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15 Years of Coverage (2010-2025)
Legends of the Dark Knight
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Legends of the Dark Knight is a series most Batman fans know and love. It’s a chance for a variety of writers and teams to step in and tell a story about their Batman. In issue #4 Stephanie Phillips gets to do just that. She takes Batman deep into a mystery set in both Gotham’s…
Legends of the Dark Knight was relaunched in December, 2012 as a Digital First title made up of self-contained stories by an ever-changing roster of talented writers and artists. Since it's an anthology series, you can expect a great deal of variety in tone and style but that also means you will see a frequent…
While the monthly print issues of Legends of the Dark Knight may have ended, the series lives on in weekly digital installments and the quarterly "100-Page Super Spectacular." The latest Super Spectacular collects digital chapters #38-40, #51, #53-55, and #59-60. It'll set you back $10 bucks, but it packs plenty of content to make it…
Legends of the Dark Knight is back and it's bigger than ever, but bigger doesn't necessarily mean better so we still need to review it, right? The "Super Spectacular" continues where the last issue of the comic anthology series left off back in October. Only the page count and price tag have changed. It's still…
Legends of the Dark Knight is dead. Long live Legends of the Dark Knight! Issue #13 might be the end of the series as we know it (monthly and at a price of $3.99) but it will return in December as the Legends of the Dark Knight 100-Page Super Spectacular, a bi-monthly comic that's extra-sized…
It's time to say farewell to one of the best Batman titles. Although legends of our Caped Crusader will continue to be told online every Thursday as a DC Digital First, I'm sorry to say that issue #13 shall be the last of the printed single issues of Legends of the Dark Knight... at least until…
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight was originally launched in 1989 to attract new readers flooding into comic shops after the release of Tim Burton's BATMAN. The comic picked up where Frank Miller's Batman: Year One left off and featured rotating creative teams that told short stories or 5-issue long arcs (my personal favorite being…
Legends of the Dark Knight #12 features 2 interesting stories that take quite a few risks (something I'd like to see more of from these out-of-continuity tales) and I highly recommend you check them out, but they are both flawed by their endings. One has an ending I just didn't like and the other, well,…
"What Happened Was..." is written by Paul Jenkins and illustrated by Omar Francia with colors by Rex Lokus. Jenkins is the former co-author of the New 52 Batman: The Dark Knight which he wrote alongside artist David Finch, but just as he was about to go solo with the book's writing duties Finch was reduced…
This comic begins and ends with a great back-and-forth between Batman and Alfred. Writer David Tischman wrote some fun dialogue between the two that really made me smile. Heck, a brief 1-page scene in which Alfred suggests that he and Batman race each other home would've made an entertaining short story on its own. But…
I am very excited to talk about these stories. The first one alone makes the book worth buying and the second is just icing on the cake. Plus, it's it features the best stories Catwoman or Scarecrow have had in quite some time. Must buy all the way. You don't really need to read anymore…
One month later, I'm reviewing Legends of the Dark Knight #8 in a special super-short article before jumping into this week's Legends #9. Of course, you don't need to read any previous issue of this series to enjoy the next! They all stand alone. I just felt like writing some little something to warm-up. "Carved"…
What in the... what in the heck did I just read? It started off alright, got weird in the middle, and then ended with a panel that made me say "What was the point of any of that?" Legends of the Dark Knight began incredibly strong but these past three issues have stumbled quite a bit.…
We have one story that's as grounded in reality as it gets for a Batman story followed by two other tales that dive headfirst into the supernatural. It's an odd mix, that's for sure, and one of these tales is just flat-out bad making Legends of the Dark Knight #6 far and away the weakest…
Many readers might pick up this noir-style short and not give a second thought to the hard boiled private detective who is taking the limelight from Batman. Others might wonder if they should know who "Slam Bradley" is or if he's a new creation from writer Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Phil Hester. While Slam isn't…
Great cover this week, huh? Sure that cape has no practical use whatsoever anymore, but it looks pretty cool nonetheless. Issue #4, like issue #1, collects 3 short done-in-one or "one-and-done" (whichever you prefer to call 'em) stories, 2 of which feature the Joker. I understand the allure of wanting to use the Joker if…
You see this issue on the shelf and you say to yourself, "Another Joker story?!" You already have the Clown Prince of Crime showing up in every other Bat-title thanks to the Death of the Family crossover and now we have two issues in a row of Legends of the Dark Knight with the Joker.…
Every Batman fan should add this series to their pull list. Seriously, there's no reason for you to not pick this up. It's a different creative team and an all new story (or stories) every month, all of which take place outside of the New 52 continuity so anything can happen! It keeps things fresh…
I've been looking forward to this for a while now. I read the first 4 or 5 stories from the digital exclusive series Legends of the Dark Knight months ago. It comes out a little bit at a time--weekly installments. When the stories started to get longer and stretch across three weeks I decided to…
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