Well, I guess it can't all be great....I just read the 'Grotesk' storyline in Batman, and I was a bit disappointed. It's too bad, really. John Ostrander has done some good comics in the past, but this does not show that.
I'll give him a pass because these are filler issues, after all. They follow the great Grant Morrison 'Son of Batman' storyline and then are in turn followed by some more teriffic Morrison issues. And of course, all of this follows the Judd Winick issues, which I think I've blathered on about how much Iiked them in a previous post.
I'll try to remember Ostrander on Firestorm, The Spectre and some of the other titles he did in the 80s and 90s. He deserves that.
But I do look forward to reading the newest Morrison issues, and I hope he is the regular writer for some time. It's nice to be able to say that about Batman. For a long while, up to and including the bloated and overrated 'Hush' storyline, I didn't like Batman all that much.
And please don't get me started about the little regard I have for the soulless "All-Star Batman and Robin" series.
I'm just happy to have someone of Morrison's caliber writing such a great character. And with the hype machine working overtime for the upcoming Dark Knight movie...I doubt I'm alone in this opinion.
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