Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne Author: Visit Amazon's Grant Morrison Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1401229689 | Format: PDF
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From Publishers Weekly
An odyssey for one of the most iconic figures in comics stretches from prehistory to the end of time, revisiting and reimagining Batman's mythology through a complex narrative. Writer Morrison and a team of artists pick up from the end of Morrison's Final Crisis and Batman: RIP. Bruce Wayne is lost in time after killing Darkseid, a godlike being of pure evil. Piecing together the memories of his past that he's lost and slowly realizing he's been turned into a human booby trap meant to destroy the universe by Darkseid, Bruce is pulled through eras of Gotham City's history that include confrontations with cavemen, witch hunters, pirates, cowboys, and 20th-century cultists. These adventures culminate in a return to the present where he must rely on his fellow superheroes to save him from Darkseid's curse. Morrison's story is designed to add to Batman's aura as a timeless, mythical hero, but the time jumps and Bruce's amnesia sometimes create an uneven narrative. The story also asks readers to possess a wealth of familiarity with the character's decades-long history, making the book not as accessible to newer fans. Different artists—all strong, colorful storytellers—give each time period its own mood. (Feb.)
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- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics; Deluxe edition (February 8, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401229689
- ISBN-13: 978-1401229689
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Grant Morrison is the most frustrating comic book writer I have ever read. On the one hand he is CLEARLY capable of writing some of the most fabulous stories ever. Problem is he is also capable of producing some unholy messes but with the way the professional reviewers have gushed over The Return of Bruce Wayne it surely falls in the category of Morrison's masterpieces. "Ain't it Cool News" is quoted on the back cover saying, "If you don't pick up this book, you hate comics". Um, ok. If you haven't figured it out by now I was not bowled over by The Return of Bruce Wayne.
Following a blast from Darkseid's Omega beam near the end of Final Crisis, Batman is thrown back through time to the dawn of mankind. Now he needs to fight his way to the present transporting forward every time there is an eclipse while losing much of his memory with each jump. Wayne meets prehistoric man, pirates, puritans and 1940's cultists all the while his body is filling with "Omega-Charge" that will unleash a universe smashing cataclysm when Wayne returns to present day. This is Darkseid's final revenge. It actually sounds pretty neat but it's in the execution where things go all wonky.
There are at least three things that Grant Morrison does in his writing that annoy me. The first problem is that he has difficulty creating believable dialogue. Instead of feeling like I'm reading actual human interaction it feels like actors in a play reading from a script. At one point Wonder Woman says, "Gods and New Gods like Darkseid are self aware ideas. They use concept-weapons, anti-life equations, hunter-killer metaphors". That is most definitely NOT Wonder Woman speaking, it's Grant Morrison speaking THROUGH Wonder Woman and he does this stuff all the time and I don't enjoy it.
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