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.

Red Hood The Lost Days!

I just finished reading the Red Hood: the Lost Days compilation of the six issue mini-series. This is the story of the dead Robin - Jason Todd who dug his way out of his grave, was a fighting zombie for a while and then was actually brought back to life by Talia Al Ghul.  She helps Jason recover and train all the while stalling and hoping he would not actually try and kill Batman.  Jason’s training is often done by very bad men and woman.  People he eventually turns on in a non-Batman like way.  There are a number of very well written adventures and all the while Jason is slowly becoming less angry with being dead.  The final confrontation with the Joker was very interesting.  In the end the Jason settles for punishing Batman for not avenging his death.  The last scene shows his discovery of the Red Hood. This was a really good read.

It is a shame that with the new 52 reboot the Red Hood character was not allowed to keep the good parts of this story.  Red Hood and the Outlaws was just such a disappointment.

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?).