Anyone else might feel a bit like they’ve showed up for a test without doing the homework. The film, like the comic it’s based on, is designed for fans who don’t need introductions to the huge cast of characters, ranging from Dick Grayson to Kirk Langstrom, and can just appreciate the way they’ve been altered to fit the pulp-horror setting. Set in the 1920s, Doom doesn’t slow its pace from the moment it opens, with Bruce Wayne (David Giuntoli reprising the role from Batman: Soul of the Dragon) and his ragtag crew investigating the failed Cobblepot Antarctic expedition and being attacked by mutated penguins. One such example was Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Richard Pace when they skillfully mined that connection in their 2001 Elseworlds comic miniseries Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, and now its faithful animated movie adaptation offers a genuinely terrifying spin on the Dark Knight and his friends and enemies. Lovecraft dating back to the introduction of Arkham Asylum in 1974. There’s a time-honored tradition of Batman stories paying tribute to the otherworldly horror works of H.
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