Absolute Batman & Robin: Batman Reborn by Grant Morrison
My rating: 0 of 5 stars
I’m done pretending I understand what Grant Morrison is doing most of the time.
When Grant Morrison is awesome, he’s awesome.
The rest of the time, I’m confused as hell.
At the outset of this, Bruce Wayne is dead. Then, at the end, he’s not.
How does this happen?
Well, you don’t really find out in this volume. All you really know is someone is leaving weird clues and shit in the batcave. And there are pictures of History’s Greatest Waynes that keep changing or something. There’s Pilgrim Wayne, who looks like Bruce Wayne with a dumb hat. There’s foppish Wayne, who looks like Bruce Wayne but more dandy.
And then Bruce Wayne’s just kind of back and whatever.
I had to look online to find out what the fuck happened, and it’s basically Superman Time and Again, but it’s Batman. Batman gets shot back in time and has to punch time in its stupid face over and over until he’s back where he belongs.
It’s all very confusing, and I don’t really get it, and I don’t care.
The parts where Damian Wayne, Bruce’s son, and Dick Grayson are Batman and Robin are okay, but this whole Professor Pyg thing feels very shock value. The dude is crucified upside-down with barbed wire all over, and this is apparently how he came up with the idea of releasing a virus on everybody? I don’t…okay.
Whatever. Maybe I’m just dumb. Or maybe I don’t love this character enough to be joyful when a single-panel reference to something from 1968 happens. Whatever. Let’s just call it my fault and move on.