I have two of the three Neal Adams Batman volumes, and the DEADMAN volume as well. All have re-drawn sections. And while they are nice to have in collected volumes, they are much diminished by the re-drawn sections, and I enjoy them far more in the original form, and in 80's reprints (i.e., unretouched).
The inclusion of the BATMAN 255 werewolf story is news to me. It was not included in the contents list in 2 ads I saw for Volume 3. But even with its inclusion in the volume, I won't purchase it with sections re-drawn, as the previous two volumes were.
I'd hoped this last volume would have been considered by Adams to be definitive enough to not "need" re-drawn by his accounting. And only in that case, with the art un-retouched would I purchase it.
Volume 1 was the worst.
I purchased volume 2 thinking it would only have been the earliest stories he felt a need to re-draw. But with how much was re-drawn in volume 2, I figured vol 3 would suffer the same fate, and could not purchase it, no matter how much I love these stories. I won't support Adams' vandalism of his own previous work. If I'd never seen the originals, I wouldn't know what I was missing. But I have the originals, and I know what I'm missing in the butchered version. I prefer them as they were.
