Batman Damned #3 Review

Writer: Brian Azzarello / Artist: Lee Bermejo / DC COMICS Fear and Audacity We begin in a casket. Batman Damned #3 uses poetics as an anchor to showcase the consequences of fear and control. Not only does Brian Azzarello deliver with the bars, the assist Lee Bermejo is bringing with the artistic components is sickening. The panels are delivering lines about the illusion of control and its comparison to fear. Honestly, I never felt so dragged in the first page of a comic book a day in my life. The Batman Damned series brought you the different layers of fear. How our past torments us, to the inhibition of being alert, right down to the illusion of control. Batman Damned raises the question: What does it mean to be spiritually moved by the entity that destroys us? A casket as a singular image is a great representation of what it means to be locked in an illusion of control. The casket symbolizes the absence of control. One is unable to control their fate; they are essentially trapped in a dirt with scavengers coming to ravage their bones. When you’re buried alive, the ability to take control is limited.

The pressure from underground pushes the ends of the casket together making it difficult to break. Even breaking it will be an issue, as dirt can fill in easily through a cavity. Batman’s need for control is rewarded with turmoil. The fear of making the wrong decision yet, every path leads to something unfortunate. The Azzarello-Bermejo team gave anxiety a voice in the accumula…