The future of Gotham is coming to destroy its past! Batman...murderer? After discovering Bruce Wayne facilitated the murder of his father, Terry goes on the hunt, ready to unleash as Batman Beyond. The clock is ticking for Bruce in more ways than one after Harley Quinn's daughter goes missing. And if she takes after her father, the fate of the city is in her hands! Can the former Batman find and stop her before the police do?
Sean Murphy makes you feel like you have picked up the very first issue of Detective Comics where Batman was introduced. Read Full Review
With every panel teeming with gorgeous artwork and excellent character exploration, Batman: Beyond the White Knight #3 is an exemplar of visual storytelling perfection. One part Terry's origin story, one part Bruce Wayne character study Sean Gordon Murphy has crafted a must-read tale for any fan of the Caped Crusader or comics in general. Read Full Review
Batman: Beyond the White Knight is one of my absolute favorite DC stories at the moment, and despite the admittedly high bar it finds a way to deliver each and every time. Read Full Review
Murphy delivers some amazing visuals throughout the issue. The art style is beautiful and I continue to love how Murphy continues to make Bruces literal shadow look like Batman and how that shadow continues to stalk his every move. Read Full Review
With strong design work and excellent threading of continuity, Beyond the White Knight #3 remains one of the most solid books in DCs roster. Murphys art and writing have refined the series into a tight story grappling with Dads trying to fix their families and the continuity thats been built across the multiple series. Paired with Stewarts perfectly accented colors, the designs and aesthetic of this issue feel original but still in line with whats come before. With the book reaching close to its halfway point, the pieces of Derek Powers, Duke and Terry are beginning to click into place, and it will be fun to watch if Murphy and Stewart can mend the Batfamily, and do justice to all the fractured elements of the universe. Read Full Review
Batman: Beyond The White Knight #3 gives us some answers and then makes you ask a thousand more questions! This is a wonderfully written issue and a must-read, both for comic lovers and animated Batman Fans! Read Full Review
With the twists that Murphy is pointing into the story which deviates from what is normally seen in both the DC animated universe and the mainstream DC universe, Batman: Beyond the White Knight #3 keeps readers invested and wanting more, while not quite knowing what to expect. Read Full Review
This chapter is a mixed bag for me. There's definitely stuff to like about Sean Gordon Murphy's universe, and I love how he writes Terry and the rest of the Batman Beyond cast. Often times, the massive changes to the main Batman cast make this feel like an original action/drama book, rather than a Batman book. Read Full Review
The art continues to be strong, but unfortunately this issue is deeply compromised by its new origin for Derek Powersmaking him an explicitly Jewish arms dealer who became so powerful by blackmailing Bruce with knowledge of his secret identity and is obsessed with creating weapons of war. Do I even need to detail just how many dog whistles there are in that? Read Full Review
personally found this issue to be solid. Dont listen to Ray Goldfield who said this issue was bad because of the main villain being Jewish.
Read this series if your not it's so much fun. I love black label series that have their own universe though. It allows you to just tel something completely different then the other 17 Batman books on the shelf this month.
This issue didn't speak to me as much. Almost all set up. I can get behind that but nothing really happens. The best thing here is Murphy playing with the shadows. We have seen Jack's reflection of the Joker, Bruce's Batman and Harley's well Harley. This time and I only noticed it once, was Powers' Blight shadow which was a nice addition. The art here was the standout but you can expect that from Murphy.
Liking what im reading so far
I like the dynamic between Bruce and Harley's family.
Maybe the weakest issue so far but, still a worthwhile read. Love the art and the idea but, the joker sidekick thing gets a little overplayed here.
Underwhelming, specially compared to previous arcs, the best part of the book continues to be the one thing that made this series special: it's depiction of the Joker. It is no wonder then that the title can't let him go. The other alts of the series feel like shadows of their archetypes, it's not that they're different or written incorrectly; it's that it just isn't as interesting.
With secret villains, familial villains, misunderstood villains, and mind villains Beyond the White Knight is throwing the kitchen sink to an already over-complicated story that's jumped ahead in it's timeline in messy ways.
I wonder how many fanfic writers are going to sue Murphy for plagiarism?
The book emphesizing that the main antagonist is Jewish and then portraying him using antisemitic stereotypes is troubling, to say the least.