Oh boy, what a mess. Batman: Damned is a very clumsy attempt at creating an 'adult' Batman comic, and I'm not just talking about the whole Batwang controversy, or the fact that it daringly uses words like 'shit' and 'fuck'. Azzarello's writing is pretentious, the story is nearly incomprehensible, trying to pass for being deep and meaningful yet not really saying anything profound or interesting about Batman or his world. This book felt like it was written by an angsty teenager who thinks his edgy poetry is groundbreaking (and hey, I used to be that teenager, too — I really hope I won't be when I'm 56 like Brian Azzarello, though). Lee Bermejo's art is mostly great, though his laughably thick and muscly Batman and over-sexualised Zatanna and Harley do nothing to sway away that hormonal-teenager-is-making-this-book feeling. Overall? :Damned. (sorry, couldn't resist)
Brian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 11, 1962) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter.He came to prominence with the hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo.In 2011, he became.