It’s a neon nightmare of cyberpunk trappings. Not just the costume, but the world itself. The world of Batman Beyond is all about aesthetics. But that’s one of the bigger problems with this series. Sadly, my hopes outweighed reality, because despite the name of the book, Terry McGinniss is very much a tertiary character in this series, meant just to provide the aesthetic of the costume to the series. When the new series was announced as a riff on Batman Beyond, I had some hope that maybe Murphy would move past using his own little Dynamic Duo to expand and enrich his universe. Beyond killing off the Joker, Murphy also left the last series in a natural closing point with his version of Bruce Wayne arrested. He’s still the protagonist of this series, no matter how many terrible things he does again and again. Without Napier, Murphy’s Batman was left without a good foil, his unhinged behavior demonstrating all the more that this Batman is not a hero.īut still, that’s how Murphy wants to use him. Jack Napier was what made his world at least a little bit interesting, no matter how badly Murphy represented psychiatric medicine through him. His version of the Joker, problematically cured by overdosing on medication, was dead at the hands of Harley Quinn. In Curse of the White Knight, he killed his golden goose.
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