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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
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
I sort of liked it, especially the art. However, I felt the story lacked motivation and direct appeal. It also felt convoluted and forced. The art was great though, and I loved the various Batman (Batmen?) they depicted throughout the ages.
Overall, I can't say I was impressed. It was good, just not excellent.
Overall, I can't say I was impressed. It was good, just not excellent.
The Return of Bruce Wayne is tantalizing. It’s got this idea of Batman fighting his way through time after the events of Final Crisis and all the while he’s figuring out the hole in things.
It’s very necessary that you’ve read all the other Morrison Batman stories and even still I’ve read it a few times and almost made a chart. But I enjoy the story much more than when I first read it. It aged much better than I initially thought.
Each issue has a different artist and brings Batman to a different time. Me personal favorite was the last issue or the Black Beard issue.
The art is good throughout though the styles are all different from one another. But Morrison has a good way of incorporating it into the story here.
It never ends. There is the monster and the man who stands in his way. There is the Detective and always a case. Batman never ends and that’s what this book says. He’s the ultimate survivor who fights his way through time and outsmarts gods.
Glad to have you back Bruce. Forever and always.
4 stars.
It’s very necessary that you’ve read all the other Morrison Batman stories and even still I’ve read it a few times and almost made a chart. But I enjoy the story much more than when I first read it. It aged much better than I initially thought.
Each issue has a different artist and brings Batman to a different time. Me personal favorite was the last issue or the Black Beard issue.
The art is good throughout though the styles are all different from one another. But Morrison has a good way of incorporating it into the story here.
It never ends. There is the monster and the man who stands in his way. There is the Detective and always a case. Batman never ends and that’s what this book says. He’s the ultimate survivor who fights his way through time and outsmarts gods.
Glad to have you back Bruce. Forever and always.
4 stars.
Meh. I was rather surprised how the comic turned out to be after been suggested to me as 'one heck of an awesome series'. I have read neither R.I.P nor Final Crisis so maybe it is disrespectful to review out of a veiled sight yet the whole series lacked substance and base, narrowing a decent concept to a messy frame. Grant Morrison could have done wildly better, at least expanding the series to few more novels retaining core events because super-fast story telling seems to have killed what was expected. Being a mystery fan I really loved how Batman time travels while being the savior he always is, yet the plot was hard to digest, bringing out sudden characters and feeding the complexity by throwing scientific litter in every corner as an attempt to nurture the sci-fi face of the story. There were times I was wondering 'from where did he/she appear?' due to confusing ways how roles were brought to limelight. But it should be admired how Morrison portraits Batman's determination and strength even when he is stripped down of his memory and drive. Wasn't up to expectations.
This holds up as a much better read in trade form than it did in individual issues, mostly because the issues were often delayed and seemingly had no regular publication schedule.
There are those, like with many of the books of Grant Morrison's Batman run, that think this book is pretty good. There are those who hate what he's done with the character.
I think the high concept for this book was brilliant.
I'm not gonna comment too much on what it actually was because it ties heavily into "Batman: R.I.P." and "Final Crisis", but I really feel like this one was the last piece of the puzzle with that particular bit of the Morrison Batman story and one that excited and really entertained me.
Not only did Morrison's story wow the little kid in all of us by bringing cavemen, Lovecraftian beasts, pirates, cowboys, mobsters, and time travel into the mix, it wowed the more high-minded sci-fi nerd in us, too.
Again, on the art side of things, we've got pretty much an all-star jam (as we've sometimes had in the past as we've journeyed with Morrison's Batman). Frazer Irving, Yanick Pacquette, and Cameron Stewart put forth stellar work, just to name a few.
Recommended for Morrison fans, Bat-fans, and fans of great genre-hopping, centuries-spanning comics.
I think the high concept for this book was brilliant.
I'm not gonna comment too much on what it actually was because it ties heavily into "Batman: R.I.P." and "Final Crisis", but I really feel like this one was the last piece of the puzzle with that particular bit of the Morrison Batman story and one that excited and really entertained me.
Not only did Morrison's story wow the little kid in all of us by bringing cavemen, Lovecraftian beasts, pirates, cowboys, mobsters, and time travel into the mix, it wowed the more high-minded sci-fi nerd in us, too.
Again, on the art side of things, we've got pretty much an all-star jam (as we've sometimes had in the past as we've journeyed with Morrison's Batman). Frazer Irving, Yanick Pacquette, and Cameron Stewart put forth stellar work, just to name a few.
Recommended for Morrison fans, Bat-fans, and fans of great genre-hopping, centuries-spanning comics.
It was kind of confusing, but I liked enough to finish!
This was a real disappointment. It was hard to follow at times and as it dragged on I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Really wish I had a 3.5 to give out here. The initial "caveman Batman" segment is actually pretty cool, and the wrap-up stuff that ties back in to the main Batman storyline with Doctor Hurt and Darkseid is great (the panels-within-panels layout towards the end is possibly my favorite bit of comics art ever), but the middle witch-hunter/pirate/cowboy Batman parts are just...middling.
Extremely intriguing - fast-paced - very imaginative. Bruce Wayne moves through time as the Justice League races to find him and prevent his return to the current time causing the end of the world. Meanwhile, Red Robin works desperately to convince them that Bruce can be saved.
Very fun to see the stories and art develop through cave-man days, Pilgrim America, the era of the pirate, the Old West, and the 1950's as the reader is taken through the development of Gotham and the Wayne family as Bruce struggles to understand who he is and why he seems to be caught up in legend.
The story is a bit convoluted at times, and if readers are unfamiliar with the events that have gone before, they might find it difficult to access the story at this point. However, it is worth the ride for the artwork and the opportunity to see Batman in the various guises this volume allows him to inhabit.
Very fun to see the stories and art develop through cave-man days, Pilgrim America, the era of the pirate, the Old West, and the 1950's as the reader is taken through the development of Gotham and the Wayne family as Bruce struggles to understand who he is and why he seems to be caught up in legend.
The story is a bit convoluted at times, and if readers are unfamiliar with the events that have gone before, they might find it difficult to access the story at this point. However, it is worth the ride for the artwork and the opportunity to see Batman in the various guises this volume allows him to inhabit.