mickeykay200 's review for:

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller

3.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i can tell its a good story but it really just takes all the grossest ickiest most problematic parts of the batman mythos and shoves in all into one book. bruce’s behavior towards carrie feel incredibly groomy and has a complete lack of care to her wellbeing especially considering all the vague references to jasons death and him being entirely out of contact with dick you would think he would at least have some regard for her safety. bruce is actually just god awful the whole time hes this hypermasculine hypocritical fascist sadistic shithead and genuinely dont know if the book was trying to convince me to root for him or not because if it was it failed miserably. the portrayal of the joker and him being queer coded as a way to depict him as crazy but you know it was written in the 80s so im not entirely surprised. a lot of people say that they dont like the artwork, i had no problem with it, its more so the paneling thats very boring and not dynamic. i appreciate frank millers work and its influence in modern interpretations of batman but like plz stop