Batman

I know some see lots of depth in Morrison’s writing but I’m not liking it. Morrison’s ‘depth’ comes at the cost of messing with the established characterizations of the characters.

Grant Morrison’s run on Batman has been steeped in controversy since it’s start. At first, I was very much into what Morrison was trying to do; with his extremely “comic book-y”, kind of 70s interpretation of Batman. I didn’t mind that he was doing some out of the box stuff with Damian, and the silver-age references. It’s Grant Morrison, and it worked. At least, I thought so.

But once he started the whole lead up to Batman RIP (#672 or so), I started to dislike what Grant was doing. The classic, fun interpretation of Batman started to become vastly overshadowed by Grant’s desire to “mind**” his readers with these extremely surreal situations, and a new writing style he dubbed “channel-zapping comics”. A style in which the reader is jerked from one event to another without any set up, and possibly without any resolution.

That style is what I really find at fault in Morrison’s more recent stories. From the start of Batman RIP on, the story he told was a cluttered, confusion, and extremely bizzare mess. In my very humble opinion, of course.

Perhaps, if Grant hadn’t attempted this “channel-zapping” style of writing, his entire run would have been as fun and enjoy as the beginning of his run was. Unfortunately, he decided to be innovative, he decided to be different…and it backfired. I think, at least.