Reviews

Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1 by Lynn Varley, Frank Miller

shane_tiernan's review

5.0

Not completely sure, but I may have liked this even more than I liked [b:Batman: The Dark Knight Returns|59960|Batman The Dark Knight Returns|Frank Miller|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327892039s/59960.jpg|1104159]. The art is sometimes crude, but mostly brilliant, I love the silhouettes and I love the commentary from "average citizens". Did I mention that I love the plot too. Such a dark world and so gritty I find myself really worried that the good guys might not win in the end.

jammasterjamie's review against another edition

5.0

If you like Batman but you've never read this story, then you do not like Batman as much as you think you do. This is the ultimate Batman story ever told and will never be improved upon because it's just too perfect. I'm not the biggest Frank Miller fan in the world, but I have to give him respect for picturing a world where Batman must force himself out of his ten-year retirement. There are very few books and stories that I would call perfect, but this is one of them.

UPDATED REVIEW JAN 2016 - I don't know how many times I've read this over the decades (ugh), but this was my first re-read of it in about five years and the story still absolutely stands up and takes me right back to being a twelve year old kid and having my mind blown and my reality shattered.

stilldirty's review

4.0

Almost too weird for its own good, but I still think it's pretty good. Just not loving it, like "Dark Knight Returns." Also, it seems, artwork-wise, and background-hyper-color-wise, that it came a decade late... and it seems like a future from the 90s. But I guess that's suitable for being a sequel to the other. I'm not sure what I'm trying to say about it, but I can say this: I will re-read "Dark Knight Returns," but maybe not "Dark Knight Strikes Again." I'm giving it 4 stars (so far, because I've got the three-volume set) because it wasn't bad, but at the same time it had stretches that were bad enough to be good.

lilithsumoza's review against another edition

5.0

my brain is so fried after finishing this. I'm overwhelmed. I'm shocked. I'm amazed with the storytelling techniques used in this. There are so many different plots and political commentaries weaving in and out of the story to essentially tell the story of how a hero that was so admired in a golden age of humanity has now returned to a darker world, which he has to adjust to in return. Some of the imagery was honestly horrifying (though I'm sure to some people reading this was more like a walk in the park. I know. I'm a bit fragile), and those unsettling moments are used so well. This is a classic for a reason, and I'm really glad I read it.

birdmanseven's review

3.0

I'm intrigued by the start of this universally hated story. We'll see what kind of nonsense bubbles up in the next few volumes.

We discuss this polarizing story and Batman as a whole in this episode of the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-212-batman-day-2019

trisa_slyne's review

4.0

This was such a weird book...

clockworkp's review

3.0

Pues la verdad es que me ha gustado muchísimo más que el anterior. Quizás influyera que a este no le tenía expectativas, pero me ha parecido más entretenido y atrapante que el anterior.
La verdad es que no entiendo la posición de Superman y su grupo. ¿No se suponía que antes eran un equipo? Simplemente dejó que el govierno ultra corrupto tuviera encerrados y torturando a antiguos amigos. La verdad es que como sólo e leído algunos comics de batman no entiendo bien la dinámica de los demás personajes, solo me suenan de la cultura pop. Es precisamente por eso que no le doy las cinco estrellas, porque lo que es la trama me encanta. El viejo equipo reuniendose de nuevo triunfantemente para derrotar al malvado de turno.