Even more pages from “The Plague: A Fool’s Age”!

I’ve not been able to actually interview Rick Leonardi, the penciller on the best Batman comic of the 1990s, but we are still in a form of conversation. I blog about the pages he posts and then tweet the blog posts, and then he posts more pages. Let’s keep it going!

More pages from “The Plague: A Fool’s Age”!

The first post on this blog was about a story that is unpublished and will never be published. It wasn’t finished, and its writer has no desire to finish it. But that doesn’t mean the creators can’t treat us all to more pages. Rick Leonardi, the penciller for “The Plague: A Fool’s Age,” has chosen to tease us all with four more pages, two from each of the first two issues of what would have been a three-parter.

“A Fool’s Age”: The Best Batman Comic of the 90s Was Never Published

I thought about starting a blog like this for years. I ultimately didn’t, first because I couldn’t think of a hook for why anyone would care to read it, and then because I fell out of love with comics. For about ten years, I stopped paying attention to them entirely. A chance encounter with the Telltale Batman games reignited my interest, and as I eased myself back into the Comics Internet, I remembered my fascination with unpublished stories. I figured I’d go sniffing around to see if anything new had surfaced. So it was that I happened upon a tweet from Rick Leonardi that happened to contain the best Batman comic of the 1990s: