| rdfs:comment | - No Man's Land is a Batman Family crossover event published in 1999. The story deals with Gotham City being declared no longer part of the United States. This is following several disasters that happened to the city in Cataclysm, Contagion and Legacy. Gotham becomes a lawless wasteland that is divided into territories held by the most powerful figures.
- Batman: No Man’s Land is a Batman comic book crossover storyline that ran for the whole of 1999 through the Batman comic book titles published by DC Comics. The lead-up story began with the arc Cataclysm which described a major earthquake hitting Gotham City. This was followed by the storylines Aftershock and then Road to No Man's Land which resulted in the U.S. government officially evacuating Gotham and then abandoning and isolating those who choose to remain in the city. The No Man’s Land story properly covered the residents of the city during this time of isolation until its time of re-opening and the beginning of rebuilding.
- A Bat Family Crossover that ran through the main Batman titles in 1999. After a rash of bad luck--superflu/ebola outbreak, another outbreak, and a 7.6 earthquake, two of which were courtesy of Ra's al Ghul--the US Government decides Gotham City is too costly to save and instead blows the bridges, effectively cutting the city off from the rest of the world for a year. The inmates of Arkham Asylum are loose, no one's coming to help, there are about a dozen honest cops willing to save the city, and Batman is missing. Worried yet?
- An earthquake hits Gotham City and destroys all bridges connectig the city to the outside world. Another result of the disaster is a large scale breakout of criminals from both Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison. The criminals quickly take control of Gotham, and the government decides to not yet intervene in the affair. Jim Gordon, the police commissioner, rallies some of the remaining law enforcement officers to try and take back the city. Batman and Oracle also work together to try and reclaim Gotham.
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| abstract | - An earthquake hits Gotham City and destroys all bridges connectig the city to the outside world. Another result of the disaster is a large scale breakout of criminals from both Arkham Asylum and Blackgate Prison. The criminals quickly take control of Gotham, and the government decides to not yet intervene in the affair. Jim Gordon, the police commissioner, rallies some of the remaining law enforcement officers to try and take back the city. Batman and Oracle also work together to try and reclaim Gotham. The two groups eventually merge together, and they set about retaking the city by battling the gangs and marking their territory with grafitti. Gordon is forced to team-up with Two-Face to claim vital territory from the Penguin, but Two-Face sees a chance to claim a greater amount of land and betrays him. The villain subsequently puts the commissioner on trial. Renee Montoya reaches to Two-Face's more human side; Harvey Dent, who decides to act as Gordon's defence. Thanks to Dent, Gordon is acquitted. Soon, things are looking up for Gotham. Batman and Gordon have subdued moth of their enemies and Gotham begins to prosper once more. As the city is being rebuilt, Gordon's wife Sarah continues her own investigation; looking for several orphans who went missing. She is horrified to learn that they have been kidnapped by the Joker, who subsequently kills her. Gordon sets out to hunt the Joker down and finds the orphans round up at a run-down amusement park, where he also encounters the Joker. Batman arrives and finds Gordon holding the Joker at gunpoint. Batman tells Gordon that if he kills him, then all they have worked for will be for nothing; the city will have lost it's morale. The Joker, having already crippled Gordon's daughter Barbara, asks Gordon if he has a son. Gordon responds by shooting him in the knee. The Joker muses that he may never walk again, and then bursts out laughing as he realises that Gordon has avenged Barbara's paralysis. The film ends as Gordon retires from the police force and wishes his wife a final farewell, while Batman prepares to continue his duty as Gotham's protector.
- A Bat Family Crossover that ran through the main Batman titles in 1999. After a rash of bad luck--superflu/ebola outbreak, another outbreak, and a 7.6 earthquake, two of which were courtesy of Ra's al Ghul--the US Government decides Gotham City is too costly to save and instead blows the bridges, effectively cutting the city off from the rest of the world for a year. The inmates of Arkham Asylum are loose, no one's coming to help, there are about a dozen honest cops willing to save the city, and Batman is missing. Worried yet? Implicitly, the idea was to drag the Gotham of The Eighties and the Burton films into the 21st century. Thematically, the story is something like Mad Max, Escape from New York, and The Warriors all rolled into the DC Universe, and turns the dial Up to Eleven on Gotham's usual portrayal as a Wretched Hive. In the meantime, high doses of awesome come from just about everyone. Even the Ventriloquist. The story also brought to an end the majority of Batman stories throughout The Nineties--notably, the aforementioned Contagion and Cataclysm stories, as well as Knightfall and even Batman: Year One. Somewhat surprisingly, the political angle of the story averted any particular anvils being dropped, except when talking about unconstitutionalism (and even then, the characters lampshaded away any possible accusations of silliness). Elsewhere, NML also gave the comics new characters like Cassandra Cain and her father, David, introduced Harley Quinn into the DCU, and set up plot points that later books like Gotham Central and even Superman would deal with (namely Lex Luthor becoming President of these United States). In 2000, DC released a hardcover novelisation, written by Greg Rucka. Starting in 2012 as well, DC is re-releasing the series in a group of big honkin' softcovers, with preciously unincluded issues. The reminder of Escape from New York actually inspired not one but two superhero sandbox video games; In Famous and Prototype. Batman's own sandbox game, Batman: Arkham City, is also very thematically similar. Based on the trailers for The Dark Knight Rises that movie seems to take some elements from this.
- Batman: No Man’s Land is a Batman comic book crossover storyline that ran for the whole of 1999 through the Batman comic book titles published by DC Comics. The lead-up story began with the arc Cataclysm which described a major earthquake hitting Gotham City. This was followed by the storylines Aftershock and then Road to No Man's Land which resulted in the U.S. government officially evacuating Gotham and then abandoning and isolating those who choose to remain in the city. The No Man’s Land story properly covered the residents of the city during this time of isolation until its time of re-opening and the beginning of rebuilding. The main storyline ran through the monthly Batman titles Detective Comics, Batman, Batman: Shadow of the Bat and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight with other spin-offs serving as tie-ins. In all, No Man's Land encompassed 80 regular monthly issues, 4 specials, and the Batman: Harley Quinn graphic novel, which introduced Harley Quinn to the DC Comics universe. The storyline is divided into several arcs. A part of the story would continue from one Batman title and then to the next Batman title that would come the following week, much the same format used in the Superman comics for that time. Unlike the Superman comics, where a creative team is maintained for one monthly title, the same creative team is maintained for the duration of the story arc. The core storyline is collected as trade paperbacks in five volumes. However, because of the large number of issues that were devoted to No Man's Land, only 40 of them made it into the collections. A novelization of the story line was also written by Greg Rucka and released as hardcover in January 2000.
- No Man's Land is a Batman Family crossover event published in 1999. The story deals with Gotham City being declared no longer part of the United States. This is following several disasters that happened to the city in Cataclysm, Contagion and Legacy. Gotham becomes a lawless wasteland that is divided into territories held by the most powerful figures.
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