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A review by opentopersuasion
Batman: The Dark Knight, Vol. 1: Knight Terrors by David Finch
2.0
After reading some later issues that I liked, I thought I’d start with the beginning of this series in trade format.
The book was disappointing...what I like about Batman is the anguish of good guys becoming bad guys and vice-versa (the Joker tries to feed his family and ends up doused in chemicals and his brain goes hay-wire, Batman goes from being a sad orphan to an obsessive, monster-like figure). But I guess since you can’t only do origin stories, you end up with stories like this one.
The story plops you in front of a break-out of Arkham Asylum, only this time the bad guys are hopped up on some kind of drug/venom/poison. I’m not a full-on Batman expert yet, so I didn’t know a lot of the baddies, and even the ones I did know seemed to be just randomly put there. There were just so many that you only see for one or two pages, then disappear. The plot was meandering and weak, with random explanations for curing the poison that made no sense to me...Quick, you have to push him over the edge, that’ll cure him! ...What does that even mean?! The girls on the pages were the same to me as the villains, very fleshed-out, well done art for no real plot value other than to ogle at...super muscley guys and super sexy ladies.
Since what I liked in the single issues came later, I might still be tempted to try volume 2. But I’m not so sure.
The book was disappointing...what I like about Batman is the anguish of good guys becoming bad guys and vice-versa (the Joker tries to feed his family and ends up doused in chemicals and his brain goes hay-wire, Batman goes from being a sad orphan to an obsessive, monster-like figure). But I guess since you can’t only do origin stories, you end up with stories like this one.
The story plops you in front of a break-out of Arkham Asylum, only this time the bad guys are hopped up on some kind of drug/venom/poison. I’m not a full-on Batman expert yet, so I didn’t know a lot of the baddies, and even the ones I did know seemed to be just randomly put there. There were just so many that you only see for one or two pages, then disappear. The plot was meandering and weak, with random explanations for curing the poison that made no sense to me...Quick, you have to push him over the edge, that’ll cure him! ...What does that even mean?! The girls on the pages were the same to me as the villains, very fleshed-out, well done art for no real plot value other than to ogle at...super muscley guys and super sexy ladies.
Since what I liked in the single issues came later, I might still be tempted to try volume 2. But I’m not so sure.