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A review by captwinghead
Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb
2.0
I feel terrible whenever I rate something pretty famous in the comic book community because I tend to be "meh" about what's popular and in love with what gets poor ratings.
This is one of those.
I wasn't super in love with Long Halloween either but I get the purpose of these books. There's a long mystery arc and we're supposed to figure out, alongside Batsy, whodunnit.
In both situations, the killer was right in front of us the whole time. I commend Loeb for having the killers be women because that's usually unexpected.
The art works for the mobsters, for the most part, but man do I hate the way Catwoman is drawn. And it's just Catwoman, when it's Selina, she looks fine. The proportions are just off with Catwoman. Gigante is drawn weirdly but she's meant to be a little odd.
As for the story, one thing I greatly appreciate about Long Halloween and this story are the inclusion of a lot of Batman's former foes. Even as cameos, it was awesome seeing Riddler, Mad Hatter, Grundy, Penguin, Calendar Man and Joker. The person Batman spends most of his time pursuing is Dent, oddly enough. He can't get over that he feels like he failed Harvey and the large theme here is loneliness
Batman and Bruce are alone save for Selina and later Dick trying to be partners to him (in different ways, of course). The Commish is lonely because, for most of this book, his wife is away from him and refuses to come home. Porter is lonely and pursuing Dent who doesn't want her. The mobsters surround themselves in family, however futile that is considering they're all backstabbing each other.
It's the good guys that take on the burden of doing good work (save Porter who turns out to be bad) that are suffering in their personal lives for it.
Anyway, I loved seeing Dick Grayson's origin as Robin again. As painful as it is watching the Graysons die again, I liked seeing the parallels between how Dick grieved and how Bruce grieved.
This was okay. Too drawn for me to be really invested but it painted a really cool picture of Gotham and was an entertaining enough mystery.
This is one of those.
I wasn't super in love with Long Halloween either but I get the purpose of these books. There's a long mystery arc and we're supposed to figure out, alongside Batsy, whodunnit.
In both situations, the killer was right in front of us the whole time. I commend Loeb for having the killers be women because that's usually unexpected.
The art works for the mobsters, for the most part, but man do I hate the way Catwoman is drawn. And it's just Catwoman, when it's Selina, she looks fine. The proportions are just off with Catwoman. Gigante is drawn weirdly but she's meant to be a little odd.
As for the story, one thing I greatly appreciate about Long Halloween and this story are the inclusion of a lot of Batman's former foes. Even as cameos, it was awesome seeing Riddler, Mad Hatter, Grundy, Penguin, Calendar Man and Joker. The person Batman spends most of his time pursuing is Dent, oddly enough. He can't get over that he feels like he failed Harvey and the large theme here is loneliness
Batman and Bruce are alone save for Selina and later Dick trying to be partners to him (in different ways, of course). The Commish is lonely because, for most of this book, his wife is away from him and refuses to come home. Porter is lonely and pursuing Dent who doesn't want her. The mobsters surround themselves in family, however futile that is considering they're all backstabbing each other.
It's the good guys that take on the burden of doing good work (save Porter who turns out to be bad) that are suffering in their personal lives for it.
Anyway, I loved seeing Dick Grayson's origin as Robin again. As painful as it is watching the Graysons die again, I liked seeing the parallels between how Dick grieved and how Bruce grieved.
This was okay. Too drawn for me to be really invested but it painted a really cool picture of Gotham and was an entertaining enough mystery.