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I'm sorry -- if the answer is 'no' -- to be asking this, but are all the complements towards this comic some kind of inside joke I'm not in on it?
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I mean, I just read #658... I think my feelings are explained by the scene where they jump from the rocket. That was the kind of big-whaaaam-badabum Parachute-a-hoot joycore I was expecting -- this pulp tecno-Phantom James Tintin Bond thriller adventure. The build-up was quite neat. And then, I wasn't on board anymore -- as matter of fact, it's only been three hours since I read and about the only thing I remember about Talia's motivations and character overall is "I want my man back" or something. This is a first for me in Morrison's books.
The entire Batcave scene just made Batman a incompetent prick somehow in my view when I remember it as I read the issue's last page. Batman standing at the beach, bastard kid & ex-girlfriend he knocked up "blown to pieces" while back in the cave there's his beaten best friend butler and semi-comatose surrogate son (yes, I know that also might be the reason the issue is called "absent fathers" but it's like, it all went into shit -- or relief, perhaps -- and I wasn't caring... don't even know if it was to look like it all went into shit. I pratically can't even remember how it all went into shit. Honestly, it was four entire issues to just a vague "unwanted son & bitch fuck things up". Feels like it could all be encapsulated into one panel of a girl going "I'm pregnate", and the guy hitting his own forehead going "doh! I've made a huge mistake!", leaves her and she dies while having an abortion) and the only thing I can think of is, "wow, Batman could have quite a fun adventure so he can get back home -- and, maybe, in that last panel, he checks his pocket and sees that he forgot to pack his american express, or maybe it was in the belt that Talia was holding while sinking into the deeps".
And quick question, why did he need Langstrom's help again? Why was that scene there?
I feel like either this is just not going well, or I'm waaay off.
(I may just have grew bitter out of my Marvel-90ies reading -- but another thing is: damn I hate Kubert. The panels, the action and dialogue deliveries... Felt like I was in a cater where people just heard the fire alarm -- too, I don't know, 'bumpy' may be the wrong word... it all feels too much like rough-edged paper - everyone's open mouth is a razor-sharp 2d triangle)
ps: a)The kid felt at times like the sidekick-wannabe kid-later-villain from The Incredibles. b)Jesus, the Joker is like heroine to Batman readers, no? |
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