(E–pub READ) [Batman Volume 10]

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Batman Volume 10 Read & Download ✓ 4 Eisner Award winner Tom King's explosive Batman run continues as he plunges the Dark Knight's world further into a spiral of madnessAs the casualties begin to rise around him Bru. At a glance at the overall rating for this volume Knightmares I can see I am going to be occupying a bit of a minority position I ll admit I was worried when I saw that it was going to be in the Big House way illustrated by committee The artists names on the cover the I guess it is a fill in random volume And this is what it at a glance is a series of issues on a related topic But it is a topic that Tom King has become known for The dark inner workings of Bruce Wayne s mind So this is the most experimental volume in the series which I known is a risk with the action oriented Bat community But I say the team pulls it off in bringing us back to the madness of Bruce that King explores in Volume Two I Am Suicide A few stories in this volume help us recall the love and occasional happiness and joined commitments Bat sometimes achieves with Cat but in the end can being with anyone or doing anything ever make him truly happySo the Knightmares are actually drug induced nightmares as Batman is being held by Scarecrow These nightmares one after one contain his worst fears And because of the dreamscape nature of the approach this gives all the artists freedom to be differently surreal in the separate volumes but maybe especially the visual artists So we get horror Gorgeous night terrors No I don t think this is going to be anyone s favorite volume of the series and it s not mine either but I love the wedding of alt comix with superhero comics when it works It reveals the depth of King s mind in understanding the depths of darkness in Bruce You may not agree that the darkness is as deep in Batman as King claims but I am persuaded as I have been by others as well

Batman Volume 10 Read & Download ✓ 4 Ce Wayne will reflect on the recent events that have turned his world upside down Something is wrong Someone is systematically targeting Batman's life in and out of the cowl As t. I m honestly disappointed to be saying this because I ve so enjoyed his Batman run and I ve come to view it as one of the few dependably good titles out there at the moment but Volume 10 Knightmares is Tom King s first Bat stinker He s written a coupla average books before like The War of Jokes and Riddles and the Wedding book but Knightmares is the first one where I couldn t have cared less about what I was reading Scarecrow and Bane have drugged Batman and he hallucinates a series of disconnected trippy barely coherent and generally confusing scenarios He s also still mooning about Catwoman dumping him Ugh It s not just that the Scarecrow drugs Batman with ANOTHER variation of his fear gas trope has been done to death released concurrently to this stretch of King s run was a separate limited Batman series called Kings of Fear that rehashed that very same storyline but it s been done better before and fairly recently in Grant Morrison s Batman run where Batman battles the Lump in RIP which was far compelling to read than this meandering treatment was I can t help comparing the two because they re so similar and as a result Knightmares suffers from the comparison Bruce Wayne as a kid sees his parents murdered but Batman s there too Professor Pyg is torturing Batman but who s really under that mask Catwoman DIDN T leave Batman at the altar but what s John Constantine doing there I get it it s a dreamknightmare whatevs The weird n whacky scenes aren t doing anything for me though if this is all they are The only positive about having such a zigzagging narrative approach is the myriad of top artistic talent that contribute pages to this book Jorge Fornes art in Batman 66 blew me away for how similar it was to David Mazzucchelli s style I honestly thought Mazzucchelli had returned to draw Batman for a special one off particularly as that issue so heavily references Year One I also loved Fornes and Lee Weeks collaboration for the next near silent issue where Batman s chasing a masked man across the Gotham skyline The art is incredible and I think King was going for a Looney Tunes pastiche in this issue not just with the relentless RoadrunnerWile E Coyote style chasing or with the Beep Beep at the end I know Roadrunner says Meep Meep but also the cameo by Porky Pig the human bartender version from KingWeeks BatmanElmer Fudd issue Mikel Janin and Yanick Pauette s issues have fantastic art too and I always enjoy seeing Amanda Conner s artwork She draws Lois Lane and Selina Kyle s hen night at the Fortress of Solitude where they get plastered on alien wine and watch robot Superman strippers It s pointless but I adore Conner s character expressions which are never shy of perfect Batman Volume 10 Knightmares is an artist s book then The main story stalls while the artist s shine boring to read beautiful to look at I just hope this isn t the beginning of the end of Tom King s uality Bat books like the post Zero Year books were for Scott Snyder

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Batman Volume 10 Read & Download ✓ 4 He picture begins to come into focus Bruce Wayne will have to make one of the toughest decisions of his life accepting a fight he knows he will loseCollects Batman #61 63 and 66. Another placeholder volume with nothing but dream seuences and boy do I hate dream seuences And yet I sort of liked it anyway because of all the Easter eggs and homages King sprinkles throughout and also thanks to the fun Lois LaneSelina Kyle bachelorette party in the Fortress of SolitudeMy local library just subscribed to Hoopla because all of us patrons are confined at home due to the coronavirus crisis Silver lining now I get to catch up on King s Batman run And maybe Immortal Hulk after that And some Garth Ennis titles And some odd independent stuff And and so much to read