The Return Of This Blog
Today being Wednesday has also become New Comic Book Day. Thanks to website Comixology, I get my weekly pull list emailed every Wednesday morning. While some may shake their heads at the idea of an adult collecting comics, it is a welcome break from my normal reading about more serious subject matter.
Though it is not easy to keep up with all storylines at the moment, one that I felt the need to follow was Grant Morrison's The Return Of Bruce Wayne. As my friend informed me, the story makes more sense having read everything leading up to this event and being erratic in my reading of things, the whole time travel aspect of the story has thrown me a bit. Not just in continuity, but also in general.
So far, this story arc has brought on Bruce Wayne waking up in a cave on an island full of cannibals and then winding up in colonial times battling a giant octopus. What DC seems to do at times with throwing Batman into these odd scenarios in outer space or, in this instance the space-time continuum, serves the detract from the elements of the character that intrigues me so much. All of this can be reconsidered though when factoring in not only the breaking up of story arcs on my part combined with Grant Morrison's writing giving me a headache in general. Also in the Batman realm is the 4th of 5 entries in the newest Joker's Asylum series dealing with Killer Croc. Of what I've read of this series so far, The Riddler short story was done in a way that gave the character an air of vulnerability, albeit told via The Joker's point of view.
Though it is not easy to keep up with all storylines at the moment, one that I felt the need to follow was Grant Morrison's The Return Of Bruce Wayne. As my friend informed me, the story makes more sense having read everything leading up to this event and being erratic in my reading of things, the whole time travel aspect of the story has thrown me a bit. Not just in continuity, but also in general.
So far, this story arc has brought on Bruce Wayne waking up in a cave on an island full of cannibals and then winding up in colonial times battling a giant octopus. What DC seems to do at times with throwing Batman into these odd scenarios in outer space or, in this instance the space-time continuum, serves the detract from the elements of the character that intrigues me so much. All of this can be reconsidered though when factoring in not only the breaking up of story arcs on my part combined with Grant Morrison's writing giving me a headache in general. Also in the Batman realm is the 4th of 5 entries in the newest Joker's Asylum series dealing with Killer Croc. Of what I've read of this series so far, The Riddler short story was done in a way that gave the character an air of vulnerability, albeit told via The Joker's point of view.
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