Batman: The Dark Knight #11 - Cycle of Violence

Wow I see you got that new toy you were talking about.

Loving Hurwitz work here. After making Penguin scary, I had no doubt he would rock this comic.

I had my doubts about the Dark Knight but this and last issue have really stepped things up. Looking forward to more good writing

I am extremely well-versed in Bat-escapades, but I avoided this series initially now I'm thinking I might pick up 10 and 11 and jump on now.

I'm really loving this new creative change by Hurwitz. The Dark Knight is easily rising up to be one of my current favourite Batman titles.

i cant wait to see what hurwittz will do with other bat villains such as Killer Croc, Joker..or TWO FACE!

Hurwitz speciality is definitley the villains. if you want a good batman story read Snyders want a good villain story read Hurwittz :)

There's no way this girlfriend sticks around more than 10 issues.

She'll probably be gone before the story arc even finishes.

@InnerVenom123: Or she'll finally figure out what his deal is. He's practically making it obvious every time Alfred comes in and Bruce darts off.

@G-Man: "Oh look, the police commissioner is in danger. Well, I've got to run off for no particular reason."

The only flaw with Hurwitz's take on this book is her. Everything else is perfect. He needs to axe her.

The problem with the book is Finch and not Hurwitz. The problem is that Finch is too pretentious as an artist so he does a bunch of splash pages and just really big artwork. It takes away a lot of story from the pages and doesn't leave enough room for the book to end on a good cliff hanger. A lot of other artists have that same problem. All of Liefeld's books are like that because he writes for the artist, but pretentious artists like less story. Another example is the guy that does Green Lantern New Guardians and Green Arrow. It takes a lot away from the writers.

Manapul and JH Williams do a great job of showing off the story rather than the art and it compliments the story. You can tell the difference between an artist trying to sell themselves rather than trying to sell the story.

Im enjoying the creative change as well, but It's weird to me how the relationship seems a little serious in this book when it's not even mentioned in others, but whatever I can get over it =)

The change is very enjoyable and cant wait to see what happens with The Joker

I agree with what y'all have said. I loved that Batman employed some of his detective skills and even utilized child psychology in speaking to the first victim. Where Crane is terrorizing the children psychologically, Batman has been able to use his own methods to his advantage.

It took two readings, but did you notice that Crane is collecting the children's tears? I wonder if this is to make a more potent fear toxin? Is it to eliminate the fear that he has for Batman (the one thing that is able to scare Crane and link him to humanity)? Can't wait for the next issue.

Such a beautiful cover.

Last issue was weird-looking. Dunno if it was the inking or coloring. Same here?

I was considering dropping this series since the original writer was just terrible and I wanted to save money. But I decided to give this new writer a chance since Scarecrow is one of my favorite Batman villains. I am really enjoying this arc and the new writer. I think I might keep the series for a bit longer after all! Thanks a lot :P

I thought it seemed a bit short, but its keeping with its new direction of being really good - finally!

I'm gonna be optimistic about Gregg Hurwitz's outline of this whole arc because I feel he relies heavily on Finch's artwork to tell the story and deliver plot and character elements;so it seemed this arc with scarecrow should be about five issues(?) or longer to be spread out evenly and not feel cramped,which is what I found David was trying to do before he stepped down as writer.It did seem short,but like I said David's art can say so much.Fastest page-turner for me of the week.

This is one of the many things i enjoy from the batman tittles, him using his detective skills to deal with this F up villains. I just hope that they don't messed up Dark Knight like they did with detective comics which had a good start but then it went down.

I believe in Hurwitz.

This issue had some true LOLZ moments for me.

going to have to pick this up

Scarecrow sewing his mouth shut is one of the dumber things in the last comic.