The Dark Rites of Arkham

The new Lego Batman takes clear inspiration from the Batman Arkham series. However, Legacy of the Dark Knight's beats those games in a particular way.

Fixes all my issues with The Dark Ages and injects plenty of Eternal's movement for the best demon-slaying action yet.

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has a lot to live up to, but early reviews indicate that it's exactly what Batman: Arkham fans are looking for.

There's something that really stood out for me as someone in the UK who collected American comics at the end of the 1980s. It's that each new comic you got was a doorway to a world of absolute chaos and gimmickry. I'm not talking about the comic stories themselves, but about the American ads that were suddenly blaring out of the alternate spreads. Topps bubble gum cards. Garbage Pail whatevers. Endless enticements to buy Bayou Billy on the Nintendo Entertainment System. You'd be reading about Batman, knocking gloomily around some Gotham spire, and then you'd turn the page and, WHAMMO, somethin

"Young and old, gather round / Everybody hail the new king in town."