BATMAN AND ROBIN #7

Review by: akamuu

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Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Cameron Stewart
Cover by Frank Quitely
Variant cover by Cameron Stewart

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

Um.  What the Hell happened to this title?

For an issue that took a bleeding long time to come out, this seems very rushed.  There are a couple of editorial errors in this book, most notably a panel where Batman and Batwoman are arguing, and the word ballons are attributed to the wrong person.

As a story, this is…this is bad.  If this is how Batman is really brought back, then I am sorely dissapointed.  The magic dialog and fun plots of B&R 1-6 are gone, replaced with the RIP style Batman story that Morrison is clearly having fun writing, but isn’t nearly as accessible to new readers, nor, well, fun for people who enjoy the patter of the previous arcs.

The art is fine.  It’s no Quitely, but it’s much better than the sketchy cover would lead you to believe.  (I know it’s a Quitely cover, but it’s not a very good one.)

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good
 

Comments

  1. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    January 26, 2010 at 11:44 pm

    Harsh.

    I mean if there is a massive issue of the word balloon’s being in the wrong order. That is a problem. But blame the editors and letterer for that cock up. I am interested to see if this issue is any good. I trust your review, but I wanna know if this reads any better for me.

  2. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    January 27, 2010 at 7:59 am

    The review leaves me cold. I’m admit, I like Batman and Robin because it’s Grant Morrison I like. RIP was Morrison I don’t like. I’ll stick with the series and pick up the book, no offence, but I hope I disagree.

  3. flapjaxx says:
    January 27, 2010 at 9:05 am

    "eplaced with the RIP style Batman story that Morrison is clearly having fun writing, but isn’t nearly as accessible to new readers"

    YEESSSS!!

    Glad the rest of you guys liked the "fun" Morrison Batman stuff, but I’m happy as hell that we’re getting back to the UNIQUE storytelling. If it’s incomprehensible to other readers–too bad!

    Sorry, but a return to RIP-type storytelling is exactly what I hoped for when I read the solicit for this issue, which said something like "Fans of RIP and Final Crisis will want to read this". I’m only BARELY a FC fan, but RIP was just about the most fun I’ve ever had reading (and rereading, and rereading, and studying, and thinking about, and investigating, and theorizing about) comic books.

    I didn’t think it was possible for me to look forward to this comic any more–but this negative review actually makes me anticipate it even more! 😉

  4. Avatar photo akamuu says:
    January 27, 2010 at 11:20 am

    @zeppo & tnc: I hope people enjoy it, too, but I didn’t.  While some of th problem was the editorial errors, the story itself also felt rushed.

    @flapjaxx:  I don’t consider Morrison’s RIP and FC storytelling unique.  His work on Filth (which I enjoyed), Seaguy (which I did not enjoy), and The Invisibles is original.  His non-straight forward Batman/event stories just read like overly ambitious crap to me.  He clearly has these huge ideas that seem really cool, but fails at making them interesting to most readers.  And while some people really love it when his stories are too scattered to keep track of, I find that approach annoying.

    He did a bit with dominoes in this issue that was great, and, in some ways a bit of a metaphor for the way he writes.  But apart from that bit, I just didn’t care about anything that s happening.

  5. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    January 28, 2010 at 7:22 am

    @akamuu I really didn’t care for this issue either.  The art was fine, but the writing was lost on me at moments.  I had the same problem with RIP.  I really didn’t enjoy RIP as much because it’s dialogue seemed to be filled with veiled references and prattle.  At times, it was very difficult to follow and left me frustrated.  I almost dropped the main Batman title because of it.

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