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BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #2

Batman faces the Penguin in the search for his childhood friend Dawn Golden…but what The Dark Knight finds sends him on a far darker and more desperate path. Now he’s forced to reach out to Etrigan, the Demon for help – a favor that may come at too high a price!

Written by DAVID FINCH
Art by DAVID FINCH & SCOTT WILLIAMS
Cover by DAVID FINCH
Variant cover by ANDY CLARK

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  1. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 21, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    very nice! I kind of wish the coloring didn’t ruin his pencils.

  2. Avatar photo olliejudge says:
    March 21, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    Freaking finally, been waiting for this for months

  3. Avatar photo torippu says:
    March 21, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    If this would have shipped on time, I may have picked it up. Now that it is so late, it will stay on the shelf until I have a light week.

  4. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    March 21, 2011 at 7:15 pm

    Finally.  I wonder if this will only make it to #20 or so like Streets Of Gotham?

  5. Avatar photo TexasZombie99 says:
    March 21, 2011 at 7:46 pm

    I enjoyed the first issue…however, I’m going to have to dig into my box to reread issue #1 again to remember what happened.

  6. Avatar photo Andrew says:
    March 21, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    @robbydzwonar  Frankly, I think that’s an optimistically high number.

  7. Avatar photo WilliamKScurryJr says:
    March 21, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    What happened here? Did this series switch to a “Planetary” schedule?

  8. Avatar photo Smutty says:
    March 22, 2011 at 6:59 am

    First issue was pretty cool, but this isn’t the kind of book I can be bothered waiting months for.

  9. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 22, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    They should just release his pencils without the color. The color ruins Finch’s art.

  10. Avatar photo RolandofGilead says:
    March 22, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    @AmirCat  I totally see this as a black & white hc.

  11. Avatar photo Urthona says:
    March 22, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    You had me with “Penguin”.

  12. Avatar photo Jeff Reid (@JeffRReid) says:
    March 22, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    If I hadn’t preordered this one, I wouldn’t be picking it up. A book that’s already this delayed and is set entirely in its own little corner makes me want to read it in trade, not wait three months for the next issue.

  13. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    March 23, 2011 at 12:34 am

    I’m down for this.  I don’t know how much more interested I will be when the story turns focus to this Etrigan Demon fellow, but the Penguin is enough to keep me on for now…

  14. MisterJ says:
    March 23, 2011 at 12:38 am

    @JeffR  Pretty much exactly how I feel

  15. Avatar photo WheelHands says:
    March 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm

    Still not sure what to make of the story so far. I like the black magic angle Finch seems to be taking, but I have no idea where he’s going with this.

    But that doesn’t really matter, because these visual are bonerrific! His Batman is reminiscent of Jim Lee in all the right ways, while still maintaining all the good bits that make him such a big artist. His faces used to all look the same, but he’s grown tremendously in the last few years. Not a big fan of his Penguin though. I’m all for artistic liberties, but it’s like a Sam Keith character wandered into the wrong book. It just doesn’t fit.

    How bout that ricochet tripline gadget? Pretty sure it’s impossible, but damn it was cool.

  16. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    March 23, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    Yeah I’m loving the art in this but I’m not loving the story as much…..maybe the conclusion to the arc will change my mind.

  17. Avatar photo Franktiger says:
    March 24, 2011 at 9:15 am
    The art was good, the Jim Lee comparisons are there, but I’d say Finch has some Kubert and McFarlane in him too.  I’ve never seen Penguin done this way, I’ll give him credit for that, but I think this was poorly written.
  18. Avatar photo ericmci says:
    March 24, 2011 at 9:03 pm

    Amazing- really.

    Look at that image and tell me it’s not appropriate humor.

    batman isn’t looking at her eyes- or her face or Anything else.

    The artist is purposefully directing your attention – for a reason.

    The idea that super hero comics in general are filled with sexual images and over the top innuendo
    but yet the comic fanboy community acts like over protective big brothers of little sisters who would never consider such blashphemy-

    Weird.

  19. Avatar photo nightwalker says:
    March 24, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    these bat titles are now decadent in totality. B&R is lackluster after Grant, “Batman” is weak, Confidental and Streets got what they deserved, INC is too delayed and this, this is just over the top delayed and irrelevant.
    this coming from a huge bat fan.

  20. Avatar photo GloriousGodfrey says:
    March 25, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    this series somehow feels really dated and out of touch to me. something 90s-ish about it.

  21. Avatar photo PV says:
    March 25, 2011 at 10:06 pm

    As much as I love any appearance of Etrigan, narratively this issue is a bit of a mess. Too much at once, no real flow.

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