Title: THE DARK KNIGHT FALLS (FLAT ON HIS FACE)...
Product review: Having finished the third installment of Miller's latest epic,I have to agree with the consensus of others who read it...it was a lot of hope that turned into hype. To his credit, Miller didn't go the safe route with Batman and decided to take some chances. The problem was that in the original "Dark Knight Returns", Batman was true to his roots, which hooked readers for 60 years plus. In DK2, he comes off at times as a bad borscht belt comedian, especially with his dealings with Dick Grayson in volume three. And what does he have against the original Robin and Superman (he gets the super snot beated out of him yet again)? It made me appreciate Klaus Janson's inking of the original series (background detail is all but eliminated in DK2), and the presence of Denny O'Neil's editing is sorely missed. DK2 is proof that sometimes you can't catch lightning in a bottle...
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