Sequel to his genre-busting Batman revamp. PIcked up right where he left off. ( )

Not as good as the first Dark Knight book but still an acceptable portrayal. ( )

The sequel was good, but not as good as the first one... ( )

Although it's Frank Miller, I didn't really like this comic a whole lot. IT had some really good parts in it and it was drawn really stylishly, also I tend to be a sucker for overt sexual messages even if it does not always mean a whole lot. But really this isn't why I like Batman. For one it seemed like Batman was hardly in it, it seemed to just have as many super heroes as possible and I swear if I had to count panel to panel, super man is it in allot more than batman, so he may as well have been the main character. Except they wouldn't do that because superman wasn't made out to be the hero, and because Batman really resented him, continuing on from the last book. Also because this book was set in a time where the government was collapsing and everything is going to shit on an even bigger level, this really seemed to have very very little to do with the Batman series at all, no secret identity, Alfred is presumably dead, superheroes are everywhere. I never liked too many super hero's or supernatural. I liked batman because he was a human and the series was not based on super heroes as much as it was based on mental illness, and vengeance. Not to mention the villians if they were "super villains" seemed more based around deformity than super powers. Which I always prefer to "magic" or all these crazy super powers, Green Lantern, The Flash, Superman never really appealed to me. But I primarily had my real intrest in grumpy dark old Batman and it didn't really feel like that is what I was reading.

Also I did find myself at times having trouble paying attention and spacing off thinking about how I was bored in some places or could have made this or that better. (Even though I have the utmost admiration for Miller)

I liked seeing Batman beat the piss out of superman again. I did like that Batman seemed even angrier and grumpier and finally got some teeth knocked out (with all the years he's been fighting crime and for all the beatings he's taken I wanted to see some teeth fly, there probably has been and he's gotten them replaced or something I'm just not reading the right comics) there was some other stuff I thought were notable to but I can't remember it off the top of my head now and I just finished it last night, so it probably didn't stick as well as it should have.

Read the "Dark Knight Returns" and "Year one" after you could read this but it's not essential and I don't feel it says anything too importent, I think the Dark Knight Returns ending is good enough you can always use YOUR imagination from there. ( )

The sequel to Frank Miller's groundbreaking graphic novel, "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns". This compilation of the three original softbound books is not quite the equal of that first one in story or art, but it does improve on second reading. In this book, Batman recruits Superman and a wide range of other retired heroes to fight against the phalanx of Braniac and Luthor, who effectively rule the world (and hold the microscopic city of Kandor hostage). My original quibble about Miller trying to cram too much into the book still holds, you still need a scorecard to keep up with all the players, and I still am disturbed by the betrayal of a key character at the climax. But this is a story of undeniable power, and will certainly hold up over time. ( )