There Is No Hope in Crime Alley, Night 20: Cold Feet

Panel from Batman: The Cult #4 (1988), script by Jim Starlin, pencils and inks by Bernie Wrightson, colors by Bill Wray, letters by John Costanza

A Month of... Batman's Got a Gun, Day 14: Cult of Handgunosity

Have we featured The Cult here yet? You really can't do Batman's Got a Gun Month without spotlighting Batman: The Cult, a comic that wants to be The Dark Knight Returns so badly that it's actually kinda cute. Who wants to be a big grown-up Frank Miller book? You do! Awwww, you do!

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Anyway, if you want an armed Dark Knight, here you go.


Panels from Batman: The Cult #2 (1988), script by Jim Starlin, pencils and inks by Bernie Wrightson, colors by Bill Wray, letters by John Costanza
And let's face it, The Cult #4 may be titled "Combat," but it pretty much could be just all called "Batman's Got a Gun."


Cover of Batman: The Cult #4 (1988), painted art by Bernie Wrightson







Panels from Batman: The Cult #4 (1988), script by Jim Starlin, pencils and inks by Bernie Wrightson, colors by Bill Wray, letters by John Costanza

There Is No Hope in Crime Alley, Night 12

Page from Batman: The Cult #4 (November 1988), script by Jim Starlin, pencils and inks by Berni Wrightson, colors by Bill Wray, letters by John Costanza
Man, Wrightson wanted to do The Dark Knight so very bad, didn't he?