The long awaited sequel to Batman: the Dark Knight Returns is in hardcover, with a cover designed by Chip Kidd.It's been three years since the events of The Dark Knight Returns, and everything is just fine. At least on the surface. What the world at large doesn't know is that it's a total sham. A perfectly choreagraphed, pretty little world where everything that's ugly, or even potentially disturbing, is all nicely wrapped up with neat little ribbons and swept under the carpet.Only he know better. He's watched it fester to near-breaking point, and it's time for the only free man left who can effect any real change to bring it all down around their ears, once and for all.
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Publisher:
New York : DC Comics, c2002
ISBN:
9781563898440
1563898446
1563898446
Branch Call Number:
GN FIC Batma 3558ad 1
Characteristics:
247 p. :,ill. (chiefly col.). --
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Batman (Comic strip)
Batman : the Dark Knight strikes again
Batman : the Dark Knight strikes again
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It was terrible with minimal dialog and crap artwork. Thought I am not too harsh because the comic was only half of the story (If you google it, the images are not all from this book or The Dark Knight Returns).
Absolutely, horrifyingly, terrible. When I was reading this I was utterly shocked and could not believe how bad it was.
The art is dreadful, the plot is barely even followable, and I wish I had never checked it out.
A real let down considering the Dark Knight Returns was so great, I can't even believe it is by the same author- based on the quality of this, and All Star Batman & Robin, I honestly wonder if he's mentally ill now.
While I could see why The Dark Knight Returns was so acclaimed in its time, I just couldn't appreciate it personally. The artistic style didn't work for me, and the inner anger of the storyteller made it off putting. This follow up, however, magnifies both of those elements far more than in the first book. The story is a relentlessly nihilistic, misogynistic, nonsensical pile of seething rage. And the art is hideously ugly. Frank Miller could benefit from a few decades of anger management and intensive therapy.
An unsatisfying sequel to what was a standalone masterpiece. Don't get me wrong; it's not utterly awful, it's just that Miller's (well known) mysoginy is distractingly palpable in this one. It often feels shoe-horned like he was mid-divorce or something. I usually find it very easy to leave something in the context of its era, etc, and get past that sort of thing but it just kept feeling like a bitter, involuntarily celibate old man screaming "...and another thing!". That aside, it's an acceptable sequel. It's not his fault he set the bar so high with TDKR but it falls incredibly short in many respects.
Another terrific yarn by Frank Miller, also rendered by Miller. Moody and dark artwork with excellent use of negative space, imagine Sin City with superheros. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the JLA are here ready to defend the world against Lex Luthor and Brainiac 5. Really loved Miller's treatment of Plastic Man as well. Great story with an undercurrent of commentary on society, the media, and the establishment.
Uh, what were they thinking? this was one of the worst things I have ever read in my life. First off it has terrible art, the storyline is god awful. And finally it is so bad that it degraded the first book which was wonderful. I really want to bye this book so I can just rip the pages out and it can never be read again.
Outstanding story by the great writer Frank Miller.