DC is betting all of its chips on Morisson coming through and he has no intention of failing. One thing has become perfectly clear lately and that is Bruce Wayne will soon no longer be Batman. As the story unfolds, things are getting worse in Gotham City. Nightwing is drugged and placed inside of a villain run Arkham Asylum. Alfred is beaten and held hostage by the Club of Villains, but it is Bruce Wayne who is in the worst state. Drugged and left on the streets, no memory of who he really is, he has reinvented himself as a Batman from an alternate reality.
The Batman from Zur-en-arrh may seem like a bad sci-fi twist to new readers, but for those who have followed Batman from Morisson’s first issue will know that every piece of the plot has been perfectly layed out, waiting for the completion to reveal the whole picture. Readers have watched and learned that Wayne has taken every precaution and thought up of every scenario to make sure he never fails. He has studied the minds of psychopaths and participated in an isolation chamber experiment, where he nearly lost his mind for good. Morisson has envisioned Wayne as a disciplined crime fighter obsessed of always being one step ahead of the evil in Gotham.
While it is hard to tell just who the mysterious Black Glove is orchestrating all the events leading to Batman’s demise, or just what the newly re-created Joker’s true role will be, one thing is certain: Batman R.I.P. will change everything readers know about Batman. With just a few issues to go until the conclusion, Morisson has reader’s counting the days, until the conclusion comes and they will have to ask themselves whether or not they can live with such a drastic change to one of comic’s most celebrated characters.
The Batman from Zur-en-arrh may seem like a bad sci-fi twist to new readers, but for those who have followed Batman from Morisson’s first issue will know that every piece of the plot has been perfectly layed out, waiting for the completion to reveal the whole picture. Readers have watched and learned that Wayne has taken every precaution and thought up of every scenario to make sure he never fails. He has studied the minds of psychopaths and participated in an isolation chamber experiment, where he nearly lost his mind for good. Morisson has envisioned Wayne as a disciplined crime fighter obsessed of always being one step ahead of the evil in Gotham.
While it is hard to tell just who the mysterious Black Glove is orchestrating all the events leading to Batman’s demise, or just what the newly re-created Joker’s true role will be, one thing is certain: Batman R.I.P. will change everything readers know about Batman. With just a few issues to go until the conclusion, Morisson has reader’s counting the days, until the conclusion comes and they will have to ask themselves whether or not they can live with such a drastic change to one of comic’s most celebrated characters.
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