Batman: White Knight #4

Batman: White Knight

by Sean Gordon Murphy, Matt Hollingsworth (Illustrator)

Jim Gordon and the GCPD are thrown into disarray when Jack Napier leads a show stopping campaign to become councilman of the politically abandoned neighborhood of Backport. Civic backlash brews as Mayor Hill struggles to find creative ways of criminalizing Napier’s democratic aspirations, and Batman’s interference blooms into a liability for the GCPD’s public image. Through it all, the new Joker plots to derail everything—and new secrets about Harley’s past are revealed.

Genres: Comics, Batman, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Superheroes

33 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 2018

About the author

After breaking into the industry at a young age, Sean Gordon Murphy made a name for himself in the world of indie comics before joining up with DC. In his tenure, he has worked on such titles as Batman/Scarecrow: Year One, Teen Titans, Hellblazer, Joe The Barbarian, and the critically acclaimed miniseries American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest and The Wake with Scott Snyder. Murphy also wrote and illustrated the original graphic novel Offroad and the popular miniseries Punk Rock Jesus.

Reviews

[Alejandro]

One of the best miniseries that you can read nowadays!


This is the comic book issue #4 of the event “Batman: White Knight”, which it will be a miniseries of 8 issues.


Creative Team:

Writer & Illustrator: Sean Murphy

Colorist: Matt Hollingsworth

Letterer: Todd Klein


NAPIER FOR COUNCILMAN

I mean you started out with a vendetta against Gotham and Batman but somewhere along the way you became the hero.

Gotham City has disease and its name is Batman.

Jack Napier is the cure!

Vigilantism has cost too much in lives and infrastructure to the population of Gotham City and Jack is helping to reveal that people hadn’t known the peak of the big picture.

Gordon and Batman aren’t in the same page anymore, if they’d truly be anytime before.

But also Batgirl and Nightwing are considering if remaining to the side of The Dark Knight is truly the best for their own duties to protect Gotham City and its citizens that it’s looking like the new White Knight is the only logical path.

Jack has been moving his pieces in a masterfully way and Batman isn’t helping with his reckless actions to stop Napier’s cause.

However, a character that you may think that it would be discarded, just serving to make a punchline, it’s rising, evolving and inserting a chaos factor into the carefully designed plans of Jack.

Will Gotham City survive from the struggle between two different kind of knights with their own visions of “saving” it?

[Jedi JC Daquis]

Four issues in and Batman White Knight is starting to become a convoluted mess. It still is a good read though.

I love Sean Murphy's art style, been following hus works since I have read Punk Rock Jesus. I am just not (yet) a fan of Murphy as a writer. Batman White Knight has the tendencies of becoming another Punk Rock Jesus: a graphic novel that has a very, very interesting premise but ultimately did not deliver a story the readers deserve. What happened to PRJ is also happening to Batman White Knight.

BWK's main plot is muddled under a thick layer of politics and controversy. Murphy's writing style is way too preachy for my taste. I mean it is okay to do social commentary, just mind the story first.

White Knight also suffers Sean Murphy's tendency to write one-dimensional characters just to get the plot going. It felt like everybody else aside from Jack Napier are either dumb or gullible, characters who are just mere shells of who they really are.

Story transitions are also very disjointed, like a badly-edited movie.

I am still investing my time and money in this series though, trusting and hoping to get that sweet payoff.

[Siona Adams]

This series just gets better and better. I love that this approaches how Batman and the Gotham Elites really just let the city continue to suffer rather than actually helping them. I know the actual Batman title has touched on it, and right now 'Tec comics is focusing on the Victim Syndicate, but none of it has been like this. As hardcore as this has been. I would even say this is a must read for people.

[Aron]

Great stuff, really liking this story.

[Etienne]

Lot of non sense, lot of talking, lot of déjà-vu...

[Jay]

I'm almost trying to find something about this I do not like. So far, no luck. I love how Murphy is poking holes in the practicality of Batman, and with the Joker of all people.
"If Batman really wanted to end crime, he should have shared his technology rather than hidden it."
"We never needed it."
"You don't think his advanced kevlar would have saved a few of your officers over the years?"
We all know this in the back of our heads, but there's something refreshing about reading it. It's almost like that fourth wall is being broken, and who better to do that than the Joker?

[Jamie (TheRebelliousReader)]

5 stars. All five of those stars are for the backstory of the "other Harley" Marian Drews. I'm loving what Murphy's doing with Harley Quinn and I think it's a good breakdown and study of her character. I'm seriously loving the hell out of this series and I'm on board with whatever is going to happen next. It's so damn good.

[Marisa Carpico]

Lots of really great ideas here, but Murphy undercuts some of them by making Napier give into a few criminal tendencies. The best thing Murphy is doing here, though, is with the two Harleys. Really examines the character and who she was and became over time in a very insightful, smart way.

[Derrick McCall]

"I don't want to fight you anymore... I want to HELP you."

Jack wants to give the GCPD a terrorism taskforce and to let the Bat-Family work within the GCPD instead of alongside it? Don't you do it... ACAB (minus Gordon, until he decided to make a paramilitary force).

[David]

Murphy is crushing it. Why isn't this a movie?

[John]

As Jack Napier popularity soars Batmans continues to diminish.

[Simeon Scott]

half way through and I feel like this series finally found it's footing, really like the stuff with Neo Joker and the conversation between Gordon and Napier was just brilliant IMO.

[LyricTrotter]

The arrival of the Neo Joker is a plus, and sidelining Batgirl and Nightwing for against Bats is a genius plot in making. Can't wait for the next.

[Marcel Alamán]

Vaya qué buena esta esta serie!

[A M H]

I like seeing how reasonable and persuasive Joker can be. He's really thought things through. Even if you ignore how Batman is characterized here, Joker still makes plenty of other valid points.

[Steven Shinder]

Still feeling somewhat slow, but I do like Gordon's complaint about how Batman doesn't mass produce his resources for the police to use. It's understandable for him to say that.

[Lerry]

Loved Marian's backstory, and the tension between Gordon and Batman, but I especially liked the political parallels about racism with the real world.

[Eugenio]

The reveals, the world building, the story just keeps getting better.

JackNap/Joker is compelling and I cannot help to root for him over Bats.

The Murphyverse has sucked me in!

[Aasher Blaze]

Lo que olvide decir fue que murió Alfred pensé que era inmortal el chico, y pues neo joke pues era obvio que era la Harley suplente pero avanza bien me gusta

[Centli Garcés Buendia]

Es una forma diferente de pensar en la dinámica de Gotham, me gusta la idea de que Batman sea tan terco que no pueda ver nada más que venganza.

[Emilija]

The Joker might have more sane, more acceptable methods, but he still seems to aim for the same thing - to be Batman's nemesis, the first thing that made Harley leave, I hope she doesn't leave for the same reasons and that till the end there won't be any unpleasant plot-twists.