albrown's Blog

Batman #663

(Thu 02/15/2007 12:16pm)

Grant Morrison returns.  No wait - that's his name, but this gibbering fanfic bullshit can't possibly be him. 

Whoever this jackass is who wrote this book, he think she's being all clever and mod by writing a prose story with illustrations interspersed.  Ooh, no one's ever thought of writing a comic book in prose before.  But I could get past that if it weren't such a terrible, terrible, lame story.

He's trying to reinvent the Joker here, give him the update that all characters need every few years to stay relevant.  And I don't mind the way he's reinventing him, so much.  It's just...oh God, the prose.  So...purple!  So...ridiculously amateur!

Maybe it's just that Grant Morrison's florid style of writing only works in speech balloons.  Maybe he's always been this inane, and it's the prose that's exposed him.  Or maybe this just represents a bad day.  But either way...

This is an unbelievably bad book.