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1. froggulper says:

   August 25, 2010 at 7:58 pm

   Agree with most of your review, but how was "RIP" filler? It wasn’t perfect, but it introduced a ton of new villains and fleshed them out to a degree, developed story-threads that already existed and are still playing out in B&R to this day, provided a conclusion to the first half of Morrison’s Bat-saga, gave Damian a reason to join the good guys, offed Bruce’s love interest, and told a pretty compelling mystery. I’ve heard some people say that they felt jipped because Bruce "really" disappeared in Final Crisis #6, not at the end of RIP. But it’s the JOURNEY that matters, not the end. Each issue of RIP contained so much new relevant information that many bloggers did lengthy page-by-page annotations. Battle for the Cowl was quite pointless, but RIP is must-reading to understand this era of Batman.

   Glad to see some love for Tony Daniel, though. I’m not a huge fan of his, but I appreciate how he’s trying to switch up his style and experiment. He’s obviously going for a different style in these two issues, and it’s interesting to see. Not excellent art, but interesting. He’s obviously putting a lot of effort into it, and it’s really detailed. I think there’s some aesthetic problems with how overblown his muscle-men are, but overall, I like it. Daniel was like a totally different artist between Batman 670-674, then he switched it up for RIP, then refined his skills again for his 2009 work, and now he changed things again for Batman 700-702. 

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2. devildog says:

   August 25, 2010 at 11:38 pm

   I agree with your point about only so many comics with Dick as Batman.  I feel like Morrison is just getting his footing with Dick and Damian and now Bruce will be back.  I was hoping to have Morrison really stretch his fresh ideas for a longer run, but at least he’s staying on for the foreseeable future.

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