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Batman: Dark Victory Free FREE BATMAN: DARK VICTORY PDF Tim Sale,Jeph Loeb | 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 face? 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 key 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 Bruce Wayne 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, Gotham City suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, such as Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and the Joker. 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, Gotham City suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, Batman: Dark Victory as Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and the Joker. 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 question 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 James Gordon 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 Robin 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 Kevin 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. The Godfather 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.
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