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Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1
Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 Collector's Edition
The epic ending you never saw coming is here because you demanded it! The Dark Knight rises again to face the dawn of the master race! This oversized paper-over-boards COLLECTOR’S EDITION features both stories from DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #1 at the same size!
40 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
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Frank Miller
1,357 books5,375 followersFrank Miller is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation. His most notable works include Sin City, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman Year One and 300.
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November 25, 2015
The Batman hasn’t been seen in Gotham for three years. Where is Bruce Wayne? Where is Carrie Kelley?
Ah nostalgia, you are the theme of 2015. You make us forget the likes of Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 to crown Jurassic World the biggest movie of the year (despite also sucking). You make us forget the Prequel Trilogy to have Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens soon supplant Jurassic World as the biggest movie of the year (despite probably only being mediocre).
So it goes with Dark Knight III: The Master Race as we forget the nightmare that was The Dark Knight Strikes Again, aka Dark Knight II, and happily open up the pages of a new Frank Miller Batman comic - Dark Knight Returns and Year One continue to weave their magic three decades down the line!
The good news: this isn’t Strikes Again - at least not yet though I expect with Brian Azzarello co-writing, Miller won’t go off the rails too much. There isn’t any bad news except to say this first issue is just ok (thankfully Batman’s not doing anything mental like screaming at Robin that he’s THE GODDAMN BATMAN!!).
Batman appears for the first time in three years and begins beating up the GCPD for some reason. Wonder Woman has a newborn son, Jonathan, and is keeping her Amazonian part of the world free of menace. Her daughter Lara is drawn to the Fortress of Solitude where Superman sits frozen. And the bottle city of Kandor calls out to her - they’re tired of being small. Enter Ray Palmer aka The Atom!
Nazi-esque subtitle aside, I’ve a feeling the Kandorians are the “master race” of the title and that they somehow turn evil when Ray Palmer inevitably enlarges them - I think that’s going to be the main storyline. Besides setting up a vague premise, this first issue asks a lot of questions: where IS Bruce? Why hasn’t there been a Batman in Gotham for three years? Why is Batman fighting the GCPD? Why is Superman frozen!? Is Diana’s new son also Clark’s? They’re interesting questions though, no? They make me want to keep reading anyway.
Andy Kubert draws the main story though he’s doing a quasi-Miller pastiche, drawing Commissioner Yindel like Miller did and the layouts are as complex but superbly placed in Miller’s style - the news talking heads are all updated, present and correct. And I love that page of Wonder Woman fighting a minotaur with the baby on her back.
Because Miller’s been quite unwell recently I wasn’t expecting him to draw anything besides a variant cover or two but he draws the 12 page backup starring The Atom (if you got the physical edition this is presented as a mini comic inside the main - nice touch!). It looks pretty good too; the art’s far more controlled than it was in Strikes Again, the lines are cleaner and again the layouts are among the best you’ll find anywhere. It does go on a bit though - twelve pages for some small info dumps and the news that the Kandorians want to be made big again feels indulgent and overlong.
All that said, The Master Race #1 is a promising start. Unfortunately Miller these days can’t tell a story with the same breakneck pace that he used to but, given time, The Master Race could turn into something quite good. It sort of sets up the premise of the series and asks some compelling questions - that’s not a bad first issue though it’s not an amazing one either.
The two old men, Frank and Bats, are back for the third time and ready to wheeze through seven more issues - it might’ve been better but, remembering Miller’s last two outings in Gotham, it also could’ve been much worse, guys!
Ah nostalgia, you are the theme of 2015. You make us forget the likes of Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3 to crown Jurassic World the biggest movie of the year (despite also sucking). You make us forget the Prequel Trilogy to have Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens soon supplant Jurassic World as the biggest movie of the year (despite probably only being mediocre).
So it goes with Dark Knight III: The Master Race as we forget the nightmare that was The Dark Knight Strikes Again, aka Dark Knight II, and happily open up the pages of a new Frank Miller Batman comic - Dark Knight Returns and Year One continue to weave their magic three decades down the line!
The good news: this isn’t Strikes Again - at least not yet though I expect with Brian Azzarello co-writing, Miller won’t go off the rails too much. There isn’t any bad news except to say this first issue is just ok (thankfully Batman’s not doing anything mental like screaming at Robin that he’s THE GODDAMN BATMAN!!).
