emsemce123 's review for:

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Might be a hot take to say but I've never been the biggest fan of The Dark Knight Returns. While it definitely has moments of greatness scattered throughout the moments of ridiculousness to the point of absurdity make it hard to fully immerse myself. I know it's meant to be satire but I feel it's heavy handed and doesn't let the story breathe or take its time to sink in, it just quickly moves to the next thing. The mutants are too much of an exaggeration for me to even find them the slightest bit compelling as villains and other stuff is brought in with little to no explanation with no real bearing on the story (I don't get the flying, talking, exploding doll thing at all) It's also a little hard to male out what the characters are saying with the slang. So while I don't hate it I'm not the biggest fan either.