This week was a perfect example of what happens when the guy behind the counter at the LCS doesn’t listen to you and starts thinking for his self. I don’t know what the hell DC was thinking, but there is just entirely too many Bat-books and/or Batman appearances this week. And that doesn’t count all the appearances in last week’s stack. It’s shit like this that eventually causes readers to say the hell with it and move on to something else.
So let’s talk Batman, shall we?
Batman 704 - I had really high hopes for this book, instead I’m telling myself I was right to drop this book. DC has all these new Bat-titles and for a flagship book, this story was as generic as it gets, not to mention all the cross-hatching in the artwork. Looks like an early 90s Image book. Two Batmen, really?
Grade: D. And that’s being nice.
Batman - Streets of Gotham 17 – Wait, so now Bruce’s mother was a Kane?!? That kinda makes the big crush Flamebird used to have for Robin, just creepy as hell. And Bedbug? All the villains in Batman’s history, and Bedbug is the best they could come up with?
Grade: D. Now I need to go take a bath.
Batman - The Return - Now that we have the Bat-family gathered in the Bat Cave, Not once does Bruce ask where Cassandra is, nor did anybody bring up Batwoman. And did that drawing of mean Barbara Gordon might be walking again?
Grade: C. Just too many plot holes to even call this a coherent story. This is what you get when editors don’t do their job.
Batman - The Return of Bruce Wayne 06 - Another example of bad editing. For a company that prides itself for its continuity, this is unforgivable. Not only is the book late as hell, but why is Wonder Woman in it when she’s supposedly not even in the DCU. But what pisses me off more is the fact that Grant Morrison gets too many passes simply because he’s Grant Morrison. So that means things that are happening in other books are irrelevant because he can’t be bothered to see what’s going on.
Grade: F. Just for being so damn late.
Batman, Inc. 01 - Uh, ok. Look at Batman The Return and change Bedbug with Lord Death Man. And a Japanese Batman? Really???
Grade: F-. More Morrison bullshit. He must be pulling these stories out of his ass.
Detective Comics 870 - I really don’t even care. I can't even describe how I feel about this book. The art was so horrendous, I didn’t even make it pass the first page.
Grade: F.
Superman - Batman 78 - When will DC cancel this book and put it out of its misery? One line from Batman sums it all up, “You just wasted five minutes of my time.” How prophetic.
Grade: C. Art was beautiful, even though the story has been done over and over since the 70s.
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