Reviews

Batman: The Chalice by Chuck Dixon

enzan's review against another edition

2.0

Making Bruce Wayne a descendant of some Christian person was a pretty weak premise for a story. He's a Jewish man anyways. The Chalice was a pretty terrible story even if you ignore that (and man, I tried to.)

The Ankh was alright. Not worth slogging through The Chalice for, but alright. Stories about the fear of immortality are interesting enough, and I had gotten used to the artwork by then.

blackbird9805's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

stilldirty's review against another edition

1.0

You can almost see the way they photographed models for each panel. What am I saying? That's ALL you see. And if you look close enough, many of the models are likely people in their mid- to late twenties, early thirties. The story didn't distract well-enough from the artist's transparent cheating methods to make panels. Well-trained hacks, all.

But you may not mind if you like "Ex-Machina" (which, I kind of do, though the too-real, yet unrealistically-posed art bothered me there, too).

I just finished this, so I'm feeling particularly vehement about it. But I'm biased, so pay me no nevermind about it.

xandra_lyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The chalice: good, but left a lot of questions ununaswered in my opinion

The ankh: very good!!!

sylvain's review

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

serenitynow's review

dark mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The Chalice is probably the weakest of the three episodes contained in this John Van Fleet's Batman collection, mainly for its lack of insight on characters and events. The Ankh is interesting, but I've found Cast Shadows to be much more compelling and reflective (maybe a bit pretentious in some thoughts). John Van Fleet art style is peculiar, but I've found only a handful of boards really breathtaking, while most of them tent to confuse the narration even more (expecially in the "cryptic" Chuck Dixon episodes).

greeniezona's review

3.0

This book is my husband's and it's been on our shelves forever and I finally picked it up out of curiosity for a prompt for a reading challenge. The story was Batman meets The Holy Grail, and right away I was like, "wait, what?" There were demons and immortals, and I guess I prefer my Batman villains a little more human-sized, because it just didn't mesh for me. I did enjoy the brief Alfred-Catwoman team-up, however.

ngizmo's review

2.0

Algo que podría ser una premisa genial se diluye en absolutamente LA NADA a lo largo de 100 páginas. La segunda estrella es por el arte que está dentro de todo bastante bien.