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BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT #16
• Welcome new series artist Ethan Van Sciver!
• Do you dare journey into the twisted world of the Mad Hatter?
• Batman has discovered a trail of bodies but no leads as he realizes that this is unlike any Mad Hatter case he’s seen before.
Written by Gregg HurwitzArt & Cover by Ethan Van Sciver
Price: $2.99
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I’ll see of Van Sciver can make this tolerable.
I thought most bat-fans quite liked the book since Hurwitz came on?
Yeah, the writing has really improved since Hurwitz came on. But very sad to see David Finch leave the art duties. At least I will still see him over on JLA.
I wanted to drop this after the Scarecrow arc. Great art( The Scarecrow looked freaky) but a boring story. Hopefully this will new arc will change that.
That story did seem to drag on for too long. I looked back and it was only 5 issues. But 5 issues in real time is 5 months, Lol.
Yes the last arc was pretty damn lame towards the finish…
I think I just jumped back onto this book.
The ‘piano’ scene was truly wonderful in this one.
Van Sciver outdid himself there. OK, the Batplane being driven through the street was a great set-piece and the shot of Bats chucking all those batarangs was totally badass, but the piano scene, with its gentle, Human frailty, was the highlight of this issue.
Art-wise, that has to be one of my favorite Batman sequences from The New 52 so far. Other highlights include:
– The twisting-turning, drug induced labyrinth in Batman 5.
– Leviathan’s inescapable death-trap of a base in Batman Inc 6.
– Batman stealing Hal’s ring in Justice League 1.
Great issue. Always liked The Hatter as a bizarre, yet genuinely threatening, villain.
A Hatter-related side note: I don’t like it when writers make him a pedophile (or heavily imply that he is one), because
a) I don’t like to read stories about that stuff and
b) I don’t think that fits with his psychology.
His mind was swallowed up in a childish fantasy world, he is more like a spoiled child with a gun (who has, amongst other things, a pet monkey and hats that make people do his bidding) than a child molester. I just don’t buy that line for the same reason that I always maintained Michael Jackson was innocent (but that’s a rant for another time).
Still, so far the only Hatter moment in the New 52 (that I can think of) was his appearance in ‘Legends of The Dark Knight’ 2 (or was it 3?) where he was Joker’s hostage. He wasn’t even featured in the first part of Batman 1 with the other villains (as far as I can remember). This will be a nice reintroduction for the character. I’m looking forward to the rest of the story.
This was just okay for me. Nothing too special. Van Sciver is a good artist but then again so was Finch. I am interested to see what Bruce’s girlfriend really knows.
It was like reading Batman written by John Grisham or Dean Koontz or some other hack. Just bad.
I can’t get over how awesome Ethan Van Sciver’s artwork is in this issue. His interpretation of the Mad Hatter is amazing; that wandering eye… dont you feel like reaching out into the page and setting it straight?
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In the last panel, it felt as if he was coming to get me. That freaked me out big time.
I thought this book was quite good overall. The mad hatter is really one bad ass, “Can I have my stool” then climbs up and pokes the poor guys eyes out. Oh the horror.
I really enjoyed this issue too. As sad as I was to see Finch leave I really love Sciver’s work too. It seems they are trying to keep top notch artists on this book which is good.