Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne Deluxe Author: Grant Morrison | Language: English | ISBN:
B0064W67AU | Format: EPUB
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne Deluxe Description
Grant Morrison’s bestselling multi-part Batman epic continues with Bruce Wayne’s return to Gotham city.
A time-spanning graphic novel featuring Bruce Wayne’s return to Gotham City to take back the mantle of Batman, written by award-winning writer Grant Morrison and illustrated by a stable of today’s hottest artists including Chris Sprouse, Frazer Irving and Yannick Paquette. This is the final chapter of the epic storyline that began in the bestselling graphic novels BATMAN: R.I.P. and FINAL CRISIS, in which the original Batman was lost in time.
- File Size: 64904 KB
- Print Length: 232 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics; Deluxe edition (November 21, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0064W67AU
- Text-to-Speech: Not enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,651 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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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