You may
recall my 4th rage of this blog was Son of Batman. In it Damian
Wayne was forced into Batman’s hands and got the role as Robin. You might want
to check out that review, because the plot is ongoing. I also did a review last
year of Batman vs Robin, the slightly better sequel. Today we look at the third
in the series, and it’s bad, really really bad. This is Batman: Bad Blood. Insert obvious Taylor Swift Joke here.
What we’re looking at is a mish-mash of various bits of Batman history (so what else is knew?). But the
biggest influence I can see is Batman Incorporated where Batman assembled a
team of not Justice Leaguers to combat a sinister threat. It’s classic Grant
Morrison being equal parts awesome, stupid and confusing, especially when
Fraser Irving did the art for one issue (rule of thumb, if Frazer Irving did
the artwork, it’ll be cr*p) but I suppose I should mention our 2 breakout characters in
this.
First we
have Kathy Kane aka Batwoman – she was a breakout character from the awesome
miniseries 52. In the New 52 continuity, there were plans that she and her
long-time girlfriend would get married but the rug was pulled out from under
the creative team at the last minute (because, apparently Bat-family characters
can’t have happy lives) which lead to the resignation of the creative and the
book’s eventual cancellation. She’s currently getting a starring role in
Detective comics, I’ll let you know how that turns out in September.
Secondly we
have Luke Fox aka Batwing II, the original guy was from Africa, I really have
nothing more to say about him because I was not reading Batwing.
With that
said, let’s take a look at this piece of trite and see what went wrong.
