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Batman One Dark Knight

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From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman planned to escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman super-villain known as E. It is woefully written and so stupid that I can’t review it properly without going into SPOILERS so I’ll say that now and recommend everyone who’s leaving the review here to save yourself the time and effort, don’t bother picking it up and avoid this utter drek entirely. There’s no reason given for why they want to do this but I’m going to be charitable to Jock and suggest that he meant to imply that Vasquez was offering a substantial bounty for them killing EMP - because this simple explanation is never once mentioned in the dismal script. While the writing doesn’t reach the emotion or even horror of Scott Snyder when he was writing Batman, Jock gets just the character and celebrates him in his own way through his always-great art and simple action-filled premise.

stars earned for the incredible art alone, but there’s just not much more to give this one credit for. Jock has been one of my favorite artists since hitting the scene and finally gets to be showcased in an oversized DC Black Label series.Would have been nice as a one-shot and not a series of issues that just dragged the already thin premise way too long.

Jock has also produced key art and concept design for films including Dredd , Annihilation , Star Wars: The Last Jedi , and the Oscar-winning Ex Machina . The description for the book includes the mention of it being a sweltering summer night, which I felt was a confusing added descriptor since it isn't something that plays any relevance to the story.One of the most iconic Batman artists of the 21st century, the incomparable Jock (THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS, BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR), has focused all his storytelling powers on the tale of one very, very dark night in Gotham City. Its angle was the gentrification accelerated by Bruce Wayne's "urban development," and I thought it did a pretty good job while also looking stunning.

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