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Tim Sale, | 400 pages | 25 Feb 2014 | DC Comics | 9781401244019 | English | United States Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb

Batman: Dark Victory. Batman: Dark Victory Review. Does the follow-up to The Long Halloween fall flat on its ? Batman: Dark Victory is a far better book when its predecessor, The Long Halloweenis fresh in the mind. Alone or at least distanced from Batman: Dark Victory Halloween the sequel appears like a slightly less-effective continuation of the original. In some ways, it feels much more like your standard Batman tale, simply for the fact that many of the players seem to have fallen easily into familiar roles. When considered as the second half of a two-volume set fitting with Two-Face as the central characterwriter Jeph Loeb's brilliance shines through. There is hardly any in this book, because Bruce Wayne is slipping away and Batman is taking over. This is Batman: Dark Victory truly noticeable with Long Halloween recently read, because the contrast in the two books is quite stark. Harvey Dent goes away and so does Bruce Wayne. Each man is split in two, but Batman: Dark Victory masked side is far more dominant. The believed identity of the holiday killer from the first book never sat well with Batman and so when a new spree of holiday-theme murders begin, the Dark Knight suddenly has two cases to solve. First Batman: Dark Victory must figure out who is killing police officers connected with Harvey Dent and why and then attempt to uncover the true identity of Holiday or at least confirm the original findings. It's possible both killers are one in the same, but increasingly unlikely and with Batman's Rogues Gallery out in full force, the Bat has his hands full once again. The effects of Harvey's transformation have never really seemed personal in the Batman books before. This time they are. In fact, it's almost as if Batman has Batman: Dark Victory a brother to go along with his fallen parents. Batman: Dark Victory defiant loner who needs no one's help is born here Batman: Dark Victory the reasoning goes much deeper than just an oath sworn on his parents' grave. Dark Victory is not quite as good as The Long Halloweenbut it would be almost impossible to accomplish such a feat. It's too heavily dependant on the original to stand on its own. But it's hard to think of a follow-up in comics equal to this. It's not just that the sequel is good, but it uses the events of the original to further explore the psychological makeup of the Dark Knight. While Dark Batman: Dark Victory doesn't add Batman: Dark Victory new light to the original something it tries to doit does add new context to the Batman we all know and love. If you hated Long Halloweenthere's nothing here for you, but if you loved the original, then this follow-up is a Batman: Dark Victory. Was this article informative? YES NO. In This Article. Summary: Once a town controlled by organized crime, City suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, such as , Mr. Freeze, and the . Witnessing his city's dark evolution, the Dark Knight completes his transformation into the city's greatest defender. Platforms: Print. Publishers: DC Comics. Batman: Dark Victory Date: October 1, IGN Logo Recommends. Batman: Dark Victory - Wikipedia

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge Batman: Dark Victory. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Batman: Dark Victory See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Batman by Jeph Loeb. Tim Sale Illustrator. Once a town controlled by organized crime, suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, Batman: Dark Victory as Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and . Witnessing his city's dark evolution, the Dark Knight completes his transformation into the city's greatest defender. He faces multiple threats, including the apparent return of a serial killer called Holiday. Batman's previous investigation of Holiday's killings revealed that more than one person was responsible for the murders. So the remains: who is committing Holiday's crimes this time? And how many will Batman: Dark Victory before Batman learns Batman: Dark Victory truth? This volume collects Batman: Dark Victory Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Batman: Dark Victory 0. