REVIEW: Fear the dark in ‘Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1′
Can Hal Jordan prevent the Dawnbreaker from holding the city captive from nightmare constructs?
The events of Dark Night Metal have left some cities at the mercy of the nightmare Batmen. Coast City might be the next city to fall as another Batman from the Dark Universe appears with a green lantern ring. Can Hal Jordan prevent the Dawnbreaker from holding the city captive from nightmare constructs?
BATMAN: THE DAWNBREAKER #1 is not up to scratch with the two preceding iterations of the nightmare Batmen. In other words, Dawnbreaker did not “wow” me as much as Red Death and Murder Machine. But this is not to say that Dawnbreaker is a bad book. It has a decent story. Bruce Wayne with a power ring is still a great story but I don’t think Sam Humphries was able to maximize the potential of the character.
The thing that made it off for me was the ambiguity between will power and the other embodiment of the emotional spectrum. Sadly, the art (with exception to Jason Fabok’s cover art) did not convince me in getting the book. Let’s just say that it’s not one of the greatest works of Ethan Van Sciver. Some pages were really good and others were bad.
Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1 is still good for what it is and for what it wants to tell. I am still loving these tie-ins because it explores the possibility of a Batman that had that “one bad day”.
Review by Paolo Ollero, co-founder of The Dark Knight Philippines, the premier Batman group in the country.