Batman appears for the first time in three years and begins beating up the GCPD for some reason. Wonder Woman has a newborn son, Jonathan, and is keeping her Amazonian part of the world free of menace. Her daughter Lara is drawn to the Fortress of Solitude where Superman sits frozen. And the bottle city of Kandor calls out to her - they’re tired of being small. Enter Ray Palmer aka The Atom!
Nazi-esque subtitle aside, I’ve a feeling the Kandorians are the “master race” of the title and that they somehow turn evil when Ray Palmer inevitably enlarges them - I think that’s going to be the main storyline. Besides setting up a vague premise, this first issue asks a lot of questions: where IS Bruce? Why hasn’t there been a Batman in Gotham for three years? Why is Batman fighting the GCPD? Why is Superman frozen!? Is Diana’s new son also Clark’s? They’re interesting questions though, no? They make me want to keep reading anyway.
Andy Kubert draws the main story though he’s doing a quasi-Miller pastiche, drawing Commissioner Yindel like Miller did and the layouts are as complex but superbly placed in Miller’s style - the news talking heads are all updated, present and correct. And I love that page of Wonder Woman fighting a minotaur with the baby on her back.
Because Miller’s been quite unwell recently I wasn’t expecting him to draw anything besides a variant cover or two but he draws the 12 page backup starring The Atom (if you got the physical edition this is presented as a mini comic inside the main - nice touch!). It looks pretty good too; the art’s far more controlled than it was in Strikes Again, the lines are cleaner and again the layouts are among the best you’ll find anywhere. It does go on a bit though - twelve pages for some small info dumps and the news that the Kandorians want to be made big again feels indulgent and overlong.
All that said, The Master Race #1 is a promising start. Unfortunately Miller these days can’t tell a story with the same breakneck pace that he used to but, given time, The Master Race could turn into something quite good. It sort of sets up the premise of the series and asks some compelling questions - that’s not a bad first issue though it’s not an amazing one either.
The two old men, Frank and Bats, are back for the third time and ready to wheeze through seven more issues - it might’ve been better but, remembering Miller’s last two outings in Gotham, it also could’ve been much worse, guys!
January 2, 2016
Larger-than-life action, lots of blood and splash pages, major hooks: your typical first issue of a superhero "event," executed competently enough - which is worth noting, considering Miller's recent output. To be sure, it's all smoke and mirrors (why exactly does Batman have an issue with "the man"?), but I guess that pretty much goes without saying these days. 2.5 stars, really, bumped up for old time's sake... you're welcome, Frank. We'll see how much sense all of this makes by the time the story is done.
December 5, 2015
Once again a Frank Miller scripted story concerning his tale of the Dark knight has started. Which basically was enough to woo me back into buying something from DC's Batman world. For me the Nolan trilogy was kinda a waste of time and just a couple of poor overrated movies that stole the Dark Knight title, with the exception of the First one which was a bloody rip off from the Shadow movie with Baldwin [look it up on the internet if you fancy].
We start the story with the Batman returning to Gotham or does he?
Wonder-woman kicking some &rse.
Police commissioner Yindel doubting the wisdom of Batman's Return.
Superman frozen in Ice.
The first installment offers some interesting ideas, looking forward to the continuing story.
Why read the third installment when the 2nd was considered poor [which I disagree with anyhow] simply because Frank Millers Batman is awesome and he would take Nolan's version out and give him the spanking he so deserves.
We start the story with the Batman returning to Gotham or does he?
Wonder-woman kicking some &rse.
Police commissioner Yindel doubting the wisdom of Batman's Return.
Superman frozen in Ice.
The first installment offers some interesting ideas, looking forward to the continuing story.
Why read the third installment when the 2nd was considered poor [which I disagree with anyhow] simply because Frank Millers Batman is awesome and he would take Nolan's version out and give him the spanking he so deserves.
January 5, 2016
I liked it. Miller has not been well, so I suspect this is the reason (the great) Brian Azzarello comes in to help him to write this one, and you can tell it's a good thing. Not much happens in this one yet, it's a set up in which we see Wonder Woman, and others, so you can see this will be an eight comic series that broadens the team in various ways. The control freak Miller has Andy Kubert do the art work, and keeps it close to Miller style.
Miller draws a couple alternate covers and all of an "extra," that was slipped into this comic I picked up today: a 12 pager starring The Atom. That was a nice surprise, and was pretty well done, though it is also a new series, looks like, and not much happens in it, but it looks pretty good!
