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I think I read this in high school and then (ironically?) wanted to re-read it to decide whether or not it should be in the teen graphic novel section. Obviously this deserves all kinds of props for being so groundbreaking, which for me bumps it up a star from how much I actually enjoyed it. Given all the Batmans that have followed this, it feels a little less cutting edge than reading it when it came out would have, but I think it still holds up pretty well as an action/adventure story with Bat
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Pretty much everyone's favorite Batman comic ever, but not mine. Not anymore, anyway. It's still quite good, and it's still easy to see why this and Watchmen set the comics world on fire back in '86, but I don't know if it's aged particularly well. Or maybe it's my tastes that have changed. And maybe I'm just bitter that most everyone who tried to write Batman in the two decades since has just basically done a bad riff on Miller's version of the character. I dunno. Still worth experiencing if yo
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Jun 04, 2008
jess sanford
marked it as to-read
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Arianna
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