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I've wanted to check this out for a while, but I'll be honest... I couldn't finish it, the story makes absolutely no sense, its like an exercise in disbelief, are we suppose to believe that Joker gets pardoned from prison after a life of terrorism just because Batman got a little too rough on him? This just didn't work for me, it is too long, political, preachy and tedious to finish, not the kind of Batman story I like to read.
At this point, all I'm doing is reading Batman comics, and can you blame me? They're fucking awesome. After deliberating long and hard about which Batman comic to pick up next, I settled for a fairly new one: Sean Murphy's take on the Caped Crusader. In Batman: White Knight, Sean Murphy plays with the idea of an unhinged Bruce Wayne whose actions get more and more out of control versus a seemingly cured Joker. I really like these alternative universes / "what if" scenarios, as they allow writers...
(A-) 83% | Very GoodNotes: A deconstruction and amalgam, it’s a clever, catchy ditty, with a punky, fresh aesthetic: sooty, grim and gritty-pretty.
As a general rule, I’m not a big fan of What If?/alternate universe-type stories. On some level, it feels like cheating to take characters created by others, throw off the shackles of continuity under which most of their creators have to operate, and do whatever you want with them with no repercussions. It’s like if you were an Olympic diver who only needed to pull off a half-assed belly flop (or maybe a no-assed belly flop, because if your belly and ass can hit the water at the same time, methi...
Though I devour a fair amount of comics / graphic novels I was in the dark (haha) about DC's recent 'Black Label' imprint. Thanks to trustworthy Wikipedia (though we all know Abraham Lincoln once said "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.") I found that the idea is to use the known characters - such as Batman and Superman - in standalone stories intended for mature audiences. If Batman: White Knight is any indication, I think it's a strong beginning. Taking much inspiration from -
Great art, original story - the idea of switching Batman and the Joker is fun and engaging!
This one was quite good!It starts with Joker healing and the saga of Jack Napier becoming sane and then going after GCPD and Batman and battling him with his mind and when these two clash, we find that Joker being sane is even more dangerous. The way he manipulates people and particularly emerges as the white knight of Backport, Gotham and becomes Mayor and goes after Bruce on all fronts who on the other hand is obsessed with taking him down and big thing with Alfred and a shared history with Jo...
If this is any indication of what DC's Black Label will be putting out, I'm all in.Black Label is apparently a mature audience version of the Elseworlds stories, which means this doesn't take place in the regular DC universe. <--so, no harm, no foul.I like this kind of stuff because writers can screw with the characters and whatnot...without futzing up everyone's day.The gist is that the Joker takes some anti-crazy pills to prove a point, gets sane, and then sets about proving that he could fix
6.7/10This could have been one of my favourite Batman stories, i still liked it a lot but there is one thing that didn't work for me. Batman didn't act like Batman, he was taking all the wrong decisions and acting kind not smart at all. Besides that everything works fine, the rest of the characters are nicely written, my favourite being Harley. I will definitely continue with the Murphyverse.
You hand a big character such as Batman to someone who barely wrote anything before that, and you expect it to be good? No!The Joker becoming sane? Well, as a concept it sounds good, but the execution of it was poorly done, in my opinion. The writer literally didn't do anything with it, and just the story by itself was bad.Everything in it sucked big time.1/5
Gosh... people like this? For real?What’s it about?Batman and Joker are fighting (big surprise) and Joker’s big plan is go un-crazy. He takes some pills to be sane and then becomes Jack Napier, candidate for city councilman (they’re acting like that’s better but TBH, at least a homicidal maniac is honest about being a criminal, a politician ain’t honest about anything). Batman of course doesn’t trust him.Why it gets 1 star:When I heard about the hype for this book I was skeptical because it soun...
