REVIEW: Batman: The Dark Knight, #16

[CBR News]

Ethan Van Sciver joins writer Gregg Hurwitz for the arrival of the Mad Hatter to the rebooted DC Universe in "Batman: The Dark Knight" #16.


Full review here.

[Brave Sir Robbin]

I guess the review was fair. The reviewer goes into the book in much greater depth than I do as a reader. For me, excepting Bruce's magic blood last issue, the current run has been just kind of a guilty pleasure for me. I like the dark night edginess, a Batman that kicks the crap out of people in a nice visceral say, and the focus no the villains, not big unwieldy stories. The depth that many fans read the Batman books in elicits a shrug from me. It's not Sandman. TDK is balanced enough and fun so I am sticking with it.

[MajorHoy]

I wasn't planning to buy it anyway after Hurwitz' bloated and annoying first arc, but I glanced through issue #16 in the store.

And for some reason, I felt the art was really stale and not enticing. So definitely not interested in it.

[tabo61]

I thought this issue was good. I like Ethan Van Sciver's art work on Mad Hattter.

[Bookem Danno]

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I thought this issue was good. I like Ethan Van Sciver's art work on Mad Hattter.

I agree for the most part, good overall ish but not great.

Cleanly independent of the "Death of a Family" mega-story, "Batman: The Dark Knight" #16 remains agnostic in terms of general chronology. The focus is on Batman, his detective work and his diligence. A cameo from Penguin that flies in the face of current events in other titles, but adds some cohesion and depth to this title,

The former sentence makes it good. The flying in face makes it bad.

Would a Bruce think "OH, YEAH" or "OH, YES"?

Luis getting a whole page was indulgent but fun and would have translated in a movie better.

"PENNY-ONE" should have been an order and not a question.

Chasing the van with the plane was an exciting concept that was totally RUINED with the choreography! Damn. Somehow he passed it and somehow clipped off the sidedoor. Then Bats manages to slow down to flank it perfectly on autopilot, mind you, to blow up the otherside for some impromptu plan. It implies he dove thru and scooped her up in one motion to go out the other side dramatically. But clearly he must have momentarily landed and could have (more) easily jumped back with her - momentum willing. And he managed to land safely with her possibly in the street. Then the van and plane explode for some reason doing incredible damage and we must assume it was not worse damage than not being able to rescue this woman. And then it ended with a hard to decipher facial reaction with the "I KNOW".

Natalya is a strong and interesting character that unfortunately gave no impression of staying power. I liked the keyboard layout.

This Mad Hatter has no redeemable quirkiness. He just as disgustingly murderous as Joker was in the last arc. Visiting Gotham is so depressing. Not thrilled that the GCPD hae to job and leave obvious evidence behind to let Bats be the one to discover the toupe.


EDIT: Arrgh! I HAVE to add this. This debate reminded me of the highschool headache of differentiating simile from metaphor. Can someone better explain than online dictionary?