“UPDATE 2023:
I just read a “Dark Knight by Miller reading order” thing online, and here was the suggested order:
Dark Knight I
Last Crusade
DK II
DKIII
Now, what the fuck?
The logic laid out was that Last Crusade comes first, chronologically, but DK I is the pinnacle of the series, so you should read it first.
My guy who wrote this, No. This is incorrect on many levels.
There’s nothing in here you need to know in order to understand DKI, II, or III. It’s a prequel that came like…30 years after the original? Anything you need to know comes in the actual first book.
Do comics sites just ask people to write as much shit as possible? “Crank out 25 articles today, I don’t care what they’re about, but DO make them different from whatever else is out there.”
I feel like I could make a small fortune writing articles about how DKII is “The Best Frank Miller Batman Story.” Well, if AI doesn’t beat me to it…
It’s short, but the story is decent. And John Romita Jr just keeps cementing himself as a favorite artist for me with everything he does. Frank Miller has a style all his own, and while I wouldn’t have thought to replace it with JRJR, it works.
The worst thing I can say about this book is that it’s probably unnecessary. Do we need a Dark Knight prequel? Do we need an anything prequel? Probably not.
But on the other hand, when we’re talking about comics we NEED, I think that’s a short list.
To put it all in Batman parlance, not the book we wanted, not the book we needed, but pretty aight. Does Batman say “aight”?”