Batman Volume Three: I Am Bane

From the spine-chilling "shoo out the clowns" conclusion of the first issue through the endearing and surprising cliffhanger at the end, the final volume of King's first Batman arc finishes the story with its best chapter. I was ready at this point to accept new perspectives on Batman's and Bane's backstories, but the really juicy stuff is the action in the present, which, without going too far into spoilers, rearranges the pieces of the "Knightfall" arc into something that I think surpasses "Knightfall". If this keep up, King's run might crack my top five personal favorite comics of all time.

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