Batman: Damned

When the OG Batman damned was printed, there was a panel where Batman was hanging dong and then some parents probably got upset, complained and had the publishers removed the infamous Bat-Dong from the panel and I was hoping this was one of those copies. It was not. Still very good condition 👌

This book is scary! The details are amazing the illustrations are phenomenal. Best Batman book I have read in a while.

Item arrived timely and in good condition,

Only gripe I have with this book is the text is hard to read at times. I believe better font choices would have made this much more enjoyable.The story keeps you thinking the whole time and the art is so great it should be in a gallery.

Great art ,unique story .. loved this !

Great

I see that this one is a little divisive in the fact that so much is left to interpretation. Without going into spoiler territory, this is best looked at as a character study on Bruce Wayne/Batman with some different elements than what we are used to. This is not a book to blast through, but it is one to look at the meaning behind the panels (believe me, it will be hard to speed through these extremely well drawn panels). Again this is not a book for everyone, but if you come into it with the right mindset you're in for a visual and prolific experience. I know that I would be happy to revisit it.As far as the actual product goes, this is a very wide book as far as comics go. If you're a collector like myself, be ready for that.

Get this for the art, and the tone, both of which are incredible. Imagine Norman Rockwell meets Sin City.As far as the story (if you can call it that,) I'm not even really sure there's a coherent story here. Or maybe I'm just the kind of guy that needs to be spoon fed. But when I finish a graphic novel and can't even really tell you what the plot or the protagonist's goal was, I think it's an issue of author clarity more so than reader comprehension.Batman is investigating... something? Joker I guess? Not really sure what he's trying to learn. But he just kind of bounces around Gotham vaguely questioning people. It ultimately leads nowhere really and the ending is ambiguous. Honestly I got the feeling that the "plot" was really just a backdrop over which to feature Bruce's relentless psychological torment, and edgy internal dialogue, which take center stage throughout the entire novel. Interesting character work here, and a unique take on Batman/Bruce, but again, not really a story.One pet peeve I had is that characters repeatedly just so happen to show up in the right places at the right times, with no explanation of why they're there, or how they somehow knew Batman would be. There's one graveyard scene in particular in which multiple characters converge, with no explanation whatsoever of why any of them are there, and it's absolutely critical to this story that one of them in particular is here. Needless to say, the contrivance was blatant.Overall a good read. Incredible art, style, and tone. And a uniquely dark, gritty take on Batman/Bruce.