Now, if the film had focused on the gang war aspect of the story and kept a tight reign on things we could have been in for a moderately diverting 70 minute Batman yarn about the Dark Knight’s greatest failure coming back to haunt him. Why has he come to Gotham? (Why’d you think?) What does he want? (Are you sure you can’t guess?) And is this story really as predictable as it sounds? (Yes).

From this setup a number of questions inevitably spring forth: Who is the Red Hood? (Guess). He resides in the midwest with his wife and six kids, one dog, and a bunny named Suzie.From here the action jumps forward five years and we’re thrown into the middle of a gang war that the mysterious Red Hood is engineering between himself and Gotham’s top crime lord, the Black Mask. Since then Doug has worked on a wide variety of titles (including Superman: The Man of Steel, JLA, Batman, Team Zero, Seven Soldiers: Frankenstein, Black Adam: The Dark Age and Stormwatch: P.H.D.) with such writers as Joe Kelly, Judd Winick, Chuck Dixon, Grant Morrison, Christos Gage and Ed Brubaker, just to name a few. The two went on to collaborate on Dark Horse’s the Mask and their creator-owned series Major Bummer, originally published by DC. His first gig was illustrating a moody detective one-shot entitled Homicide, written by John Arcudi. A consistent interest in the medium, coupled with some art skill, landed Doug a job drawing comics for Dark Horse at the age of 24 (the date is known precisely, as it occurred just two weeks before he wed his lovely bride). His most recent work includes Batwing and Catwoman.īorn in 1963 in the Year of the Rabbit, Doug Mahnke embarked on a love affair with comics at the age of five, having received a pile of Spider-Man issues from a rugby-playing college student named Mike who lived in his basement. Winick came to national attention when appearing on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, his experienced inspired his memoir, the award-winning Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned. Writer/artist Judd Winick has handled most every major character in the DC Universe including notable runs on Green Lantern, Green Arrow, The Outsiders, Justice League: Generation Lost and wrote the critically acclaimed animated feature Batman: Under the Hood, based on his run on Batman.

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