Batman Knightfall Review (Canon Read Through #39)

[Deffinition]

My Indepth review of Batman Knightfall.

A story in which Bane breaks Batmans back and we see the end of Bruce Wayne for a LONG period in the comics.

Does the book still hold up? Check out my review below to find out!

Batman Knightfall Review

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[thefiresky]

This book is 24 years old.

[AzraelOnline]

Yea, I don't see why doing a review of a story arc from the mid-90's is relevant. It's especially difficult to read reviews or after thoughts so many years later by the writers here at CBR who do nothing but pick at the art and arc, putting their 'opinion' that characters were hated at the time when they weren't and feeling that newer stories are superior. There really is no writer who can stand up to what Dennis O'Neil did in his time.
Also, just because Bane is used in one of he popular Nolan films (which is an abortion) doesn't mean it should be referenced here, same with John Blake who has absolutely nothing to do with this arc, just a character Nolan made up. As for the identity, like with the Joker that's something that means less to Bane because it's about beating him, the hunt. Not exposing.
Knightfall was the first big cross title story arc that DC did of this nature, and it was one he said they didn't want to do again...but then they did No Man's Land which was really more of a mess. In regards to your comment of not recommending sitting down and reading such a large arc at once - neither did readers when this was happening, it was pretty much released one part a week, which made it easier to digest. O'Neil and company scripted this all out meticulously and made sure that there weren't any errors.

[Deffinition]

Yea, I don't see why doing a review of a story arc from the mid-90's is relevant. It's especially difficult to read reviews or after thoughts so many years later by the writers here at CBR who do nothing but pick at the art and arc, putting their 'opinion' that characters were hated at the time when they weren't and feeling that newer stories are superior. There really is no writer who can stand up to what Dennis O'Neil did in his time.
Also, just because Bane is used in one of he popular Nolan films (which is an abortion) doesn't mean it should be referenced here, same with John Blake who has absolutely nothing to do with this arc, just a character Nolan made up. As for the identity, like with the Joker that's something that means less to Bane because it's about beating him, the hunt. Not exposing.
Knightfall was the first big cross title story arc that DC did of this nature, and it was one he said they didn't want to do again...but then they did No Man's Land which was really more of a mess. In regards to your comment of not recommending sitting down and reading such a large arc at once - neither did readers when this was happening, it was pretty much released one part a week, which made it easier to digest. O'Neil and company scripted this all out meticulously and made sure that there weren't any errors.

1. Because I'm doing a read through of Batman Graphic Novels
2. Bane should be mentioned here because this is the source material in which the movie was based on, I mentioned John Blake due to the similarity of how they discovered Bruce Wayne Was Batman
3. I cant travel back in time and read such a large arc week by week, it is collected now so I would not recommend reading it in one go

[Kingcrimsonprog]

Yea, I don't see why doing a review of a story arc from the mid-90's is relevant. It's especially difficult to read reviews or after thoughts so many years later by the writers here at CBR who do nothing but pick at the art and arc, putting their 'opinion' that characters were hated at the time when they weren't and feeling that newer stories are superior. There really is no writer who can stand up to what Dennis O'Neil did in his time.
Also, just because Bane is used in one of he popular Nolan films (which is an abortion) doesn't mean it should be referenced here, same with John Blake who has absolutely nothing to do with this arc, just a character Nolan made up. As for the identity, like with the Joker that's something that means less to Bane because it's about beating him, the hunt. Not exposing.
Knightfall was the first big cross title story arc that DC did of this nature, and it was one he said they didn't want to do again...but then they did No Man's Land which was really more of a mess. In regards to your comment of not recommending sitting down and reading such a large arc at once - neither did readers when this was happening, it was pretty much released one part a week, which made it easier to digest. O'Neil and company scripted this all out meticulously and made sure that there weren't any errors.

I don't know about you, but I enjoyed the review.

[Darkseid Is]

I like Knightfall. It was one of the first series of books I read when I got into comics back in the early to mid 2000s. I could never find the trade (if one even existed back then) so I would go and hunt for the individual issues at comic stores and cons. So much fun.

I always thought Bane was really interesting but I thought his motivations were kind of weak. Why was it so important to him to defeat Batman? Because he had a dream about fighting a bat? Vengence of Bane II is fun if you ever get around to reading that one.

[JBatmanFan05]

Unlike the Spidey 90s Clone saga, the Knightfall saga and Death of Superman saga are fun reads. They're long, but not mindnumbingly long.

My custom binds (which the new and coming Omnibi will mostly end up matching) of Knightfall are just such a full fun super serial comic reading experience. Different writers and artists, all telling one long story. And it was headline material, the main stuff in Batman's world and life. Not like today with mostly inconsequential meh Eternals with lesser talents.

Knightfall was like if Tom King and Scott Snyder and Tim Seeley and artists like Janin and Finch and Romita and Jock and etc did a years long numbered Batman event. And when I think of how fun such serial events were in retrospect, especially compared to what we read nowadays, I wish we might see a couple more long serial main events like that.

But Knightfall was Wrestlemania fun, Die Hard fun. Lots of action, lots of characters, good characterization. Azrael vs Bane was an extraordinary battle, one of the best ones in comics just for how long it was and the dramatic hype for it. All of the Batman rogues were in top form. Dixon and Moench and Denny and Alan Grant were a dream team in retrospect, such talented veteran comic talent.

[darkseidpwns]

This book is 24 years old.

So are most of the best Batman stories tbh, a true classic will be getting reviewed every now and then, no foul.

[Adset]

i love these types of reviews. back before these forums reset there were a bunch of these on the classic comics forum.

please continue!

[SicariiDC]

Knightfall is what got me started in the ****. I started reading it again but got distracted