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Art and Variant covers by Cameron Stewart
Covers by Frank Quitely
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Story
There are 2
problems with Grant Morrison; for one he's
incredibly pretentious, and I do not mean the memetically propagated, "I
don't understand, therefore it is.", definition of the word. I do
understand what Mr. Morrison is trying to achieve. I mean that he really
does
think he is doing important work and is worthy of special respect. This
is not
to say he’s incapable of telling a good story, as has been proven
hundreds of
time. The second problem is that while being well into his third decade
in the
business and one of the best storytellers in the medium, he still hasn't
mastered the 22-page format. The latter is my problem with this whole
arc.
Grant Morrison loves Batman, and this is his attempt at writing an epic
based
on him. It is very ambitious, and the reason it has been derided by a
lot of
fans and professionals alike since the beginning. I understand his
reason to
kill off the character, and I can forgive the clear mishap of shifting
the
death from the Batman’s book to Final Crisis. But tacking on a retcon
like this
for a story that he himself finished just a year ago, in this contrived
“comic
book-y” expository way, is just plain lazy writing. It might be his plan
all
along, having the body be that of a clone, but it’s presented in such a
way
that makes it feel like a last minute decision.
But I am I fretting over something that didn’t even happen in this issue? Well because I read #8 and #9 back-to-back and as I said, the writer’s inability to cope with 22 pages per issue shines. These issues could have easily been compressed down to a single issue and still would have had all the content. I also am confused as to the tone of this book. Killing Batwoman and then reviving her with the lazarus pit makes me think Morrison is too, or as before, he’s just being lazy. The Crime Cult (or whatever they are called now) gets their prophecy, and we get our Batwoman. Whoop-di-do, 52 is now pointless!
Then there’s the ending. Dick Grayson finally comes
to the
conclusion that we all drew 2 years ago from the Batman: RIP
announcement;
Bruce Wayne isn’t dead! As a result the ending looses all impact its
supposed to have. This arc was quite useless, besides the Batwoman
development, which was obvious set-up for some future crossover.
Art
Cameron Stewart is a very good artist, if you don’t believe me, check is web-comic Sin Titulo, on hiatus because of his work here (so catch up), but here the colors seem to clash with his pencils. During dynamic panels, its not noticeable, but during the static panels, the conversation parts, some characters look out of place. Especially Squire.
The artists that have followed Quietly have been trying to imitate him to some extent, which makes the storytelling suffer. The much hated Phillip Tan got the hang of it towards the end of his arc, but here we get Stewart’s own style, mixed with Quietly’s, and while its not as bad as Tan’s first issue, it is still a little distracting.
Which makes me think that the style choices are in the favor of uniformity and an editorial decision. Still doesn’t make me any less distracted. I hope they give artists a little room to breathe from now on.
Art: 3 - Good
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