Unfortunately, the villain is a living EMP grenade and is pretty much instantly set off, plunging the city even deeper into darkness. Throughout this series, the streets are swarming with criminals and we’ve seen them carrying all kinds of weapons, from melee weapons to actual rocket launchers. There’s enough overlap between the styles of Jock and Andrea Sorrentino that it feels One Dark Knight could sit comfortably on the shelf with the equally movie-friendly Batman: The Imposter, even as they present considerably different Batmen.

The book’s “classic Batman” approach might as easily be its selling point as its downfall, a book that works in the traditional Batman formula but fails to rise above it.J'ai bien aimé ce tome qui se passe en une nuit, le style de dessin moderne, les couleurs qui ressortent bien dans cette ambiance sombre, la course contre la montre avec un batman comme j'aime qui va plus être dans l'aide aux autres que le combat. Jock carefully sets up these fight sequences so that it makes sense how many enemies there are and from which directions they come. The art is good, the storytelling is good and I liked the dark/bright color chart (seems Jock colored the book himself) but this isn’t enough to redeem this boring and poorly constructed plot. Jock's artwork is of course quite nice, but even then there are portions where it is quite apparent to my untrained eye that deadline crunch was felt.

Overall: I thoroughly enjoyed One Dark Knight all the way through, from the first issue to the conclusion. Plot Synopsis: Batman is watching a prisoner van that is heavily guarded as it moves from Arkham Asylum to Blackgate Prison.It takes the whole first issue for that set-up of the blackout to happen, so initially you are reading a Batman story you have seen many times, which is our hero escorting a villain (albeit a new creation for this book) with help from the police, at least from Commissioner Gordon. I don't understand why this was praised so much and I don't understand the fascination with Jock's work. I would say, however, that the book’s unrelenting, street-level violence put me very much in mind of the classic Jim Starlin/Bernie Wrightson miniseries Batman: The Cult, and a Batman logo from the Starlin era among Jock’s sketchbook cemented that impression. s past crimes influencing the current situation involving street violence, vengeance and the occasional superpowers, One Dark Knight is at its best when it just embraces its action-filled premise that evokes John Carpenter’s films such as Escape from New York.

This is definitely one of the better Black Label things for me, I’ve always enjoyed Jock’s work and this one not exception. But if Vasquez wanted EMP dead so badly, why does she create this entire plan of moving EMP from one location to another across town, especially as it then attracts the involvement of Batman, a major impediment to its success - if she has the resources to have all the gangs in the city, along with a number of GCPD, in her pocket, why doesn’t she simply use that reach to have EMP killed while he’s resident at Arkham? was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. One of the most iconic Batman artists of the 21st century, the incomparable Jock (The Batman Who Laughs, Batman: The Black Mirror), has focused all his storytelling powers on the tale of one very, very dark night in Gotham City.

From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman would escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman super-villain known as E. And I would still recommend this to those who like Jock’s Batman art or street-level Batman tales though. Especially when it comes to the Dark Knight, Jock has proven himself to be one of the best artists on that character, so anytime he gets to do anything Batman-related, it might as well be an event.

I won’t reveal what it is, but I do want to bring this up because I think this is an example of great writing in this issue. The book’s ending itself is satisfying in the way that it deals with the main villain, Vasquez, the prison warden, but I also feel that it’s somewhat rushed.Had Jock opted for a more down-to-earth and to-the-point narrative voice for Batman—like he did in the previous issues!