Batman: Dark Patterns #9 is a tense, tightly crafted thriller that proves high stakes don't require nonstop action. Dan Watters and Hayden Sherman keep readers glued to the page with sharp detective work, layered character reveals, and inventive visual storytelling, delivering one of the series' most gripping chapters yet. Read Full Review

The art is excellent as always, but this arc didn't quite have the visual strength of the first two, and its ending is unrelentingly bleak. But each arc seems to have a different lesson for Batman that he needs to learn at the very beginning of his career to be an effective crimefighter and this one is that not every corner of Gotham can benefit from Batman. Read Full Review

There's no writer today who understands the depths of Batman's anxieties more acutely than Dan Watters, and there is no team delivering on those foundations more thrillingly than Watters and Sherman. "Dark Patterns has been nothing but highlights, and this gutting conclusion to its third chapter is no different. Do not miss "Dark Patterns. Read Full Review

It’s like a totally different Dan Wattsrs is writing this versis nightwing. They should give this Dan Watters the Detective Comics titles.

Best Batman book out right now and prob the best since Snyder run started. Dan really captures the feeling of Gotham in all these issues. This one especially felt like a classic.

Well, this was an intriguing read. I can’t say this is a story that I’ll look forward to rereading again. At least not anytime too soon. This was definitely a gross ugly story. Yes it’s subverted expectations and certainly caught me off guard. But again it was extremely gross and extremely nasty.

I know that crime stories can usually get pretty hard hitting but…


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I don’t really enjoy seeing a kid shot and killed in a comic. Even if it is only accidental it’s still pretty gross. And then to watch the kid’s crooked old grandfather (evil as he was) have a heart attack and die….

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I honestly can’t say that I’m looking forward to the final arc of the series. The first arc was the best one. The second one was just EH. And this one was just plain rotten.

Whatever.

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