlds used the GbG character ???? I'm almost halfway certain that there was an Elseworlds where Sherlock Holmes teamed up with GbG-Batman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-28 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	I have one where he teams up with Houdini to fight vampires. :) Plus there's the Teslapunk one where Superman teams up with Tesla, Edison and 1890s version of Ted Knights and Jay Garrick to both fight crime and make the world a utopia via science. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-10-29 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Tesla?! _ What's that one called? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-29 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	JLA: League of Wonder. :) Tesla is working for Edison at the same time as Clark, but when Nikola, Clark and Lex Luthor set up their own company, Lex pretty much suckers Tesla into an even worse deal then the one Edison had him under. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-10-29 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	Yay! Thank you for enabling my mild Tesla fangirlism. Hmm. I think I need to read more Elseworlds. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-10-28 04:40 am UTC (link)
	I remember when you posted this at the old scans daily. It was really great! Thanks for posting it again, I had kind of forgotten about it. (Reply to this)

	pyynk 2009-10-28 04:53 am UTC (link)
	Ah, I'd forgotten that Mignola had made use of the penguins from At the Mountains of Madness. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	khamelea 2009-10-28 09:02 am UTC (link)
	Tekeli-li! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pepperspray101 2009-10-28 07:01 am UTC (link)
	Wait, this elseworld's has all the Robins alive and working together? Sweet! Where can I subscribe to this reality! XD (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-28 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	Errr... they kind of don't stay that way Pep... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	janegray 2009-10-28 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	Let me guess, Jason dies? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pepperspray101 2009-10-29 10:58 am UTC (link)
	Curses! Spoke too soon! (I hate to ask...but what happens?) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-29 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Well Jason freezes to death, can't remember how the others cop it as it was kind of a long time ago when I read the scans. Dick may have been eaten by the Killer Croc-homage in the story, I think. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pepperspray101 2009-10-31 09:41 am UTC (link)
	It figures!! well at least it wasn't just one of them who died. sighs (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-28 09:32 am UTC (link)
	This is pretty nifty stuff, I must say. Those penguins are genuinely disturbing. (Reply to this)

	sistermagpie 2009-10-28 03:31 pm UTC (link)
	Yay! I was sad to lose this with the old S_D! (Reply to this)

(Anonymous)
2009-10-30 01:43 pm UTC (link)

There was actually another Batman story by Mignola that featured things beyond the veil. In it, Batman followed a murderer to a graveyard and got wounded in the process, crashing into a crypt of a long dead occultist, who started seeping his life-force away as Batman tried to find a way out of the mansion inside his mind. It was trippy and great.

Unfortunately, I left it back in Poland.

-- Minstrel666

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