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As the Knightfall storyline continued, Azrael continued to add and refine his costume in order to make it more practical in his war on crime. This meant adding stronger armor, enhanced weaponry, and other hardware improvements. Again, this was handled well in the overall story, as they seemed like reasonable, practical decisions, however how Azrael went about it gave more clues to his growing mental instability.

I like this design better than the original costume, but I feel it still has the same problems. The colors are wrong, and a lot of the design choices are superfluous. I think this is closer to the idea of a warped, perverted version of Batman, and at least there is a semblance of Batman's logo on his chest. But again, it just doesn't say "Batman" to me. That may have been the intent, but I feel that it might have helped the message of the story to have Azrael look closer to Batman's typical costume in order to highlight the differences between the two.

I do find it odd though that a lot of the design choices that Azrael implemented- making the costume more like armor, giving it an onboard computer- have been later included in later Batman costumes to give him a greater "edge" in combat.

Description
As the Knightfall storyline continued, Azrael continued to add and refine his costume in order to make it more practical in his war on crime. This meant adding stronger armor, enhanced weaponry, and other hardware improvements. Again, this was handled well in the overall story, as they seemed like reasonable, practical decisions, however how Azrael went about it gave more clues to his growing mental instability.

I like this design better than the original costume, but I feel it still has the same problems. The colors are wrong, and a lot of the design choices are superfluous. I think this is closer to the idea of a warped, perverted version of Batman, and at least there is a semblance of Batman's logo on his chest. But again, it just doesn't say "Batman" to me. That may have been the intent, but I feel that it might have helped the message of the story to have Azrael look closer to Batman's typical costume in order to highlight the differences between the two.

I do find it odd though that a lot of the design choices that Azrael implemented- making the costume more like armor, giving it an onboard computer- have been later included in later Batman costumes to give him a greater "edge" in combat.