This is better than DK II, for sure, so that's a good thing. Looks promising. The look of it is very good. And I like the team they have assembled, including Miller writing with Azzarello.
Miller draws a couple alternate covers and all of an "extra," that was slipped into this comic I picked up today: a 12 pager starring The Atom. That was a nice surprise, and was pretty well done, though it is also a new series, looks like, and not much happens in it, but it looks pretty good!
This is better than DK II, for sure, so that's a good thing. Looks promising. The look of it is very good. And I like the team they have assembled, including Miller writing with Azzarello.
January 1, 2017
Vote: 3,5
The Good:
Thanks to Azzarello co-writing, Miller's storytelling is into the rails and this is NOT The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
Kubert's art is great and Miller's bonus story with the Atom was really good.
A good starting issue, better than expected.
The Bad:
The Dark Knight Returns was a masterpiece and a comic world milestone.
We are still far away from that.
February 11, 2022
Meh. I'm no great fan of Frank Miller's. The Dark Night. I picked this first issue up out of a dollar box somewhere awhile back. Finally got around to reading it. Still not for me.
December 30, 2015
If the goal was for me to get to the end of this book still with no idea what is going on, mission accomplished.
I read the oversized edition HC. Interesting publication method and one I don't think we've seen from DC or Marvel before. Curious how successful it will be and if it will become something we continue to see.
I read the oversized edition HC. Interesting publication method and one I don't think we've seen from DC or Marvel before. Curious how successful it will be and if it will become something we continue to see.
May 12, 2017
So, "The Dark Knight Returns"! But for the first time in this trilogy, I like the art more than the script! But it's just the beginning. We'll have to wait until "The Dark Knight Strikes Again"!
January 1, 2019
Love the art work, am involved in the story. Hard to review in pieces so I will do an overall review at the end of the series.
January 23, 2016
Spoiler-free review:
Dark Knight III The Master Race issue one is a great start to the last iteration of the Dark Knight trilogy. It clearly shows that Azzarello and Miller capture the charm of the critically-acclaimed DK I while still respecting the events that have happened in the atrociously bad DK II.
Serving its purpose, issue 1 is mainly a setup chapter. It sets the tone and pacing of the series and uncovers some things that may have happened since the events of DK II. While the narration strongly reflects Miller's original series with pop-up news commentaries, DK III's flow is more of an Azzarello trademark - a right dose of darkness and grit, complemented by grounded (and bloody) action and modern narration.
Fans of the original series may feel the deviation in art but given Miller's current state and the horrors of TDK Strikes Again, it is a good thing.
Can this be read by those who have not yet read any of Miller's DK? By all means yes. The minimalist take in plot exposition and backstory makes issue one a perfect jump point to new readers. But it is best to read the two DK's first to be emotionally invested and make the most out of it.
There's by the a way a mini-comics inside each issue. From what I have read in the mini-comics #1, it seems to flesh out stories which is unfit for the main issues but relevant enough to be read. I take it as a sort of repair plan to the mess DK II made.
It may be too early to say if DK III is as age-defining as The Dark Knight Returns, but issue one definitely gives us a promising great ride.
Dark Knight III The Master Race issue one is a great start to the last iteration of the Dark Knight trilogy. It clearly shows that Azzarello and Miller capture the charm of the critically-acclaimed DK I while still respecting the events that have happened in the atrociously bad DK II.
Serving its purpose, issue 1 is mainly a setup chapter. It sets the tone and pacing of the series and uncovers some things that may have happened since the events of DK II. While the narration strongly reflects Miller's original series with pop-up news commentaries, DK III's flow is more of an Azzarello trademark - a right dose of darkness and grit, complemented by grounded (and bloody) action and modern narration.
Fans of the original series may feel the deviation in art but given Miller's current state and the horrors of TDK Strikes Again, it is a good thing.
Can this be read by those who have not yet read any of Miller's DK? By all means yes. The minimalist take in plot exposition and backstory makes issue one a perfect jump point to new readers. But it is best to read the two DK's first to be emotionally invested and make the most out of it.
There's by the a way a mini-comics inside each issue. From what I have read in the mini-comics #1, it seems to flesh out stories which is unfit for the main issues but relevant enough to be read. I take it as a sort of repair plan to the mess DK II made.
