![]() Page six: In the bottom panel, Commissioner Gordon warns Batman not to get too cozy with Detective April Clarkson. Page five: If we say Batman is about six feet tall, then his cape is here at least eighteen-feet long and at least that wide as well. Pages two and three: A two-page splash of Batman in a graveyard, amidst a crowd of grim reapers who aren’t actually there. He speaks the information that would usually be in a narration box. Page one: The entire page is laid out around a splash of a skeletal grim reaper, with six panels of story being framed by the borders of his scythe. Stupid pun blurbed on the cover for no reason: “OH HOLY KNIGHT!” ![]() My favorite part of this issue is Batman’s luxurious eyelashes on the cover. Hell, here’s a preview of the first five pages, covering the ‘70s). (Check out that image of Tim Drake from “A Lonely Place of Dying,” for example, or Drake and Batman from Identity Crisis or fat, spherical Bane. Some of it looks more like the breakdowns a writer might have done when figuring out how to write the script that were accidentally finished and colored. Here Morrison has Batman and The Lump fight it out and team-up, while we see scenes from the rest of Bat-history, from back when Denny O’Neil started writing all the way through “Batman R.I.P.” and it all just looks bland and uninspired. This time it isn’t Tony Daniel’s fault, as fill-in pencil artist Lee Garbett is drawing the pages, but they’re still universally bad…worse, for some reason, than anything I’ve seen on Garbett’s website or even his work just last issue. I’m continually surprised by how shitty the art is. Wait, I shouldn’t say there were no surprises. The ending was already spoiled in Final Crisis #5 (“What kind of man can turn even his life memories into a weapon?”). The format was established last issue-flashes from Batman’s real history, scenes set in a fake history, with Alfred really The Lump in disguise pumping Batman’s psyche for info to build an army of Batmen for Darkseid. I think I got it now.Īs for this issue, there aren’t really any surprises here, or even much of interest. Okay, so he was missing in the recent issue of Denny O’Neil’s story that appeared in TEC, but he didn’t go missing after the helicopter crash that happened before that issue, but after an event that will happen in Final Crisis #6 that will come out at some point in the future. The timeline is finally made clear here too Batman really does totally survive punching that helicopter with his dad/some actor/Satan in it, swims back to the Batcave, changes clothes and then is off on his way to appear in Final Crisis #1. the solicitable) future, the second half of a double tie-in two-parter that bridges the end of “Batman R.I.P.” and Final Crisis. I'm back, my books are read and my reactions written up, so here's this week's Weekly Haul, later than usual, but less later than usual than originally anticipated.īatman #683 (DC Comics) So here is the final issue of Grant Morrison’s run on Batman for the foreseeable (i.e. Well that didn't take as long as I thought it would.
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