REVIEWS FOR JULY 3, 2008
Only two books today, but one has a long review where I rant and rant about things that have nothing to do with the book itself so… Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking, but it took me a while to write so I am going to post it anyway.
( Batman 678 and Crossing Midnight 19 after the cut... )
( Batman 678 and Crossing Midnight 19 after the cut... )
That being said, I feel that Bruce himself is being written terribly out of character. I don't like how things that are so important just SUDDENLY pop up in morrison runs either, like the black glove, batman's son, etc. Now I know morrison isn't the only one to pull such cards (Jason Todd a few years back?) but the concept alone annoys me and Morrison is notorious for it. While Damian shows up again and again, he is in no way being delt with. The son of the bat storyline should have been a years worth of issues where batman actually deals with "oh shit...I have a son...how did I not know...is it true?" like it would have during Dixion's golden era of the Bat Family...rather than 3 issues that focus more on absurd ninja-bat-men-assasins.
I'm not saying Morrison is the worst writer in comics, hardly. I just think he is extremely over-rated. He'd be better on mini-series and non continuity pieces. They just need to stop giving him so much power to effect major continuity as he misuses it in my eyes in attempts to make too radical a changes for changes sake. I'm not a conservative comic fan who doesn't like change, I just like good reasoning and better story telling. No more pointless death, ressurection, etc. Give the reigns to Johns, Winick, Bendis, or Dixion, they all respect continuity and make good decisions in the way of change.
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If you don't like the books, don't read em, and in a year Damien will have been a robot/clone/dream and Bruce will be boring and mopey again :-P
Honestly though, I prefer Morrison on his own stuff then when he plays in other peoples sand box. More Seaguy please.
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> in morrison runs
Hardly unique to Morrison. Every writer does that. Gail Simone just did it in Wonder Woman. Tim Drake is a good example of Chuck Dixon doing it.
"Hi, I was a little kid in the Haley Circus who figured out Batman's identity that nobody noticed back then!"
Jeph Loeb did it with Hush and Supergirl. Winick with Jason Todd. Bendis did it with the Skrulls. Johns is doing it right now with Green Lantern by adding Maleficus or whatever the heck that guy is called into Hal Jordan and the Empire of Tears story. Everyone does it. It's not a bad thing by itself, it's a completely normal device to get things started in long on-going fiction.
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