Despite its homage to the past, Morrison’s reinvention is most assuredly not your father’s Batman and may find a readership among those eager for something new in a familiar superhero adventure. The art is sterling across the board, with clean, sharp action that makes clever use of character design to lend an air of 1960s mod to all the loopiness. The two crime-fighters contend with a resurrected but ersatz Batman and a plot to turn the new Robin into a remote-controlled Bat-assassin, all leading to the last page “surprise” return of a mystery villain (it’s the Joker, okay-are you really surprised?). With the original Batman-Bruce Wayne-dead (well, trapped in prehistoric times), his one-time ward Dick Grayson struggles to take over the role and find a balance with the semi-homicidal new Robin, who is actually Wayne’s own son by the daughter of megalomaniacal world-dominator Ra’s Al Ghul. Comicdom’s resident big-idea man, Morrison unexpectedly calls on the caped-crusader’s campy Silver Age incarnation to give the wildly popular new series a unique tone.
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