Grant Morrison is currently writing a six-issue miniseries, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (DC Comics), that some consider one of the comic-book events of Read the full post.
May 26
2010
01:25 PM ET
'Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne': An interview with writer Grant Morrison
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D.C. really does some stupid S**t sometimes. Count this lame take on one of their classic icons as one of them.
Grant Morrison is feast or famine; sometimes great and sometimes wildly off mark. Will give this one a try, though.
Nowadays I read most of my comics online. But I still like novels bound in paper.
The best book I’ve read so far this “summer” is “Midnight in Never Land” by Perry Bradford-Wilson and Michael Norris. It’s a fantasy novel set in 1805 aboard a British Royal Navy ship in the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars.
The “back cover blurb”: “It is 1805. The Captain of a British Man of War chases Napoleon’s navy across the Atlantic to the islands of the French Caribbean. An Irish Missionary leaves his duties in the war torn revolutionary nation of Haiti to replenish his faith. A plantation owner and his family move from their London countryside to the English frontier colony of Dominica. They come together in a place that has no name, a place designated only by a warning: Never land.”
Vampires are so in vogue these days. “Midnight in Never Land” works as a novel beyond that obvious hook, partly because it doesn’t over rely on the typical vampire tropes (in fact, the “v” word is never used specifically). Instead it is a fast paced adventure novel and an interesting character study. Most fun of all is catching the dozens of literary references that the authors have thrown in. You don’t really need to recognize them to enjoy the book and they don’t slow down the action. I caught nods to “Alice in Wonderland,” “Heart of Darkness,” “Lord of The Flies,” “Peter Pan,” “Horatio Hornblower” and “Master and Commander” all in the first couple of chapters. I’m sure there are some literary connections in the voodoo and navy scenes that I’m missing. Definitely worth reading! Available at Amazon.
Great argument, Michel. If someone does not agree with you, you just say “piss off”? How can you recognize a “good comic” then? Lol, you can’t even say why you think Morrison work is good. The only mindless around here is you, you Grant’s blind fanboy.
My experience: When Morrison run began I was like “uh? a son?” And I hate “Son of the Demon” but Grant didn´t actually reference it. Then RIP blew my mind. Batman was always prepared and I actually believed he was done. Then “last rites”, quite moving story.
Then Batman & Robin that caught steam when Bruce became relevant again.
I like how Grant manages Bruce. Did you read ROBW#2? There´s a scene in vanishing point that show us that Bruce is Batman because he absolutely spills “awesome-ess” lol.
Read it and enjoy the ride.
Morrison’s Batman is the best the character has ever been written.
yeah, i can’t really understand the unimaginative thing. if there’s one thing, like him or loathe him, morrison is, it’s imaginative. the trouble with a lot of conversations like this is that most – and i’d like to underline that word – of the criticism seems to boil down to ‘i want batman to be what frank miller wrote’. and that’s okay, that’s a preference, but it’s not an argument. it doesn’t say anything about the work in question.
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…As for the dislike of a time traveling Batman, I don’t see why people only want to read the same story over and over again. Yes, Batman can be very engaging punching crooks in Gotham, but he can be so much more. He’s in the Justice League, he is already doing crazy cosmic stuff on a monthly basis. When people consider themselves Batman ‘purists,’ they often aren’t focusing on who Batman is, just a single story they want told to them. The interesting thing about these dumb-caveman-pirate stories is that everything that makes Batman awesome expresses itself no matter where he is. As a Caveman he stops a gang fight and creates a Robin just by being there. As a Puritan he becomes Gotham’s greatest detective. As a pirate captive he instinctively escapes traps and transforms into a frightening supernatural presence. Everything you want from Batman is there, just in ways you don’t often see. Before instantly condemning a very complex writer’s stories as ‘dumb’ one should question whether they were clever enough to get the most out of it.