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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A proper comic!, 10 Feb 2009
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!
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Batman as a modern comic book, not a movie pitch, 1 Jan 2009
This is really interesting stuff - if you fancy reading a more 'cerebral' Batman series that both strays from the ever reliable formula (Crime happens, Batman meets Gordon, Batman has a fight, Alfred makes Batman a sandwich, Batman dwells in the Batcave, Batman catches the bad guy) and shockingly embraces Batman's ENTIRE history (Yes! Everything before 1987 DID happen!), then you should give this a chance - you just might love this.
In one collection you get 4 very different (yet intertwining) stories, all making up the first part of what I'd call Grant Morrison's 'Psychological-Batman Trilogy' (with 'The Black Glove' and 'RIP' HC's following it), which basically breaks down every aspect of what makes Batman great, and manages to create something new and exciting out of it.
First we meet Damien, Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul's biological son - an obnoxious and murderous little brat, who has been raised in secret by Al Ghul's League of Assassins. This story is jam-packed with action and humor - the story is so compressed that you're left wanting more (The secret is; savor each page like you're actually reading a REAL comic book - not a half-baked movie script!)
Then we have a written 'Prose' short story which describes the latest 'personality transformation' of the Joker in Arkham Asylum - which is marred only by the needless (and dodgy-looking) computer generated images that accompany it.
Then we get a more traditional (Maybe) Batman tale where Bats has a pretty brutal run in with a very nasty, prostitute-beating, sewer-dwelling, Bane-resembling 'Ghost of Batman'
Finally we move forwards in time to a possible future where Damien has inherited his father's mantle - originally printed in Batman issue #666 - you get the drift.
And I haven't even mentioned Adam Kubert's fantastic artwork here, which is really the stuff that comic books were invented for.
Forget Batman: Year one, forget Batman: The Long Halloween - This has nothing to do with those modern re-imaginings, this is the beginning of the final and defining chapter in the life and adventures of Bruce Wayne, 1939-2009!
Go buy - NOW
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Left me cold, 12 Mar 2009
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. Recently Knights End, No Man's Land, Hush and War Games have shown Batman at his best.
I was looking forward to this, the build up to Batman R.I.P.
Problem was, I got bored reading it.
The art is wonderful and show's Kubert's A game is on who.
Only this is it feels like Grant Morrison isn't trying, almost to the point of not caring.
It's like this story is a paycheck to him, that's all.
Sorry if I've upset and morrison fans but this tale left to flat and not wanting to read the following stories.
I will get BatmanRIP when it comes out but for me Batman And Son was a dud.
One you don't really need to buy, just read what Wikipedia says about it.
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