BATMAN #681

Review by: Templar

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Price: 3.99

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Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good

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  1. Morrison fucked up the X-men, what else dou you expect him to do if they continue to let him play with big characters? I really wish Batman was dead. I need closure in my books. Nice review.

  2. Thank you.  I don’t want anyone to think I dislike Morrison as a whole.  I’ve enjoyed some of his work, but usually when it’s his own creations.  We3 is a great example.  Although I’m enjoying Final Crisis, by and large I have not enjoyed how he’s applied his "big ideas" to established characters.

  3. Can you believe I ordered eight copies of this garbage?!  Well obviously, I ordered them before I read it, I’m not a total retard!!  I wish it wasn’t past Halloween already so I could give them away to the Trick or Treat kids, if they’d take’em!  Well at least I ended up with one of the variant covers.  Maybe I can get enough for it on Ebay to make up for all the rest of them I wasted my hard earned $ for!!

    Total trash!!  Will somebody please explain to me why this Grant Morrison guy is so damn special?!  Seems like a bunch of hype to me…

  4. Ok, this is a total copy-paste job, but this is the current theory on Dr Hurt that I favor:

    >>The time: 40 to 35 years ago. John Mayhew in his 20s directs "The Black Glove" movie, starring Mangrove Pierce and Marsha Lamarr, Mayhew’s 5th wife. Mangrove and Marsha have an affair. She gets pregnant and a boy is born. Mayhew finds out the baby isn’t his, has his wife killed and frames Mangrove Pierce for the murder. The Waynes provide Mayhew with an alibi. Pierce is arrested and the baby boy is given for adoption. He temporarly lives with the Waynes before getting a new home.

    30 years ago (1977, May 9th). "Gotham’s Hurt missing". Hurt was a philantrope just like Thomas Wayne. He even ended up adopting a boy Thomas Wayne previously sheltered. He named him Simon. Simon Hurt. But where is he now?

    27 to 25 years ago. Mangrove Pierce is released on parole for good behaviour. He adopts or reassumes the name Joe Chill. "Mangrove Pierce" was probably an alias, common among actors, like Pennyworth’s "Alfred Beagle". He resents the rich and powerful ("And then you look at all this privileged jerks, these doctors and lawyers and millionaires and their trophy wives… "). Since Mayhew is in seclusion and nowhere to be found, Chill goes after the Waynes to have his revenge. He kills Thomas and Martha, but lacks the guts to do young Bruce ("I shoulda shot the kid right there — Three for three – But he was like my own boy. The son I lost. ")

    He says "3 for 3", not "3 in 3"; "3 for 3": Thomas, Martha and Bruce for Marsha, his son "Simon" and himself.

    >>Circa 15 years ago. Joe Chill, formerly known as "Mangrove Pierce", is now a mid-ranking crime boss, having built a legitimate front, the "Land, Sea, Air Transport Company". Batman haunts him for a whole month until he breaks in despair and kills himself. Somewhere down the line, Simon Hurt learns everything about his past, including the fact Batman lead his real father to commit suicide. And from who does he learn it? From the Black Glove. Simon Hurt is his bet on Evil; Bruce Wayne is his bet on Good. But who is the Black Glove? Simon Hurt is now resentful of the rich and powerful, just like his father before him.

    >>15 to 10 years ago. Dr.Simon Hurt is a psychologist for the army and does a deep research on the Batman. He learns everything he can about him and everything else FROM him, through the 10-day isolation chamber experiment. He creates the 3 replacement Batmen and plants hypnotic trigger words on all 3 of them and in Batman as well (Zur-En-Arrh). He now knows Batman as no one else.

    >>Some months ago. Batman goes through the Thorgal ritual in Nanda Parbat to purge himself from the demons, only to find out later those demons were the only thing putting him together. He enters the temple in Nanda Parbat to reintegrate the demons again. He returns to Gotham fully reinvigorated and puts an end to all crime in Gotham. That’s when things start to happen: the 3 replacement Batmen reemerge; Batman remembers the Black Casebook and the Isolation Chamber experiment; John Mayhew returns; Dr.Hurt returns.

     

    Also, I JUST got this.  Zur En Arrh = Zorro in Arkham.  Weird.

  5. Zorro In Arkham?

    Are you kidding me? What a piece of self indulgent turd.

  6. Apparently, his father’s wordshaunt Bruce, because they imply he would disapprove of Batman.

  7. I totally agree with that explanation

  8. Great review.  Pretty much summed up my feelings.

  9. Awesome review. Summed up my thoughts on it, too. I couldn’t have said it better!!

    About the above explanation, though: is this a theory someone posted, or facts? Because after reading that, RIP kind of makes sense, but that’s the thing — you shouldn’t have to read a summary of a story you have already read to make sense of it. If that post is what happened in RIP, I had no idea.

  10. After looking at my issue again … Batman says that Hurt is Mangrove Pierce & the theory above says it’s his son, Simon, so … ah fuck it, I give up trying to make sense of it, lol.

  11. Holy Retcon, Batman!  Hopefully in a year all of this mess will be over and they’ll put Jason Aaron on the book.  Or Ed Brubaker or Greg Rucka.  Or maybe Geoff Johns can do another "Rebirth" book. 

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