Archivo de la etiqueta: Frank Miller

Book 1

I first read Batman Year One when I was 12, a kid with no notion of adolescence whatsoever. In that moment I didn’t need to know. I was already fan of other comics like Superman, Archi, Garfield, Mafalda, and some local titles like La Familia Burrón, Memín Pinguín, etc. I used to wait for my mom more than other kids after classes, and comic books were only a part of many things a kid can do in an hour or so I usually had.

There was this other kid, older than me I’m guessing three year, who was responsible for this first approach. You see, before this encounter, I was not aware of multiverses, crisis, Kal-El or Kal-L. I though Batman’s real name was Bruno Díaz, the Hispanic name they thought would suit for Bruce Wayne in the third world. Then this guy came up, a total geek, he used to read the comics out loud and play the characters with different voices. I’m not complaining, I was twelve and it was not a bad way to kill some time after school, and those were his comics most of the time. But he had this problem; his mom didn’t allow him to read comics, so he found in me the best way to kept them safe. His mom always came first, and the comics stayed with me till the next day, this is how I appreciated the sequence and started to look each issue, and Batman: First Year came up within the normal series, not as a separate story.

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