THE DARK KNIGHT #12 REVIEW: TRUE GRIT HORROR

RATING: A Must Read Issue, full of suspense & horror; read carefully for cool details! 

It doesn’t matter if you’ve read all the issues of Batman: The Dark Knight, Issue 12 is the best by far! It’s the one issue where you don’t have to read previous issues to know what’s going on in Issue 12. You can just start reading Batman: The Dark Knight and really not miss anything! This is what we expected and wanted out of Batman: The Dark Knight, true grit storytelling at its best!

 Issue 12 was amazing; I knew Gregg Hurwitz (writer) was coming out with some real cracked out in-depth looks at Batman and Scarecrow. However, I did not anticipate how much I was going to be blown the hell away by his storytelling. The plot story is not original, but David Finch (artist) helped the plot story so much with his art. If I had to give Finch’s description, I say it is twisted grittiness at its best! The issue felt like I was watching Hannibal Lector meets John Carpenter’s Halloween. The issue felt like it was a psychology horror movie just in a comic book, and I loved every second of it. I truly did. Finch went all kinds of cracked out for this issue and Hurwitz gave him the power to do so.

As I mentioned before, the plot story is not original because we’ve seen something like this before. A lot of people might reference this issue’s story to Batman Begins, but Hurwitz dove deeper into the psychology aspect with one theme in mind. The theme is feeling. Feeling played a beautiful theme throughout this issue, where Scarecrow wants to feel and Batman does not want to feel. Scarecrow’s whole motto is for his victims to feel experience fear. This is where Finch had the ability to give Scarecrow a scarier look. Scarecrow has sown his lips together and he talks through them, which would be painful to many. Not Scarecrow. From Scarecrow’s back story you kind of feel for him a little as a character. He had a messed childhood with his deranged father. You see how Jonathan Crane became Scarecrow and you understand why he became this. By the end of this issue, if you are not a fan of Scarecrow or you don’t get him at all; this is the issue where you will give tons of respect to him as a villain. For those who are fans of Scarecrow and love him to death; this issue will give you a different look at Scarecrow’s back story. Hurwitz did not disappoint at all.

Check out some panels that I thought were just too good to pass up. Check those out down below.

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