Batman: White Knight

There's a lot to like about this! Murphy's art is great and I like how it embraces being an Elseworlds story by incorporating lore from various bits of Batman media (a good way to win me over is to make a lot of references to Batman: The Animated Series tbh). The way it addresses the duality of Harley Quinn was interesting and unexpected, and there were some cool story beats along the way. I did feel that it was occasionally too wordy for its own good, which made the layout of some pages cluttered and kind of detracted from the cool art, and I reallllllly did not dig Batgirl's characterization. It's totally fine to make Babs happy and excitable - I mean, whomst among us would not find teeny mice in little helmets cute - but it felt like her whole personality was “squee about things and complain about the menfolk of the Bat Family” which didn't sit right with me.

Overall, though, I had a good time reading it, and even though he wasn't in it much at all, Alfred calling Bruce “my son” and the like will never not make me a bit emotional. I think other Batman stories have explored the Joker/Bats relationship better, but this wasn't a bad read at all. 3 rocks that almost hit Batman out of five (they were big rocks).