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 Deluxe edition cover. Art by Klaus Janson and Andy Kubert | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Bi-Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Publication date | Nov 2015 – June 2017 |
| No. of issues | 9 |
| Main character(due south) | Batman |
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The Dark Knight Iii: The Master Race , likewise stylized every bit DK III: The Master Race and later collected as Batman: The Nighttime Knight 3 - The Master Race , is a 2015-2017 9-consequence DC Comics limited series co-written by Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Miller, Andy Kubert, and Klaus Janson.[one] [ii]
The series is a sequel to Miller's 1986 Batman miniseries The Dark Knight Returns and the 2001 miniseries The Night Knight Strikes Once again, continuing the story of an anile Bruce Wayne resuming his identity equally a crimefighter, aided by his sidekick Carrie Kelley (Robin) and featuring an ensemble of DC Universe characters including Superman, Greenish Lantern, and Wonder Adult female.[i] [3] [4] In DK Three, Ray Palmer restores 1,000 of the inhabitants of Kandor to full-size, but they immediately begin to terrorize the Earth. Batman sets out to assemble his former allies against the invaders.
The series is accompanied by a serial of one-shots that make full in events between problems. All just the outset are written and drawn by Frank Miller, which continues his experimentation with noir-style writing and art style.
Publication history [edit]
On Apr 24, 2015, DC Comics announced that Frank Miller was co-writing a sequel to The Nighttime Knight Strikes Again with Brian Azzarello titled The Dark Knight 3: The Master Race and that it would exist an eight-effect express series and would exist the 3rd installment in a trilogy that began with The Night Knight Returns.[five] [half dozen] The series, yet, ultimately had a ninth upshot that was published on June 7, 2017.[vii]
Andy Kubert and Klaus Janson provide art for the main story while the tie-in stories are illustrated by a rotating squad of artists including Frank Miller himself, John Romita Jr. and Eduardo Risso.[8] [9] Numerous guest artists have contributed variant covers for each issue including some limited print variants that were exclusive to specific volume shops similar Ssalefish Comics.
Plot [edit]
Effect #ane [edit]
Three years take passed post-obit the deaths of Lex Luthor and Dick Grayson/The "Joker". Bruce Wayne has not been seen since. In the Batcave, someone unseen shatters a display example and removes the Batsuit from therein.
On the streets, a suspect is chased by Gotham Urban center police force officers but saved when Batman appears to assail their pursuit vehicles.
In a jungle setting, Wonder Woman battles a 4-legged minotaur while her infant super-son, Johnathan, rides in a papoose on her back. Upon returning to the Amazons' new urban center, she learns that her truant daughter Lara is visiting Superman, male parent to her and consort to Diana.
Superman is at present mysteriously iced over, seated on a throne in his rebuilt Fortress of Solitude. Lara speaks to him absently nigh the Kryptonian relics on display, including the Bottle City of Kandor. Upon looking closely at it, she discovers a distress signal.
Dorsum in Gotham, Commissioner Ellen Yindel ponders the derelict bat signal. Her career is mired by the media frenzy surrounding the Batman sightings and a new mayoral spokesperson trying to put words in her mouth. She answers a call reporting Batman'south imminent abort.
The ensuing hunt results in Batman surrounded and abandoning a motorcycle. After considerable resistance, the cops manage to vanquish Batman down with night sticks. Disregarding the surprise of a female Batman, Yindel joins the arrest, unmasks her, and demands the whereabouts of Bruce Wayne. Revealed, Carrie Kelley claims the original Batman is now dead.[10]
First Tie-in [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: The Atom #ane: Dr. Ray Palmer finishes a sparring session with a reptile specimen in his lab. He regrows to normal human size and reads news cards nigh the Kelly arrest, worrying nigh the implications. The sounds of intruders prompt him to arm himself. Ane, he finds, is a miniaturized man we volition come up to know as Baal. The other is Lara who has come up calling to come across if Palmer can restore the inhabitants of Kandor to total size.[11]
Issue #2 [edit]
The beaten and bloodied Carrie Kelley is manhandled into a police vehicle. When prompted, she madly repeats her claim that "Bruce Wayne is dead" 3 times. She is incarcerated as a Jane Doe and Commissioner Yindel spends a month interrogating her, with mixed success. Carrie claims the aging Bruce Wayne finally succumbed to battle injuries afterwards years of belongings on. But when asked well-nigh his concluding resting place, Carrie only makes a sick joke and chides Yindel about her anti-Batman beliefs.
