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The Dark Knight Strikes Again Review And Indepth Analysis | Book 1 | Road To DK3

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The Dark Knight Strikes Again Review And Indepth Analysis | Issue #1 | Road To DK3

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The Dark Knight Returns was a Tour D’Force, a pierce de resistance and other French terms that make something sound really good. Upon its release in 1986 it changed the landscape of comics, in an instant making the 1966 version of Batman irrelevant and presenting a darker version of the Caped Crusader that would endure for the next three decades.

It was a huge success both critically and commercially and as with all things successful, the company behind it wanted more. More money, more success so it became more of commodity. In 2001 Frank Miller was commissioned to create a sequel that would take place after the initial book, extending it’s continuity.

Often works like this suffer a sophomore curse. When a property is so highly regarded it becomes difficult for it's offshoots to live up to the memory, nostalgia and high esteem that fans hold in their heart. We’ve seen it with Terminator, Star Wars, The Lord Of The Rings and several properties with with obligatory sequels down the line.

The Dark Knight Strikes Again was no different.

Criticised by many the reputation of this book precedes it. Often used as a punchline it is laughed at by many, yet regarded by some as ground breaking.

I’m here to find out if it’s as bad as everyone says or like Grant Morisson states, it is a master piece.

So with that out the way let’s dive in to chapter one of The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

The Art Knight Strikes Again

Upon opening the book you are immediately hit with how bad the Art is in comparison to it’s predecessor. Whilst I was never a fan of the Dark Knight Returns art style, this makes it look like a Da Vinci painting. Most of the pages here look like they were drawn by Stevie Wonder. Most of the panels are missing backgrounds, the women look like Nicki Minaj and it just has a flash of the Lazy,
perverted Frank Miller, that so many would come to hate, all over it. You could use these pages as toilet paper and it would still be more productive than what Miller put out.

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