Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1

Excelente edición, me sorprendió al ver lo voluminoso que es, 630 páginas. Incluye el origen de Bane y el primer encuentro con Batman. Y el desarrollo que culminó con Bane rompió la espalda de Batman en un combate brutal, un evento conocido como "Rompiendo el Murciélago". Esta derrota marcó el inicio de un período en el que Batman tuvo que superar una gran adversidad para volver a ser el héroe que era. El envío llegó en buen estado, estoy muy satisfecho con el producto y el vendedor.

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Batman: knightfall is the first story that the villain Bane ever appeared in, and boy did he make an impression! he was so good in this story that he is a villain in 2 live action batman movies, there are a WHOLE lot of villains that batman fights in this story but none are ever as intimidating or as powerful as Bane. so in this book a drug junkie named Bane and his gang of crackheads break the most insane villains out of arkham asylum, and Batman spends half the book chasing them down, but we find out that batman is sick during this time and is pushing himself beyond his own limits. as the story progresses you see batman get more, and more, sluggish, he isn't sleeping, he's sick and not taking medicine, and he's getting beaten to a pulp every night. each battle (and there's like 20) you see batman just BARELY come out on top, and once Batman was the weakest he's ever been, bane shows up in his house and he BREAKS THE BAT. after that this book gets depressing, Batman is totally broken and done, robin is treated like crap by everyone, and jean Paul valley becomes the new Batman and while he DOES beat Bane he's not a good Batman and robin can tell, i'm guessing in vol 2 bruce takes the mantle of the bat back. anyways that was the story 4/5 its good anyways now lets talk about BANE. bane is the polar opposite of bruce wayne, but yet so similar, bruce grew up alone in a mansion, bane grew up alone in prison for the sins of his father. Bane was locked in the deepest hole in a prison that was basically hell where he spent ten years, in that time he became extremely spiritual and he trained every day and became huge. after the ten years he emerged from his hole and gained the respect of his prisonmates. but while he was down there he dreampt only of killing a Bat that haunts his dreams, and once he heard about batman he immediately broke out and headed towards gotham. the man was MADE to break the bat. and then he took a drug called venom that gave him superhuman strength."You Will Know My Name One Day. And On That Day, You Will Beg For Mercy." -Bane 1993

The '90's were not kind to comic books. Aside from a few exceptions, that decade was characterized by mediocre storytelling, sensationalized, gimicky, over-the-top plots, and flashy art. In Batman Knightfall, you get two of the three: the writing is okay but not great, and the plot leads up to Batman getting his spine broken by a new and more vicious supervillain. The art is more serviceable than flashy -- mostly handled by the likes of Jim Aparo, Norm Breyfogle, and Graham Nolan, and it all flows very sequentially and creates an easy-to-follow story, but none of the panels really stands out in a way that would make you want to pause and take a second glance. The storyline also has a lot of plot holes. To name a few:[SPOILER ALERT]The villain Bane has a very superficial reason for wanting to take over Gotham and hurt Batman, and once Batman's rogues gallery is released from Arkham, they all immediately assemble criminal gangs and begin committing crimes, with no other motivation given except that they're all crazy and that's just what they do. Bane always has a henchman who just happens to know the location where the next villain will strike, so that he's able to relay info on Batman back to villain HQ, and Bane figures out Batman's secret identity just by watching Bruce Wayne from afar and recognizing that he must be Batman.[END SPOILERS]If there's a strength to this volume, it's in the incredible length of the storyline, which stretches over a full 24 issues (one of which is a 63-page special), and that just sets up part 2 of the story in Knightquest. A sustained plotline that stretches that long is pretty impressive, even if the motivations of the villains are pretty poorly defined. This is fun, fun, fun to read, and it does cover a pretty pivotal and devastating event in the life of the Dark Knight. Also, even though the interior art is nothing to marvel at, the cover art looks fantastic, and it is all reprinted here as well. Most of the covers are done by Kelly Jones, and they all have an eerie, spooky, stylistic look to them. You also get 2 characteristically weird-looking covers by Sam Kieth, an alternative wraparound cover to Batman 500 by Joe Quesada, and the Mike Deodato covers to the original 2 trade paperbacks that are included in this one single volume, and they all look great.The 3 storylines that I have always thought best exemplified the depths to which 1990's comics sunk to, were Spider-Man's Clone Saga, the Death of Superman, and Batman Knightfall. But now that I've actually read through it, I have to admit that Knightfall is an enjoyable read, as long as you know what to expect. There are no clever villain schemes or key insights into Batman's character, but you do get a fast-moving and epic-length (600+ pages!) account of one of the most traumatic events in the Batman's crimefighting career. Recommended, because even if you know where the story is going (with Batman breaking his back, renouncing the mantle of the Bat, and eventually taking it back again), the journey there is a good one.