With Batman R.I.P. past the halfway mark, Grant Morrison isn’t wasting any time. The question implied by the previous issue’s cliff-hanger is answered almost immediately, as Wayne talks to statues, stabs himself in the mouth and concludes that he is an inevitable result of the city he protects. Batman has gone stark, raving mad… and [...]

There are a number of factors contributing to Final Crisis just… not really working as a big “event” book yet. It’s fairly typical Morrison storytelling, in that it’s slow-burning, and allusive, and multi-layered, and in that many of the early pages will only really begin to unfold themselves properly upon a second read once the [...]

It’s long been a tenet of Grant Morrison’s comics runs that everything makes a lot more sense once it’s finished, and that in terms of the bigger picture, it’s often better to read the complete saga altogether rather than attempting to make sense of individual issues on a month-by-month basis.
But on the other hand, Morrison [...]

There’s plenty of news worth commenting on straight out of Wizard World Chicago as the Summer’s con season truly gets going, including reflections on the unfortunate passing of Mike Turner, Ghost Rider news (seriously), the near-mythical Superman 2000 pitch and Eric Stephenson’s recent promotion.

I can’t remember a week of comics as good as this in a very long time. In a way, it’s a reflection of just how badly things tend to be scheduled – and certainly, for a writer of a site where we can only review four new books a week, it’s frustrating to have to [...]

Another week, another first issue of a Grant Morrison-penned “event” story. But where the opening two parts of Batman RIP have thrilled, the first chapter of Final Crisis underwhelms. The technical quality is there, but the story fails to deliver on the promises that this will be something huge, significant and epoch-making.

The main problem, [...]