Howdy y’all and welcome to another installment from the Worlds of Bats
This week we will crawl down into Gotham’s sewers and hangout with some easy going like-minded colorful folks that just want to see Gotham prosper in Jim Starlin’s mini series with art by Bernie Wrightson Batman: The Cult.
We’ll shimmy on down to the sewers and hangout 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z → 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z
How do you feel about this story, did you like the art/plot/resolution?
What were your favorite/least favorite parts of the story?
Did you find Deacon Joseph Blackfire’s character and backstory interesting and do you think he is worthy or would like him to be featured in more tales going head to head with our Dark Knight?
Besides Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises story, does this story remind you of any other Batman tales?
Between TDKR & The Cult, which story do you feel was executed better?
And of course share any other thoughts you have on the story!
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Anyway, The Cult is one of my favorite Batman stories, even if it is heavily “influenced” by DKR. Am I just a sucker for 1980s Batman comics where the Dark Knight uses a gun?
Well, it’s better than most of Starlin’s work that I’ve read, in that it’s not absolutely riddled with plot holes. I didn’t really enjoy it but I can’t think of anything specifically wrong with it either.
As for the art… The linework is all over the place and like half of it is copy-and-pasted. I get the gritty, trippy look they’re going for and a few pages did look really nice (mostly splash pages, like the endings of the first two issues), but for the most part it’s just sloppy.
I think the early parts where it was more of a horror story and less discount Dark Knight Returns were stronger. It became kind of hard to take seriously when the monster truck Batmobile with tranquilizer machine gun rolled out.
I like the idea of Batman fighting an evil cult, but there’s not much to him. I think I could warm up to him if a really good writer really fleshed him out, but I don’t feel strongly about him one way or another after this story.
Well, aside from being very Dark Knight Returns and very Dark Knight Rises, it was also very No Man’s Land. But of the four, No Man’s Land is the only one I actually like.
Assuming you mean Rises, I’ll take Jim Starlin nonsense over Christopher Nolan pretension any day of the week.
Compared to Returns, I think that story is overall dumber, but has better highlight moments, so I’d say I average out to liking them both about equally.
I’ll go for the middle position and say that it was an Alien Resurrection case, where the script and the direction went for noticeably different tones. (Not that BB is even close to as bad as AR.)
Howdy y’all and welcome to another installment from the Worlds of Bats 
Have a great week y’all! 
