![]() News broadcasts shed light on the political debates surrounding Batman's influence, positive and negative, on the criminal underworld. Batman is a bitter, angry figure who narrates much of the story with philosophical musings and breaking down his methods. TDKR is a seminal comic book work, with a gritty, unique style that's draped in the best of Film Noir techniques. Defeating the Mutants, though, turns out to be child's play compared to what Batman faces next. After encountering a Mutant gang in the alley where his parents were murdered, Bruce Wayne resurrects Batman, aided in his renewed crusade by Carrie Kelley, a 13-year-old girl who becomes the third Robin. In Batman's absence, and in the midst of a killer heat wave, Gotham City is overrun with crime, plagued by a monstrously violent gang known as The Mutants. ![]() ![]() Commissioner Gordon is weeks away from retirement, The Joker has been silently locked away in Arkham for years, and Two-Face is about to be released back into the world with a brand new skin. Superman, still as young and handsome as ever, has become little more than an icon, answering to the government and trying to stay as neutral as possible. ![]() In this storyline, Batman has been retired for ten years, alcoholic and consumed with grief after the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin note a full two years before A Death in the Family canonized this, mind you. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is a four-issue Batman comic book miniseries written and drawn by Frank Miller and published by DC Comics from February to June 1986. ![]()
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