This is not what I thought it was going to be. I was expecting something along the lines of the All-Star line not the next chapter in the Batman Saga. It was a pretty friggen awesome surprise. After the drudging through the muck that was Battle my expectations were a bit low and this left me higher than Morrison on an airplane.

The story is very slick we jump right into the new caped crusader and Robin zooming around Gotham chasing anamorphic villains. The story just keeps ramping up from there, in that the reader gets a glimpse into a swanky she sh new “Batcave” and introduced into a very creepy villain and threat to Gotham. I love Damien. He needs his own book Morrison created an fun and strange character that steals every damn panel he is inserted into. A damn near perfect first issue. Why no 5? I would give this a 4.5 but Ifanboy is a cold and precise world void of vile and ruthless fractions and decimals, unless averaged by other votes.

I like Quitely , I like widescreen comics, but I was a bit off put by the coloring here. The cover is disturbing because Damien’s face looks like an over ripened melon with a face stapled on. That is just a digression, back to the art. I wasn’t really into the Bat vehicles drawn to look like auto show concept cars I ran with that because everything around it looked so damn good but man was this cheery colored for a Bat book. I don’t need gargoyles and 12 shades of grey and black on each page but wow things were so bright and warm at times I thought it was a Kid’s book. Maybe this was to offset the vile mutilating Mr. Pyg villain and I am to dumb to get the contrast.