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Okay, Tom King…. is 'Knightmares' Really Over? Batman #70 Spoilers

Spoilers on for Batman #70 folks, by Tom King, Mikel Janin, Jorge Fornes and Jordie Bellaire. You have been warned going forwards, as today's sees Batman come out of his imposed dream coma in Arkham Asylum, placed there by his transdimensional father Thomas Wayne and Bane who have found a common cause in stopping Bruce Wayne from becoming Batman, and bust his way out, beating down lots of his villains, on his way to tackle both his father and Bane with a Bat-army.

All while we get to enjoy William Blake's opening poem from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument to begin, which was intended as a critique of both Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, seen as prophesies of Hell. And we finish with The Divine Comedy to end.

What does that say to me? That this all a lie, and Batman has never left his Knightmares. Couple with the ease of which Batman ploughs through his rogue's gallery, seemingly as a mystical creature who defeats his victims by fear – criminals are after all a superstitious and cowardly lot – this is just as dreamlike as anything we have seen in the last five months.

So Batman has seen it all before – familiar as a world still seen in a dream, as Calendar Man makes reference to a TV show that never existed in this world.

As Batman criticises the very plot of Knightmares, in the fashion that quite a few readers have. How lucid is this dreaming?

And it's just…

…too easy.

What do you reckon? Is Batman still in hell?

BATMAN #70
(W) Tom King (A) Mikel Janin, Jorge Fornes (CA) Andy Kubert
n chapter one of "The Fall and the Fallen," Batman escapes his Knightmares only to wind up in a whole other bad dream. He's locked in Arkham Asylum with his worst enemies, and the only way to get out is to fight them all. It's a gladiatorial game of madness and mayhem, all for the amusement of Bane!In Shops: May 01, 2019 SRP: $3.99

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