Batman: Dark Pattern #7 kicks off a new arc as Bruce Wayne recovers from his nightly escape, kicks off with a huge multi-pan window within Wayne Manor. Outside, it shows Gotham City is in flames. While Bruce closes the distance with glass, his face takes up space in one window’s pane, filling the entire page. With these opening pages alone, Haydenshaman fully captures the themes of patterns and perspectives, setting the stages of mystery.
The title of this third arc is “Pareidoria.” They tend to apply meaning to random shapes and visual patterns. It’s Batman, who looks at the clouds’ face or has a smile familiar to his bloody bandages. True to that name, the dark pattern considers the pattern in which Bruce continues to return to him. His enemy’s face appears everywhere, and even the Red Hood gang, the original persona of Joker, appears to be revived. All this information is conveyed seamlessly through the incredible writing of Dan Watters and visual storytelling of Sherman. The reader experiences blues paranoia with him.
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To solve the mystery, Batman challenges Old Gotham, a part of a city that embodies what people think when using the name “Gotham” as a dimly terminology. It’s a maze filled with homeless people, forgotten, and hopeless people tied together by intertwined telephone lines.
In this issue, traditional comic book panels change from diagonal buildings to windows, appearing at an angle. This page will be a blueprint for Gotham’s abandoned district, with Batman in the center.
Shamans don’t stick to traditional panels. Here, the two pages are not similar. Sometimes Batman sits in an isometric viewpoint, showing how small he is within the old Gotham maze neighbourhood. He is also shot at a low angle. Sherman’s invisible camera is alive and moves all the panels and moves to Watters’ text. Even on a simple page it reads vertically, Sherman shakes it by making a panel out of the POV of criminals chased by Batman.
Visually, dark pattern #7 captures the soul of the story of Batman, an undead city that never sleeps. And Dan Watters’ voice for each of the iconic characters feels just as true as Batman and Gordon’s definitive view, original creator Bill Finger and Company. But wisely, it’s relatively normal than the two previous arcs, but its simplicity is its strength.
This is the type of story they won’t tell anymore, and the type of work that Batman imagines during his big events, going back to the legend of the Dark Knight. This is like a mystery that appears at 3am on the Batman Channel.
Batman: Dark Pattern #7 is something people have been seeking in Batman’s story. Various threats and Joker Wars, more gritty mystery, and set up clues for the setup properly. There are no melodramas, no urban destructive threats, no corpses and detectives. This is the premise that it will be performed in a skill and a well-defined style.
“Batman: Dark Pattern” #7 brings back old legends from Gotham’s past
Batman: Dark Pattern #7
“Batman: Dark Pattern” #7 is something people have been seeking in their Batman story. Set up a more gritty mystery with a variety of threats and less Joker Wars, and a well-set cues. There are no melodramas, no urban destructive threats, no corpses and detectives. This is the premise that it will be performed in a skill and a well-defined style.
Dan Watters has the voice of all Batman characters Pat
Hayden Sherman once again proves that he can’t bore the page. He makes the craziest composition work
Compared to the previous two arcs, the start isn’t that strong, there’s less quirky mystery, and it feels like hooking readers.
