Instead of exaggerating muscles and femininity, it's sometimes caricaturistic, especially with the villains. Mr Sharp’s pages are mesmerizing, and there is an element of artistic freedom that shows how splendid the ingredient of the grotesque can be. And, aside from a short run on Ghost Rider, I don’t think he’s ever written a mainstream superhero comic and has only written Batman as a side-character in books like Hitman and Section Eight.

Killer Croc secreted a pheromone similar to reptile estrogen during a villain meeting, causing it to mistake them for it's mother. Second, Steve Dillon was supposed to draw it before he died, and Liam Sharp took over with the intention of honoring his colleague, but the style he goes for is nothing like Dillon's at all.

Back in 2016, the Preacher show was just about to launch on AMC, and around that same time, Steve Dillon, co-creator and penciler of Preacher, was very ill and hadn’t been drawing very much as of late. Giger's Xenomorph creation from the Alien film series) laying waste to both the good citizens and bad criminals of Gotham - attempts horror movie shock value but succeeds in only being distasteful and rather dull. If he just protected this image to the criminals that is one thing, but even in the moment when he is alone with his thoughts he is the same. Batman is depicted as cruel and harsh in his manner of dealing out justice, while conversely Killer Croc (one of the few Batman villains Ennis likes) gets a tragic backstory and helps defeat the monster.

Ennis also sees Batman’s rogues in a hilarious manner, viewing most of the lot as outclassed, multi-colored twerps, who couldn’t actually come close to touching the efficient machine of a man that is Batman, even on their best day. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There was one particular double page spread that I seriously stared at for a couple minutes trying to figure out exactly what was in the picture. This time around, he indeed presents readers with a gritty, crude, and ugly tale but fails completely in all respects, whether it’s characterization, as he butchers Batman’s persona and offers an irritatingly verbose, sassy, and unamusing take on the superhero, or the narrative structure, as the mystery at the heart of this tale is the only driving force of the story and is ridiculously solved in the final issue to make the whole adventure effortlessly forgettable. There are also some serious creative liberties taken for iconic characters, notably the Joker, who look nothing like anyone would’ve ever imagined for these characters.He seemed to have greatly enjoyed drawing it and I’ve enjoyed seeing it even though some readers might be put off-balance. Deftly moving from psychological horror to splatter, it mixes the staple of any Batman narrative (that is, the idea of solving a mystery, the mark of the detective story) adding an element of science fiction and biological warfare. It's almost okay but crosses the line a few too many times with a gleefully sadistic Batman, gratuitous fat shaming, and the mutilation and maiming of Batman's entire rogue's gallery in ways that either make this an Elseworlds tale or a canon story that will be quickly ignored or retconned.