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A review by midniqhtr42
Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul by Bit, Wayne Faucher, Paul Dini, Jason Pearson, Grant Morrison, Tony S. Daniel, Jonathan Glapion, Álvaro López, David Baldeón, Fabian Nicieza, Steve Bird, Ryan Benjamin, Keith Champagne, Don Kramer, Peter Milligan, Saleem Crawford, David López, Carlos Rodríguez, Freddie E. Williams II
3.0
Holy orientalism, Batman!
Five stars for Dick Grayson, negative two stars for almost everything else.
A lot of story elements here were super interesting: Damian being raised as a future vessel for Ra’s’ soul, Tim wanting to use the Lazarus pit to resurrect his loved ones, even the three insect ladies were interesting in theory (but not execution), and Damian’s whole inferiority complex over Tim’s position as Robin.
However, there were even more dumb things that just muddled the experience of reading the story as one trade paperback. Maybe if I’d read this in its original, serialized format with weeks between each issue, I wouldn’t have minded or noticed as much, but oh boy did I notice.
I think Morrison’s writing suffers from throwing too much at the wall and not even waiting to see what sticks. Comics get convoluted, I get it, but this was just a lot for no reason.
Five stars for Dick Grayson, negative two stars for almost everything else.
A lot of story elements here were super interesting: Damian being raised as a future vessel for Ra’s’ soul, Tim wanting to use the Lazarus pit to resurrect his loved ones, even the three insect ladies were interesting in theory (but not execution), and Damian’s whole inferiority complex over Tim’s position as Robin.
However, there were even more dumb things that just muddled the experience of reading the story as one trade paperback. Maybe if I’d read this in its original, serialized format with weeks between each issue, I wouldn’t have minded or noticed as much, but oh boy did I notice.
I think Morrison’s writing suffers from throwing too much at the wall and not even waiting to see what sticks. Comics get convoluted, I get it, but this was just a lot for no reason.