A review by thecommonswings
Batman: R.I.P. by Grant Morrison

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