Back at his laboratory, Ray Palmer fills in Lara almost the horrible consequences of his earlier attempts to resize Kandor. Baal joins the conversation through a wall-mounted speaker. Lara super-hears a summons from her female parent and flies away in the blink of an center. Baal and Ray continue talking, leaving off with Baal frowning when Ray makes a reference to God.
Following some media commentary, Yindel takes reports on the lack of protesters or resistance to Carrie's legal situation, implying that the Mayor is manipulating opinions. Yindel remotely oversees Carrie'south prison transport. At a strategic point en route, Carrie whistles to trigger a non-lethal missile strike on the transport. The Batmobile (still refit to tank form per Nighttime Knight Returns) advances on the transport. A waiting force of squad cars and drones scrambles to surround the Batmobile. As it continues to shoot police vehicles, Yindel orders a drawbridge raised to cut off its escape route. Police corner the Batmobile against the drawbridge, but detect no i within. Its afterburning fires, propelling it over the drawbridge. Carrie, who has wedged herself in the undercarriage, escapes when the Batmobile lands on the other side of the river.
In a desert, Ray attempts his Kandor restoration project involving cables connected to the bottle and a chest-mounted beam projector. After a blinding flash, the area is populated by total-sized Kandor citizens. Yet, Ray is shocked to come across that some of their number are freshly dead and many more article of clothing the raiments of a cult soon revealed to exist twisted, fanatical, and polygamous. The regrown Baal introduces their leader as Quar. Quar redirects the axle on Palmer. Palmer shrinks to a tiny height and Baal steps on him. Quar orates nigh their new home and power. He picks up the bottle city, whose inhabitants no longer include any of his followers, and obliterates it with oestrus vision.
In the Batcave, Carrie disembarks from the Batmobile and approaches the Batcomputer terminal. Bruce Wayne stands there with a crutch and turns to wait at her with an unreadable expression.
Second Tie-in [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: Wonder Woman #1 : Super mother/daughter friction occurs as Lara returns to the new Amazon city, late for a sparring session with Wonder Woman. Lara laments her upbringing in secret nigh-isolation while Diana focuses on the upside of having a defiant daughter; she'll fight for her own in life. Lara complains that combat preparation is needless given her potentially unrivaled super powers. Diana attacks harder in an effort to enliven Lara'south performance. All the while, super baby Johnathan remains in the papoose, maybe not fifty-fifty awake. Diana speaks of her fighting Amazonian heritage and thrusts a sword at Lara. Lara allows the sword to intermission on her chest, counters that she prefers her father'due south heritage, and flies abroad.
Issue #3 [edit]
Now released from Kandor, the Kryptonians led by Quar make an announcement to the world, asking that they be acknowledged as gods or face destruction. Faced with this ultimatum, but recognising that he is as well weak to confront such a threat himself, Bruce takes Carrie to the Fortress of Solitude to inspire Superman back into action, who since "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" has left himself to freeze in the Fortress. When they reach the Fortress, Bruce strikes Clark with a sledgehammer to rouse him. Clark awakens to Carrie saying that Kryptonians are involved. While Superman agrees to help, Quar and his followers alienation the Pentagon, demanding an answer to their ultimatum. The monitors around the room go black and Bruce (in his Batsuit) declares: "Become to Hell". At that moment, Superman arrives, but is shocked to meet his girl Lara now aiding Quar, declaring him a traitor to his own race.
Tertiary Tie-In [edit]
Night Knight Universe Presents: Green Lantern #1 Hal Jordan : Learning of the Kryptonians' arrival on Earth, Hal travels dorsum to try to brand them stand up down. Encountering the 3 wives of Quar in Egypt, Hal is toyed with past the women as they assess his Green Lantern powers and, realising that without his Ring he is no threat, they sever his correct hand (and the Band) with their estrus-vision, casting it into the atmosphere, and leaving Hal wounded and in shock in the dirt by the shadow of the Sphinx.
Issue #4 [edit]
Superman stands his ground but refuses to fight back as Lara pummels him all beyond the world to the Fortress of Solitude. Quar cocoons Superman in black matter and orders his legion of Kryptonians to sink the Fortress into the sea, and Superman with it. He then gives out an gild to Gotham City demanding that they hand over the Batman or they will take it out on Gotham. As the city falls into chaos, Bruce orders Carrie on a special mission, giving her some sort of pill and her new Batgirl costume. Wonder Woman, meanwhile, stands alone on Themyscira in the rain, ignoring the call to action from Bruce. As Ellen Yindel waxes on the worth of the people of Gotham and that of the GCPD, Bruce in his Batman garb appears backside her and tells her to stop trying to drown out the needs of her people.
