A review by thecommonswings
Batman: Road to No Man's Land, Volume 2 by Chuck Dixon

3.0

I mean surely a central concept like this should make you reevaluate the status quo in your fictional world. And a lot of this does - the story with Bruce Wayne going to the senate to beg for aid for Gotham feels like this sort of shift done properly. But then it’s tagged onto a plot line about some Marilyn Mansonesque pop star called Nick Scratch who is entirely what men in their late forties think the youths are listening to these days. And his plot doesn’t so much as end as just dissipate. So you get a real stylistic lurch from compelling vignettes to the worst excesses of the nineties with things like Azrael’s costume. I mean come on now. This sort of shit is all well and good when you’re ten and drawing your own characters called Ultra Kill Dude but publishing it from one of the big two with no sense of irony? Good Lord no