Bats are mysteriously dying across Gotham City - could it be connected to the return of the mysterious Arkham Knight? Time for Batman to do some detecting!
One of Peter Tomasi’s worst books was also called Arkham Knight and it was based on the Rocksteady video game so it’s amazing that he’s written another book called Arkham Knight that’s equally as bad! In the previous book, the character was awful - they were called that purely because the series of games was called “Arkham…” - and nothing about the character was actually connected to the asylum so the forced name didn’t make sense. Here, the new Arkham Knight’s name makes slightly more sense but the character is still awful - maybe even worse!
Nothing about the new Arkham Knight’s character or motivations is understandable. Everything about this character and story is beyond contrived and unconvincing. (I've put the spoilers of why I think this wayyyy down after the last paragraph of this review if you're interested.)
What’s more shocking is that Tomasi manages to cram this book with stories featuring not just one of the worst Batman characters of all time but two: the Reaper, the villain from Year Two, is back and this time is reaping in Gay Paree and Crete. But, like the new Arkham Knight, this Reaper is also a newer, crappier version of the old, terrible character. Batman punches them - the end. Bleurgh. Can we agree to never feature the Reaper - and the Arkham Knight too - in anything ever again please, DC?
Peter Tomasi is one of the best Batman writers - there are some real gems in his New 52 Batman & Robin run, and the preceding volume of Detective Comics isn’t bad either - but he’s also unfortunately more than capable of producing some absolute stinkers and Detective Comics, Volume 2: Arkham Knight is definitely down there as one of them. Two godawful Batman villains in one book makes for a shockingly bad read - I highly recommend avoiding this!
She was born in Arkham Asylum and all of the inmates just happened to band together to ensure her safety and raise her and that’s why she has their loyalty forever - WHY?! So all the inmates were complicit and all of them were locked up together at the same time and they all decided this collectively? It’s so stoopid! Where did she get the armour from? Why is she so fixated on knights? What does she hope to accomplish by blinding everyone in Gotham? She just happened to be crazy but not crazy enough to be bad at realising her crazy goals? Who are these followers who aren’t Arkham inmates - why are they following her, what do they get out of it?
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