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Batmanplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Batman: Dark Victory. Mar 16, Dan Schwent rated it really liked it Shelves:comics. A year after Holiday was brought to justice, a new killer haunts the nights of Gotham City. The Hangman is killing cops, cops that seem to be linked to Harvey Dent in some way. Is Harvey Dent The Hangman? Dark Victory and The Long Halloween share a similar structure. The Hangman only strikes on holidays. Each issue is centered around a differe A year after Holiday was brought to justice, a new killer haunts the nights of Gotham City. Each issue is centered around a different murder. Batman and race Batman: Dark Victory catch the Hangman before their heads wind up in nooses. Meanwhile, on the periphery of the case, Holiday is out on bail and something is brewing in the Gotham Underworld. To be honest, it felt like a retread of The Long Halloween for a while. Not bad but not really anything new. However, once the Batman: Dark Victory wrinkle of some shady shit going down at the Haly Circus surfaced, I was all in. I've had a lot of favorite comic characters in the past four decades but was the first. While I normally don't like retellings of characters origins, I enjoyed Loeb and Sale's take on Robin's origin quite a bit and it fit seamlessly with the rest of the day. The conflicted relationship between Harvey Dent and his former friends drove the rest of the book very well. I complain quite a bit about decompression in today's comics but it works great when Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale use it to tell a slow-burning mystery like The Batman: Dark Victory Halloween or Dark Victory. Just like the Long Halloween, the clues were in place but I missed them. Tim Batman: Dark Victory cartoony, moody art did a great job setting Batman: Dark Victory tone, although I don't care for his Joker or Scarecrow. Loeb and Sale do a great Batman, too, complete with Conroy voice in my head. Four out of five Batarangs. Aaand with this the long Halloween sequel comes to an end! View 2 comments. Apr 23, Mizuki rated it it was amazing Shelves: greatwish-i-could-write-like-thiscomic. Rating: countless-god-damn-Batman-stars. I have so much love for this glorious volume and its prequel, Batman: The Long Halloween. Each of us lost pieces of our lives A world that exists only in darkness? I can tell. You go all rigid when I'm around. Right now. Take off the masks. No Secret. Your Loss. The plot and the murder mystery is more neatly and more skillfully written than The Long Halloween view spoiler [ too many Holiday Killers in one book! It literally is one of the best American comics I've ever read. Though I must admit as much Batman: Dark Victory I like this volume, I still can see how the story borrowed so heavily from the Hollywood crime-noir e. PS: I believe it was during the reading progress of this book, I'd Batman: Dark Victory for the first time when I saw Batman had a freaking dinosaur in his cave! So, okay then. This is the sequel to The Long Halloween which I was not the biggest fan of to begin with. Still, on the enjoyment scale, this one was better. That was Batman: Dark Victory I got to the last two issues. Ironically enough, while The Long Halloween had a rough start but a nonetheless merciful albeit incomplete resolution, Dark Victory managed to get a stronger and more concise beginning but a more frustrating and pointless ending. I don't understand this travesty. The Knightfall series Batman: Dark Victory honestly So, okay then. The Knightfall series is honestly more better written. Well, Loeb's stories should be fundamentally incomparable to Knightfall since Batman: Dark Victory latter after all was written by multiple writers across different Bat-titles. The sole reason I compare them is becauase I was also quite Batman: Dark Victory towards Knightfall but I would pick the omnibus series over either of Loeb's work any day. I don't want to get into details about Dark Victory. Ultimately it's a Batman story that brought no joy or appreciation for me. I thought I could like any kind of Bat-story out there I eventually did warm up to Greg Hurwitz in his Batman: Dark Victory for New 52 The Dark Knight run but Jeph Loeb had officially made me question that reality. I can state from here on out that I don't enjoy the way he writes Batman. There were a few areas that have potentials, most notably for Dark Victory. The central murder mystery story had a better foundation; a series of cop kilings with the murderer pinning notes on the corpses depicting the child's game Hangman as secret messages. At least the victims were sympathetic people and not criminals who are a tad more irredeemable. But the holiday-themed murders were needlessly overplayed like the torture horror of the SAW franchise. Batman spent most of the time blaming himself in his inner monologues about Dent's transformation to Two Face. This would have been acceptable except that I never really saw a friendship developed in the prequel among these three to make the drama and internal conflict believable enough for me to care about. And then there's the women. Every woman is given the roles among grieving spouses, easily manipulated girlfriends and whimsical seductresses-- and with Batman: Dark Victory to no clarification for motivation or pay-off to their arcs whatsoever. Batman: Dark Victory Review - IGN

