Riddler and Catwoman betray Penguin, leading to Penguin sending an ancient but absolutely deadly villain, the Help, after them.

What's the point of creating a mystery around a narrator's identity while making the identity patently obvious? The ending, the whole reasoning, is a bit silly but makes sense with the title but I won't like if it took out some of the momentum the series had going for it. That feels like a sweet spot for King to effectively tell his story without stretching it out andwasting time. With the ridiculous oversaturation of Bat books on the shelves right now I skipped out on this initially. The blockbuster team of Tom King and David Marquez brings an epic, white-knuckled, action-packed tale of a young Batman desperate to recover his most prized possession from a host of violent rogues before the clock strikes the Killing Time… Batman: Killing Time collects the entire 6-issue limited series!Batman, on the other hand, is a one-note character for me; of course, it all depends on who is writing.

The reveals might not be as earth-shattering as you think, but they serve the story and are satisfyingly unsatisfying in a way that feels appropriate. Issue after issue, Batman asserts “I am still here,” issue after issue he tries to be brave, he tries to be Batman. Tom King vuelve a cambiar de estilo (quien diga que no está ciego) y plantea un cómic lleno de acción e intriga por ver cómo conectan las diferentes idas y venidas en el tiempo.Five Years Before Year Two: February 11: Ra’s al Ghul trains Bruce with swords, knowing Bruce is leaving that night and giving him the box, the product of great slaughter. His is informed by working as a CIA agent during the Iraq War; mine is by thinking that is a despicable thing to do with the life you have on this planet. Batman agrees to work with the Help until they recover the box and capture the criminals, but vows to stop the Help immediately after.

If you thought that riddle was stale and unamusing, I have successfully recreated the experience of reading this comic. King juggles the cast of characters well, keeping everyone true to their motivations, and readers entertained throughout. This series is, without a doubt, some of the best work King has ever done on Batman, the best art Marquez has produced for DC thus far and takes full advantage of the consist partnership between Cowles and King with journal-esque lettering that fragments and spreads across a page to keep pace with King’s cadence.

As somewhat a Tom King completist, I found Batman: Killing Time to be one of his most disappointing titles, which gets too fixated in its experimental storytelling that the whole experience feels emotionally cold. While you do get some pretty big reveals to demystify the mystery, the reveals are most surprising for just how unsurprising they really are.

Well, they don’t, but the Dark Knight bites off more than he can chew as the stakes escalate and escalate, and…well, you know what I mean. April 8: In Morocco, Batman captures Riddler and Catwoman, having been led there by an angry Riddler. It's too long and convoluted, and it has a bunch of useless scenes and characters (I hated The Help so much). There are myriad storylines intersecting throughout and jumping back and forth in time, a bit like Pulp Fiction, but the overall narration has this pattern of noting very specific times, which feels tedious to read after a spell, not least because who’s really taking in specific dates in relation to the story? Even his story has a kind of wrap up as we’re giving a scene with Batman and Ra’s speaking about him.You have larger portions of the narrative focused in the same time frame, and the scenes spent in the past are placed in such a way that it all makes sense and tracks well. One of my favorites is the shot with the credits where Clock King is sitting with The Acropolis behind him.