A review by dcommet
Batman: Ego by Darwyn Cooke

4.0

Good book, but I was much more into the idea of Bruce dehumanizing the criminals of Gotham and having the end result of that dehumanization - the very real destruction of human lives at his own hands in his quest for revenge - hitting him head on with the murder/suicide of one of the petty criminals he looks down on so much. Sadly like 3/4 of this becomes like a ghost story with Batman arguing with Bruce about the necessity to kill criminals like the Joker. I think the introspection about the damage Bruce himself has caused is much more interesting than another discussion over the morality of a hero's right to kill. Especially since the answer in my mind is always pretty obviously that if an evil clown man keeps killing people and cannot possibly be contained because he will enevitably escape because its a never ending comic book then, yeah, the clown should probably be killed.