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It was a really bad idea to have RIP tie into Final Crisis that way. Especially considering the tpb market, how will DC collect RIP in trades? Include FC6 and a page of text explaining Final Crisis?
I was also annoyed by the constant hyping of the ending that will CHANGE EVERYTHING, and the insistence that it was essentially "a murder mystery". Surely, it's the events in Final Crisis that will change everything and lead into the Battle for the Cowl? And to me it didn't read like a murder mystery at all, it felt more like a paranoid thriller.
Disregarding all that though, I really liked the book. 681 had some cool action scenes and dialouge, and a satisfying (but not Invisibles-great) ending.
Also, I think it's relevant that I haven't read much Batman before. I've read Arkham Asylum, Gothic and The Dark Knight, and he did have a prominent role in Morrison's JLA, but beyond that? Not much, probably some random stories reprinted in norwegian magazines. It was really my first exposure to in-continuity Batman and some of the things that may seem played out to others, didn't to me (I realise that many of those complaits were regarding Morrison's reuse of his own tropes).
A disjointed story with annoying marketing, but essentially a good story, in my opinion.
oh, and I was one of those guys that read the invisibles and typed "the invisibles +grant morrison" into google and wound up here. Learned a lot and helped me understand more of The Invisibles, but I must admit, it was an intimidating place to post (more used to very casual boards, and it seemed like such a tight-knit circle of people posting) so I ended up lurking for most of the time. |
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