Finally! After a long time of waiting, this title is finally back in action. Once again we don’t have Frank Quitely as artist, but instead we get Cameron Stewart. Sounds like a fair balance to me. Either way it has crazy Morrison ideas, so what could go wrong?

Let’s get one thing out of the way first. As some have already pointed out, there are two word balloon mistakes here. Towards the end, Pat Brosseau mixed up Batman and Batwoman’s dialogue twice and that was extremely annoying. Somehow he got it mixed up and the editors didn’t see the mistake either. Which is weird because DC had a month or two to see this problem. So yes that does hamper the issue towards the end, but in hindsight it is a tiny mistake.

I love Knight and Squire, the British versions of Batman and Robin. Grant Morrison revived them earlier in his Batman run and anytime I see them I just smile. It’s a mystery why to me, but somehow when these two characters are involved, Morrison’s story is just more fun to read. Now one thing that is a bit confusing is that there is a heavy British dialect for some characters in this. Things did go right by me cause I didn’t understand what they were saying. Now after some re-reading (especially with Pearly) I got the gist of what they were saying. To me though I enjoy learning new things and having a challenge. If Alan Moore can get away with it then so can Grant Morrison.

As for the story itself, it is a bit weird to see Grayson go this far to get Bruce back. Then again I believe this was the most obvious course of action of him and the readers. I was thinking this to myself as well when we see his plan, like: “Oh yeah, why didn’t they just do that after Final Crisis?” It’s a desperate move but these are desperate times, especially since this is after Blackest Night. I did love the interactions between Dick and Squire; and the interrogation with Pearly (after some re-reading) was tense. Batwoman coming out of no where did confuse me…Plus it doesn’t help with the lettering problem.

This isn’t Seaguy, but I know Stewart works well with Morrison. Judging from his style alone, I liked almost everything he did here. It feels cartoony but does have this sorta, grim feel to it. Like the scene with Pearly is dark and feels like your watching a cop film or along the lines of it. I love his panel layouts too; not as creative as Quitely but still pretty damn exciting.. He knows how to pace a chase scene, as the beginning showed in here. I’m sure, like last time, there will be comparisons to Quitely but I will not go that far with the review. Cause that’s just crazy talk to begin with.

With the lettering problem aside, I enjoyed this issue a lot. Considering how the previous arc was for Morrison, his writing improved to make this an exciting read. Once again we leave a Morrison issue that ends with us wondering where the hell he is gonna take us. I guess you could say….it’s the same old, same old.