Batman is making his way to the end of his Knightmares, but his unseen enemy has a few more tricks up his sleeve. It’s time once again to stick a knife into the Caped Crusader’s broken heart, letting the groom-that-could-have-been peer in on the bac…
Batman is making his way to the end of his Knightmares, but his unseen enemy has a few more tricks up his sleeve. It’s time once again to stick a knife into the Caped Crusader’s broken heart, letting the groom-that-could-have-been peer in on the bachelorette (or should that be “Catchelorette”?) party that never was. Artist Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn) rejoins the Bat-family for this month’s special story—because who else you gonna invite to a shindig like this?
Batman #68 is an affront to every batman and comic reader in general who expects quality for their money. This book blows in ways I didn’t think imaginable. The art, writing and overall characterizations are abject failures in this issue. Whoever thought putting Archie style artist Amanda Conner on DC Comics flagship book Batman, needs to be made an example of soon. This issue furthers the divide between DC Comics and their readers and will cost the publisher many readers.
Lois Lane, Salina Kyle, Kara Zor-El, Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent are all characterized terribly throughout the book and there is not one appearance of Batman in his own title. Batman dropped below 90 thousand issues shipped in February. If you compare that to the 120 thousand shipped for issue 49, its a 25% drop in 8 short months. Batman has no chance at shipping over 100 thousand issues until it removes Tom King or hits issue 100.
The industry is in trouble and seeing DC release an issue of its flagship product like this is downright depressing. It’s clear Dan Didio, Jim Lee and Tom King give could care less about putting out a quality Batman product or trying to retain their audience. Batman has shed a ton of fans under Tom King and after reading this why would readers come back? DC Comics needs to be doubling down on quality now more than ever, yet this is what a Batman comic looks like in current year.
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