![]() ![]() ![]() Batman appears and utters some of the worst dialogue I’ve ever experienced from the character. ![]() A story ensues, as one would hope, and in many ways it is more a path to self-discovery than it is an adventure. Black Orchid retains some knowledge of her human source, but is also a blank slate in many ways. Though the character seems to have returned to her more conventional super hero roots in the present, this Black Orchid is a vegetated clone created from the DNA of a scientist’s troubled best friend and, consequently, only love. Gaiman wrote a super hero comic that mostly breaks with the clichés and tropes of the genre yet still somehow adheres to it. True to form, I just now read it in the year 2014.ĭecades later, Black Orchid still impressed me as a comic book unlike anything I’ve ever read (which is quite a statement as I’ve been reading them since the early Eighties). It debuted long before his rise to fame as a novelist, a children’s author, and a luminary within the comic book industry. Originally published in the early Nineties, Black Orchid is an early work of Neil Gaiman. ![]()
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