Reviews

Batman: The Chalice by Chuck Dixon

blackbird9805's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

stilldirty's review against another edition

1.0

You can almost see the way they photographed models for each panel. What am I saying? That's ALL you see. And if you look close enough, many of the models are likely people in their mid- to late twenties, early thirties. The story didn't distract well-enough from the artist's transparent cheating methods to make panels. Well-trained hacks, all.

But you may not mind if you like "Ex-Machina" (which, I kind of do, though the too-real, yet unrealistically-posed art bothered me there, too).

I just finished this, so I'm feeling particularly vehement about it. But I'm biased, so pay me no nevermind about it.

xandra_evelyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The chalice: good, but left a lot of questions ununaswered in my opinion

The ankh: very good!!!

sylvain's review

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

subhamroxx's review

2.0

Batman gets the holy grail or rather is supposed to guard it and he does and faces off against many villains like Two face and there is a big story about the legend of it and he has to face off against Ra's Al Ghul and also Talia is there and we learn of other parties looking for it and then it ends in a weird manner and stuff happens like Catwoman and Alfred team up and nothing more? Its honestly a weird story with great plot but no coherent story and such an abrupt ending.

Then the second story is about this woman Khatera whose immortal and her story is like 30 pages long which seems so much of exposition and her becoming immortal, coming to Gotham and facing off against Batman after she abducts Tim and well hires Croc as her own guard and does more things. And well the weirdest and such a boring ending and no proper face off.

This was like one of the worst Batman stories I have read and it has cool ideas but the face off with villains and the actual story itself is horrible with no plot and well the worst art. Like the art is so bad and will make you puke sometimes and no inking and the colors are jaded and have no life plus the lack lustre story doesn't help. Skip this. Ugh its worse than bad, its boring.

serenitynow's review

dark mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The Chalice is probably the weakest of the three episodes contained in this John Van Fleet's Batman collection, mainly for its lack of insight on characters and events. The Ankh is interesting, but I've found Cast Shadows to be much more compelling and reflective (maybe a bit pretentious in some thoughts). John Van Fleet art style is peculiar, but I've found only a handful of boards really breathtaking, while most of them tent to confuse the narration even more (expecially in the "cryptic" Chuck Dixon episodes).

greeniezona's review

3.0

This book is my husband's and it's been on our shelves forever and I finally picked it up out of curiosity for a prompt for a reading challenge. The story was Batman meets The Holy Grail, and right away I was like, "wait, what?" There were demons and immortals, and I guess I prefer my Batman villains a little more human-sized, because it just didn't mesh for me. I did enjoy the brief Alfred-Catwoman team-up, however.

ngizmo's review

2.0

Algo que podría ser una premisa genial se diluye en absolutamente LA NADA a lo largo de 100 páginas. La segunda estrella es por el arte que está dentro de todo bastante bien.