No two chapters of Tom King's Batman run have been exactly alike in terms of tone and visual style. However, the series makes an even bigger shift than usual with Batman #45. The closest comparison to be made is Batman #666, which took place in an alternate timeline and pushed Grant Morrison's Batman run in a dark, hellish new direction. It's yet another ambitious turn for King's run, though one that relies a little too much on questionable characterization along the way.
King and artist Tony Daniel make a strong statement with their opening pages, which features a familiar DC hero attempting suicide right in the front of the reader. Fortunately, this doesn't read like an attempt at empty shock value so much as a showcase for just how screwed up this new version of the DC Universe is. In a world without Batman, other, darker figures have crept in to take his place. And with new developments like Penguin becoming president, Jokers running amok and Talia al Ghul languishing in her Batman-free world, King crafts an intriguing look at a very different sort of DCU. Thematically, King is basically giving Batman his answer to the seminal Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything."
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