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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
It almost didn't seem like a Batman comic. With the time travel and the really peripheral presence of anyone else I was waiting for Star Trek characters to walk in. I'm not sure I understand the context either but that could just be ,e reading things out of order again.
This was a poor choice for my first superhero comic book. With only the three movies providing me the background on the Batman universe, I was expecting something along the same lines - with human villains and sci-fi limited to some high tech gadgets. This was the exact opposite of that - New Gods, time travel, end-of-the-world scenarios and a bunch of other superhero characters.
I finished the book without understanding the slightest bit about what happened there. The plot is fragmented as Batman travels through different eras in history. While this might be more interesting to people who are better acquainted with the series, it's hard to make sense out of for newcomers like me.
I finished the book without understanding the slightest bit about what happened there. The plot is fragmented as Batman travels through different eras in history. While this might be more interesting to people who are better acquainted with the series, it's hard to make sense out of for newcomers like me.
Hot garbage in your mouth. Really hammers home how stupid and bad comics can be.
Well I'm very happy that Bruce Wayne isn't out of the picture (not that I really thought that they would leave him dead). The concept art is really cool even though he doesn't look like that in the story, in theory a pirate Batman is amazing.The story is pretty good too of course, it was a little confusing at times and I had to go back but over all it was an interesting continuation of what happened with Darkseid.
After wounding Darkseid with a bullet fired through time Bruce Wayne is struck down by a bolt of omega energy and thrown into the deep past where he must fight his way though amnesia and follow clues he left for himself, jumping from era to era, chased by something big and nasty with teeth and tentacle, first as a cave-man, then as a witchfinder, then as a pirate, then as a cowboy and so on until he gets to a station hanging over the heat death of the universe, while his superhero friends search for him to stop him because he's so soaked in omega energy when he returns to his his own time he'll destroy the whole world AND I MEAN COME ON.
Return Of Bruve Wayne is the culmination of a few years' worth of build-up and it's got the usual Morrisonian high mind-mending-concept-to-page rate and also Bruce Wayne as a cave-man, a prate, a cowboy, etcetera. Really, it's got everything, and it still feels fresh and mad and fun.
Return Of Bruve Wayne is the culmination of a few years' worth of build-up and it's got the usual Morrisonian high mind-mending-concept-to-page rate and also Bruce Wayne as a cave-man, a prate, a cowboy, etcetera. Really, it's got everything, and it still feels fresh and mad and fun.
The Batman Files reading spurred me on to read this interesting journey of Batman's supposed death and trip through time, and I'm left wondering what exactly these new writers have done to our beloved Batman. I'm pretty okay with multiple Robins and Batgirls and Batwomen and every other superhero that he seems to involve and invent, but Grant Morrison basically turned Batman's story into a science fiction that not only doesn't make sense, but doesn't make sense in terms of what and who Batman is. There was a thread in this collection about how Batman can and will survive anything, even a trip through time, and I could definitely appreciate that. I also liked seeing him in different incarnations. Cowboy Batman and 1950s gangster Batman were particularly fun. But the conclusion and even the original "death" of Bruce Wayne, an event that the entire DC Universe seemed to have been involved with, all felt very ridiculous.
I suppose the truth is that I like my Batman set apart from that universe. I like a Batman who sticks to Gotham City, who fights the Riddle and the Joker and Two-Face and doesn't join any Justice Leagues and doesn't have to deal with gods and super-superheroes. Batman is a man, and while even these deities seem to respect him and all he's accomplished (and he beats Superman's ass every time they clash), I still prefer him as a mortal being dressed in a costume dealing with psychopaths and criminals. The best Batman stories have been just that.
If we're going to throw Batman into space and make him a sci-fi channel mockery, we might as well just kill him off and be done with it. Let him die a hero and not live long enough to be his own villain.
I suppose the truth is that I like my Batman set apart from that universe. I like a Batman who sticks to Gotham City, who fights the Riddle and the Joker and Two-Face and doesn't join any Justice Leagues and doesn't have to deal with gods and super-superheroes. Batman is a man, and while even these deities seem to respect him and all he's accomplished (and he beats Superman's ass every time they clash), I still prefer him as a mortal being dressed in a costume dealing with psychopaths and criminals. The best Batman stories have been just that.
If we're going to throw Batman into space and make him a sci-fi channel mockery, we might as well just kill him off and be done with it. Let him die a hero and not live long enough to be his own villain.