Meanwhile, Ray Palmer, revealed to still be alive, is sinking into a subatomic universe when he all of a sudden grabs hold of an atom, realizing that he might exist able to fix his fault.
Fourth Necktie-In [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: Batgirl #1 : In the middle of the riots in Gotham City, Carrie Kelly fights her way to the Gotham piers wearing her new Batgirl costume. She casts a pill given to her by Bruce into the bay as she is about to be overtaken. At that moment Aquaman reaches out from the water and grabs the detail she had thrown in, riding on the dorsum of a whale. Carrie jumps on top adjacent to Aquaman and he tells her to hold her breath as he holds her close.
Issue #5 [edit]
With Gotham City under set on, Batman's followers bring Flash to the Batcave, but Batman is worried he tin't fix Flash's cleaved legs. Meanwhile, Carrie Kelly, Aquaman and his army take institute Superman in the Arctic. Aquaman gives Carrie Kelly a aureate needle, saying information technology's the only affair that will free Superman from the matter he'south trapped in, which she does. Back in Gotham, Batman prepares to fight Quar and his legions. Superman brings Carrie back to the Batcave, where Flash is now attached to a estimator to interfere with the atmospheric condition. Using ability from the Bat-Signal, Wink makes it pelting synthetic kryptonite, weakening the Kryptonians and causing them to autumn from the sky by the hundreds. Batman, Superman (clad in a kryptonite-resistant suit of armor), and the people of Gotham bring the fight to them.
Fifth Tie In [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: Lara #1 : Lara begins to connect with Baal, who tries to impress her past having his version of "fun" and impressing upon her that it is non wrong to take a lot of it. Baal picks upwardly a car and uses it to make sexual advances towards her. Near the terminate, they appoint in a kiss and Lara begins her journey of love.
Issue #6 [edit]
Thanks to the synthetic kryptonite, Batman, Superman, the GCPD and the citizens of Gotham are able to hold off the Kryptonians. The weakened Quar is held off by the Sons of Batman, who striking him with a barrage of bullets and an RPG. Lara and Baal return from their outing effectually the world subsequently the kryptonite rain has fallen and are surprised to see the situation with the downed Kryptonians. Baal begins to impale the citizens and burns a squadron of Batboys to decease with his oestrus vision. Carrie attacks Baal with the Batmobile, which he destroys. Baal grabs Carrie by the cape and hurls her through the air. Miraculously, she is able to land unharmed. When she is cornered by Baal, Carrie uses her slingshot and shoots him with a kryptonite pebble directly in the eye. Baal retreats, screaming in pain. As the Kryptonians retreat, Superman suggests pursuing them to destroy them once and for all, but Batman persuades him to allow them go and and so they can "lick their wounds". Quar uses his rut vision and hits Batman in the back, burning a hole through his chest. Subsequently he collapses, Superman removes Batman's helmet. Bruce makes Clark promise not to have him to a hospital and seemingly dies.
Sixth Necktie In [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: Earth'south Finest #one : Carrie Kelly and two members of the Sons of Batman watch over Gotham City. Lara Kent appears and confronts them. Lara asks Carrie if she was the Batman'due south "Called One". Carrie responded with a dial but fractures her right manus. Wonder Adult female arrives to face Lara and the two fight until she subdues Lara. Realizing that her daughter is injured, she offers her manus and tries to persuade Lara that she is still her daughter later on all, but an emotional Lara declines and leaves the scene.
Issue #7 [edit]
The story continues with the GCPD led by Commissioner Ellen Yindel and Carrie Kelly cleaning upward the urban center. Yindel asks Carrie if what they fought for was worth it since a lot of people died during the battle. Carrie responded by telling Yindel to fix the Bat-signal so they can keep in bear upon. Meanwhile, the kryptonians were able to regain their strength and Quar persuaded Lara Kent to capture her brother, Jonathan Kent as their hostage. At Themyscira, Wonder Woman was able to sense the planned siege when she confronted Lara while attempting to kidnap Jonathan Kent and the Kryptonians realized that the Amazonians were just waiting on them and were ready to assail. Meanwhile, the unknown location Superman went into is revealed to be the Lazarus Pit. Superman plunges Batman's trunk into the pit and Bruce Wayne comes out live, physically younger, and in his prime number in one case over again. Bruce attacks Superman due to the effects of the pit simply Superman calms him down at the finish.
