Julian Darius

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    November 2004
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Famous Characters: Batman

Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen (Nov-2011)
And the Universe so Big: Understanding Batman: The Killing Joke (Nov-2012)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Fragments of a Formerly Active Sex Life

  • Peace and Other Stories

    Peace and Other Stories contains scripts for the graphic novel Peace, seven short stories, and the graphic novel When the Koi Speaks -- all starring Irene, a poor Greek girl merged with Buddhist nothingness to become a fearsome killer. As a girl, Ire...

  • Improving the Foundations: Batman Begins from Comics to Screen

    Famous Characters: Batman

    This definitive, unauthorized study of Christopher Nolan's landmark 2005 film demonstrates how BATMAN BEGINS adapted and fused a half century of comic books into a single, unified movie. This book also examines past attempts to film Batman's origins,...

  • Watching People Burn

    The deadliest school massacre in U.S. history, its victims in grade school. A terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Three separate, coordinated bombings, culminating in a suicide car bomb that killed a public official and sent shrapnel into the crowd. This ...

  • Improving the Foundations

    This definitive, unauthorized study of Christopher Nolan's landmark 2005 film demonstrates how BATMAN BEGINS adapted and fused a half century of comic books into a single, unified movie. This book also examines past attempts to film Batman's orig...

  • The Slave Factory

    Slave factories, a crucial but largely forgotten part of the slave trade, were bases on the African coast that existed to buy slaves and resell them to slaving ships. They were places of notorious suffering and exploitation, detested by both the nati...

  • Nira/Sussa

    He’s a tenured creative writing professor. A well-respected novelist. And a recovering sadistic pervert with a penchant for young girls. His name is Julian Darius, which by great coincidence just happens to be the name of this novel’s author. She...

  • Shedding Skin: Two Tales of Horror and Identity

    In the title story, a man’s girlfriend gives birth while visiting her sick aunt in New Mexico. When he goes to visit them and his newborn child, he discovers his girlfriend’s Native American heritage… and has a hallucinatory experience that wil...

  • And the Universe so Big: Understanding Batman: The Killing Joke

    Famous Characters: Batman

    In 1988, Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE offered a violent, literate, and controversial take on the Joker's origins and his relationship with Batman. Now, Dr. Julian Darius examines it in the context of the high-art ambitions ...



  • Everything and a Mini-Series for the Kitchen Sink: Understanding Infinite Crisis

    INFINITE CRISIS wasn't just a crossover mini-series; it was a sprawling network of multiple such mini-series, leading both in and out of the main one. It redefined not only the DC Universe but what a crossover could be. In its scale, it exaggerated b...

  • Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Keith Giffen's Legion of Super-Heroes

    No other run divides Legion of Super-Hero fans like Keith Giffen’s. To detractors, it dismantled everything good about the series. In this short book, Dr. Julian Darius argues that Giffen’s run offered an ambitious and unprecedented response to t...

  • When Manga Came to America: Super-Hero Revisionism in Mai, the Psychic Girl

    The first manga widely available in English, MAI, THE PSYCHIC GIRL -- written by Kazuya Kudo, with art by Ryoichi Ikegami -- offered a near-perfect story for American readers: a realistic super-hero story, in line with revisionist American comics of ...

  • Classics on Infinite Earths: The Justice League and DC Crossover Canon

    In this series, acclaimed comics scholar Dr. Julian Darius argues that the DC Universe is old enough to have produced a canon of classic stories. Here, he analyzes this canon as it pertains to the Justice League and DC’s universe-wide crossovers. S...

  • Because We are Compelled: How Watchmen Interrogates the Comics Tradition

    In this short consideration of Watchmen, Dr. Julian Darius considers this seminal work in context, helping readers place Watchmen within the comics tradition. It's the perfect introduction to the work for students and readers new and old.Also include...

  • The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers

    Since 1984, the Transformers have been an almost ever-present part of American popular culture - in toys, cartoons, live-action, and comic books. Yet compared to other franchises, it's been the subject of little scholarly attention, compared to other...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Julian Darius has published 15 books.

Julian Darius does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Citybot's Library: Essays on the Transformers, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Julian Darius, Fragments of a Formerly Active Sex Life, was published in November 2004.

No. Julian Darius does not write books in series.
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