Tuesday, October 4, 2016

100 Days of Batman, Day 70

Part Three: Mommy Made of Nails is the conclusion to Grant Morrison’s first Batman and Robin story arc. Robin has gotten himself captured by Professor Pyg and his bizarre creations. Maybe he shouldn't have run off on his on. Now Batman has to figure out where Robin is being held before Pyg turns him into just another mindless drone.

In Part Three: Mommy Made of Nails of Batman Reborn the story falls flat. Which is disappointing when it was doing so well. Now it has fallen flat but that does not mean it was bad, it just was not up to the caliber of the previous issues. The biggest issue was the lack of dialogue between Batman and Robin. Instead writer Morrison and artist Quietly chose to give a much more action centered issue.  Even bigger issue to the lack of dialogue was what villain was doing. Apparently he was creating a “disease” to inflict upon Gotham. I must have missed that entire plot point during the first two issues because I was under the impression he was just performing bizarre surgeries on people making them his mindless “perfect” henchmen.  Regardless it is simply poor writing when your reader apparently has no idea or completely misses an entire plot point. Because it finishes up the Batman Reborn arc and its previous issues were so good I would have to say Part Three: Mommy Made of Nails is WORTH YOUR TIME.


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