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A review by rebus
Batman: Curse of the White Knight by Sean Murphy
3.25
I've sadly read these out of order, and this is far and away the most disappointing of Murphy's work on the rebooted Batman universe. I'm not sure we needed a deeper backstory than what transpired in the 30s and 40s, but the Baron Wayne story borders on the ridiculous, now telling us the Bruce isn't even a Wayne at all, but the bastard son of some Bakkar.
The Von Freeze one shot is also abysmal. It may be the worst work of Klaus Janson's fine career, and it's weak of Murphy--and everyone else in comics--to keep trading on Nazi tropes as if they were the worst evil in human history (that's still the first organized monotheistic religion, which was just as full of hate, xenophobia, fascism, and genocide, though that was an early white culture trying to destroy Egypt, Islam and all other black cultures from that period of history).
The Von Freeze one shot is also abysmal. It may be the worst work of Klaus Janson's fine career, and it's weak of Murphy--and everyone else in comics--to keep trading on Nazi tropes as if they were the worst evil in human history (that's still the first organized monotheistic religion, which was just as full of hate, xenophobia, fascism, and genocide, though that was an early white culture trying to destroy Egypt, Islam and all other black cultures from that period of history).