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Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Recommended Reading: Batman #655
It's odd recommending a book from a big company starring a character everyone knows but I still feel the urge to tell people about Batman #655, by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert. Arriving in stores tomorrow I can assure you that the first five pages of this comic contains more excitement than any Batman comic in the last ten or so years. The rest isn't too bad either. Morrison is doing something not too different than what he and Frank Quietly do in All-Star Superman. Even though this story is part of a continuing series in the DC Universe and Kubert, while a good artist, is a not a visionary like Quietly there's still this sense that Morrison has ignored all the baggage that comes with such an old and popular character and goes right for the most primal parts of Batman's character and story. The center of the story is Batman "learning to be Bruce Wayne again” and Morrison deals with it as smart as he deals with the Clark-Lois-Superman triangle in A-SS. There's even in a sequence that goes over the hours in Batman's day that reminded me a bit of the opening of A-SS #1 in how it goes over an important part of the character in a similarly quick but never rushed way.
If there's any specific group I would recommend this book to it is anyone else doing or wanting to do superhero comics. There's a lot to learn here about communicating the scope of a character and telling an interesting story about that character without ever needlessly dwelling on any one thing.
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