Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Batman: Knightfall pt. 3/Chuck Dixon

Batman: Knightfall, part 3: KnightsEnd by Chuck Dixon and various artists; graphic novel; 320 pages

This is they type of thing that annoys comics fans. Apparently there was another part to this story, between this volume and the previous one, which was never collected into graphic novel form. So when this book opens, much has happened more or less off-screen: Bruce Wayne can walk again, he's rescued the doctor he's in love with and Robin's father, the Batman substitute has defeated Bane, but also killed two people (!!), and now Bruce is taking lessons from Lady Shiva, a notorious assassin, to get back in top form. Maybe DC should have just broken down and collected those other issues, because I feel like I missed a LOT. I can only imagine how much more annoying this was in 1995 without Wikipedia to fill in the gaps. The story concludes here, with Bruce Wayne/Batman victorious (of course), but there are lasting repercussions--most notably that Batman has to reestablish trust with the law enforcement of Gotham. My favorite part of the story was probably Nightwing's continued voicing of what we've all been thinking: why on earth did Bruce leave the Batman title in the hands of a psychopath, rather than asking Nightwing to fill in???? It's not like he doesn't have the training....

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