Batman: White Knight cover
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5.0/ 5
Year

2017

Publisher

DC Comics

ISBN

978-1401284251

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Batman: White Knight

by Sean Murphy

The Joker is cured and becomes Jack Napier, a public critic of Batman whose campaign against Gotham's vigilante exposes the city's complicated relationship with its heroes.

Geek’s cut

Comic-book storytelling with the density of a good tech spec: every panel doing double duty, every line of dialogue carrying lore, emotion, or both.

Deeper dive

Sean Murphy's alternate-universe Batman story turns the hero and his greatest enemy into opposing answers to the same question: what does Gotham actually need?