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When his parents were murdered, billionaire Bruce Wayne vowed to dedicate his life to avenging them. Now he is Gotham City's greatest protector...he is the Batman.But Batman has spent so long avenging crime that he has lost sight of his life as Bruce Wayne. However, his initial plan, a trip to Europe, is cut short by the arrival of hundreds of ninja Man-Bats, not to mention old flame Talia, daughter of his nemesis Ra's Al Ghul...and a boy she claims is his son!Two of comics' most critically successful and best-selling creators - Grant Morrison ("The Invisibles", "We3") and Andy Kubert ("Ultimate X-Men") - join forces to kick off a weird and wonderful new era in the Dark Knight's career!
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Grant Morrison is one of comics' greatest innovators. His long list of credits includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, JLA, Seven Soldiers, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles and The Filth. He is currently writing Batman and All-Star Superman. Andy Kubert, son of comics master Joe Kubert, has long been one of comics' greatest young talents, with work including both X-Men and Ultimate X-Men, Adam Strange, Captain America, 1602 and much more!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
What a pleasure to read a comic collection that isn't written like another mundane police drama teleplay. This book fizzes with the joy of ideas. It is a wonderful and compelling reading experience and shows a deep understanding and love for the medium of comics. If you have become jaded by the real world pretensions, stylistic limitations and just plain lack of imagination in many modern mainstream comics, this might just be the book to rekindle the fire that made you fall in love with this medium in the first place. It's a thrill!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
About 18 months ago I made the mistake of reading Batman RIP, at the time I did not realise that it was the culmination of a trilogy which started with Batman and Son & The Black Glove. I found it highly confusing but now having read the first part of the trilogy I can start to make sense of it all.
That said Batman and Son is still not a great standalone novel, there are two distinct stories; the first regarding Batman being told he has a son and then how he deals with this new twist in his life. The second is regarding the (fan-given name) Three Ghosts of Batman, neither story is groundbreaking nor are they even particularly good. All the book just seems to be doing is setting the tone of the series and acts as a stepping stone towards what is to come.
Like I've come to expect from all DC comics at the moment, the artwork truly stands out and makes reading the book so much more pleasing than it would be otherwise. But that's not enough to save it from being anything more than just mediocre. I was looking forward the reading The Black Glove before re-reading RIP, now I'm not so sure.
That said Batman and Son is still not a great standalone novel, there are two distinct stories; the first regarding Batman being told he has a son and then how he deals with this new twist in his life. The second is regarding the (fan-given name) Three Ghosts of Batman, neither story is groundbreaking nor are they even particularly good. All the book just seems to be doing is setting the tone of the series and acts as a stepping stone towards what is to come.
Like I've come to expect from all DC comics at the moment, the artwork truly stands out and makes reading the book so much more pleasing than it would be otherwise. But that's not enough to save it from being anything more than just mediocre. I was looking forward the reading The Black Glove before re-reading RIP, now I'm not so sure.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This volume reprints Batman issue #655-658 & #663-666. This is an entertaining story, featuring the appearance of Bruce Wayne and Talia's son Damian, come to join his father in the fight against crime and his mother. Although the story jumps from chapter four to chapter five (I don't know what went on in the issues in between - was there another tie-in event, or did the artist need time to catch up?), it is a seamless break - there is an `interlude' episode sits here though, featuring a text story which I couldn't read - superhero text stories don't work for me, as my `suspension of disbelief' ability doesn't transfer from the comics page to text. The final chapter- #7 or issue 666 - `Bethlehem' is really confusing, as we leap forward to a future Batman - who we are led to believe is Damian. Apparently, this volume is the first of a trilogy, the others being `The Black Glove' and `Batman R.I.P.', though we are given no warning of this. The future characters introduced in `Bethlehem' start to appear in the more recent `Batman Reborn' volume.
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Simply useless, sorry
I love Batman and I love Grant Morrison, but this volume really (and I mean REALLY) disappointed me. The story has some very stupid moments (Ninja-Bats? WTF? Read more
Published 6 months ago by M. Riccardo
hm...
Boy, can I not wait til these little chestnut is retconned out of 'canon'. Super hero families are sooo 1940's. Even illegitimate ones. Batman having a son is such an awkward idea.
Published 8 months ago by Jimmy Eunks
Excellent foundations for a Morrision tale of the Batman legacy
In 2007, Grant Morrison arrived with Andy Kubert at the feet of the Batman legacy. Prior to this the only tale of note was Jeph Loeb's/Jim Lee's Hush storyline. Read more
Published 10 months ago by R. Ayavoo
Missing?
I couldn't make head nor tale of this story, and found it boring and jumping from one story to another with no explenation as to any of it. Read more
Published on 18 May 2009 by Mr. Brandon Bonning
Left me cold
Not sure how to feel about this.
Batman is one of, if not THE, best characters in the DC universe, with amazing and astounding adventures that span decades. Read more
Batman is one of, if not THE, best characters in the DC universe, with amazing and astounding adventures that span decades. Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2009 by Tim Healey
where's the middle????
Ok, the idea, good!
The artwork fine!
the story.......erm.........nope!
There's a nice build up, with Talia getting a near army of Man-Bats... Read more
The artwork fine!
the story.......erm.........nope!
There's a nice build up, with Talia getting a near army of Man-Bats... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2009 by Baladen
What happened to the middle of the story?
I bought this from my loal comics shop and was somewhat disappointed.
I'm sitting there happily reading the story and then halfway through, what feels like a massive... Read more
I'm sitting there happily reading the story and then halfway through, what feels like a massive... Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2008 by Stan Smith
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