It may be too early to say if DK III is as age-defining as The Dark Knight Returns, but issue one definitely gives us a promising great ride.
November 27, 2015
Frank Miller + Batman = A whole can of whoop ass and a world full of awesomeness. I wasn't blown away with this première edition but it was definitely exciting enough to keep my entertained and looking for the next edition. Batman is the flagship of DC, it will be for the remaining years that Frank Miller chooses to work the comic. Let's enjoy the Frank Miller show for all we can while we can. Excellent comic, I highly recommend this one.
January 5, 2016
I am glad I caught this exciting thriller. I was there for the first two Dark Knight series and I would have hated to miss this 3rd one. Frank Miller is fantastic! Looks like DC is setting up a whole "Dark Knight" universe. Might be enough to bring me back to mainstream comics after so many years. A great beginning that leaves me wanting more. But it does cost, like $6 an issue!
December 12, 2017
I never thought Frank Miller would do another Dark Knight book, because I heard the second one was so bad. I didn't even read it.
This, however, was very good! I love Andy Kubert's artwork, I think he's one of the best Batman artists working today. Combine that with Frank Miller's writing, Klaus Janson's inks and Jim Lee's variant covers and you've got one hell of a book! Wasn't crazy about "The Atom" story, but maybe it'll grow on me.
I've been taking a break from superhero stuff for the past four or five years, but now I'm trying to get back into it. I'd like to read the rest of this thing with these Jim Lee pencil covers but I believe there is a collected edition out now. I'll just get that, it'll be lighter on my wallet. LOL.
This, however, was very good! I love Andy Kubert's artwork, I think he's one of the best Batman artists working today. Combine that with Frank Miller's writing, Klaus Janson's inks and Jim Lee's variant covers and you've got one hell of a book! Wasn't crazy about "The Atom" story, but maybe it'll grow on me.
I've been taking a break from superhero stuff for the past four or five years, but now I'm trying to get back into it. I'd like to read the rest of this thing with these Jim Lee pencil covers but I believe there is a collected edition out now. I'll just get that, it'll be lighter on my wallet. LOL.
January 3, 2020
It's a fizzy piece of nonsense, which undoes nearly everything done in the Dark Knight Returns. At the same time we've been over this particular ground so many times that beyond as Kubert doing Frank Millers art a little bit better than Frank Miller can these days (and the smaller asides where he draws himself show the he is no longer the kinetic force he once was) this is a pretty straight what if superman went nuts - oh no superman isn't nuts - oh but what other kryptonians did go nuts story. DKR said we didn't need a Superman, and he would just be a fascist. This argues better the fascist you know, which does feel a bit of a betrayal.
August 3, 2017
Essa porra no fim de tudo acabou como sendo uma leitura bem legal, principalmente pelas "mini-edições" que vem em cada uma.
Não é nem de longe um fechamento de verdade pra saga CAVALEIRO DAS TREVAS, na verdade até abre muitas portas pra ter mais coisas nesse Millerverso, oq n é oq eu esperava mas fazer oq né...
Não é nem de longe um fechamento de verdade pra saga CAVALEIRO DAS TREVAS, na verdade até abre muitas portas pra ter mais coisas nesse Millerverso, oq n é oq eu esperava mas fazer oq né...
September 7, 2017
I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Frank Miller is awesome! I love Batman and I wasn't expecting this. The story is weird, image if Kriptonians would invade earth all of a suden and Superman is back and Batman, plus a surprise at the end! I was like "What??!!!" Now I am curious to see what comes next! The art is great, as usual.
August 21, 2017
Big characters, a lot of masculinity even in women. A bucket full of characters, half I do not know. Dinosaurs? I have no idea what this book doesn't have. Wasn't my cup of tea, was all that I was displeased with.
September 24, 2017
Το άνοιξα να ρίξω μια ματιά, έφτασα στα τρία τέταρτα πριν καταλάβω ότι κόντευα να το τελειώσω. Θέλω να διαβάσω παρακάτω ΤΩΡΑ, καταραμένη real life!
December 7, 2015
?????????????
