Morrison's Batman and Robin getting an extended run

[I, Cosh]

Three issues in four weeks?! I take it this means there wont be another one this year.

I am vaguely aware that there is some sort of crossover thing called Blackest Night. I assume this storyline has been tied into it in some way that I've missed?

[Christov]

Blackest Night isn't tied into Morrison's Batman and Robin.

Both are utterly brilliant though, well worth picking up the single issues instead of waiting for the TPBs.

Is it wrong that I want Morrison to have control of Batman for a couple of years? He has honestly done more for the character in around a year and a half than the last decade.

[I, Cosh]

Blackest Night isn't tied into Morrison's Batman and Robin.

I just meant this specific story: Blackest Knight.

[Christov]

Not exactly.

Morrison's B&R is fairly isolated in terms of the DCU, unless there is some kind of reference or tie in later on. Otherwise, it's simply a similar name and the general idea of [spoiler]raising the dead.[/spoiler]

[Richmond Clements]

I'm 2 shitting issues behind! Gahhh!

[bluemeanie]

Is it wrong that I want Morrison to have control of Batman for a couple of years? He has honestly done more for the character in around a year and a half than the last decade.

I'd say YES
But I am the only person who has hasn't loved Morrisons run on Batman. The new series started off pretty cool before becoming standard Morrison stuff and I still maintain RIP was rubbish.

That said, Arkham is still one of my all time faves and that all prose issue he brought out kicked ass. I'd just rather it be written by someone with less of strong voice. Every page scream "This is MORRISONS Batman, and dont you forget it". Puts me off.

[Colin YNWA]

Issue 9 wonderful - Andy Clarke next this truely is the (other) comic that keeps on giving.

[TordelBack]

Man, that was great, can't believe it was only 20-odd pages.  I absolutely loved the[spoiler] DKR pastiche from Zombatman,[/spoiler] beyond brilliant.   Walks a fabulously precise line between the 'silly' and 'gritty' poles of Batman.  Still not bowled over by Stewart's art - it's obviously technically accomplished, but not inspiring (to me).  In contrast to accusations levelled at other Morrison books this has a coherent story divided into very satisfying self-contained chunks.  If all superhero books were like this, I might buy more than one.

[Emperor]

Some previews of Andy Clarke's pages:

www.bleedingcool.com/2010/03/04/preview-batman-and-robin-10-by-grant-morrison-and-andy-clarke/

As I said over there - if you look at his early and late 2000 AD work and compare it with this you can see he has just kept improving. Even though he is doing some fine detailed work he is managing to produce a comic book a month for the last year (which puts him way ahead of folks like Brian Bolland and Frank Quitely on the pace front, despite the detail). I predict big things, I may have also done so in the past but now I know so

[Tiplodocus]

Just had an extended catch up of 7, 8, 9 and 10 on this and my goodness I'm loving it.

Morrison still has a very much "no prisoners" approach to density; miss a panel and you may be struggling but having the luxury of reading four issues closely together helped me out.  I haven't a clue who half the characters are*(batwoman, Squire and Knight?) but they fitted neatly into the context without too much needless basil.

Some great ideas packed in here (as mentioned the instantlty insane clones) some cracking dialogue and some fantastic art. As Cosh points out, there's something just off the beat about Stewarts art. It has a plumpness to it which looks fine on breasts and buttocks but not so cool on ravaged, disentegrating zombats.  Andy Clarke's art on 10 was plain lovely though and was as close to Quietely as I think we'll get.

I'm loving the covers as well.



* Not really much of a DC reader; I think I've only ever collected three or four monthly titles (a World's Finest that had Dave Taylor on art, Long Halloween, All Star Superman and All Star Batman)

[Jim_Campbell]

Morrison still has a very much "no prisoners" approach to density; miss a panel and you may be struggling but having the luxury of reading four issues closely together helped me out. 

A breath of fresh air compared to some of the more, umm, decompressed books on the market, though. This is the important thing -- I think -- that some of the writers who seem to think they're writing films or TV series forget: you can maintain a much faster pace in a comic because the reader can always go "Eh? Did I miss something?" and turn back the pages to check.

Cheers

Jim

[TordelBack]

... you can maintain a much faster pace in a comic because the reader can always go "Eh? Did I miss something?" and turn back the pages to check.

This should be tattooed on the typing finger of all scripters.  Without getting all Scott McCloud about it, this is one of the things that I specifically enjoy about comics - their ability to be enjoyed and investigated at a range of different speeds and intensities, in a way that would border on the insane if applied to a (non-pornographic) DVD (pause, rewind, frame advance, 'ah!', play, pause etc.).  It's great to be able to blast through a book to gauge its shape and style while on the bus home, then later pick through it page by page or panel by panel looking for details and links, then come back to it a few months later when the current story has wrapped up and read it leisurely again, picking up a whole new depth and rhythm.  Value for money if nothing else.

[O Lucky Stevie!]

It's great to be able to blast through a book to gauge its shape and style while on the bus home, then later pick through it page by page or panel by panel looking for details and links, then come back to it a few months later when the current story has wrapped up and read it leisurely again, picking up a whole new depth and rhythm.  Value for money if nothing else.

So film is linear whilst comics are analogue hypertext bordering on the fractal? Brilliant!!!

[Colin YNWA]

And here's a rather lovely cover (I assume) from Fraser Irving when he takes over to do issues 13 - 15 (I assume) as reported over at CBR http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/03/frazer-irving-joins-batman-and-robin-with-issue-13/

[The Monarch]

yep that is frazer as is this bruce wayne:witchfinder general cover