Built on a foundation of thrilling family drama, Batman: Beyond the White Knight #2 will leave you in schway city. Sean Gordon Murphy's exploration of the Bat-Family's dynamics is absolute perfection. Murphy's masterful handling of family as a theme does an excellent job of driving the narrative forward, making the story relevant, and establishing new mysteries. This superb character work is bolstered by Sean Gordon Murphy's breathtaking visuals. Murphy's artwork perfectly conveys this story's emotional beats in subtle ways. Additionally, every action sequence will leave you cheering for our hero. Read Full Review

A shocking twist puts the cherry on the sundae, so if these two issues are any indication of how the whole series will be, this could end up being one of the best White Knight stories yet. Read Full Review

Murphy delivers some fantastic art in this issue. I love the action and character designs a lot. One of my favorite artistic choices is to constantly have Bruces shadow be that of Batman. Its a great choice that serves the story and characters perfectly. Read Full Review

Batman: Beyond The White Knight #2 is a real page-turner, I sped through it in about 5 minutes. You're not going to want to put it down. It has great storytelling, and a clever take and perspective on the world we all live in. That last page will have you gasping for issue #3! Read Full Review

Beyond the White Knight#2 is a great follow-up issue, continuing to ground and reveal the dynamics of Neo-Gotham, working in tandem to deepen the tensions of the batfamily and set up Bruces reckoning with the past. Murphy and Stewart also lay the groundwork for the future of Gotham, and its next Batman with this issue, and how he may align with previous sins of the last Batman. The book is still early in its run, and hopefully, as Murphy works toward more in costume action and conflict, the art will propel to new highs for the series. The book is still a great jumping-on point for fans of the originalBatman Beyond, and readers of the previousWhite Knightarcs. Read Full Review

The first issue didn't really distinguish itself from the classic Batman Beyond enough for my tastes, but this issue has some unique twists on the mythology. It's a darker world, and one where Terry's journey to be Batman may be even more challenging than in the original. Read Full Review

Batman: Beyond the White Knight #2 continues to impress and fans are sure to love it. The characters we think we know are explored in a new way and it leaves the reader guessing as to what will happen next. That is the mark of a good story, and this is definitely good storytelling. Read Full Review

With everything playing out slowly, Murphy can focus on each character and how they have changed over time. We see how characters have drifted apart and some spicy revelations at the end. My previous concerns from issue one are still relevant as Terry's storyline seems to be more of an afterthought with little growth. With Batman Beyond in the title, we can hope future issues will focus on him, his father's work, and the Beyond suit. Read Full Review

This issue is an entertaining installment to Sean Gordon Murphy's White Knight universe, and is sure to please fans of the Batman Beyond cartoon, even if I'm a bit concerned as to where certain elements of the story are going. Read Full Review

I'm really enjoying this one. Granted, Murphy can do no wrong in my eyes, so I'm very based.

But he really should stopping delivering if he wants "fair reviews".

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Hex - Apr 26, 2022

I know you meant biased but you are also based. 10/10

Afre - Apr 26, 2022

I really want to edit my review but since you noticed, I cannot do it anymore.

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This is exactly what to do with an elseworld a story, create your own new fun universe while paying respect to the characters, while giving them a new spin. This would be a 10, but I just don't like how dick is always ....... well such a dick all the damn time. He's the only one in the series I don't like, and I've never not liked dick Greyson. He's usually Dutch an awesome character. It's weird to think of him as the bad guy.

Sean Murphy is talented. This new opus proves it with a rise in stakes: the plot around Terry McGinnis and Derek Powers which is slowly and intelligently set up (I hope to be surprised), the plot around Bruce Wayne, his escape and his improbable duo (not the best part, the use of "you know who" is funny but artificial), the plot around the GTO (the most interesting one for the moment)whose armed arm is Dick Grayson (in the last degree of depression) and his latent war against the GCPD commanded by Barbara Gordon (revengeful). 3 intrigues of which we feel (already) that the outcome will be explosive. And then, there are the drawings, the almost "artisanal" pencils of Sean Murphy, which all give off a real emotional force and deliver very successful situational atmospheres. As such, Sean Murphy manages to make this futuristic Neo-Gotham come alive without it ever seeming outrageous. Of course, there are things I don't like, concerning the characters for example and their treatment. But it's too early to talk about it and then who knows, I'm waiting to see if the author will take me "backwards".
Anyway, read this book. 9/10
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While this is mostly set up and establishing the status quo of Neo-Gotham, this whole book felt very fluid. Each story beat led into another with ease and it just felt like an episode of Batman Beyond. In adapting that story, even loosely, I think that's the best way to approach it. Murphy hasn't really ever let me down. His art continues to be one of the best in his field. There isn't as much darkness overshadowing each page, the color pops out more but that wasn't a complaint of mine as he used that darkness masterfully and he uses the color to open his world up as it is being opened to us. Bruce's 'new' friend is a fun addition though I will say it might have been more refreshing to explore the White Knight-verse without them. It's also highly likely that Murphy just wants to keep writing that character as it is what really drove the last two volumes and it gives the sort of twist/shock ending more impact. more

Jesus i think this is better thsn curse of white knight

Solid issue. Well written and looks great. Has me wanting next issue.

That cliffhanger definitely interests me.

I love the art and story enough to let the microchip-hallucination-only-activating-now thing slide. I'd also request more attention to the facial details of the aged women characters; throwing a much of random sharp lines on the face is a bad shot-hand for wrinkles. Less lines with more naturally placement will read much better.

Lots of fun moments, though I'm turning a blind eye on this Joker thing because as it stands, it doesn't make too much sense and this is a series about Batman Beyond I don't feel we have time to explore this, nor do I think I really care.
Murphy went from Point A to Point X so fast, there's not much time to develop what feels like an entirely new else-world. While grounding this new setting within the spaces of characters already established in this world makes a lot of sense; it oddly makes the new territory feel same old, same old. Old grounds being retread.
At the same time, the book knows it doesn't have a lot of room so it uses a lot of shorthands and tropes of recent DC plotlines (Future State for one) to color the space around it quickly and as effective as possible. It's entertaining enough. more

I wish I could say this issue worked for me as well as issue one did, but I just can't. The contrivance of Jack existing in Bruce's head - but not - may be seen as a welcome addition to the story, because everyone loves Jack, I guess. But I don't care about Jack, and I find this sort of thing lazy, same as I did when Arkham Knight did it.

I really liked the concepts presented in issue one, and what I guess I'm realizing is, the more Murphy ties it to the previous miniseries, the less interested I become. I hope issue 3 bounces back, but considering that ending, I doubt it.

Murphyverse Harley is what happens when you take a neat idea, and then run it into the ground with increasing confidence that the initial twist can support the rest. It can't. This is glorified fan-fiction, and I don't say that as necessarily a bad thing. After all, all Big Two comics are essentially fan-fiction. But the term does carry a negative implication with it because it normally refers to stories written by people who don't know how to write, and just want to shoehorn their ideas into characters without regard for anything that may conflict with that. Of everything in White Knight, Harley Quinn is the most fan-fiction aspect of it. I just don't really think she's all that entertaining. She is an idealized, sanitized version of the character that the writer always believed she should be. And now they're dropping this cliffhanger on us? It's actually just funny at this point. I don't see how one could take it as seriously as it seems to want to be taken. more

You can read the exact same thing on a fanfic site for free.