Batman: Dark Victory is a part American comic book limited series including a 0 issue published by Batman: Dark Victory Comicsfeaturing the Batman. The plot centers on a series of murders involving Gotham City police officers by a mysterious serial killer only known as the Hangman. Central to the storyline is a territory war between Two-Face and the remnants of the Falcone mob, led by Sofia Falcone. The story is also a re-telling of the origins of Batman's sidekick Robin and his adoption by Bruce Batman: Dark Victory. It has been several months after the killer known as " Holiday " was apprehended. Bruce blames himself for letting Harvey go beyond saving and become a villain himself, serving time in Arkham Asylumlike many of the people Dent put there. Batman becomes even more of a loner, refusing Gordon's assistance, and 's. During a visit to Dent's cell, there is a large breakout of most of the inmates of Arkham. Alberto is not one of them. Batman Batman: Dark Victory Sofia Gigante had some hand Batman: Dark Victory the breakout, but she assures him she does not, as since their last visit she now uses Batman: Dark Victory wheelchair and has a brace on her head. Janice Porter allows the release of Alberto to house arrest in his Batman: Dark Victory Mario's custody at their father's old estate. Batman: Dark Victory after his release, Clancy O'Hara 's body is found hanged from the Gotham city bridge, his old patrol. Taped to his chest is a newspaper clipping, headlined "Holiday goes free", with a hangman riddle written on it. Batman interrogates the Riddlerthe only man who Holiday did not kill, but he assures Batman that he has not the faintest idea as to why Holiday did Batman: Dark Victory kill him. In the Falcone estate, Alberto begins to hear his father's voice, telling him to continue his work as the Holiday killer. Soon after the meets with Batman, saying that Batman: Dark Victory killer assumes that another person is playing their twisted game, the corrupt ex-commissioner Gillian B. Loeb is found hanged from his stairs in his mansion, another riddle is on his chest. Later, another hanging, another corrupt officer, Detective Flass is found hanged outside the strip club where he worked as a bouncer. Batman believes that Alberto is the newly dubbed "Hangman" killer, or knows who the person is. He interrogates him, but learns nothing and leaves to search for Harvey Dent. Searching his office, there is an Batman: Dark Victory and Batman loses Two-Face underground. In Gordon's office, he Batman: Dark Victory talking and trying Batman: Dark Victory persuade Janice to accept Batman, and she agrees, as long as he follows the law. Another hanging, Sgt. Pratt with another note on his chest. All of the notes have come from Harvey's old desk as the D. During the "Hangman" killings, Bruce is also struggling with his relationship with Selina Kyle, so much so that she eventually leaves Gotham and only left him a note. Janice Porter has been shown meeting a mysterious man several times throughout the investigation, and it is eventually revealed to be Harvey. Another hanging is found, this time in front of Harvey's old house. Officer Merkel is found with another note on his chest. Harvey, now completely taken over by his darker side, conducts his own investigation throughout the escaped criminals, questioning all of them as to the identity of the Hangman killer. Gordon is almost hanged on the roof of the precinct, but is saved by Two-Face who Batman: Dark Victory the men that he is not the Hangman killer. Multiple attacks on organized crime by the Joker are perpetrated, and he eventually assaults the Falcone estate, attacking the members of the family before being apprehended by Batman. Another hanging is found inside the garage of the precinct. Batman adopts a young as his family is killed during a mob sabotage, and he begins his training to be his partner. During a police raid on the underground hideout of Two-Face, Batman assists Gordon and they eventually catch him. During all of which, Alberto is still hearing his father's voice Batman: Dark Victory him to continue his work. He is eventually pushed to the point of almost committing the murder of his sister, but resists the temptation. Two-Face is put on trial, but escapes when the other criminals assault the court. Another hanging of a police officer, and Two-Face is still the prime suspect. Janice