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Loading... Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Againby Frank Miller, Lynn Varley
 librarybrandy | Mar 30, 2013 |  Certainly not The Dark Knight Returns or Year One, this one's chock full of characters, social criticism, and paranoia. It's still great, but without the previous two series to back it up, this one wouldn't make it as a standalone novel. Batman's aging disfigurement is a bit too over the top. Rather than Clint Eastwood swaggering late in his years B. Wayne instead looks like a ball of clay run over by a Mack truck 4-5 times. Nonetheless, check it out, if only to complete the trilogy. (  ) supermanboidy | Feb 24, 2013 | Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again takes place some time after Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Carrie Kelly, now the new Catgirl, helps Batman free heroes trapped in captivity: The Atom is freed from his prehistoric petri dish prison; the Flash is freed from his job at the electric company, and so forth. The heroes unite against the regime in place, led by Lex Luthor, and enforced by other heroes whose loved ones are being held in captivity. It's a throw-down between the good guys, the bad guys, and the guys somewhere in between. If you followed my instructions in my review for DKR, then listen to this amendment: If you own two Batman graphic novels, the second one must be The Dark Knight Strikes Again. While the storyline is noncanonical with the accepted Batman chronology, Miller's Dark Knight books are of the best Batman graphic novels available. So, go and get this one now! (  ) aethercowboy | Dec 8, 2009 | Sequel to his genre-busting Batman revamp. PIcked up right where he left off. (  ) francomega | Jul 18, 2009 | The sequel was good, but not as good as the first one... ( ) xavierroy | Jan 22, 2008 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
No descriptions found. Batman reemerges from his underworld civilization to battle the evils of Gotham, including power-hungry Lex Luther and Brainiac, and turns against other superheroes as he drifts closer and closer towards insanity. |
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Comic Shop Guy lied to me.
This is a jumbled story that makes no sense and pulls in every conceivable superhero, whether they're relevant to the story or not. Not that I can tell what the story is supposed to be, granted. This may be one of the least interesting Superman books I've read. (It was a Superman book, right? Since he was in it way more than Batman?)
Ugh. This was a library read and I still want my money back. (