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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Georges Jeanty, Frazer Irving, Chris Sprouse, Guy Major, Andy Kubert, Mick Gray, Pere Pérez, Alejandro Sicat, Karl Story, Grant Morrison, Waldon Wong, Ryan Sook, Jared K. Fletcher, Travis Lanham, Tony Aviña, Michel Lacombe, Lee Garbett, José Villarrubia, Yanick Paquette, Nathan Fairbairn
3.22 AVERAGE
76 reviews for:
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Georges Jeanty, Frazer Irving, Chris Sprouse, Guy Major, Andy Kubert, Mick Gray, Pere Pérez, Alejandro Sicat, Karl Story, Grant Morrison, Waldon Wong, Ryan Sook, Jared K. Fletcher, Travis Lanham, Tony Aviña, Michel Lacombe, Lee Garbett, José Villarrubia, Yanick Paquette, Nathan Fairbairn
3.22 AVERAGE
Never liked multiple artists on one series, even if I can understand why it was done. So far, least favourite Morrison Batman stuff, but I still liked and enjoyed it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
Reading a Morrison book is like solving a puzzle. It involves a lot of turning pages back and forth. I had to keep checking [b:Batman & Robin: Batman vs. Robin|7395327|Batman & Robin Batman vs. Robin|Grant Morrison|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327948245s/7395327.jpg|9276736], [b:Batman: R.I.P.|3430164|Batman R.I.P.|Grant Morrison|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1526770785s/3430164.jpg|3471065] and [b:Batman: The Black Glove, Deluxe Edition|12105291|Batman The Black Glove, Deluxe Edition|Grant Morrison|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1344370308s/12105291.jpg|44693063], the previous books on his acclaimed Batman run, and it was a treat. This is what I love about Morrison. He expects the readers to make some effort on their part instead of spoonfeeding them.
If I could give it zero stars, I would. I can honestly say this was the worst comic book/graphic novel I have ever read. The story was awful and confusing, the art was poor and it just felt like a very half-arsed effort. If i'm being honest, I only actually read half of the book, but i'm amazed I got that far through it was so bad. Maybe it picks up later on and improves slightly and if it does then I apologize, though I highly doubt it.
Not a big follower of the Justice League stuff, so I was a bit lost on some of the JL sci fi fantasy stuff but Bruce Wayne being stuck in different time periods of history with some Batman easter eggs in the background was quite cool.
Interesting concept and some gorgeous art, but the story was kind of muddled and hard to follow.
I liked it for the most part but I think there could have been so much more exploration into Batman's trip through time rather than just 'I don't have memories but here's a bat symbol that keeps following me so I need to piece together my life.'
Favourite story was when he was a cowboy though and I really liked the cameos the Waynes played, especially the Dr who was performing that mystical spell. Super creepy.
3.5 stars but cannot round to 4.
Favourite story was when he was a cowboy though and I really liked the cameos the Waynes played, especially the Dr who was performing that mystical spell. Super creepy.
3.5 stars but cannot round to 4.
Time travel plus Batman should equal awesome in my book. They're two of my favourite tastes; surely they should taste great together? But I was left kind of cold by this tale of Bruce Wayne clawing his way blindly back to contemporary Gotham through various ages. I read it in the prescribed context - after Batman & Robin volumes one and two, and Time and the Batman - but the larger story Bruce's brief adventures are meant to convey seemed rather dull. Indeed, I didn't expect there to be a larger story, since Batman has lost his memories throughout his journey. Well, mostly lost - it's Hollywood style amnesia.
That said, I liked the (oddly caucasian) early human, Pilgrim witch hunter and old west incarnations, though they had their flaws too: witch hunter Batman was easy to confuse with his rival in their identical Pilgrim outfits, and old west Batman's only major contribution was to be impossibly cool by outdrawing gunfighters using only batarangs. The fragmented story these parts were supposed to draw together got entirely in the way of any kind of interesting vignette of Bruce Wayne dealing with another era: he never does any detection (except as a witch hunter) and seems like a ghost haunting his own story. The tension supposedly set up by the threat he represents - talked about constantly by Batman's modern friends in flash forwards - never feels real, either, so its resolution comes as a let down rather than a pay off.
The Return of Bruce Wayne is some fun, perhaps, and it's not not awful. I can't help but feel that maybe I'm missing something, though, and given my back catalogue of Elseworlds titles has much better versions of pirate and noir Batmen, it's hard not to see this as a lost opportunity.
That said, I liked the (oddly caucasian) early human, Pilgrim witch hunter and old west incarnations, though they had their flaws too: witch hunter Batman was easy to confuse with his rival in their identical Pilgrim outfits, and old west Batman's only major contribution was to be impossibly cool by outdrawing gunfighters using only batarangs. The fragmented story these parts were supposed to draw together got entirely in the way of any kind of interesting vignette of Bruce Wayne dealing with another era: he never does any detection (except as a witch hunter) and seems like a ghost haunting his own story. The tension supposedly set up by the threat he represents - talked about constantly by Batman's modern friends in flash forwards - never feels real, either, so its resolution comes as a let down rather than a pay off.
The Return of Bruce Wayne is some fun, perhaps, and it's not not awful. I can't help but feel that maybe I'm missing something, though, and given my back catalogue of Elseworlds titles has much better versions of pirate and noir Batmen, it's hard not to see this as a lost opportunity.
I liked this a lot, but, honestly, it's kind of impossible to follow Morrison down the wormhole sometimes. Truly, I couldn't figure this out in a lot of instances, since, hey, it also involved time-jumps, time monsters, etc. It was rad seeing Bruce Wayne engage history, especially the bat themes and Wayne family and manor, but, goddamn, like taking drugs sometimes.
Surprisingly linear compared to the other books in this saga, allowing Morrison to relax a little and create meetings with past D.C. characters without it ever spoiling the momentum of the book itself. The final issue is the most recognisably Morrisonesque but that’s fine, as it works nicely as an epilogue to the whole series. Far more straightforwardly entertaining than I was expecting it to be, which again is not a bad thing at all