Batman Incorporated #8 Requiem

Batman Incorporated #8 Requiem was really bad.  Considering this was the first story after Robin (Damian) died I was hoping for something better.  Instead we see Gotham City cave to terrorists’ demands, failing to bring in any of the other super groups or heroes to help defend the city.  They do not even consider bringing in the National Guard or the Army.  They do not ask for help from any of the super groups under government control and none of those groups show up.  Gotham City just gives up to terrorists and not just terrorists but an unknown group with only one act of terror to their name.  Not just that but instead of fighting back Batman and Batman Incorporated stop doing anything they take time for a funeral.  Really? In the middle of a war - a massive terrorist attack they all stop fighting and in some cases go home to other countries and have time to come back to Gotham that is how much time they waste.  Just recently there was another story called Death of the Family and during the multi-day terror inflicted by the Joker not one character took time off.  They all kept fighting the good fight until the Joker was gone.  Not just kept up the good fight but brought in other supers to help out.  The only redeeming bit to the story is we get to see how the surviving heroes escape the building – well except for Batman’s exit from the building.  There was one last insult to the reader hidden in this story and spoiler! there are still active Lazarus Pits around ready for use – I believe that counts for a “I told you so” meaning Robin might be back even faster than I originally thought.

Batman Inc #7!

Batman Incorporated #7 was interesting but considering how badly done the previous issues one good issue does not make up for the crap.  It makes no sense that Batman would fall for bad dreams or Talia’s plots.  It is not just Batman being bad but bad writing – making changes to characters and personalities so they do not match what is cannon for the character.  What happens is everyone is just stupid and does stupid things, while the villainess plot goes off perfectly and without one hitch.  I am also not believing how the membership of Batman Inc are suddenly idiotically stupid, Batman did not recruit idiots he recruited people like himself.  I fear the writer and creative team thought they were writing something epic but instead it is something terribly bad – especially considering what happens in the next issue.

Batman Inc #8 R.I.P.

Batman Inc #8 where I seemed to have missed issue #7 and considering what happened in this issue it might be hard to find a copy.  The story starts out mid something riot like possibly related to the events in Death of the Family.  Robin and Nightwing are working to help Batman out of a jam.  There is a long and eventful fight with some banter between Robin and Nighwing I am not really sure why Robin took off the battle suit helmet but oh well.  I figure that since the end of the comic made the news this is not really a spoiler but just in case: Spoiler! Alert!  But for some plot based reason Robin dies he is killed by someone claiming to be his brother but that Robin called Father.  Considering that children trained as the Robin’s replacement have died and come back to life in the past the death of Robin (Damian Wayne Al ghul) is bound to be short lived.  At the very least Robins’ death is valid until the next plot point and a handy Lazarus Pit.  Do not get my sarcasm wrong this was a good climatic story.

Batman and Not Batman!

Talon (I’m not Batman) #3: This was a good issue, entertaining a real caper piece if there had been one in comics before.  It is hard to explain without spoiling something fun.  But our Talon friend goes to New York City to save his old girlfriend and things get interesting.

Batman Inc #6: Another disjointed weird story, not really sure what is going on as the story is not consistent with what was in the last issue.  I don’t know, might be time to let this title go (did I already say that?).