Finally read Grant Morrison's "
Batman Reborn" hardcover. It is very different from his previous take on the Bat-books. I found his previous take very inventive but largely hampered by its inaccessibility. This present run is vastly different in the sense that Morrison is staying away from the Tibetan Book of the Dead and giving us instead his version of Adam West on crack. The whole thing is disturbingly fun and funnily disturbing at the same time. What with characters that resemble our government figures as the new Bat-villains. I'm speaking, of course, of the new Professor Pyg (based on the Greek tragedy, George Bernard Shaw's play and Rex Harrison), Mr. Toad (from "The Wind In The Willows") and the Flamingo (think of the love child of Zorro and the artist once again known as Prince).
Frank Quitely and Philip Tan did the art on this one and they both complemented Morrison very well - especially liked the way Quitely did the sound effects in his panels by incorporating them into the action. At one point, I felt like this is closer in spirit to Mark Millar's "Kick-Ass" than Bob Kane's Batman. I don't think I'm alone on that point.
