BATMAN AND ROBIN #4

Review by: Guthriefan

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Preparation and practice are the worst parts of any performance.  In football you practice 10 times more then you ever actually play.  In music its hundreds of hours of work for maybe 2 hours in front of that crowd.  Writing most of the time seems to be an art form where prep to performance has the shortest  difference.  We may edit and change but what you get is what you get.  Grant Morrison to me is finally writing the Batman and Robin he always wanted to.  Everything up to this book Batman and Robin seems to have prepared him and allowed him to to write the best Batman book i have ever read.

It’s strange to me that the man that basically wrote the definitive 90’s and 00’s Batman in the Justice League turned around and needed to completely demolish and rewrite the vernacular to write the Batman he is writing now.  The Batman that Grant wrote back then, the cool, visceral always prepared for all situations Batman, became the Batman that all other writers molded their stories around.  I recall a sequence early in the JLA where Wonder Woman asked Green Lantern why she would know how long she could how long she could hold her breath, Batman storms in knowing the number down to the second.  This Batman as ultimate boyscout typified the books, but Grant doesn’t seem to want to write that Batman or the perfect sidekick Robin that Tim Drake was.

Grant wants a challanged Batman attempting to fill a costume maybe a size a little too big next to the ultimate 10 year old know it all.  Grant wants a Batman when faced with a Red Hood to be huanted by the thoughts its Jason.  To me this is clearly not Jason, and this knowledge allows us to for once be ahead of Batman.  This is gonna be the general feel for the run of this book as Grant enjoys this feeling.  Dick is a great hero, maybe my favorite DC character not wearing a ring.  But we may learn he’s not a great Batman.  That’s ok no one should be a great Batman.  Dick could easily be the hero that Gotham needs wearing his Nightwing costume with Red Robin at his side, but that’s not what Grant wants to wrtie.  Dick would be far too confident that way.

Following the immensly talented artist that preceded him is never an easy task, but Philip Tan does an excelent job of bringing a multimedia style that is fit for the Red Hood and his filmatic jargon.  The red headed sidekick is even more freakish with the art style of Tan.  I especially loved the art in the one “well lit scence” at the party.  His style just bleed opulents at times even though his grimm and gritty is very good as well.  This book is easily one of my favorties and I look forward to where all these masked mystery turn out to be.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 4 - Very Good

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