Batman: Dark Allegiances

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Adaptational Villainy: The stand-ins for Batman's usual rogues gallery have all been made into white supremacists planning to kill both Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler for the sake of "bringing fascism home to America, where it belongs.

Acting under the will of its jailor, the fallen beast lunges forth like a puppet obeying its strings, letting out sickening howls that only a cadaver could utter. The side of the freight car could fold down and extend a ramp to allow the Batmobile on board while the train was moving. All in all, Batman: Dark Allegiances is an interesting experiment of merging a Batman story with the Pre-World War II era, which has Bruce Wayne as Batman trying to stop a plan that would force the world into another World War.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Dark Allegiances": It's the late 1930s and daring industrialist Bruce Wayne masquerades as the Batman at night, fighting against crooked politicians and racist secret societies. Chaykin's art as always is solid and the story is somewhat interesting if not predictable, but the ending is kind of weak. Shout-Out: The Klan stand-in the White Legion, besides being a reference to Klan splinter group the Black Legion, takes its name from the titular group of a 1938 episode of Batman inspiration The Shadow, with that group itself having been a loose-adaptation of the Black Legion.

For the most part, Chaykin's penciling is perhaps one of the saving graces for this trade paperback. In Batman: Dark Allegiances, the story takes place in pre-World War II America, with Batman teaming up with Alfred and Catwoman to stop an assassination attempt on F. Adaptational Seriousness: Biggsley, Pewtie, and Reverend Jones all lack the flair and dramatic elements of Penguin, Two-Face and the Joker. Composite Character: The story ends with Alfred Pennyworth joining Batman and Catwoman on their adventures by becoming this continuity's Robin. Pewtie simply has a disfigured face, implied to be a physical ailment and most definitely not because he got scarred with acid, but lacks Two-Face's split personality.

But, from nowhere, a mysterious Bat-Man appears to battle democracy's foes and possibly to save the world. Its soul long departed, the broken frame of this hound is now home to a thing of blind spite and rage. A true cluster-fuck of awfulness at every level, nothing could truly prepare you for the insipid ending- which takes awfulness to a whole new depth.