“Not since âunobtaniumâ has a metal had such a silly name. But I bring you: Batmanium.
The challenge with this one is that it is going to sound fun. Batman escapes by riding a dinosaur. He later rides a dragon with Jokerâs face.
For me though it wasnât super fun. I was mostly unsure what the hell was going on.
I will admit some of this is me. Iâve been a marvel zombie for forever, so when DC crossover stuff youâd have to read a shitload to understand rolls up, Iâm not your best reader.
I know enough to detect that what Iâm seeing is a callback to something and is special, I just rarely know what that thing is.
But this one seems particularly dense. Just Batmanâs recounting of his Snyder adventures is hilarious: he was lost in a labyrinth, then fought the joker to the death, then made a machine that made him batman again.
I donât know, I guess my issue with these issues is that when things get so cosmic and woo woo, nothing really matters anymore. Thereâs no situation that canât be overcome because, like, what even is the situation? The very situation itself is so impossible that itâs not all that intense because the solution is also likely to be equally impossible.
I just read Dreadstar by Jim Starlin, and while that also gets weird and cosmic, it mostly plays by the rules of its own making, and so characters have to get out of situations by means that kind of make sense.
This one? I mean, the problem makes no sense, so why should the solution? Itâs weird.
I guess after Morrison and Snyder on Batman, Iâm kinda itching for a bat book thatâs a little more straightforward.
HOWEVER Greg Capullo is, as always, awesome. “