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So much so that throughout the book he huffs,puffs and growls about getting slower. That final act just didn't FEEL like the Batman. This book isn't at all what I though it could have been. Commish Gordon is 70+ years and even he looks younger than our grizzled Batman. because he FINALLY KILLS THE JOKER (who has had it coming for how many years now.). I don't know what happened to the World's Greatest Detective.it's not evident that he even is a detective in this book. Joker by far and a reconstructed Harvey Dent, AKA Two-Face, are the best looking guys in the whole book. The Robin in this book feels forced.
But, Gotham gets SOOO bad that he's given his excuse to don the tights again. Even while doing that he's injured almost beyond repair (can we get a witness for the dedicated and longsuffering Alfred). I expected more from this book. SHE saves the hide of our aging Bat 3 or 4 times. And she does battle with a slingshot of all things. Miller's work on BATMAN YEAR ONE was impeccable.a classic piece of LITERATURE.
And the way Miller has the gang called the Mutants talking.I couldn't understand a thing that was written. It's not what it should have been. It's a sad, pathetic, angry Bats in this book. Bloody heads and mayhem follows.Now, be warned this Batman is aged. Oh sure, he dons a couple of disguises, but the clever deduction we've all come to expect from the character just isn't there in this book.
His underlying fear of crossing THE LINE is once and forever crossed (SPOILER ALERT.). I'd spend my money on YEAR ONE and leave this one alone if I had to do it all over again. Here's the book in a nutshell: Bruce Wayne, AKA Batman, is on the edge of sanity.sleepwalking and drinking himself into oblivion because he's been in mind-numbing retirement for the last 10 years. Selina Kyle has picked up 30 pounds and Bruce is wickedly grey and wrinkled though he still fills out his uniform quite well.
Yes, indeed it is.
If anyone thinks that Batman comics are just for kids, this is the one that will demolish that thought. would you like to have a Batman in your town.
why can't everyone see that Batman is way cooler than Superman. Do the means justify the end.
In your life. And perhaps the most important one.
It's a grippingly-told, amazingly-illustrated novel. It's a book that will make you re-examine beliefs and pose questions.
What problems can you solve with violence.
Nitty and gritty, Superman and Batman have never looked so tough before or since. The image of Gotham and everyone throughout it is constantly a dreary, gloomy colour, which breeds an atmosphere of just how far the city has fallen (though of course, Gotham was never exactly known for being a utopia).With great storytelling and great art, this is a must-have for anyone who ever claims to be a batman fan. The biggest, overlying tale is the continual war with the russians raging on in the background; a war that takes an even darker turn towards the end. As it was, Frank Miller penned a dark tale with issues aplenty to study. I wait until they've been compiled and bound into more lengthy volumes and then shipped to the book stores) I still know enough to say that this is a truly great comic.I've heard that it revolutionized batman, and made it darker and more serious; and it certainly is serious.Set in a time after Batman has retired, following a government bill which has affected the ability of all superheroes to perform their vigilante duties, Gotham city is in the grip of crime once more, held sway beneath a terrible gang called 'The mutants'. I'm sure there are people who can more elegantly, or more intelligently say why this is a good comic book; people who've been reading batman since its first incarnation ever, or who can point to those comics that have followed after, and say how The Dark Knight Returns affected them and brought deeper, more serious issues into batman comics.But, even from the position of only a moderate comic reader (I never buy comics as 'comics'. Naturally, batman decides he's had enough, and once more begins his duties as the masked hero.The stories are solid, but could have been ruined in lesser hands. The tension is always building, and the great climactic end is a pleasure to read again and again.As for the art, I've always lauded Frank Miller as one of my favorites.
Don't expect the faster page turning of a Jeph Loeb Batman story and focus more on the writing than the art and you will find one of the most bad-ass comic stories ever. And its true, the story is driven by the writer not the artist so you have to read it at a different pace than modern comics but if you do you will be blown away. I got this because everyone raves about it so I felt obligated as a comic fan. I was not a fan of Sin City or 300 and found Miller's Daredevil kind of slow. I was AMAZED at Miller's ability to write an action sequence.
1, along with Batman: The Man Who Laughs and Superman/Batman Vol. The art is too spastic; the design is too creative; my brain just isn't able to make the leaps in logic that are apparently required to make this all into a storyline that flows in some kind of understandable manner. I'm not a newbie to this world. First off, I LIKE Batman comics, I really do. NOPE.
I read the numerous 5 starred reviews at the beginning and began doubting myself, but then I perused the 2 stars and under section and felt a lot better. I liked Batman: Year One, and I liked Batman: Hush, Vol. 1: Public Enemies, plus many more. I have the same problem with this comic as I did with Batman: Arkham Asylum (15th Anniversary Edition), only worse. I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like this story.
The only reason I'm not hardcore is because I'm a grad student, and let's face it, I simply just don't have the time (or money). So when I got TDKR, I figured I'd like it too, right.
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