Quick question: reading the big Knightfall TPB Vol 1

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11-08-12 | 08:56 PM

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Re: Quick question: reading the big Knightfall TPB Vol 1

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I don't think Miller ruined the character in Dark Knight returns... I do think Morrison went over the top in making Batman and uber-genius to keep him up to par with the rest of the Justice League. The Giffen/Demattius Batman held his own and took no nonsense, but Morrison took him to a new level in his (excellent) run on JLA (Marvel also did a similar thing with Tony Stark, who was always really smart but somehow became Reed Richards-level smart over time)

It's funny you bring that up, it always bothered me that Tony Stark over the years went from ordinary mechanical genius to the world's smartest man.

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11-11-12 | 10:24 PM

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Re: Quick question: reading the big Knightfall TPB Vol 1

I'm hung up on the Scarecrow three parter (with the psych experiment students). Maybe it's an effect of reading this so many years after the fact, but this is boring.