Batman: Gotham Knight

6.7
Date

2008-07-08

Country

JP

Runtime

1.27h

Genre

Science Fiction

Overview

A chronicle of Bruce Wayne's establishment and progression into Gotham City’s legendary caped crusader through 6 standalone episodes.

Cast

Kevin Conroy
Batman / Bruce Wayne (voice)
Jason Marsden
Thomas Wayne / Cop / Doctor / Youth 2 (voice)
Scott Menville
B-Devil / Cop (voice)
George Newbern
Man in Black / Guido / Man / Youth 3 (voice)
Corey Padnos
Porkchop (voice)

Review

By GenerationofSwine

Anime USUALLY doesn't work with American comics. I sort of like to keep them separated from Manga, but this didn't feel like Anime.

It also didn't work. I thought it was beautifully done, but the deformed people don't work with American superheros. The backgrounds were beautiful, but it all came across as is too ugly and unpolished for a comic.

Distortion has it's place and I will argue all day that Jae Lee was the best Batman artist (an one of the best artists period) to grace the comic, but this didn't look like Jae Lee distortion, it just looked ugly and lazy for an American style comic.

There has to be an element of POP to an American comic, and Gotham Knight lacked that pop.


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