Seventh Tie In [edit]
Night Knight Universe Presents: Foreign Adventures #1 : Hal Jordan continues to search for his lost hand with the Greenish Lantern Power Band attached to information technology. Meanwhile, Hawkman and Hawkgirl lookout over him, deliberating over helping him. Hal reaches an unknown village in the centre of the desert and found the Power Ring in possession of one of the men in the village with the help of a beggar to whom he gave his drinking water at the hamlet'south entrance. The man tries to sell the band, but Hal without any money, steals the ring and runs. Pursued by armed goons, Hal is cornered and surrounded, only is saved by Hawkman and Hawkgirl. At the stories end, Hal is reunited with his severed hand and becomes Dark-green Lantern again.
Result #8 [edit]
At the Batcave, Carrie and the Flash deal with Batman's death, with Carrie hopeful that Bruce is still alive. Batman, now rejuvenated past the Lazarus Pit, appears with Superman. They receive a transmission from Wonder Woman in Themyscira seeking help, as the Kryptonians declared war against the Amazons. Superman arrives to check on Diana, simply the Wink warns Wonder Woman and Superman that Quar and the remaining Kryptonians, who ingested nuclear bombs, are all in one location and have started a countdown.
Eighth Necktie In [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: Detective Comics #1: GCPD Commissioner Ellen Yindel, together with two members of the GCPD SWAT team, are investigating an area where they got a pb from a victim that claims to exist however alive. They find mutilated torso parts treated as a trophy and are attacked by former members of the mutants that are dressed upward like the Joker, calling themselves the Joker Boys. The SWAT team members are killed and Yindel is beaten upward. It turns out that Bruno has taken over the group, and she chosen in the constabulary to exist able to kill Yindel herself. The Joker Boys are about to slice Yindel on a tabular array just Batman and Batgirl arrived to salve her. Bruno and Yindel are defenseless upwardly in a struggle and both sustain gunshot wounds. With Yindel well-nigh to lose consciousness, it'southward made clear that she is about to accept that Batman will ever be there to protect Gotham no affair what.
Issue #nine [edit]
Batman and Carrie race to the Kryptonians, who go along the inaugural. During this, Batman manages to swarm them with bats, causing them to inadvertently attack one another. Discouraged, most of the Kryptonians endeavor to get out Earth, only to be killed by Quar. Batman and Carrie attempt to set on, just are stopped by Superman, who goes in their stead. After beingness berated and assaulted by the remaining Kryptonians, Superman surprises them by systematically taking them out, revealing to Batman that Superman had been holding back his true fighting ability all this fourth dimension. Defeated, the Kryptonians endeavour to go nuclear, revealing that they are planted on a error line which will rip the planet apart. However, Dr. Ray Palmer manages to fix and reverse the furnishings of his shrink ray, causing him to abound and most of the remaining Kryptonians to shrink, negating their explosives' effects to zero more than than mere firecrackers. Quar, going nuclear also, attempts to run, just he is taken past Lara and sent to the sun where he detonates.
Two months later, Superman seemingly has disappeared. Batman comes to grips with his extended life. Carrie has altered her batsuit to mimic Batman'southward and rechristens herself "Batwoman". Batman grows to take her as an equal as opposed to a sidekick. Information technology is too revealed that Lara survived the run into with Quar.
Ninth Tie In [edit]
Dark Knight Universe Presents: Action Comics #1: While Batman, Batwoman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Wonder Adult female, Flash, and the Atom all continue their duties to fight criminal offence and protect humanity, Superman, under his guise as Clark Kent, begins to teach Lara what information technology ways to be human.
Reception [edit]
The Dark Knight Three: The Primary Race received mixed to positive reviews. The first upshot of the miniseries was the bestselling comic in the month of November, selling 440,234 copies.[12] [13]
Sequel [edit]
DK III was initially advertised as the conclusion to the Dark Knight serial that began with The Dark Knight Returns, just in November 2015 Frank Miller appear he planned to produce a fourth miniseries to conclude the story. "I thoroughly applaud what [Brian Azzarello] [is] doing," he said "Only now that he's doing [DK III], it's at present a 4-part series. I'm doing the 4th."[14]
Frank Miller released the proper name of the 4th chapter of the serial, a prestige format one-shot entitled Night Knight Returns: The Golden Child, released under DC Black Label. The first issue by Miller and Rafael Grampa was released December 2019.[15] [16]
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