10 Comic Book Arcs That Went On Too Damn Long

When Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns came out in 1986, it had an impossible-to-overstate influence on all future Batman stories, as well as comics in general. For a long time, fans were clamouring for Miller to return to the world he had so expertly put together, and explore his vision of Batman further.

Fans got a sequel in 2001 with The Dark Knight Strikes Again, and suddenly nobody wanted to explore Miller's vision any more. Weird, messy, and unfocused, DKSA was a major let-down, fifteen years in the making.

So when a third chapter in the Dark Knight story began in 2015, fans weren't sure what to expect. While DKR and DKSA had been only four and three issues long respectively, DKIII was going to be a much longer nine issues. Add to this massive delays and speed bumps in production, and fans were waiting months upon months between issues being released.

What should have only been a miniseries took almost two whole years to get from beginning to end, causing many fans to get tired of waiting and check out long before the finale.

Unfortunately, it wasn't even particularly worth the wait. Although it does contain some insanely fun moments (see: Kryptonite rain and Superman's mech suit), it is nowhere near as iconic or revolutionary as the original story. While DKR was a thrilling Batman adventure while also serving as a biting satire of eighties life and politics, any societal critiques within DKIII were half-baked at best.