Are There Any Popular Comic Stories That You Dislike?

*MikeandRaph87* · 02-08-2022, 04:08 PM

I am a collector of comics particularly of DC Comics and Batman. However, I do not understand why Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is so popular. I forced myself through it and found it to be a boring Elseworlds with an oddly drawn older Batman acting out of character in a dystopian alternate future. It was not for me, simply as that. The tone, the art, the story. None of it was interesting. The only thing Frank Miller wrote that I could get into was Batman: Year One printed in Batman#404-#407, however its good not great. I will never understand how Barbara Gordon was actually forgotten, but Commissioner Gordon's son was renamed and remembered in Year One. Everything afterward Year One is criticized and rightfully so, but I just cannot find anything appealing about The Dark Knight Returns(1986). I doubt I am the lone person who passes on The Dark Knight Returns, but I know I am in a huge minority. Its likely because my taste and preferences are Silver and Bronze Age material and Batman: TAS which largely draws from those periods. What popular storyline or comic do you not care for and why?

02-08-2022, 04:08 PM	#1
MikeandRaph87 Jedi Master Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: JLA Satellite Headquarters Posts: 11,189	Are There Any Popular Comic Stories That You Dislike? I am a collector of comics particularly of DC Comics and Batman. However, I do not understand why Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is so popular. I forced myself through it and found it to be a boring Elseworlds with an oddly drawn older Batman acting out of character in a dystopian alternate future. It was not for me, simply as that. The tone, the art, the story. None of it was interesting. The only thing Frank Miller wrote that I could get into was Batman: Year One printed in Batman#404-#407, however its good not great. I will never understand how Barbara Gordon was actually forgotten, but Commissioner Gordon's son was renamed and remembered in Year One. Everything afterward Year One is criticized and rightfully so, but I just cannot find anything appealing about The Dark Knight Returns(1986). I doubt I am the lone person who passes on The Dark Knight Returns, but I know I am in a huge minority. Its likely because my taste and preferences are Silver and Bronze Age material and Batman: TAS which largely draws from those periods. What popular storyline or comic do you not care for and why? __________________ Michelangelo: This looks like a job for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Raphael: Sheesh, Mikey this ain't a cartoon! Last edited by MikeandRaph87; 02-08-2022 at 06:24 PM.