I wish it was longer& I loved the story.

it definitely has some good moments. overall i just felt the story could have used a bit more meat, is all.

It’s one long fear gas illusion trip, but I’m glad Scarecrow finally got a story.

did you ever read the first Batman/Judge Dredd crossover from the early 90's, BATMAN: JUDGEMENT ON GOTHAM. it's one of my favorite graphic novels. it's Batman & Judge Dredd versus Scarecrow and Judge Death as well as Mean Machine. very fun story by Alan Grant with art by Simon Bisley.

Yes I did& that story was funny& great indeed. Miss these crossovers. The one with Daredevil was also fun.

i'll have to look for that one. :)

You should, it was fun, or the one with The Darkness

the Batman/Darkness crossover i've owned for a good number of years now. that was a lot of fun. i think that was the first time David Finch ever drew Batman in a comic. long before he did joined DC and got his own Dark Knight series.

I don’t know, but I think that comic was funny& great.

last night i tried re-reading this entire series from the beginning. 1-3 were great! i was having a blast. then when i'd gotten to issue #4 it became a real slog. the story just stopped in it's tracks and it was a big painful look into Batman's psyche for the rest of the series. very painful to get through.

For me it was the opposite. I thought isdue 1-2 was ok, because not that much happened, but the story became great in 3-5, while 6 was back to status quo.

that's so funny how tastes can differ from person to person. :D

True lol

i actually laughed out loud when Batman barked at the Scarecrow to "SIT DOWN!"

I thought „How DARE you Batman!“& then I was surprised Scarecrow did what he said. And what I just realized, if Scarecrow really wanted to get rid of Batman here, he could have shot him, while he was lying around for an hour. Or demask him.

very true! it really falls apart when you think of it like that.

Lol Scarecrow could in other comics too, maybe it’s more fun for him this way. He also waited in AK.

very good point. ...even though i still enjoy a gritty/realistic comic once in a while, lately i enjoy more fun comics that don't try to take themselves TOO seriously. i've been reading a lot of reprints of Golden, Silver and Bronze Age stories. some are much better than others, but every once and a while i find a really good one. i've really been digging a lot of the old Batman stories by Len Wein and by Denny O'Neil.

'The House that Haunted Batman', 'Night of the Reaper' & 'The Joker's Five-Way Revenge' are a lot of fun. ...i know he's utilized a lot from the early Silver-Age era, but i actually see quite a bit of influence from the later Silver to Bronze Age in Grant Morrison's Batman run. especially the Globe traveling. there was a LOT of that in Denny O'Neil's Batman.

Yes I agree. Those comics had more humor. Like the New Gods from the 80ies for example, but also the 90ies. That’s what I liked about King’s of Fear, that it was more humorous like older stories. Overall I miss DCs dark humor like for example when Joker shot Sarah in NML, it was tragic, but also funny how Joker played it out.

yeah. this series definitely had a nice feel of some of the older comics of the 80's and 90's. i'll probably give it a nice read-through in the very near future.

I’ll do the same :)

my one wish is that on this cover for issue #6 that they would have not colored all the bat-symbols yellow. it would have looked better if they would have used more cooler and softer hues. variations of purple, violet, indigo, turquoise, emerald and jade. would have been more in line with the haunting look of the art inside.

I’m picturing that now... Would be cool and improve the cover.

The cover from issue 6 is the only one I don’t like in the run. It’s kind of boring, just Batman doing nothing with bat symbols. I expected more here.

sometimes simple variations of the color spectrum can add some life to any piece of art.

I hoped more for a cool Scarecrow vs. Batman cover, since this was the finale.

that would have been cool!