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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
Absolutely incredible animation in this, Azrael is one of the coolest and best drawn villains in any Batman graphic novel/comic I’ve read. Really fun origin story twist and some great action. I enjoyed this one.
I gave Batman: White Knight five stars but Curse of the White Knight somehow surpasses it. This one really had me on an emotional roller coaster, expanding on the world, its history, and providing interesting takes on familiar characters and their relationships with each other.
Curse of the White Knight feels like a love letter to Batman and the inhabitants of Gotham City. It calls back to other iterations of Batman while turning the familiar on its head and surprising the reader with twists and turns. It had me in tears several times as well as gasping in awe.
What a beautiful work.
Curse of the White Knight feels like a love letter to Batman and the inhabitants of Gotham City. It calls back to other iterations of Batman while turning the familiar on its head and surprising the reader with twists and turns. It had me in tears several times as well as gasping in awe.
What a beautiful work.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed this much more than the first one. I loved how the history of Gotham was also mixed with the history of Batman, not just within the confines of the story, but of the character as a op culture figure in the real world. I’m thinking particularly of references to the 1989 Michael Keaton movie and the way Sean Murphy retells little bits of the Dark Knight’s past.
There is great character work, particularly with Harley Quinn, and I was moved by many parts of the story. A great Batman epic and one I look forward to revisiting.
There is great character work, particularly with Harley Quinn, and I was moved by many parts of the story. A great Batman epic and one I look forward to revisiting.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked this one more than the first. I think because in Batman: White Knight, the main conflict is good vs good with an outside force forcing Batman and Napier to unite where here the conflict is more clearly good vs evil so the central conflict builds to a climax rather than being diverted or defused by an outside force.
There's still outside forces though, it's the good guys (Batman and the GCPD) vs Joker vs Ruth and Azrael vs other Gotham City supervillains and who exactly is fighting who is constantly being upended to keep you on your toes.
I do like Harley’s character in here. She’s more sensible than the wacky, over the top persona I know from the live action versions which makes sense considering the changes to Joker and her relationship to him and Napier and definitely fits in with the story’s more serious tone.
The ending was good, definitely satisfying and felt earned but some of it felt overly simplistic. There were cliffhangers though so I do look forward to seeing and showing up in military uniform definitely has me intrigued for what comes next.
Finally, the thing that really made the book for me was the main villain, Azrael. Which is kind of odd because I usually really dislike when villain is some kind of crazy, pseudo-Catholic but he’s got a combination of a really cool design and he brings a hardcore brutality to the fight.
He’s like a foil to the Joker, they’re both brutal and murderous but where the Joker treats everything as a joke and is having fun with it, Azrael is just straightforward and no nonsense and he just a very similar but completely different foe for the Dark Knight than the Joker does.
Come to think of it, he’s kind of an anti-Batman too. They’re both fast moving bruisers, but where Batman has his one rule, Azrael is out for blood. Though he prefers his sword to a gun. I guess I appreciate his dedication to his theme.
There's still outside forces though, it's the good guys (Batman and the GCPD) vs Joker vs Ruth and Azrael vs other Gotham City supervillains and who exactly is fighting who is constantly being upended to keep you on your toes.
I do like Harley’s character in here. She’s more sensible than the wacky, over the top persona I know from the live action versions which makes sense considering the changes to Joker and her relationship to him and Napier and definitely fits in with the story’s more serious tone.
The ending was good, definitely satisfying and felt earned but some of it felt overly simplistic. There were cliffhangers though so I do look forward to seeing
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how they work to clean up Gotham now, I don’t think just dumping Bruce’s cash on the problem will make it go away and I hope the next installment will deal with the struggles of cleaning up GothamSpoiler
Jason ToddFinally, the thing that really made the book for me was the main villain, Azrael. Which is kind of odd because I usually really dislike when villain is some kind of crazy, pseudo-Catholic but he’s got a combination of a really cool design and he brings a hardcore brutality to the fight.
He’s like a foil to the Joker, they’re both brutal and murderous but where the Joker treats everything as a joke and is having fun with it, Azrael is just straightforward and no nonsense and he just a very similar but completely different foe for the Dark Knight than the Joker does.
Come to think of it, he’s kind of an anti-Batman too. They’re both fast moving bruisers, but where Batman has his one rule, Azrael is out for blood. Though he prefers his sword to a gun. I guess I appreciate his dedication to his theme.
An excellent follow-up by Murphy to his Batman: White Knight. This story is a much better take on Knightfall, but also mashed up with The Killing Joke. I definitely plan to read the next book in the series (Beyond the White Knight)
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes