Which is why I do hope we actually do DRK for the book club down the line. This is one of the truly iconic Batman comics, one touted as the single greatest Batman story of all time, with the WIZARD-bred fandom hailing it as on par with (or even superior to) WATCHMEN. Like it always comes down to those two.
I wonder how people outside of the scans_daily mentality consider DKR these days? Does the common fan see it as ugly as we do? Has it aged terribly for anyone else? Would we still have felt this way had we read it when it came out?
Meanwhile, BATMAN: YEAR ONE holds up beautifully, as does WATCHMEN (which also had the same impact of creating the grim and gritty era). Why is that? Those are the questions I'd like to see explored.