This time Bane personally intervenes, before staging a breakout from Arkham, kicking off Knightfall proper.
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Justice League Task Force #5 Recap
After Knightfall, we move on to the second act – Knightsquest – which is in turn split into two types: The Search and The Crusade. We kick this off with the start of The Search.
Continue readingThis time Azrael gets to fly with the Bat-Family for the first time.
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Batman: Legend of the Dark Knight Annual #3 Recap
It’s time to finally finish up the Bloodlines tie-ins.
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Detective Comics Annual #6 Recap
We continue with Bloodlines and return back to Batman.
Continue readingThis time the writers borrow a bit from two B-Movies to create an engaging side story.
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Robin Annual #2 Recap
Getting back to some of the Bloodlines storyline, to take a bit of a break of the end of the world around me.
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Batman Annual #17 Recap
Continuing with the Bloodlines tie-ins with Batman Annual #17, which is much more clearly with Jean-Paul in The Suit.
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Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #1 Recap
Before we get into Knightquest, we have an event that I’d like to go through first – the tie-in issues to the Bloodlines annual event, as they’re generally set more or less around this time (with some overlap with the end of Knightfall).
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How Do You Hide a Debt Crisis from Shareholders?
It’s interesting how different aspects of geekdom’s failure to interact can lead to people grabbing into smaller parts of a larger, more interesting picture. (Note – this started as a series of tweets that I’ve tweaked somewhat)
Continue readingThis time we encounter a couple villains with really stupid costumes.
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Batman #500 Recap
We now come to the final issue of Knightfall (but not the Knightfall Saga), and the unveiling of Azrael-Batman (or AzBat).
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Detective Comics #666 Recap
In the Detective Comics’ Issue of the Beast, sacrifice isn’t going on tonight – but hell and fire are sworn to be released.
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Batman #499 Recap
We continue in the wake of Jack Drake and Chandra Kinsolving being kidnapped.
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Detective Comics #665 Recap
We start the wrap up of the first act of the Knightfall Saga – in terms of Knightfall itself – as Jean-Paul Valley/Batman II gets ready to take on Bane.
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Shadow of the Bat #18 Recap
Scarecrow wants to become a God – we’ll see what the new Dark Knight has to think about it.
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Shadow of the Bat #17 Recap
Batman II, you’re taking on Scarecrow – hope you sur-wait, I’ve just been informed that’s the wrong franchise. Crap.
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Shadow of the Bat #16 Recap
Last time, Jean-Paul Valley took on the Mantle of the Bat. This time he takes on his first member of the Rogue’s Gallery.
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Batman #498 Recap
When we last left off, Bruce Wayne had just regained consciousness after his beating at the hands of Bane.
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Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightfall Prelude Act 2 – Return of Black Mask
We start a small series of side-stories building up to the main event, with this time pitting Batman against Black Mask, and remember the career of Denny O’Neil.
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Showcase ‘93 #8 Recap
We conclude our flashback with the Sham Trial of Batman.
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Showcase ‘93 #7 Recap
While we wait for the drug to take effect on Bruce, let’s have a flashback into earlier in the breakout.
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Detective Comics #664 Recap
Now it’s time to come to the aftermath of Batman’s brutal beating at the hands of Bane.
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Batman #497 Recap
It’s has very much all come down to this – Batman vs. Bane.
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