Jesus, comics sucked in the 90s, which is weird because that is when I got interested in them. The plot of Knightfall is fairly simple: DC just made a ton of money by "killing" Superman, so they decided to break Batman's back to get real paid again. The real plot is Bane, a character made up for this story, decides for some reason he hates Batman and wants to break him by busting out every criminal in Arkham. So Batman gets way tired fighting them and then Bane breaks his back the end (or is it). I hate that they made up this awful Deus Ex Machina in the character of Bane, somebody who Batman is immediately terrified of and somebody who is automatically smarter and stronger than Batman. Why not just have some established character be the big bad? That would take too much effort? I also hate the art and writing.RATING: 23%
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I'll tell you what's worse. The way Bane was handled in the movie Batman and Robin. Check that. The way EVERYTHING was handled in that piece of garbage.
I used to get Archie and Veronica comics all the time when I was a little girl. Is there a day of week when new ones are issued? Is it Friday?
Wednesday is comic book day, although I don't know for sure if Archie comics come out then or on a different day.
For some reason, I'm thinking Tuesday and Friday.
Timmaaay!!! is soooo very right.
How is Kane any different from the badass leader of the Mutants in The Dark Knight Returns? BO!
fuck off anonamouse you suck
The Mutant Leader and Bane are hardly the same character. Bane was created in a miniseries (Vengeance of Bane) by Chuck Dixon for the sole purpose of being the villain wwho would break Batman's back. Frank Miller created the Mutant Leader to demonstrate the deterioration of society without a moral compass. The Mutant Leader was *tough*, but he wasn't smart. Bane was tough, smart, a tactical genius, and refined. He was an unbelievably impossible foe. Although perhaps his reliance on the drug venom is an interesting callback to Batman's brief addiction found in the storyline Batman: Venom written by the early Modern Age writer Dennis O'Neal. Regardless, the Mutant Leader serves a much more noble narrative purpose than Bane, in any respect.
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