So DC has revealed that Grant Morrison is helming a story that involves Batman fighting his way through time to the present day, after his apparent death at the hands of Darkseid. There will be Bat-Caveman, Bat-Pirate, Bat-Cowboy, and every kid’s favorite, Bat-Witchfinder.
All gentle mockery aside—because seriously, Bat-Witchfinder!—I think this could turn into a post-Silver Age Morrison tour-de-force. After all, this is the writer who told us that BATMAN AND ROBIN WILL NEVER DIE!, a six word encomium to the heroic glory of superhero comics which encapsulates the deepest child-thoughts of many readers and lovers of lore.
So I love the idea of Batman fighting through time—we’ve already made him a billionaire ninja super-genius who has little kids swear to him by candlelight that they will fight evil with him, even though there is the constant and looming possibility of being beaten to death by crowbar-wielding clowns. How much more amazing will it be to have the “unpowered” Bruce Wayne have the breadth of history spinning behind him? That he can literally survive any situation throughout the history of the world?
I’m not saying I’m going to read it, but I’m saying I sure do like the pure amazingness of it all; it feels like a grand comic book story, an old done-in-one 80 page giant, where Superman hollows out the moon and lives with a faceless wife raising Superquintuplets. For all its ridiculousness, it feels real, and that’s the best part about it.
Download the British Invasion classic The Roulettes – Bad Time (what! The Outsiders would have been too easy, y’all!).
Hey! I might read this! Bringing the total number of DC superhero comics I read on a monthly basis up to three, with two of them being Batman books written by Grant Morrison.
when does it start?