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Jeez. Wow. Yes. it IS teh Brain Destroyer, things DO happen, the tectonic shift is indeed "WOW!!! FUCK!! HOLY SHIT!!" and I am indeed very frightened for Bruce/Bats. All of the above: I second that emotion, big-time and hardcore.
I don't know if the stuff about Thomas as bad seed/drug addict is true or if it's crap planted by our villains to discredit Bruce and his parents. The idea that Thomas Wayne might be alive and be the Big Bad... creeeeeepy. But seriously, if even ONE of Bruce's parents are alive, that would seem to huge a step for DC to make in terms of retcons to the CORE of the Batman mythos. If the core of Batman is: his parents were killed before his eyes, leading him to adopt a mission of eternal vengeance and to make sure no other child suffers what he had to suffer, etc. --- if one of those parents is still alive and a super-vllain.... doesn't that really fuck with it all too much?
This was creepy. Bruce only sees static but the Zur-En-Aarrh images are on the screen. The "Wow!" brutal frankness which every fanboy has thought at one moment or another about 'what if Bruce is just a big baby with his clubhouse and his costumes and his toys and his Big Mission to right the wrongs'? That wordless shot of him in the middle of his enormous Bat-Super-Secret Clubhouse was really quite emotionally powerful. But then his paranoia on top of paranoia... who to trust? No one!?!?? Is he being driven MAD!?!?!? YAAAAHHH!!!! Also, yeah, is Jezebel truly a Jezebel? Or a double-red-herring like, seemingly, the Alfred psyche-out. Cause Alfred got served at the end, violently so.
Villains infiltrating the Batcave has never seemed so scary. And I loved Bruce talking about the Tarot, mystical and Qabalistic significant of the deck of cards. (Alhtough it strikes me that Batman wouldn't use the phrasing "If I don't know all this STUFF" - emphasis mine. "Stuff" doesn't sound like a word that should be in Bruce's/Batman's vocabulary, just like "Chicks dig the car" - although that's admittedly FAR worse - in Batman Forever. That is my one fanboy nitpick in an otherwise totally awesome, stellar, mind-blowing issue.)
Morrison promised this would be a big deal and stretch back to the character's origins, the biggest thing in 70 years of Batman history. Looks like he's actually not whistling dixie. (And All-Star Supes was just as incredible, making me squeeee with delight all the way home) |
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