Last Knight Till the Next Last Knight
Reviewing Batman: Last Knight on Earth #3
This really should have been four issues. Maybe more. Just not only three. When double sized issues feel like they come up short, there’s a problem. This story needed more time to flush out, and DC should have allowed that to happen.
Batman: Last Knight On Earth hits most marks as one of those future (often dystonian) “The End” books Marvel and DC occasionally put out for their intellectual properties. Specifically, it seemed to be the writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo’s capstone to their run on Batman. I was enjoying this series up to getting the third issue.
I was late in getting it, but I have gotten really good at avoiding spoilers. I appreciated what seemed to be a steady build up to whatever Batman’s last case (in Snyder’s world) before he died and a Bruce Wayne clone was created to set the world right.
Oh, yeah, spoilers.
When I got to the second page, of issue #3, I had to go, Really? Three issues in of a three-issue series, and the revelation of Batman’s last case ever is not in a multiple-page reveal, but a exposition dump at the bottom of page two?
