A review by depreydeprey
Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 7: Anarky by Benjamin Percy, Brian Buccellato, Francis Manapul
4.0
This had a chance to be an all time great Batman story. There is a cliff hanger at the end of issue 37 that had the explored it would have taken the best of Law & Order's "ripped from the headlines" style of storytelling and also examined the idea of vigilante justice in the cell phone camera era. It is a real missed opportunity that I wish DC had been brave enough to pursue.
As a grown up who reads comics I want to know what it means to be a violent vigilante in the modern, police brutality era we now live in. I want to know what it would mean for a hero to be caught on a cell phone camera over the body of an innocent victim. It was all right there and and instead we swerved back towards a traditional bad guy/Gotham cult leader story. A very good one mind you but still this could have been so much more that I can't help but be disappointed.
As a grown up who reads comics I want to know what it means to be a violent vigilante in the modern, police brutality era we now live in. I want to know what it would mean for a hero to be caught on a cell phone camera over the body of an innocent victim. It was all right there and and instead we swerved back towards a traditional bad guy/Gotham cult leader story. A very good one mind you but still this could have been so much more that I can't help but be disappointed.