The Joker’s still deaded and Batman and John Constantine are continuing to puzzle out whodunit - they don’t get much closer in Batman: Damned #2!
There’s disappointingly little development in the increasingly trite-seeming plot, which is surprising as there’s only one more issue to go before this storyline wraps! This issue is basically an excuse for more street-level interpretations of DC’s supernatural characters for no reason!
In the first issue we got Deadman and Zatanna, and here we get Jason Blood/Etrigan, The Spectre and Enchantress. And I’m actually quite impressed with these alternate representations of these characters. Etrigan is imagined as a dressy rapper and The Spectre is this demented homeless person and they both kinda work! Enchantress is basically just how she normally looks except Lee Bermejo makes her look awesome with his skills.
And that’s all Batman: Damned seems to be shaping up as: a really cool Batman art book. Azzarello seems to have written this as a vessel for Lee Bermejo’s amazing painted art only because I’m not getting anything from the story. As for the “Black Label” imprint, there’s nothing here quite so racy as the Bat-peen in the first ish, just some swears and graphic violence to let you know this is Adult Batman, yo!
Batman: Damned #2 is damned bleh. Unless you’re a collector or rabid fan of Bermejo’s art, I’d say most Batman fans can easily wait for the trade on this one.
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