Aug 27 2008
Batman #679 RIP Review
Disclaimer: I’m not a regular Batman reader. I just jumped on board for Batman RIP.
If it weren’t for all the fuss, this would be a perfectly serviceable Batman story. But billed as the Batman crossover event of the century with such shocking teasers as: “Who will be the new Batman?”, this is just… a barely serviceable Batman story.
It seems that a generic bad guy at some point in the past placed a post-hypnotic suggestion to turn off the Batman persona from Bruce Wayne’s mind. OK. Now some other generic bad guy is using that to drag Batman through some mud. OK. But Batman, being Batman, foresaw that someone might someday plant a post-hypnotic suggestion in his mind to turn off his Batman persona, so he implanted a second Batman persona to take over should the first one be turned off.
Seriously, that’s the plot. I’m not making this up. Now the new Batman personality is in control, and he is a few crayons short of a box. He talks to an imaginary friend about the conversations he had with some inanimate objects. His main weapon in his one man war against crime is the Bat-Radia, which is actually a broken hand-held radio.
The whole Batman RIP story to this point feels like a teaser for something cool that will eventually happen involving the Joker. But so far… nothing.
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That’s a shame. There’s really a lot of hype surrounding this, and I’m still tempted to see for myself what the deal is.
Bill - There are only two issues left in the RIP storyline. Unless something drastic happens, this story will be soon forgotten. Of course, if you want to check it out for yourself, you can just wait three months and buy the whole shebang as a trade paperback.