He's been doing this his whole entire run.
And some of it, atleast to me, has been rather hit or miss. Robin Dies At Dawn with the isolation chamber...cool. The International League of Batmen? Not so much. I didn't enjoy that story at all. The idea of Batman-inspired heroes is an interesting one, but if felt the story was bad, and the executed idea was stupid too. Especially since Morrison more or less killed off half of them. What was the point, other than to introduce the Black Glove?
Depends on how you look at it, him acknowledging all those stories expands the modern Batman's history quite a bit and makes it richer and more varied. I was questioning why he was doing it earlier in his run which is why I dropped it but now I get what he was going for with that, it adds more possibilities in terms of storytelling.
I agree with you to an extent. It certainly opens of possibilities with storytelling, but it all comes down to execution. Look above at what i said about the International League of Batmen. Morrison really just brought that back to kill them and introduce the Black Glove. Silly Idea. Now, this Batman of Zur-En-Arrh? Who knows how it'll play off. Time can only tell.
The one's I've read nothing has been a mind **** at all it's pretty straight forward then again I am familiar with all 70 years of Batman unlike a lot of fans. That being said something has to give if you haven't been blown away by his stories but yet still read them lol it must've had some kind of impact on you.
Nah, i think you might have misunderstood what i said. Regardless of the incorporation of 70 years of Batman thrown into this run, my complaint was that Morrison jumps from Point A to point D to point F then to point W, and then back to point B. Morrison has characters talking about things that make me feel as if i missed something in another issue or something. Things feel left out, and doing that with jumping around are making me scream "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" in all the wrong ways. Im not sure if it's made any impact on me than it is my urge to see if Morrison creatively ties everything together and makes me go "oooh! Christ...that was genius! Now i see!". Or maybe it's just my discomfort of having to drop the title. I've been saying that i'm dropping the Spirit issue after issue, because right now it's good-awful trash. But i still buy it for some reason and i keep getting pissed with it. But we'll see how Batman winds up.
It's no supposed to be like Knightfall just supposed to be another event made for the fans. I think what makes people make that mistake is cause he said the last issue of this arc will rock the character's world. But notice he didn't say the entire story he specified that last issue. Knightfall was the breakdown of Batman on a physical level and mainstream friendly this is more intimate in that it's continuity laden like a lot of DC stories and is supposed to showcase the mental breakdown of Batman. This is in many ways a story for the older fans first. If you're familiar with Morrison's past work with the character or even old stories like the untold legends of the Batman you see all the parrallels they draw with this event more or less.
Morrison seems to be hyping it up as something epic. I hardly think that saying this arc is going to be "rocking the character's world" and "will be the biggest thing in all 70 years of the character's history" is just another story to tell. I think it's a huge story, a special story. One that could be bloody freakin' amazing and have people talk about it years after it's been told, like Knightfall.
I'm waiting to see how Morrison's tying this all together, so again, i'll wait to see it. I'm not sure if i like the idea of looking back at all of Batman's history...again. I mean, there's The Untold Legend of Batman, which was great, Batman #400, which tested his abilities and mind and proved that Batman's going to be around for quite awhile, no matter what. Maybe my problem is just that Morrison's just taking plot points from other stories and not from his imagination. I don't know yet. I've read Arkham Asylum, as well as the other two stories i mentioned, and i've been a fan of the character since i was a baby. But i've became a big follower upon hearing news of the new Batman film(what eventually became Batman Begins). I've read many silver age stories, and i'm open to anything as long as it's interesting. But some of them are awful stories. I mean, maybe Morrison will have Batman Jones pick up where he left off. Maybe he'll make The Joker pull the ***** of the 21st century! There's only so many good stories that he can incorporate, but aside from Robin Dies At Dawn and elements from The First Batman story, i haven't been into everything else. I'll check out the Batman In The 50's trade to read this Zur-En-Arrh story, but we'll see what happens.
That being said I think the epic will begin by next ish as Hurt and his cronies want to put Gotham on it's knees and we've already seen something as shocking as Grayson being committed to Arkham and drugged up. You can't be mad at this being at the third part and you're trying to figure everything out that's the point we the reader are right there with Bruce Wayne and everybody else trying to makes sense of what is going on it's gaining momentum to give us payoff by the time the arc is complete. What's the fun in having all the answers so early on it gives you no reason to even continue reading.
Yea, but the thing is, Morrison's been saying everything in his run has tied up to this moment. Didn't the Third Batman from the Black Case book insinuate that Dr. Hurt was Satan himself? Damian's future as Batman seems set in stone, and unless Morrison's just fooling us with issue #666, Batman, Bruce Wayne, really has to die. And if this were something on a bigger scale, i'd say "yea, third part. This is cool", but the problem is, this is part 3 of 6, out of a whole run that's supposed to tie in with this, but has not many any sense whatsoever. Not to mention, this arc has about 12 other issues that tie into this arc, but don't further the story. I'll keep reading, and again, i'll do so with the hope that this arc becomes more coherent within the next 3 issues.
