Riddler: "You look around here these days, it's all different. It's all changed. The Joker's killing people, for God's sake! Did I miss something? Was I away when they changed the rules?"

Un)Surprisingly, Batman himself in one chapter. After locating Joe Chill, the man who killed his parents, Batman stalks him for several nights. Then Batman, the man who swore never to commit murder, drove Chill to suicide! No wonder so many Batman villains are nuts. Sane people don't last long enough. The sheer fanaticism of the man in pursuit of his twisted "ecological" goals is frightening. We are talking about a man who cheerfully supported the Holocaust. Worse, we are talking about a man who not only allowed his daughter to be put in a concentration camp, he actually showed up at the camp to talk to her, dismiss her begging for salvation for herself or at least her children, and explicitly state that this is necessary. Both to cull humanity's numbers, and because she dared to not agree with his genocidal plans.Batman: City of Crime, by David Lapham, Ramon Bachs, and Nathan Massengill, follows Bruce Wayne as he investigates the disappearance of a young girl in Gotham City. This leads him to untangle a whole conspiracy among the elites of Gotham who have been replaced by The Body, soil-made beings who have been taking over the city for years. To add more fuel to the fire. Here's the legendary image that might be a good way (in the victim's perspective) to show how horrifying he is. Definitely a hideous sight before one's demise. Here's the link. ◊

As the sample spread shows, Hampton has a great eye for a spectacular image, here toying with Batman’s gothic sensibilities, but his art isn’t entirely successful. He works in dark tones to accentuate the topic, but in the early scenes that works against clarity when illustrating conversation scenes, which can disappear into the murk. In these scenes the painting often also works as a finely composed individual image, but doesn’t always hang together as part of a story sequence. This isn’t helped by a stylistic device of large gaps between some panels, which may be intended to emphasise a point, but slow the story down. The main problem with The Dark Knight Strikes Again is that it doesn't live up to the expectations set by its predecessor. It tries to replicate its emotionally charged formula, but it comes across almost as a parody of Miller's hard-boiled writing style. It was executed so carelessly that the fandom prefers to ignore it. The Penguin. Yes, laugh at the fat ugly man with the pointy nose. He will use his virtually unlimited connections in the Wretched Hive that is Gotham to systematically ruin your life until you succumb to despair and kill yourself. A chef found that out the hard way . Even worse, the chef may not even have been laughing at Penguin, but that didn't matter to the Penguin. Someone laughed in his general direction, and so that person needed to not just die, but be broken entirely in the process.TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.