Batman One Dark Knight

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The artwork has been absolutely phenomenal and will be a great addition to any comic book enthusiast’s collection, especially if you’re into high level, carefully crafted art.

A gritty night that consists of just one simple prison transfer ends up giving us one of the coolest one off batman stories I have yet read. While his storytelling is ok, seeing a full book of his art almost takes away from it; as if it shines a light on what's NOT good about his art. It’s also nice to see Batman focused on *protecting* a prisoner instead of just “making sure he’s contained/punished. The Van transports a criminal known as EMP that can turn himself into an electro-magnetic bomb, he can do this on purpose and sometimes not.Instead of putting Batman in danger, I think it would have been more effective to have Croc and his goons be an active threat to E. The writing in this issue is a little weaker than in the previous issues, though, and I think this story wraps up a little too quickly. During the raid, EMP detonates forcing Batman to escort the villain to Arkham with many of vehicles, gadgets, and toys not working all the while fighting off every gang in the city. If anything — and here even I’ll suggest I might be reading too much into it — there’s a little bit in terms of the colors Jock uses and the sparsest of homages that suggests to me a way in which One Dark Knight might be further understood. Undoubtedly a large part of this book is for the purpose of having another Batman book out there with Jock’s art in it, not an unworthy goal by any means, but the plot was perhaps secondary.

No more of Gordon from then on before he conveniently pops up in the last pages for a hackneyed twist. stars earned for the incredible art alone, but there’s just not much more to give this one credit for. It's not a bad attempt for a first time writing but it just falls into the seemingly endless list of average/below average Batman stories that have been published.Why Bruce wouldn't just pay to helicopter the prisoner to Blackgate, well I guess you just have to ignore that.