A review by walkonpooh
Batman and Son by Andy Kubert, Grant Morrison, Jesse Delperdang, John Van Fleet
5.0
Okay, wow, wow, wow. Excuse me because I'm totally going to geek out in this "review" if you want to call it that. I've been jonesing for a good Batman story and have heard that Morrison's run is among, if not the best Batman story out there. I tried to jump into the monthlies, starting with Batman and Robin and I was a bit lost, so I decided to come back and start here and now I wish I would have a little bit sooner. What a way to end the first volume of Grant Morrison's run on Batman. Seeing into the future and seeing Damian as Batman after having been introduced to him earlier and absolutely loving him from the get go, was just awesome. I do have questions about what is considered "canon" in the Batman mythology. There seems to be three possibilities, although I suppose the first could still fit in with the other two.
1.) Bruce Wayne comes out of retirement and we see the events of The Dark Knight Returns (possibly the maligned The Dark Knight Strikes Back as well, haven't read that yet, but I'm about to).
2.) The events of this book, in which it seems that Damian takes over the mantle from Dick Grayson?
3.) Batman Beyond, which I see has a comic now, or did until the 52 thing. Is this canon now?
Anyway, I had heard that this particular volume, wasn't anything spectacular and I just have to disagree. Like I said, I've been jonesing for a good Batman story for awhile, haven't wanted to jump back into comics and this was just the thing to get me started. I loved young Damian, I loved the stuff where Bruce needs to relearn how to be Bruce because he's been Batman so much recentely. I always loved the stuff with R'as and Talia, so for this to involve them, made it even better for me.
The two standout issues were the text story with the Joker, like I said in my updates, I could read an entire novel written by Morrison about Batman and I usually don't like reading tie in books, cause they tend to feel like cheap fanservice and don't tie into the main storylines. Morrison, just "gets" Batman though. He gets the Joker, he gets Harley and I usually hate when comics try to become novella's or short stories, because it's a visual medium and it should play to the strengths that come with that, but not here. I loved that issue so, so much. That and the Damian issue, I'd read a series about Damian as Batman.
That's why I'm looking forward to this series though. Don't get me wrong, I love Bruce Wayne as Batman. Unlike what I feel is the vast majority though, I'm not afraid of change in comics. In fact, when the status quo comes, when it's just routinely Batman fighting Joker, Superman and Luthor, Spider-Man and Green Goblin, I tend to get a little bored and that's when my interest in comics wanes (NPI). So I'm looking forward to seeing Dick Grayson as Batman and then the whole Batman Inc. stuff. This was a fantastic start to that story though and if I'm already this excited, I can't wait to see what's ahead.
1.) Bruce Wayne comes out of retirement and we see the events of The Dark Knight Returns (possibly the maligned The Dark Knight Strikes Back as well, haven't read that yet, but I'm about to).
2.) The events of this book, in which it seems that Damian takes over the mantle from Dick Grayson?
3.) Batman Beyond, which I see has a comic now, or did until the 52 thing. Is this canon now?
Anyway, I had heard that this particular volume, wasn't anything spectacular and I just have to disagree. Like I said, I've been jonesing for a good Batman story for awhile, haven't wanted to jump back into comics and this was just the thing to get me started. I loved young Damian, I loved the stuff where Bruce needs to relearn how to be Bruce because he's been Batman so much recentely. I always loved the stuff with R'as and Talia, so for this to involve them, made it even better for me.
The two standout issues were the text story with the Joker, like I said in my updates, I could read an entire novel written by Morrison about Batman and I usually don't like reading tie in books, cause they tend to feel like cheap fanservice and don't tie into the main storylines. Morrison, just "gets" Batman though. He gets the Joker, he gets Harley and I usually hate when comics try to become novella's or short stories, because it's a visual medium and it should play to the strengths that come with that, but not here. I loved that issue so, so much. That and the Damian issue, I'd read a series about Damian as Batman.
That's why I'm looking forward to this series though. Don't get me wrong, I love Bruce Wayne as Batman. Unlike what I feel is the vast majority though, I'm not afraid of change in comics. In fact, when the status quo comes, when it's just routinely Batman fighting Joker, Superman and Luthor, Spider-Man and Green Goblin, I tend to get a little bored and that's when my interest in comics wanes (NPI). So I'm looking forward to seeing Dick Grayson as Batman and then the whole Batman Inc. stuff. This was a fantastic start to that story though and if I'm already this excited, I can't wait to see what's ahead.