Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
Re: Batman Series Discussion *Spoilers*
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Issue 664 made my day. We're already having aspects of Morrison's first story weave into the story, and I'm getting the feeling this is going to turn out like Morrison's New X-Men. I'm going to read his run from first issue to last and realize how tightly everything ties together, that seeds planted throughout, that were overlooked the first time, are all going to connect in weird and wacky ways. And I have NO clue where this run is going. If you've been turned off by Morrison's Batman, pick up this issue. It's got all the Morrisonian weirdness, but at the same time, it's told like Batman issues we've come to expect over the years - classically gritty and urban.
So, summary. Gibraiter. Bruce is casually having a conversation with Jezebel (the artist he met at the London Modern Art Gallery), while an army of Man-Bat bodies is getting carted off behind him. They meet up off in the mountains, where Bruce parachutes in. There's banter, along with a really *****in' homage to the ski scene in View To A Kill. Bruce ends up taking down a paparazzi helicopter thinking it's bad guys (although it's pretty obvious Batman would never make that mistake). Cool stuff. Bruce is setting up his public persona as a daredevil, but doping up the careless angle (sort of like Clark's nerdiness) to prevent the Batman/Bruce connection from ever being made. They have a heart to heart, talk about his dead parents. He says "I got over it." He clearly hasn't.
Batman is eavesdropping a meeting between a local pimp and cops. The cops want to hire girls, presumably for one of their own. The girls refuse to. Apparently, the guy the cops are hiring for is killing and mutilating girls. The cop's response is basically, "You've got to keep his appetite sated, because if he gets loose, we're all ****ed." Batman drops in, kicks ***, interrogates the pimp, and has some cool dialogue with the hookers.
"Hey, Batman! You want, I'll do you a freebie."
"I'm busy right now keeping the streets safe, Roxy. What's up?"
Then he helps an underage hooker find a job, and finds out from the girls that there is a guy out there mutilating girls, he is a cop, and he's called Monster.
Batman finds the Monster's lair, which is covered in the bodies of hookeres. He finds one still alive, along with needles. Maybe for heroin, maybe for Venom (they don't specify).
Then Monster pops in. He's got the physique of Bane with a weird fetishized Batman costume that looks like it was pieced together from kiddie Hallowen costumes. Bane pummels Batman. Meanwhile, Batman's starting to put pieces together - about the cop who shot Joker, about a black casebook. "Everyone's in danger. Stay conscious." BLAM! He gets cracked out of consciousness.
It was a good issue, a very good issue. I think it's pretty clear that Monster is the cop who capped Joker, who's now gone off the reservation and is pumping himself with Venom. The other cops are afraid to do anything about him, instead just keeping him sated by feeding him hookers. Somehow Monster's tied to a mysterious black casebook, and somehow, (as per the solicits) it all brings us back to Joe Chill - the murderer of Bruce's parents. The crooked cops are involved in something deep, something that ties into Bruce's past and something in this past either led to Monster shooting the Joker, or the shooting made the cops on the precinct too damn afraid to do anything about him.
*sigh* But we have to wait 'til May to know what happens.
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Issue 664 made my day. We're already having aspects of Morrison's first story weave into the story, and I'm getting the feeling this is going to turn out like Morrison's New X-Men. I'm going to read his run from first issue to last and realize how tightly everything ties together, that seeds planted throughout, that were overlooked the first time, are all going to connect in weird and wacky ways. And I have NO clue where this run is going. If you've been turned off by Morrison's Batman, pick up this issue. It's got all the Morrisonian weirdness, but at the same time, it's told like Batman issues we've come to expect over the years - classically gritty and urban.
So, summary. Gibraiter. Bruce is casually having a conversation with Jezebel (the artist he met at the London Modern Art Gallery), while an army of Man-Bat bodies is getting carted off behind him. They meet up off in the mountains, where Bruce parachutes in. There's banter, along with a really *****in' homage to the ski scene in View To A Kill. Bruce ends up taking down a paparazzi helicopter thinking it's bad guys (although it's pretty obvious Batman would never make that mistake). Cool stuff. Bruce is setting up his public persona as a daredevil, but doping up the careless angle (sort of like Clark's nerdiness) to prevent the Batman/Bruce connection from ever being made. They have a heart to heart, talk about his dead parents. He says "I got over it." He clearly hasn't.
Batman is eavesdropping a meeting between a local pimp and cops. The cops want to hire girls, presumably for one of their own. The girls refuse to. Apparently, the guy the cops are hiring for is killing and mutilating girls. The cop's response is basically, "You've got to keep his appetite sated, because if he gets loose, we're all ****ed." Batman drops in, kicks ***, interrogates the pimp, and has some cool dialogue with the hookers.
"Hey, Batman! You want, I'll do you a freebie."
"I'm busy right now keeping the streets safe, Roxy. What's up?"
Then he helps an underage hooker find a job, and finds out from the girls that there is a guy out there mutilating girls, he is a cop, and he's called Monster.
Batman finds the Monster's lair, which is covered in the bodies of hookeres. He finds one still alive, along with needles. Maybe for heroin, maybe for Venom (they don't specify).
Then Monster pops in. He's got the physique of Bane with a weird fetishized Batman costume that looks like it was pieced together from kiddie Hallowen costumes. Bane pummels Batman. Meanwhile, Batman's starting to put pieces together - about the cop who shot Joker, about a black casebook. "Everyone's in danger. Stay conscious." BLAM! He gets cracked out of consciousness.
It was a good issue, a very good issue. I think it's pretty clear that Monster is the cop who capped Joker, who's now gone off the reservation and is pumping himself with Venom. The other cops are afraid to do anything about him, instead just keeping him sated by feeding him hookers. Somehow Monster's tied to a mysterious black casebook, and somehow, (as per the solicits) it all brings us back to Joe Chill - the murderer of Bruce's parents. The crooked cops are involved in something deep, something that ties into Bruce's past and something in this past either led to Monster shooting the Joker, or the shooting made the cops on the precinct too damn afraid to do anything about him.
*sigh* But we have to wait 'til May to know what happens.
