BATMAN AND ROBIN #9

Review by: robbydzwonar

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Written by Grant Morrison
Art and Variant covers by Cameron Stewart
Covers by Frank Quitely

Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

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Story: 3 - Good
Art: 5 - Excellent
 

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  1. FausticCaust says:
    February 26, 2010 at 3:20 am

    I don’t think anyone believes "Morrison Can’t Do Wrong" after Final Crisis. That said, I could never give up on the man who wrote Flex Mentallo, and I’ll go further than you and say that Morrison at his worst is still in a class above Mr. Geoff "7th Grade Creative Writing Class" Johns.

    As far as the art goes, I agree with you that Stewart’s work here is the best of the three-issue run, but not as satisfying to my eyes as his previous Morrison collabs, Seaguy and Manhattan Guardian.

    PS. If you take a stack of comics out of their polybags and stick them in one of those big, airtight, tupperware bins for a few days, the smell is amazing: it’s childhood and adventure and awesome in a single, distinctive, aroma.

  2. flapjaxx says:
    February 26, 2010 at 3:30 am

    @Faustic: Oh come on. Johns is at LEAST as good as an annoying college fratboy in a writing workshop. Seriously, though, I thought Final Crisis had a ton of originality. It SERIOUSLY faltered toward the end, but that shouldn’t taint the first 5 issues, which were pretty great for the most part.

    @robby: Yeah, I didn’t like this issue quite as much as the previous one. Some cool insinuations in the Zombie Batman dialogue, but a bit dry, like you said. Also, yes, I get to my comic shop at noon when it opens to get new B&R issues as well. It’s that crack.

  3. flapjaxx says:
    February 26, 2010 at 3:35 am

    But, my examples of Morrison "doing wrong": Invisibles (too pretentious and false "know-it-all" at times), Kill Your Boyfriend (horrible ugly mean children murdering people is only cool the first time you see it, and this had no point), Arkham Asylum (boring, very dated, not as smart as it thinks it is), JLA (Morrison on autopilot), Final Crisis 7, Joe the Barbarian (pointless, predictable, unoriginal). The worst has to be Kill Your Boyfriend, though. I don’t think he’ll be able to pull off "Multiversity", either.

  4. Avatar photo GLNancy says:
    February 26, 2010 at 11:12 am

    Since when is it Goeff Johns vs. Moirrison? I agree that final crisis was really good the first five issues and the last issue shouldn’t spoil the bunch. I have to say i like Johns more, he writes female characters really well unlike Morrison ehh maybe its cus Im a girl? but johns always pull my strings and makes me feel something. Morrison makes you think. Both good but both completely different. SEA GUY was cameron stewart with complete creative freedom and i want more.

  5. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    February 26, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    @GLNancy: It’s stupid. And also really funny because they are, like, best friends.

  6. Avatar photo JoseRivera83 says:
    February 26, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    They have different styles. That’s all it is.

    This issue fell flat for me, too. Which is a shame cause I enjoyed the previous issues after dropping the book when we had to sit through the Jason Todd 3-issue arc. I’m not ready to say this book was only good for the Morrison/Quitely stuff. I just want to see where this goes. There is a lot of good in here. There is also a lot of bad. My best advice would be to see where this goes.

  7. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    February 26, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    Good question, when did this turn into Morrison versus Johns?  All I said was that I’m in more of a hurry to read Morrison’s stuff.  I still read Johns on GL whenever the trades come out.  I just bought Secret Origin a couple weeks ago and I got EVERY issue of Blackest Night.  I am gonna buy Superman SO when the hardcover comes out too.  I just like Morrison’s Batman run more.  Is that a crime?! Damn…

    Speaking of Morrison stuff that just won’t register with me, I just bought all four Seven Soldiers Of Victory TPBs on Ebay for like $30 and I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters without saying to myself, "what the fuck is going on here?"  Then again, the artwork isn’t nothing special either!!

  8. Avatar photo akamuu says:
    February 27, 2010 at 2:30 pm

    Can we see Morrison and Johns do battle with giant American Gladiator pugilist sticks?  For charity, of course.  The loser has to write another crisis…and turn Greek Street into the top selling VErtigo property.  (Which, let’s be fair, they could both totally do.)

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