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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
PART 2: KNIGHTQUEST
Our last chapter kind of got into the role play involved with how Batman in particular approaches superhero alter egos. We saw how he and Alfred took on their personas, Bruce so into the role he’s playing in his investigation that even the narrator refers to them as their fake identities rather than their regular selves. Meanwhile, John Paul is slowly corrupting his identity and there’s not much Tim/Robin can seem to do about it.
This does play well into this storyline’s theme of identities and corrupting the symbol of the Bat by Valley crossing that line and becoming judge, jury, and executioner, basically deciding who lives and who dies rather than the legal system. Valley plays by the other System, itself a corruption of Catholic sainthood and the ideals of the Catholic Church (whose record is admittedly spotty in spots and I say that as someone with a minor Catholic upbringing who doesn’t hate Catholicism just because a few parties lost their path along the journey). Will we see a further fall, and will Bruce get closer to saving Shondra and Jack? Let’s find out.
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