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lindakat's review against another edition
4.0
Ok, yeah, that was as creepy AF.
So many questions left to answer:
Who really is Dr. Hurt?
Does Batmite actually exist?
Is Bruce Wayne clinically insane?
Who is Alfred Pennyworth and what was his relationship to Martha Wayne?
Do I, or even Bruce Wayne, actually want to know the answers to these questions or are we happy never knowing truth?
Brilliant as always.
Legit chills.
So many questions left to answer:
Who really is Dr. Hurt?
Does Batmite actually exist?
Is Bruce Wayne clinically insane?
Who is Alfred Pennyworth and what was his relationship to Martha Wayne?
Do I, or even Bruce Wayne, actually want to know the answers to these questions or are we happy never knowing truth?
Brilliant as always.
Legit chills.
thursnext's review against another edition
4.0
"Imagination is the 5th dimension"
Este Batman "hace cosas", tiene capacidad de anticipación. Va a ser cierto que el personaje no es el inútil que me mostró Nolan.
Como una chota, eso sí, Batman y Morrison, los dos.
Quiero una camiseta de Bat-mite, es adorable :)
Este Batman "hace cosas", tiene capacidad de anticipación. Va a ser cierto que el personaje no es el inútil que me mostró Nolan.
Como una chota, eso sí, Batman y Morrison, los dos.
Quiero una camiseta de Bat-mite, es adorable :)
jakekilroy's review against another edition
4.0
Grant Morrison's interpretation of Batman has never really been my Batman. His Batman is the obscure and the frantic. My Batman is noble and calm. However, it's always interesting to cross over and check out Morrison's Batman from time to time. I've never been a big fan, but this one was pretty rad. However, I didn't really understand it. That's what I get, I suppose. Morrison includes little-known aspects of the Batman saga, such as Batmite (small, cartoony Batman imp who offers advice and shit like the green guy from the Flintstones) and the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh is a damn cool thing that I didn't know about until now. Oh shit, Batman has a mental back-up of himself just in case his noble spirit must one day give way to his violent hate? Sweet. But the problem is that it feels like it's on the verge of being revolutionary and if somebody explains it to me, maybe it actually could be revolutionary, or it could just be really flashy and stupid. That's how it's always been with Morrison. He wants to go for the unique and I respect his talent, but sometimes it doesn't work out the way I think he thinks it works out. This cut-up, crazy, out-of-control (a graphic novel of motion sickness) is the Batman that Christopher Nolan would've done if he never moved beyond Momento. I imagine that's pretty cool. And it is. I think. I hope.
thecommonswings's review against another edition
4.0
This has always been just a little too opaque for me to fully enjoy before now, but reading it as another prelude to Final Crisis (and as such almost as a companion to Seven Soldiers) makes it a far richer experience. Morrison is such a fanboy at heart, and it’s heartwarming to see him throw out entirely forgotten moments in Batman history - almost like he did with neglected Fleetway characters for Zenith - and weave them into something greater. There’s a pervading sense of doom that’s absolutely carried over into and from Final Crisis that’s astonishing. He can sometimes be a frustratingly dense writer (in the sense of the density of his ideas), but Morrison for me is always thrilling in the absolute joy he has at throwing together mad ideas from everywhere into an intoxicating whole and he’s absolutely doing that brilliantly here
thiefofcamorr's review against another edition
4.0
Quite decent. Not up there with The Long Halloween, etc, but pretty amazingly awesome anyway.
crookedbookstagram's review against another edition
3.0
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A group of villains, The Black Glove, is determined to bring an end to Batman and they think that they've won. I love that the only one who doesn't underestimate Batman is the Joker.I liked this book but some of it was confusing for me. Apparently, Grant Morrison can be that was sometimes...
anthroxagorus's review against another edition
3.0
Couldn’t get into it. Read half, skimmed the rest. Maybe I’ll come back to it.
ladydewinter's review against another edition
4.0
Do not read this without having read "Batman & Son" and "The Black Glove" first.
Reading this for the second time, I can't believe I actually read it the first time. It's no wonder I was horribly confused back then. Then, the R.I.P. storyline was the... let me check my notes... it was the 19th Batman-related book (back then I read the individual issues but I count that as one book anyway) I'd read, if you count "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Although I have to admit that one didn't help me much with understanding anything. I think I can count myself lucky that I was reading that "Physics of Superheroes" back then, because I think it was there that I learned about Batmite for the first time, which certainly helped at one bit during R.I.P. But truth be told, it all blurs together now.
In any case, what is obvious to me now, after having done quite some catching up in the meantime, and especially after reading all of Grant Morrison's run in the correct order, is that he's using a lot of stuff from way back, and that this is his way of saying goodbye to Bruce Wayne. (For however long that lasts, but I'm not thinking about this right now, nuh-uh.)
I'm a bit conflicted about all this. I get the people who say that he was trying to do too much, which resulted in quite a lot of confusion. But on the other hand, there are moments of such utter brilliance and "rightness" that I'm willing to overlook that. I do have to say that the plot as such isn't as intriguing as it could have been. There are some absolutely horrifying moments, and we suffer with Bruce and the boys, but that's because it's them, not because the story is *that* terrific.
Nevertheless I'm giving this one four stars. Because of the heart-stopping moments that make you think twice about what is actually going on (does JJ have a point during her speech in the cave, for example?) and especially because of the two-parter at the end, and even more especially because of the last three pages and Alfred's speech.
Reading this for the second time, I can't believe I actually read it the first time. It's no wonder I was horribly confused back then. Then, the R.I.P. storyline was the... let me check my notes... it was the 19th Batman-related book (back then I read the individual issues but I count that as one book anyway) I'd read, if you count "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Although I have to admit that one didn't help me much with understanding anything. I think I can count myself lucky that I was reading that "Physics of Superheroes" back then, because I think it was there that I learned about Batmite for the first time, which certainly helped at one bit during R.I.P. But truth be told, it all blurs together now.
In any case, what is obvious to me now, after having done quite some catching up in the meantime, and especially after reading all of Grant Morrison's run in the correct order, is that he's using a lot of stuff from way back, and that this is his way of saying goodbye to Bruce Wayne. (For however long that lasts, but I'm not thinking about this right now, nuh-uh.)
I'm a bit conflicted about all this. I get the people who say that he was trying to do too much, which resulted in quite a lot of confusion. But on the other hand, there are moments of such utter brilliance and "rightness" that I'm willing to overlook that. I do have to say that the plot as such isn't as intriguing as it could have been. There are some absolutely horrifying moments, and we suffer with Bruce and the boys, but that's because it's them, not because the story is *that* terrific.
Nevertheless I'm giving this one four stars. Because of the heart-stopping moments that make you think twice about what is actually going on (does JJ have a point during her speech in the cave, for example?) and especially because of the two-parter at the end, and even more especially because of the last three pages and Alfred's speech.
jennifertudor's review against another edition
3.0
A group of villains, The Black Glove, is determined to bring an end to Batman and they think that they've won. I love that the only one who doesn't underestimate Batman is the Joker.
I liked this book but some of it was confusing for me. Apparently, Grant Morrison can be that was sometimes...
I liked this book but some of it was confusing for me. Apparently, Grant Morrison can be that was sometimes...
kpeninger's review against another edition
2.0
I wasn't a fan of this one. I don't know why it landed poorly, because I know folks like this one, but I didn't enjoy it.