
Written by Grant Morrison, the thought-provoking scribe hopes to remind fans how all gadgets and Batmobiles aside, Bruce is at his essence the ultimate survivor, by having each issue reveal how Wayne would survive in a different 'pulp hero' adventure setting. With each instalment (of 6) rendered by a different artist, to help convey it's chosen genre, by series end fans will have seen the Bat-Caveman, Bat-Witchhunter, Bat-Pirate, Bat-Cowboy, and the Bat-P.I.
For me the cost of admission is paid for more by the fact of seeing Bats as a 'Dark Knight of the Seven Seas', rather than Bruce's actual return. Still I get this is Batman, an icon you'd have to wonder 5 months into an amazon jungle to find a person who doesn't know the concept of, and I'd have to have more than a few bats in my belfry to think it was never going to happen.
Now with the 'when' sorted, I guess the question becomes 'Whereto from here for Dick Grayson?'
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