Batman: Killing Time (2022-) #1

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With infectiously fun writing and stunning visuals, Batman: Killing Time sees King channeling Soderbergh into the Dark Knight with a superbly fun and intriguing first chapter. King neatly answers it here, with information provided through the whole of the issue, and I’m really looking forward to seeing what he does with it in the next issue. The comic is also far more violent than I expected, to the point where I kept checking if it was a Black Label title.

We get to finally learn who’s been narrating this whole adventure, and more importantly how they’ve been able to narrate events as well as they have. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Unless I missed out some brilliant mindscrew, this is just Tom King and the editor screwed up the date right? It wasn’t their plan; they were the hired help, with their contact being another newbie, The Penguin.

January 22: In Arkham, Riddler plans the job, saying it needs four people – Catwoman, Riddler, Penguin (money), and a Coordinator who makes the trains run on time.

Every location feels representative of its characters while also providing appropriate geographic markers. His suit, his vehicles, his superhero poses, all serve the narrative but also have the makings of a poster book. Despite Batman being the titular character, in which he has been the Caped Crusader for a couple of years, he isn’t really the main character, continuing a recent streak of King not that interested in Batman as a character. Well, they don’t, but the Dark Knight bites off more than he can chew as the stakes escalate and escalate, and…well, you know what I mean. There's a considerable body count, quite a bit of obvious bloodshed, and it's framed in a very matter-of-fact way, making it pack an even harder punch.