readx;? Although "Batman: Year One" is scheduled to be released simultaneously in the United States on April 7, in fact, when Jennifer bought the comic at a bookstore near her home, it was already the afternoon of April 8, a full day late. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no way, this remote town has to do everything one step slower than the big city, in other words, in other words, publications such as books and records are often sold three or four days later than other places, and this comic is only one day late, and its speed is already amazing.

Although the town is small and remote, that hasn't reduced the number of comic book lovers, and Jennifer has had a lot of trouble getting her hands on a copy of Batman: Year One, and if she's five minutes late, she'll probably only have to look at the Batman poster.

Jennifer squeezed out of the crowd, clutched the comic to her chest, hurried home, and threw herself on the bed, ready to take a closer look at what the comic was about.

When she opened the seal, Jennifer noticed that the comic was unusually thick.

Although she doesn't usually read comics, she has not never seen comic magazines, and customers often come to the bar with comics, so she knows that most of the most comic magazines are more than 20 pages long.

And this "Batman: Year One" is more than a hundred pages, four times the number of pages of the average comic!

From this point of view, Frank Miller's new comic is more of a single book than a journal.

Of course, as the number of pages increased, the price of the comic also rose to $12.99, which also made Jennifer angry for a while.

Jennifer is obviously not a serious comic book lover, and it can be seen from her reading habits that she only began to really enter the reading state after focusing on everything that had nothing to do with the content of the comics.

The cover of Batman: Year One is dominated by red and black.

On a dark red background, a large, pointy-eared human head occupies almost three-quarters of the cover page. The man's head, except for his eyes, which were as dark red as the background, were as black as night.

Heavy, depressing, and even a little crazy, it rushed to her face, making Jennifer a little uncomfortable.

She didn't bother to look closely at the cover of the movie poster, which was so well ill that it could be used directly as a movie poster, but simply flipped through it. She just wanted to quickly leave the heavy and pent-up emotions that the comic cover had brought to her.

After flipping through a few pages, a large paragraph of text appeared in front of Jennifer's eyes, which was printed on pale yellow paper, which made her feel very comfortable, so she did not skip the text, but simply skimmed through it.

This text is the author's own preface, a foreword by Frank Miller.

If Jennifer had paid attention to the information about "Batman: Year One" on the Internet, she would have been surprised to find that this preface has also had a large number of netizens and comic book lovers engaged in intensive discussions, trying to dig out more information from the preface written by Mr. Frank Miller.

Of course, Meng Qi also deliberately buried some easter eggs in this preface.

The name of the prologue is called: Shadowfall.

In the middle of the night, he appeared quietly, and disappeared into the darkness with a breeze carried by a broad, black mantle like a bat's wing. ”

"Some say he's a lawless thug, some say he's a criminal who abuses lynching, some say he's a cruel and bloodthirsty madman, some say he's a dark knight who enforces justice, and some think he's just a legend. ”

"All legends have their origins. ”

"But before you start - if your impression of superheroes is limited to the tall image of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern who upholds justice and punishes evil, is limited to the staunch guardians of peace, and is limited to all kinds of superpowers, I hope this comic will give you a different feeling. ”

"Well, my friend, welcome to Gotham!"

"It's a festering city full of corruption, a dark sin city. Bruce Wayne, who has just returned to his hometown, decides to clean the city in his own way, so he transforms into Batman at night to fight the evil and crime that pervades every angle of the city, and to protect the little hope that the city is not willing to be suffocated by crime. ”

"But before Bruce Wayne became that dark, cold, gritty man, before he became that omnipotent Batman, before he became the brain of the Justice League, before he became the Batman that even allies would fear, before he became the strongest hero in a sense, he was just a rookie, surrounded by enemies and traps, and every mistake in detail would cost him his life. ”

"That's right, our Batman is just an ordinary person. ”

"An ordinary person who can end his life with just a small bullet. ”

"It's just that this ordinariness is not ordinary, and this ordinariness can still give birth to great ......"

"So I'm sure that when you finish reading this book, you'll often recall a meaningful scene in your mind, a scene about shadows falling from the sky—"

"Night has fallen again. The sound of an old-fashioned alarm sounded, and then a maniacal laugh came from afar, getting closer and closer, echoing in the night sky, gradually overshadowing the siren. ”

"On top of the tall Gothic building, a dark figure stood there, behind him, above his head, all black oppressive clouds. ”

Suddenly, he leapt down from the sky, his wings unfurling silently in the night wind. ”

"The clouds cleared, and the moonlight poured down. The silver light shone on his black back, slicing across the broad, muscular keyboard, past his skull, casting a triangular shadow over the pointed ears of a bat. ”

He landed, his wings wrapped around his body, and turned into a black cloak that shimmered with a dark glow. ”

He ran, and in the light of the clouds below, his figure grew so large that it swallowed the entire building. ”

He quickly turned a corner. The moon disappeared into the clouds again......"

“…… He's gone......"

"It's a scene that comes to my mind a lot, and I think you'll think about it a lot, because it represents all the meaning of Batman. ”

Jennifer didn't see anything more light-hearted in the pale yellow paper, and the meaning conveyed in the calm text was almost as cold, hard, and heavy as the cover.

Still, she got three messages from this preface.

First, Batman is actually an ordinary person and doesn't have any superpowers.

Second, this ordinary person may actually be strong, or even the strongest.

Third, a superhero comic that is so depressing even with a preface must be unusual in some places.

With this in mind, Jennifer officially began reading "Batman: Year One".

"Chapter 1: Becoming a Bat. ”

The picture shows a man sitting alone in a chair, with a huge bat shadow hanging over him, and next to him, there is a sentence like this:

"He's going to be the world's greatest crime fighter...... It's a hard road......"

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