Quote Originally Posted by Clark_Kent View Post
I didn't like this at all (well...I guess the art was nice in places). "Would mother and father have been proud?" is just too cheesy. Batman doesn't have to be dark all the time, but this was too far in the other direction. It read poorly. Perhaps his thoughts would have come off better if they'd been inner monologue instead ("I hope mother & father would have approved...perhaps this is a good way to die" -- something like that).

I'll check out issue 2, but so far I'm not seeing what's so great about King.
Yeah, nice to see I'm not the only one that felt this way.

I'm all for a less-dark, more-light Batman -- that's not the issue. It's the way Batman needed Alfred to co-sign on this shit, at like, the worst time. I agree, an inner-monologue would have been better -- that would have felt more like Batman to me.