Batman: Haunted Knight

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And finally there is the Penguin, and yet more discrete hallucinations and nightmares. Bruce's father shows up wrapped in chains and informs him of three more ghosts to follow this night. The three ghosts are Poison Ivy's, the Joker's and the ghost of a zombie Batman. I have no idea why those three or what it is that they are trying to say (if anything at all). I don't get what this comic is trying to say. Haunted Knight includes three unconnected stories happening in Halloween; non of them has a particularly satisfying conclusion, and they aren't particularly entertaining either. The conclusion of this story was Bruce deciding to open Wayne Foundation (but didn't that exist already? What was the function at the beginning of the story for then?) and giving children candy for Halloween. Fans of the Caped crusader can find many good stories. Some short, while some take you on a long journey before they finally conclude their run. Many of them i like. There are some stories though, that i don't like..but i love.

Ghosts" is a Batman universe version of A Christmas Carol, with Bruce's father Thomas Wayne taking the place of Jacob Marley, and the three spirits being Poison Ivy (the Ghost of Christmas Past), the Joker (the Ghost of Christmas Present), and a Grim Reaper figure (the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come) who turns out to be Batman's ghost. The message from the spirits is that Bruce should not let Batman take over his entire life. This was by far my favorite of the three and it also made me tear up a bit (can you tell I'm a sappy bitch). I know we've been the horse of Bruce's parents dying to death (like, literally) but I can never get enough of it. I like that we learn the new information that Bruce was reading A Christmas Carol with his mom on that fatal night they went out to watch Zorro in cinema. Also, Alfred is ma boy! <3

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Monumental tomo que incluye las cuatro obras ya clásicas del cannon batman realizadas por Loeb y Sale: Batman: Madness takes place during Batman's early vigilante career. The Mad Hatter abducts a teenager Barbara Gordon – new to Gotham City and traps her in a house filled with his warped Wonderland obsession. It is up to Batman to rescue her and to restore a relationship of a returning James Gordon. This is not your traditional super-hero story. The Long Halloween is a realistic, noir, murder-mystery story about a killer the media calls Holiday who hits his preys on holidays. It is the best Batman story I have a ever read. Like Mr. Christopher Nolan said, it’s not only a comic book, it’s an epic tragedy, the crime drama of the century. There are many twists and turns, the reader is always left to guess who Holiday really is and it is beautifully told and drawn. Any fan of books in general should read this. It is a masterpiece. No wonder it’s a modern classic. It started with the Penguin coming uninvited to one of Bruce's parties to rob the rich of their riches. After the Batman captured the Penguin, the Penguin was never heard of again throughout the story. Okaaay....

In our first and longest story, "Fears," Scarecrow wreaks havoc on Gotham night after night — while a new woman in Bruce Wayne’s life causes him to question everything about his responsibilities toward his city. Una obra clásica que ha influenciado a las adaptaciones del murciélago en el cine, se ve que El caballero oscuro y The batman maman bastante de estos cómics. The third and final story was my personal favorite "Ghosts" as it recreates the Christmas Carol, with Bruce Wayne as Scrooge; Thomas Wayne is the Ghost of Jacob Marley and Poison Ivy as Ghost of Christmas Past, Joker as Christmas Present and finally Batman as Christtmas Future. Well done! Films that incorporate holidays into their stories are typically meant to tap into a collective seasonal feeling, with the narrative’s biggest impact arriving while the real-life festivities are at their crest. People who enjoy films like National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation at Christmas may still find it funny in June, but it doesn’t hit the same way it does for people who are actively in the midst of stressing out about buying presents and spending time with extended family.

And we know at this moment that all this is Bruce's dream which is reflection of his own inner self so there Bruce try to defend his father (actually his own guilt) so all this was so depressing for me to read. But to be fair, among the many (failed) themes of this story, one of them was actually well done. It centered around Bruce's dilemma about Batman being something he must do. At first, he saw Batman as his obligation to the world, as if it was something he had to do. But at the conclusion of the story, Bruce realized that Batman was a choice that he made and he didn't regret it. What made this story stand out was the elaboration on how the Mad Hatter was such a disturbing character. I quote the Batman: "In taking his identity from Alice in Wonderland, Jervis Tetch unknowingly perverts a happy childhood memory."