"I know there's something about me you want.
Each of us lost pieces of our lives.and hid what was left in the dark, is this what I want for myself? A world that exists only in darkness?īatman: Dark Victory continues the story of The Long Halloween, it concludes Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face, it also concludes Bruce Wayne's ill-fated relationship with Selina Kyle, then it introduces Dick Grayson as the first Robin. I have so much love for this glorious volume and its prequel, Batman: The Long Halloween. Loeb and Sale do a great Batman, too, complete with Kevin Conroy voice in my head.Īs far as sequels go, Dark Victory did a great job following up The Long Halloween. Tim Sale's cartoony, moody art did a great job setting the tone, although I don't care for his Joker or Scarecrow. Just like the Long Halloween, the clues were in place but I missed them. I complain quite a bit about decompression in today's comics but it works great when Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale use it to tell a slow-burning mystery like The Long Halloween or Dark Victory. The conflicted relationship between Harvey Dent and his former friends drove the rest of the book very well. While I normally don't like retellings of characters origins, I enjoyed Loeb and Sale's take on Robin's origin quite a bit and it fit seamlessly with the rest of the day. I've had a lot of favorite comic characters in the past four decades but Robin was the first. However, once the added wrinkle of some shady shit going down at the Haly Circus surfaced, I was all in. To be honest, it felt like a retread of The Long Halloween for a while. Meanwhile, on the periphery of the case, Holiday is out on bail and something is brewing in the Gotham Underworld. Batman and James Gordon race to catch the Hangman before their heads wind up in nooses. Each issue is centered around a different murder. Fortunately, I snagged it on the same trade-in deal when I acquired The Long Halloween.ĭark Victory and The Long Halloween share a similar structure. On the heels of Batman: The Long Halloween, I just had to read this. The Hangman is killing cops, cops that seem to be linked to Harvey Dent in some way. A year after Holiday was brought to justice, a new killer haunts the nights of Gotham City.
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