DC KO: Knightfight #1 – Joshua Williamson, Writer; Dan Mora, Artist; Triona Farrell, Colorist
Ray – 9.5/10
Ray: One of the biggest shocks of the first issue of DC KO was that Batman – the most marketable character in DC’s stable – didn’t make it out of the first round of the tournament. So is the Caped Crusader stuck on a magical statue on the shelf until the conclusion of this event? Of course not – there are comics to sell. Joshua Williamson is writing the key counterpart to Scott Snyder’s main event, which finds Batman escaping from his prison thanks to a fail-safe that teleports him away via Mother Box. But as he wakes up in Gotham after his escape, he finds that it’s not his Gotham – it’s a Gotham of the far future, and one where Batman is seemingly no more. Instead, it’s overrun by Robins – a youth army who patrol the city and have orders to bring in Batman on sight. And the person pulling their strings is none other than the original Robin, Dick Grayson – who now has a deep grudge against his mentor.
The issue opens with a great segment in which Batman is beaten to the punch of taking out a villain by his four Robins, and reflects on how far they’ve all come and how they’ve even surpassed him in some ways. And now, he’s forced to see the logical conclusion of that – a world where Batman is irrelevant. But it goes deeper than that, with Dick being desperate to stop Batman from ever taking up his battle again. There are hints dropped through the issue that Batman’s desperation to stay at the top of his game rather than pass the torch was his undoing, but when the reveal comes, it’s a big gut punch. This issue is a fast read, with several double-paged spreads, but it also packs in some great character moments and delivers in every way. A big part of the credit for that goes to Dan Mora, who has been drawing excellent DC stories for years now and hasn’t lost a step.
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