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Dark Night: A True Batman Story is an American graphic novel written by Paul Dini, illustrated by Eduardo Risso, and published by DC Comics under its mature-readers Vertigo imprint. Featuring the superhero Batman, it is based upon a true incident from 1993, in which Dini was mugged and nearly killed. The book was released on June 15, 2016, and ...
- Arkham Asylum
- Arkham City
- Mad Love
- Streets of Gotham - Leviathan
- Heart of Hush
- Streets of Gotham - Hush Money
- Streets of Gotham - House of Hush
- Private Casebook
- Heart of Ice
- Dark Night: A True Batman Story
Paul Dini was part of the masterful team behind Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. Taking inspiration from his own work on Batman: The Animated Series and comics such as Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, the game followed the Dark Knight on Arkham Island as he's forced to quell a mass breakout triggered by the ...
Dini's writing on Asylum was followed up with what's one of the best superhero games ever developed in Batman: Arkham City. Mechanically, the game built upon the already-strong foundation of its predecessors in an even more cathartic combat system, stealth action, and a dense open world that was immensely satisfying to traverse. The story improved ...
Though she's since been reimagined as a DC Comics antihero, Harley Quinn broke out in the early '90s through Paul Dini and co-creator Bruce Timm's acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series. She was an instant hit, providing a colorful new personality and an added character dynamic with the notorious Joker. On the comics side of the Batman IP, Dini wrot...
Taking a break from his overarching Hush-focused storyline, Paul Dini and company's "Leviathan" was an arc made up of anthology stories loosely connected to each other. It features stories bringing in the likes of Huntress, Man-Bat, Black Mask, Zsasz, and more into the equation, as well as a grim mystery surrounding several young runaway kids in Go...
Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee's "Hush: has been commonly regarded as among the best Batman comic book arcs from the 2000s, with the storyline introducing the supervillain of the same name. Thomas Elliot/Hush has since become one of the more popular Batman rogues created in the 21st century, and Paul Dini picked up the narrative reigns of the villain in "He...
Following up on Dini's work with Hush in "Heart of Hush," "Hush Money" simultaneously marked the debut of his Streets of Gotham series. It tied into the events of a sweeping run on the character by Grant Morrison (another legendary Batman writer) as Bruce Wayne disappeared during the events of Final Crisis. With Dick Grayson now serving as heir to ...
After the palette cleanser that Leviathan provided, Paul Dini and the rest of his creative team put a solid finish on their Hush story arc with House of Hush. Likewise, it's also the final volume in Dini's Streets of Gotham series. The conflict centers around an increasingly unstable Thomas Elliot growing tired but forced to live as an imposter Bru...
Like with other comics he's written, Private Casebook is a storyline collected from Dini's run on Detective Comics. It sees Dini (and writer Peter Mulligan for the Suit of Sorrows story) once again use an anthology-style formula of Batman tackling a variety of unique cases and villains. Featuring a particularly engaging story guest-starring the mag...
Before seeing the Mr. Freeze fans largely know now, he was primarily a joke character during the '50s era of comic books. Dini and Timm came along and reinvented him from the ground up in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Heart of Ice." This story details the origins of Victor Fries, and how he became a callous and calculating villain as a r...
Of all the Batman stories Paul Dini has written across mediums, Dark Night: A True Batman Story is his most personal yet. It takes an inventive and meta approach to its premise, as this comic sees Dini put himself in the story as the main character struggling to escape a dire situation. Dini takes a deeply personal real-world tragedy he suffered an...
Jun 27, 2016 · Paul Dini got to live his dream: he was a lifelong geek who grew up to write for the animated Tiny Toons Adventure and Batman shows. But, just as his work on a classic Batman movie was...
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Jun 16, 2016 · Batman veterans Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso weave a personal story about a traumatic ordeal in Dini's life and how the Caped Crusader helped him persevere.
Jul 22, 2016 · At Comic-Con International in San Diego, Dini emotionally recounted one of the most difficult nights of his life, the basis for his new graphic novel "Dark Night: A True Batman Story," in which Dini and artist Eduardo Risso tell the tale of the night Dini was beaten almost to death by two assailants, and the struggle Dini faced during his long ...
Jun 21, 2016 · The Batman element is there, but there's no real attempt to analyze Batman, only Dini beating himself up over apparently learning nothing from the exploits of a fictional character about self-defense.
The #1 New York Times bestseller! This is a Batman story like no other—the harrowing and eloquent autobiographical tale of writer Paul Dini’s courageous struggle to overcome a desperate situation. The Caped Crusader has been the all-abiding icon of justice and authority for generations.
- Paul Dini