Those Riddler question marks, ya that's what i felt after reading this. Now I know what your thinking and no this not a bad book, its just after reading this i just had that face people have when the light bulb in their head fused. Well get to that in a bit, but first artwork: Not bad, nothing special but not bad, Wonder Woman looks a little better, but i still don't get why shes wearing boxer shorts. Story wise, first off unfortunately you are gonna have to read the Horrifying Dark Knight Strikes Again, otherwise you will not what is going on. To go back to the beginning, the reason why i had a ?, is because this issue doesn't really tell you much, like honestly i have no idea where this going. Now its not Strikes again shit, but ya this series might in the long run be better off read in trade, or maybe issue 2 will pick up but ya. But overall this is not DK: Strikes Again Bad...
Those Riddler question marks, ya that's what i felt after reading this. Now I know what your thinking and no this not a bad book, its just after reading this i just had that face people have when the light bulb in their head fused. Well get to that in a bit, but first artwork: Not bad, nothing special but not bad, Wonder Woman looks a little better, but i still don't get why shes wearing boxer shorts. Story wise, first off unfortunately you are gonna have to read the Horrifying Dark Knight Strikes Again, otherwise you will not what is going on. To go back to the beginning, the reason why i had a ?, is because this issue doesn't really tell you much, like honestly i have no idea where this going. Now its not Strikes again shit, but ya this series might in the long run be better off read in trade, or maybe issue 2 will pick up but ya. But overall this is not DK: Strikes Again Bad...
January 2, 2016
qué emoción: el primer cómic del año. esto está bastante bien. el dibujo de kubert, del que no soy particular entusiasta, hace un buen trabajo imitando el trazo de miller, y el guion de azzarello, aunque se despega bastante de la rigurosa maquetación del tdkr original, plantea con eficacia e inteligencia las bases del universo de dark knight --un universo, recordemos, un tanto improvisado, un tanto cuanto sacado de la manga para justificar esta secuela: me hace pensar si en algún momento dc decidirá explotar esa minita y sacar una serie mensual del dk universe, tal y como hizo con batman '66. en cualquier caso, dkiii #1 es un buen cómic que invita a seguirse leyendo: esos dos cliffhangers --el del cómic y el mini cómic-- son pura expectación concentrada.
ah, y la collector's edition es una chulada en verdad.
ah, y la collector's edition es una chulada en verdad.
December 23, 2015
When something stars with txt speak I know I am off to a bad start. From there I found it going off in too many directions without caring what else it was doing. At first I thought, this is commentary on contemporary problems, but then in comes Wonder Woman and something mythical, and in comes Superman's frozen body, and no. It lost me. Pick a direction, and in one first issue it was so scattered it was too hard to get into it.
December 3, 2015
I honestly don't even know where to begin. Batman hasn't been seen in Gotham for years. All of a sudden hes back and attacking the police?!
Batman isn't really Batman now is he?
Wth?
Batman isn't really Batman now is he?
Wth?
February 18, 2019
The Master Race is a provocative title. Turns out it is those folks in Kandor, the city from Krypton that has been sitting in a bottle in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. The good people of Kandor have had enough and want to get the f*** out of that bottle. I could see their point, but they also want to take over the Earth because they consider the people from Krypton to be the Master Race. So this pits Superman against his home planet, because he sides with Earth. Frank Miller of course created the Dark Knight graphic novel with Batman, definitely a must-read graphic novel. So Batman has skin in this game along with Wonder Woman, who in this history has had two children with Supes. See what happens when you don't pay attention to those super-heroes. Batman is also very much on-the-ropes throughout the tale, so his daughter steps in to help. The interesting conflict is that Supes' daughter sides with the finally-freed-from-the-bottle Kryptonians. The daughter is half-Amazonian, but Wonder Woman sides with earth and Amazon Island. If this sounds to you like it is going to have all-hell-breaks-loose battles, you are 100% right. Superman has a very tender side here when dealing with his daughter, and demonstrates especially tender loving care with the battered Batman. Frank Miller does some of the art with different inkers, but Andy Kuberts pencils much of the book, at times changing his style just a bit to match the past Dark Knght books. Klaus Janson (another Dark Knight veteran) inks Kubert, who does occasionally show a flash of his father, Joe Kubert's, style, which I enjoyed. Lots to keep you going here - but Frank Miller has so many past total triumphs (Daredevil, Electra, Dark Knight, Sin City, etc.) that he almost always has too much to compete with.
August 8, 2017
Frank Miller knows how to tell one h3lluva story.
