BATMAN #678
Review by: WilliamKScurryJr
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This, the latest in Grant Morrison's campaign to obfuscate the comic reading public, is the third chapter in "Batman R.I.P.", wherein Batman is apparently drugged with weapons-grade crystal meth and dropped into a phantasmagoric nightmare hallucination. At least, that's what it seems like, because there's little attempt to tell a story aside from a of montage images of Bruce Wayne throwing up on a wall, beating up toughs on an el-train line, and Dick Grayson fighting a clown bearing a garrotte.
Morrison is so enamored of the 1960s Silver Age Batman history that he is constructing a story dependent on absolute familiarity with that lore. The penciler, Tony Daniel, exhibits little skill in assembling linear panel work that goes toward cohering the story Morrison is trying to tell, further muddying the attempted narrative.
What seemed like an excellent concept from the outset is being ruined by the page, and it's a wonder if this will ever get on track and conclude satisfactorily.
Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 1 - Poor
Art: 1 - Poor
breaks my heart to see anyone talk that way about Tony Daniel’s work.
@FACE: Agreed.
@WilliamKScurryJr: I don’t think the point of the art was to tell a coherent story in this issue. Although I didn’t like this issue cuz as you said there is way too much Bat history for me to follow the writing but I think the art fit what Morrison was going for (whatever that is). Just hoping it all makes sense at the end of the arc.
Like you, I wasn’t a fan of this issue (I think "phantasmagoric nightmare hallucination" was an awesome way to describe it), and I wonder if Morrison can wrap this story up in any type of satisfying way now, with only three issues left in R.I.P. (I don’t think the tie in issues will be required reading). I’m semi confident it can still end up as a good overall story, because in Morrison’s whole run on Batman, this is his first bad issue (IMO) and I will forgive it, if this arc concludes well.
@FACE Sorry, dude — TD has never disappointed me this much in all his previous single issue work.