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A review by howattp
Batman: R.I.P. by Grant Morrison
3.0
Overall, I liked this. However, I think the end is really what earned this 3 stars. I was left with It was so intricate and crazy that it took a very careful reading of it just to keep everything straight.
I feel that Joker should have been more involved with the takedown of Batman, rather than this cabal of villains that we just met a little while ago.
What maybe makes me vacillate in my rating, possibly bumping it to 3.5 stars, is the epilogue, which gives a history of Batman as Alfred would have seen it. That's actually one of the things that I've wanted for awhile, it's strange to think of all the events of Batman, a comic book hero for more than 50 years, to have taken place within one lifetime, and he's in his 30s. It was interesting to take the key moments in his life and display them as a mini-biography. I liked it a lot.
So... *Spoiler!* Batman may or may not be dead, which leads into [b:Final Crisis|5173602|Final Crisis|Grant Morrison|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1267344779s/5173602.jpg|5240667].
I feel that Joker should have been more involved with the takedown of Batman, rather than this cabal of villains that we just met a little while ago.
What maybe makes me vacillate in my rating, possibly bumping it to 3.5 stars, is the epilogue, which gives a history of Batman as Alfred would have seen it. That's actually one of the things that I've wanted for awhile, it's strange to think of all the events of Batman, a comic book hero for more than 50 years, to have taken place within one lifetime, and he's in his 30s. It was interesting to take the key moments in his life and display them as a mini-biography. I liked it a lot.
So... *Spoiler!* Batman may or may not be dead, which leads into [b:Final Crisis|5173602|Final Crisis|Grant Morrison|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1267344779s/5173602.jpg|5240667].