Batman: Gotham Knight 2008

Get ready... to rage against evil.

6.678 / 10   642 vote(s)
PG-13
Science Fiction Animation Action Crime Thriller

A chronicle of Bruce Wayne's establishment and progression into Gotham City’s legendary caped crusader through 6 standalone episodes.

Homepage https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/batman-gotham-knight
Release Date 2008-07-08
Runtime 1h 16m
Directors Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Jong-Sik Nam, Shoujirou Nishimi, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Koji Tanaka, Shoujirou Nishimi, Shinobu Tagashira, Hiroshi Morioka, Yuichiro Hayashi, Yasuhiro Aoki, Michiya Kato, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam
Producers Michael Uslan, Benjamin Melniker, Bruce Timm, Emma Thomas
Writers Jordan Goldberg, David S. Goyer, Alan Burnett, Josh Olson, Greg Rucka, Brian Azzarello, Bob Kane, Jordan Goldberg

Anime USUALLY doesn't work with American comics. I sort of like to keep them separated from Manga, but this didn't feel like Anime.

It also didn't work. I thought it was beautifully done, but the deformed people don't work with American superheros. The backgrounds were beautiful, but it all came across as is too ugly and unpolished for a comic.

Distortion has it's place and I will argue all day that Jae Lee was the best Batman artist (an one of the best artists period) to grace the comic, but this didn't look like Jae Lee distortion, it just looked ugly and lazy for an American style comic.

There has to be an element of POP to an American comic, and Gotham Knight lacked that pop.

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