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Warning ! freebooter ahead for Batman : Dark Age # 4!TheJoker , and almost every one of Gotham ’s sterling villains , have pay off amazing ' 70s redesigns . Batman : Dark Agehastaken a different approach to the Dark Knight ’s mythology and re - examines it through the crystalline lens of American history . By the time Bruce has cement his legacy in the ' 70s , his big foes are on the picture and dress as garishly as one would expect .
InBatman : Dark Age # 4by Mark Russell and Mike Allred , the ' 70 have come to Gotham just asBruce takes on Dick Graysonas his new partner . The city is still under threat by the False Face Society , but Batman notices new criminals have issue forth to town with name like ' Riddler ' and ' Penguin ' .
These villains care less about money and more about make thematic statements ( not to mention dressing in over - the - top costumes ) . Around the same meter , a local comedian bed only as the Joker start to gain notoriety for his plainspoken statementsand morbid observations about the earthly concern .
Joker and Other Gotham Villains Get Very ’70s Makeovers
Batman : Dark Agefollows in the steps of its associate record book , Superman : Space Age . This non - canon story sees Bruce Wayne grow throughout the ' 50s , ' 60s , and ' 70s and produce his iconic persona against the backcloth of genuine American story . Instead of the Waynes fail to random street ferocity , they ’re executed as part of a plan for the False Face Society to take ascendance of Wayne Enterprises . In this world , Bruce hone his skills fight in Vietnam under the bidding of Ra ’s al Ghul . Throughout the years , Batman looks at the world around him and highlights its beauty and its flaws .
This new flavour for Batman ’s villains might seem strange , even for them . After all , Penguin and Riddler as art snob or Mad Hatter as a Timothy Leary - like figure is a fairly bad departure from their usual gismo . But this issue relates the upgrade of supervillains in Gotham to that of the counterculture movement that positively overshadow the American ' 70s . Joker , Riddler , Penguin , and Mad Hatter are break away from the tradition of honest-to-goodness criminalsin the same way that creative person and performer sway up the world with subversive approaches to their particular fields ( even if the field here is offence ) .
Gotham’s Most Famous Villains Have Always Changed the World
young eras are always earmarked with a bluff , striking modification . Even in the prime continuity , Batman ’s metropolis was once a world fraught with gangster and crime lords , only to be replaced by colorful criminals with gaudy thingamajig . ThoughBatman : Dark Ageswitches up quite a bit about Bruce Wayne ’s world , it makes a square point about the way these foe commute the macrocosm by bursting onto the scene with new and originative mind . WhileJokerand these other villains are far from avant garde revolutionaries , their costumes are magnificent and sail through the counterculture vibration .
Batman : Dark Age # 4is available now from DC Comics .
Batman : Dark old age # 4 ( 2024 )
