What Happened: We begin with Batman and Robin tied to chairs in nothing but their underwear in front of a webcam... Uh-huh... Red Hood goes online and tells the citizens of Gotham to call his phone number, and that if they do the webcam in front of Batman and Robin will be activated, revealing their identities to all the world. From there we head to Red Hood and his partner, Scarlet, as they battle with Flamingo in Hood's secret layer. Flamingo beats the hell out of Hood and then proceeds to beat up Scarlet. While that was happening, Batman and Robin have untied themselves, gotten dressed and have headed towards the sound of the battle between Hood and Flamingo. Batman and Robin arrive on the scene and take the battle to Flamingo, who more then holds his own. Flamingo tosses Batman off a cliff and proceeds to shoot Robin in the back 5 times. Scarlet attacks Flamingo which gives Hood time to scoop Flamingo up in a backhoe and dump him, along with a mess of rocks, off the cliff Flamingo tossed Batman off of. Batman has managed to pull himself back up by now, and he checks on Robin before confronting Hood. The two have a heated exchange and Commissioner Gordon arrives on the scene with a mess of cops to arrest Hood. As the cops drag Hood away, he scolds Batman for not using Talia Al Ghul to find a Lazarus Pit to bring the former Batman, Bruce Wayne, back to life. By this point, Talia's minions have arrived on the scene to get Robin to heal him up, and Batman decides to chase after Scarlet, who escaped during all the commotion. It turns out that Scarlet has left Gotham City, and this issue ends with Batman returning to his base.
What I Thought: Meh. This issue wasn't nearly as confounding as most of Grant's Batman work has been, so I guess that's a good thing. Sure there were some things that perplexed me, such as who the hell Flamingo was, and why Jason Todd's hair was dyed red, but since I understood most of this issue, I'm not going to nitpick. I did like the fact that Jason mentioned to Dick that he should have hunted down a Lazarus Pit and tossed "Bruce's" skeleton in it, as well as insinuating that Dick is secretly happy that Bruce is dead, because it gives Dick the opportunity to finally be out of Bruce's shadow. That's actually an interesting accusation, one that I hope Grant expands on down the road. Besides that, there was a part of me that was hoping Damian would have died after being shot that many times, but unsurprisingly he survived. At least he didn't just get up after being shot and proceed to beat Flamingo, Jason, Scarlet, Dick, Joker, Two-Face, Doomsday and the ghost of Bruce Wayne...
Score: 7 out of 10.
Go ahead and shoot him. Maybe when Jason does come back he'll be as awesome as he used to be...
Is this the part where I plus my blog and the Jason Todd Article at JasonToddscomicspot.blogspot.com ? But yeah Jason has Red hair cause apparently Bruce made him dye it to match Grayson's as a Robin or something stupid...It sounds Bruce-like but I hate Jason having Red Hair.
ReplyDeletePlug away my friend!
ReplyDeleteAhh, I didn't know that. That's actually really creepy... It's bad enough that Bruce is always living alone with his butler and teenage boys, but it gets even stranger when Bruce starts forcing the kids to all dress/look alike.
I gotta ask, when did the Bruce/hair dying thing come out? The reason I ask is because I don't remember Jason having red hair after he woke up from that coma after he came back to life... Were the people who were caring for him nice enough to dye his hair while he was comatose? ;)
Lol, thanks for the plug. And I didn't even think about that. That is VERY weird, makes Bruce seem like a very lonely and weird man.
ReplyDeleteLmao...I can't stop laughing because that makes SO much sense and you can tell Grant didn't consider it. He mentions it when he takes his hood/Helmet? off in B&R 5 when he's talking to Scarlet. But yeah who the hell dyed his hair while he was in a coma. Apparently his hair dye stayed in for like four years.
Yeah, let's face it, anybody who dresses up as a giant bat and has various teenagers dress up as a "robin" is definitely VERY weird indeed!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's some kind of hair dye! If Bruce sold that stuff to the public he'd wind up making another fortune!
Yeah, I'd be pissed if I had to take a name some other kid picked, can't I atleast pick my own name Bruce? Damn!
ReplyDeleteLol would you buy anything from a rich mogul like Bruce who's known for his numerous flings with women and never showing up anywhere on time? That's like buying Hair Dye from that Prince Harry dude. But yeah four year hair dye...Bruce has created a lot of things but that may be the most impressive.
OK, four year lasting hair dye is cool and all, but Bruce's greatest creation? What about the Batmobile, or the Batplane, the Batcave, or any number of other things with the word "bat" attached to it?
ReplyDeleteNope, it's even better. Because all those things have broken down, but The hair Dye will last FOREVER. I mean think about it, the Lazarus pits make you young and Jason STILL had his black hair. Now that's just impressive. (I'm heavy on the Sarcasm just so ya know lol)
ReplyDeleteDude, you had me nearly rolling with the line about the Lazarus Pit and Jason's hair... Bruce's hair dye was even able to defeat the powers of the Pit. Now THAT is impressive! It would be nice if the writers would actually THINK before they write stuff down.
ReplyDeleteLol glad you liked that line, I mean honestly, it gave him a streak of Gray/Grey however thats spelled, but it left his hair dyed black? Really?!
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, the sad thing is before you mentioned it the fact never crossed my mind, and you'd think Grant would have made a better excuse than dying it. I would have just said Jason did it because Bruce made him the Red-Headed step child so he dyed it for that reason...well actually I just would've let him keep his cool black hair.
See, that explanation works fine for me. Jason did it himself as a statement. That makes sense. The rest, from Bruce dying it to everything else is just lame!
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean I'm now smarter than Grant Morrison? Because if you admit it I'm gonna quote you and put it on my blog lol.
ReplyDelete"Jason Todd is WAY smarter than Grant Morrison!" There's your quote! Now I'm sure Grant is WAAAAAAAAY crazier than you are, but that's a whole other story.
ReplyDeleteAwesomeness, that's going right on my blog. And yeah he's definitely crazier, then again I don't live in a cave so yeah.
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