DK3: The Master Race is, in part, a product of the recent Hollywood era of Superhero Team movies. However, Miller doesn't fall into the Justice League trope of having everyone convene in The Hall of Justice or come together as a mini-army to take down the Master Race threat. Instead, he tells smaller, individual stories about people who have largely left the Superhero business behind to create lives for themselves who then do their parts for the greater good, along with those of the big three & 1/2: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Robin/Batwoman.
Miller is a superb storyteller, building and pacing his story in such a way that I enjoyed being carried away with the ride. The new characters and, along with them, the new realationship dynamics, come together as the heart of the story, but it does so by leaving the Master Race story not just as a simple McGuffin, but as a world, and therefore character-changing event.
This is one of the very few books I have read and then immediately began re-reading to watch how Miller developed his story.
The artwork is stylized after Miller's own work in The Dark Knight Returns (DK1) with chapter "covers" highlighting the talents of some of the other artists involved. (Nicely done, btw)
Ultimately, Miller takes his DK storyline and opens it up to embrace two equally interesting future relationships/stories. I truly hope he carries on this storyline (but suspect he won't. Alas for all of us).
DK3: The Master Race is, in part, a product of the recent Hollywood era of Superhero Team movies. However, Miller doesn't fall into the Justice League trope of having everyone convene in The Hall of Justice or come together as a mini-army to take down the Master Race threat. Instead, he tells smaller, individual stories about people who have largely left the Superhero business behind to create lives for themselves who then do their parts for the greater good, along with those of the big three & 1/2: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and Robin/Batwoman.
Miller is a superb storyteller, building and pacing his story in such a way that I enjoyed being carried away with the ride. The new characters and, along with them, the new realationship dynamics, come together as the heart of the story, but it does so by leaving the Master Race story not just as a simple McGuffin, but as a world, and therefore character-changing event.
This is one of the very few books I have read and then immediately began re-reading to watch how Miller developed his story.
The artwork is stylized after Miller's own work in The Dark Knight Returns (DK1) with chapter "covers" highlighting the talents of some of the other artists involved. (Nicely done, btw)
Ultimately, Miller takes his DK storyline and opens it up to embrace two equally interesting future relationships/stories. I truly hope he carries on this storyline (but suspect he won't. Alas for all of us).
July 19, 2018
Wow, Frank Miller really doesn't like Krypton. After reading about Superman getting beat up twice in the 2 previous ones, now we get a story about Kryptonians getting smashed all over the place.
I don't understand all of these part 1, part 2, and so on; I just read a reference book sized graphic novel that I think covered all of them.
So essentially, I do not like books about people saying they are gods, so this was not to my interest. However, it is interesting to read how many ways Miller can come up with to destroy Kryptonians.
I don't understand all of these part 1, part 2, and so on; I just read a reference book sized graphic novel that I think covered all of them.
So essentially, I do not like books about people saying they are gods, so this was not to my interest. However, it is interesting to read how many ways Miller can come up with to destroy Kryptonians.
January 8, 2018
Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello and Andy Hubert took The Dark Knight Returns into the contemporary with brilliant writing with language the social media world can relate to while bringing familiar themes consistent with The Dark Knight saga. What felt like an end of an era became an uplifting tale by the end. It's a Batman book, but it felt like the DC stars share the spotlight. I can't recommend it enough.
October 8, 2017
A much better sequel to The Dark Knight Returns. Miller almost returns to his legendary storytelling status, His social commentary is as sharp as ever i was surprised with the upbeat ending, However i didn't care for his characterizations of Green Lantern or The Flash, the story overall is worth the time
April 6, 2018
The original "The Dark Knight Returns" is one of my favorite comics ever. I didn't read the sequel, and I've heard you probably shouldn't either. This run, while entertaining, doesn't match up to the original (but then how could it?). It's still a fun read, but probably not a necessary one. If you're already a Batman fan pick it up.
June 12, 2019
Totally had no idea what to expect going into this but it wasn't bad, but I was left confused and not totally invested in the plot line. Didn't follow the story closely as I didn't read the previous comics in this series which might be the reason why...
Also, I didn't expect the other DC heroes to be involved in the story (Atom, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Superman)...
Also, I didn't expect the other DC heroes to be involved in the story (Atom, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Superman)...
August 16, 2017
I enjoyed this new edition in the Dark night Series. While the second edition left a lot to be desired this book feels as though it was an extension of the first Dark Night series while also pulling in modern pop-culture and politics to make the story even more relevant to today.
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