is kidnapped by the Joker and the Scarecrowand when she argues with Two-Face, he kills her. They dump the body into Alberto Falcone's bed, to convince him he killed her. Finally, he breaks the facade and it is revealed that the had secretly placed microphones all over the house and manipulated him. Batman investigates Mario Falcone's penthouse, and is almost hanged but frees himself due to metal braces to protect his neck, and attacks Catwoman. She reveals that she investigated Sofia Gigante, and that she could find no record of her visiting a physical therapist, despite the fact that she uses a wheelchair. After escaping the estate, Sofia and Alberto meet inside the Batman: Dark Victory mausoleum; Batman: Dark Victory smothers him, telling him he is not a real Falcone. At the Batcave, Dick correctly translates the clues left Batman: Dark Victory that they refer to protecting the Falcone crime family, and Batman scrambles to leave. At his hideout, Two-Face is attacked when several explosions rip through his Batman: Dark Victory the criminals attempt to escape when Two- Face is attacked. Finally, the Batman: Dark Victory killer is revealed as Sofia Gigante. She had killed everyone who had helped Harvey to become the District Attorney and further his career, and left clues to make it look like it was him all along. Her final ploy was to pretend to be paraplegic, leaving her as the last suspect. During the ensuing fight, Sofia is shot by Two-Face and Batman gives chase. Dick intervenes, now wearing a uniform as "Robin", and he assists Batman in the recapture of the criminals. Joker shoots Two-Face, and he falls presumably to his death. Mario Falcone, now a broken man, torches his family's estate, leaving his family destroyed. Selina Kyle arrives at Carmine's grave, and confesses the truth that she knows that he Batman: Dark Victory her father, but cannot prove it yet. Two-Face is revealed to have 's body, and it was frozen, presumably, by Mr. Dick takes an oath with Batman in the Batcave to help him in his crusade against Batman: Dark Victory. In the introduction to the trade paperback, Tim Sale states that he was hesitant to join with Jeph Loeb on the project as he did not care for Robin, given his stark contrast to Sale's interpretation of Batman. Loeb, however, insisted that the teaming of the two characters was essential to the story. A major theme of the story concerns how the three protagonists of The Long Halloween now feel alone. Throughout the book Batman struggles with this, his refusal to accept help from Commissioner Gordonas well as with his fear of being wrong, a side-effect of the Scarecrow Batman: Dark Victory fear gas. Catwoman even slaps Batman when he shows no interest in what might happen to Two-Face. Dick Grayson is depicted in the story as Batman: Dark Victory of Bruce Wayne's only anchors left to humanity. Hilary Goldstein of IGN Comics said that " Dark Victory is not quite as good as The Long Halloween " and added that "it's too heavily dependent on the original to stand on its own", but praised how Dark Victory "uses the events of The Long Halloween " to further explore the Batman: Dark Victory makeup of the Dark Knight" and "add[s] new Batman: Dark Victory to the Batman we all know and love. Dave of Comics Bulletin said that Dark Victory "doesn't quite live up to the high standards set by The Long Halloween " but praised "Loeb's note-perfect understanding of what makes the Batman tick" and added that "Tim Sale's artwork also keeps on hitting new highs. Its willingness to let the story go where it needs to in Batman: Dark Victory own time is a godsend", and added that "Tim Sale's depiction of a city at war with itself is one of the freshest views of Gotham we've seen in a long time, while Loeb's storytelling is as fluent as I've come to Batman: Dark Victory from him. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Dorling Kindersley. The superstar team of writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale was back, and just as dark as ever. In this thirteen-issue sequel to the pair's acclaimed Batman: The Long Halloween maxiseries, the creative team picked up right where they left off during Batman's early years. Archived from the original on Retrieved Batman publications and storylines. Robin World's Batman: Dark Victory Comics. Publications are listed alphabetically by published titles. Storylines are listed in publication order. Compiled without respect for canon or "current" continuity. Jeph Loeb. Hidden categories: CS1 maint: Batman: Dark Victory text: authors list Articles needing additional references from February All articles needing additional references Title pop. 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