tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404509015791000032.post9088877928879193151..comments2024-03-04T00:09:50.431-08:00Comments on Rikdad's Comic Thoughts: Grant Morrison's Bat MysteriesRikdadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14475851964933197612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404509015791000032.post-82146388643847750522013-07-30T18:02:38.191-07:002013-07-30T18:02:38.191-07:00http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2013/07/28/gran...http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2013/07/28/grant-morrison-sunday-conversation-batman-wonder-woman/2586739/Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525047294136755068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404509015791000032.post-82866036171175831222013-07-30T14:32:04.157-07:002013-07-30T14:32:04.157-07:00I just read it if anyone wants to know anything, t...I just read it if anyone wants to know anything, though I'm sure you'd rather be surprised. Just thought I'd offer. Can't wait to get everyone's opinions tomorrow.Boneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00525047294136755068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404509015791000032.post-80186432454491053122013-07-30T13:12:24.926-07:002013-07-30T13:12:24.926-07:00We've seen, now, nine of the issue's pages...We've seen, now, nine of the issue's pages in preview, and this only intensifies the sense of postponement in terms of big surprises in plot. The tone of Bruce's sit-down with Jim Gordon looks to be an interesting juggling act of Bruce speaking, honestly, without explicitly giving away the secret identity that is less hidden than ever.<br /><br />However nice that dynamic is, and that between Talia and Bruce, these nine pages bring us closer to the end with no grand revelations, except perhaps that the splash pages shows the Ouroboros snake in a spiral (Spyral??) instead of a self-swallowing circle.<br /><br />This is the second Morrison bat-season-finale (after RIP) that begins with Bruce being poisoned.<br /><br />RIP left a lot of threads hanging. Many of those were addressed much after the fact with Hurt returning onscreen to be the main villain of Batman & Robin and appearing in ROBW and Batman #701-702. Even so, it was more than new issues were raised than all the old ones addressed. I think if there's anything I'm apt to hate about this finale it will be in what more could have been said and didn't fit.Rikdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14475851964933197612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2404509015791000032.post-73567776381374667222013-07-30T11:37:45.984-07:002013-07-30T11:37:45.984-07:00Obviously all great questions in the final paragra...Obviously all great questions in the final paragraph. I expect most of them to go unanswered (at least explicitly), as have most of the "mysteries" or questions in Morrison's run. At the very least, the answers won't be explicit.<br /><br />I think at this point he's been pretty clear in his series of interviews on the subject over the past 7 years that Batman is sort of an amalgam, with various manifestations arising throughout the run (I'm trying to quote or summarize Morrison's descriptions): "hairy-chested-love-god," "victory in the preparation," "detective," "adventurer through space and time" (including the mysteries of the mind), "psychologically compromised" (schizophrenic vis a vis Zur-En-Arrh or drug-induced delirium by heroin or deprivation chamber), "son," and "father" (to his biological and adopted children). I'm sure there are others I'm missing in here, but you get the point. <br /><br />Additionally, I think it's pretty clear we're not going to get a lot of denouement in this final issue, which might be why he thinks people will "hate it." (Leave it to Morrison to tease the issue that way.)<br /><br />Finally, I still think there's possibility the grave ends up being Talia. I could see any three of her, Kathy Kane, or The Heretic. <br /><br />Can't wait to see how it ends, even if I "hate it."NAIRUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06466365830079183663noreply@blogger.com