Victor and Nora: A Gotham Love Story written by Lauren Myracle and illustrated by Isaac Goodhart
The Batman villain Mr. Freeze started out as a one-dimensional character, almost a gag villain rather than a real threat. This graphic novel reimagines him as a contemporary seventeen-year old who interns at Boyle Laboratories in the city of Gotham. He loves science and trying out experiments. He tragically lost his older brother and has become extremely shy and inwardly-focused. On a visit to his brother's grave, he runs into Nora, who is visiting her mother's grave. They awkwardly connect. Nora has her own tragedy--she has a disease that is going to kill her by the end of the summer. As they grow closer, they become more intimate and more honest with each other, leading to a lot of personal drama.
The story has nothing to do with Batman, it's entirely focused on Victor and Nora. Both of their perspectives are presented, though both are more focused on self-doubt and self-delusion. They both want more control over their situations than they really have. They both want to live life to its fullest but are too young to understand what that really means. She has suicidal tendencies which are dealt with in sensitive ways. I wish there was better handling of their sex life, which is just taken as a given in spite of it being neither emotionally or physically healthy. They aren't really a part of a community, even of their own families. Victor and Nora only want their own good, not the good of others or even each other, making their story ultimately a tragedy. I don't think that's the conclusion the creators were going for.
Barely recommended.
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