Batman One Dark Knight

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So while this is nowhere near the “Batman has been redefined for me for all time” level, I very much enjoyed it. I don't understand why this was praised so much and I don't understand the fascination with Jock's work.

If the action is decently managed the plot itself reads as a rulebook which isn’t very entertaining when you’ve read so many already. In the final chapter, too, Jock has a sequence where Killer Croc can apparently create zombies, a change that seems especially incongruous again against a “normal” Batman backdrop. It gets a little messy story wise at the end and honestly I think it could have benefitted from a fourth and/or fifth chapter to the story. Jock is the latest artist who’s having a bash at writing as well as drawing and, like most such experiments, his Batman book, One Dark Knight, is One Bad Comic. A gritty night that consists of just one simple prison transfer ends up giving us one of the coolest one off batman stories I have yet read.Heck, I would have forgiven a lot but even the lettering looks like I did it and not done by a professional. Now every electrical system in Gotham has been knocked out including the lights and all of Batman's gadgets and vehicles. was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. However, when rival gangs battling out what to do with the metahuman, his electrical powers go out of control, causing a city-wide blackout. Ultimately One Dark Knight is a lot of Batman running away from gangsters with guns, mostly indistinguishable one to the next; the strength of the premise — how Batman might change his Batman-ing in the absence of electricity — wasn’t examined enough for my liking.

But if Vasquez wanted EMP dead so badly, why does she create this entire plan of moving EMP from one location to another across town, especially as it then attracts the involvement of Batman, a major impediment to its success - if she has the resources to have all the gangs in the city, along with a number of GCPD, in her pocket, why doesn’t she simply use that reach to have EMP killed while he’s resident at Arkham? Vasquez’s reaction to the situation and Batman’s role in it are natural and logical writing choices, but it’s a twist that I did not necessarily see coming. It’s like Jock was given too many pages and didn’t know how to properly utilize each one with his pre-written story, which feels especially weird for a seasoned artist as talented as Jock. Jock seems rather made for drawing Gotham’s crumbling architecture, and there’s a variety of great shots in the end of Batman battling marauding gangs and facing off against Vasquez at the gaping maw of a broken bridge.That is, with not an excessive amount of dialogue bubbles with long conversations, but instead, with many beautifully saturated pictures showing the the action and setting the mood with incredible angles and vantage points. Among my reading the DC Black Label books, I’ve noted a few titles with events that fall under the old Elseworlds parlance of “shouldn’t exist.