Batman: Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 2: Knightquest (2025 Edition)

By Chuck Dixon

A new Batman's deadly crusade against the criminals of Gotham City begins!

Bruce Wayne, battle-broken and out of commission after his epic showdown with Gotham's famous villain Bane, has appointed a new Dark Knight to keep the bad guys at bay. Jean-Paul Valley (a.k.a. Azrael) has assumed the role of the caped crusader, but without Bruce's integrity as a calming influence, Jean-Paul is swiftly getting out of hand, alienating both Robin and Commissioner Gordon.

Meanwhile, the hulking baddie Bane is still on the loose, while new villainous foes are introduced onto the battlefield that is Gotham, including master marksman Mekros and sinister sniper Gunhawk. Also, watch out for the return of familiar faces such as the serial killer Abattoir and, of course, the eerily jovial Joker.

Can the new Dark Knight face these nefarious challenges without Bruce Wayne and Robin? Might his violent manner of crime-fighting permanently cripple the already beleaguered Gotham?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1799500462
• ISBN13: 9781799500469
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: DC Comics
• Length: 976 Pages
• Weight: 5.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Fairly decent, but has some problems

I felt like this book sort of dragged its feet a lot, like a lot of the stories felt a lot like side tangents instead of serving a bigger narrative. I get that's probably the point of a lot of Batman runs, but when you compare it to the first omni, there's really not a lot of connected narrative tissue compared to part 1. One of the other problems I have with it is that it will table arcs that won't be brought up again for like three or four issues, and it's partly because of how the actual issues were written and partly because of poor structuring of what order you read them in the omni. Some of the arcs were cool, like I enjoyed the Catwoman one, and the one with gunhawk was pretty cool too, but some of the others are just very mediocre, and the fact that there's not a lot of narrative structure really makes that issue worse. The search portion is just kind of strange, it takes Bruce on this really weird side quest, and while it's not bad, I don't think it's super interesting and it doesn't serve the plot that much. Overall, while I think some of the Az-Bat stories are pretty cool, I don't think the book is worth buying just for those, I think you should only get this if you want to collect the entire Knightfall series.