I had that hope because the Bruce in this world is very much an old man, it’s been over a decade since Curse of the White Knight, and Terry having the suit should set up a new era. I also had hopes that this might be the last of the White Knight stories, but sadly that’s also not going to be the case. By Batman: Beyond the White Knight #8, Napier has taken control of a hardlight hologram projector and is just another full-on protagonist for the book, providing McGinnis with the way to defeat Blight at the climax of the book. He’s possessed by the ghost of Jack Napier, because Murphy can’t let that dynamic die. Bruce is out of jail early on in the story. No, Batman: Beyond the White Knight wasn’t a Batman Beyond story. Where are my neons? Even Blight is a washed-out green and not the radioactive neon that we all fell in love with 30 years ago. Grounded and realistic are the opposite of what NeoGotham should be. They’re dull and muted, making for a grounded and realistic look. The colors of the book are the same as the colors of every other White Knight universe book. Murphy’s NeoGotham is just Murphy’s Gotham. It was meant to enrapture eight-year-olds in front of a TV every Saturday morning. It’s a neon nightmare of cyberpunk trappings.
Not just the costume, but the world itself.
The world of Batman Beyond is all about aesthetics. But that’s one of the bigger problems with this series. Sadly, my hopes outweighed reality, because despite the name of the book, Terry McGinniss is very much a tertiary character in this series, meant just to provide the aesthetic of the costume to the series. When the new series was announced as a riff on Batman Beyond, I had some hope that maybe Murphy would move past using his own little Dynamic Duo to expand and enrich his universe. Beyond killing off the Joker, Murphy also left the last series in a natural closing point with his version of Bruce Wayne arrested. He’s still the protagonist of this series, no matter how many terrible things he does again and again. Without Napier, Murphy’s Batman was left without a good foil, his unhinged behavior demonstrating all the more that this Batman is not a hero.īut still, that’s how Murphy wants to use him. Jack Napier was what made his world at least a little bit interesting, no matter how badly Murphy represented psychiatric medicine through him. His version of the Joker, problematically cured by overdosing on medication, was dead at the hands of Harley Quinn. In Curse of the White Knight, he killed his golden goose.
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