GFF Comic Book Club

Originally Posted by Vemp

I recently saw Dark Knight Returns, and that made me want to check Knightfall and No Man's Land.

Skip both of these and find a copy of Son Of The Demon or The Long Halloween.

(Knightfall was especially bad.)

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Originally Posted by Vemp

I heard Knightfall was really bad, that's why I haven't touched it for the longest time.

Its not bad in the way that its written for idiots. But it suffers from that very 1990s mantra of writing: escalation, unnecessary and oft unwarranted drama, etc. It more or less hits the same notes as the Death Of Superman stuff (which was at least affecting symbolically) and the much better (though I can't explain why) Emerald Twililght run on Green Lantern from 48 to 50.

Originally Posted by Vemp

Can you recommend any good books that shows the Batman/Bane relationship?

I don't think one exists. Bane is the most 1990s comic character made. But, yeah, if you needed to know about Bane, I guess Knightfall is it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.