The hero of your youth has died. As a man, you mourn the loss because it is a great one. You can cry, its alright. Your emotional investment in it was enormous. Because you identified with the Bat. You loved him for the calculating logic, the perfection of mind and body in an Aristotelian embodiment. And for his Confucian understanding that duty and justice are not rigid structures but able to bend depending on the situation. But now he's dead and you're scared about what happens to the universe...

I have read and enjoyed many comics written by Grant Morrison, and then I have read others that struck me as a kind of low-grade metaphysical action writing: a spew of cultural information thrown at the rough grid that is the basic foundation of comics, with the expectation that readers would make sense of it, and credit him with the ability to construct disparate connections between far-flung subjects. This book fits fully into the latter group. For all the strengths of such Morrison books as W...

Grant Morrison doing cosmic, time-traveling Batman. Turns out that makes for some great stories!In this solid standalone miniseries in graphic novel format, Bruce Wayne is lost in time. Each issue gets to play around with different genres, starting with an Anthro prehistoric tale and then going from pilgrim times to a pirate story, Western, and 40s noir. All tied together with some zany Justice League time mindf*ckery. My favorite was the pirate chapter, how about yours? Only Grant could write t...

There are those, like with many of the books of Grant Morrison's Batman run, that think this book is pretty good. There are those who hate what he's done with the character.I think the high concept for this book was brilliant.I'm not gonna comment too much on what it actually was because it ties heavily into "Batman: R.I.P." and "Final Crisis", but I really feel like this one was the last piece of the puzzle with that particular bit of the Morrison Batman story and one that excited and really en...

Caveman Batman. Witch hunter Batman. Pirate Batman. Cowboy Batman. Gangster Batman. It’s Batman vs time itself as Bruce is trying to fight against Darkseid’s omega effect. This is pretty much required reading for Dark Nights Metal as this is the first time Barbatos is mentioned having been stalking Batman for centuries.

I thought I'd struggle through this given some of the other reviews on here, but I quite enjoyed it. It was a little confusing, given that he's literally falling through time. And it's Morrison at his most Morrison, which I don't always like. But seeing the different eras by different artists was cool.

2012 review: The pretty banal tales of Bruce Wayne's return (The Return) and his travel through time (Time Masters), are completely overshadowed by The Road Home one-shots with Vicki Vale uncovering some of the Bat identities! 6 out of 12.I read the comic books Bruce Wayne The Return #'1-6, The Road Home one-shots, Batman: The Return and Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1-6. I'd rather just cover them all with this entry than have to create a load of additional reviews for each series and one-shot...

The term "Full Morrison" means absolute, balls-to-the-wall, avante garde Morrison insanity. This is "Full Morrison." If you dislike that, if that makes you experience unpleasant emotions, if you only enjoy Morrison's accessible books, if you have trouble with alinear narratives, this is not the book for you. That being said, this is the wildest, most unique, ambitious, and entertaining Batman comic I've ever read. And the artwork, starring Yanick Paquette, Cameron Stewart, Frazer Irving, and And...

Bruce Wayne was zapped with Darkseid’s Omega beams at the end of Final Crisis, sending him hurtling back through time while making it seem to others that he died. Now Bruce is travelling forwards, jumping from one era to another, building up omega energy – and if Bruce makes it back to the present, he’s going to destroy the entire world! This is the first Batman book in Morrison’s recent run that I wasn’t totally immersed in. Reason being is that it’s mostly an excuse to see Bruce dress as Batma...

Not so much a cohesive story chronicling how Batman returned to life, or at least his own time, so much as it is an excuse for Grant Morrison to write Batman as a caveman, a pirate, etc. The individual stories are entertaining enough that I'd like to see Morrison on an anthology series like this. (Grant Morrison's History! I'd buy it.) But as a Batman story, and as a single story in general, it never quite comes together, nor is it a satisfactory return for Bruce. But read it as an anthology of

Pretty trippy and absolute bonkers at times it was pretty fun seeing Bruce in all the different time eras.

There was a knowing line from The Return of Bruce Wayne that I'll throw out here -- "When you think about it, life is like a detective story . . . it's all shadows and clues, mysteries and secrets. And it always starts with a dame." It just sounds like something from and/or describing a Chandler, Hammett or Spillane paperback from their storied pulp fiction bibliographies.Sadly, that quote was pretty much the highlight of this convoluted book, featuring Bruce Wayne in various roles (caveman, pir...

The ending was like the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey (the movie, at least, if not the book) in terms of incomprehensibility.Grant Morrison really does not care if the reader is smart enough to keep up or not. I know this drives many, many comic book fans up the wall, and they do have a point.I don't think familiarity with Final Crisis helps much with this story. This is the set-up:My newbie impression was that Batman was sent back in time by the recoil from the 'god-bullet' that was shot into...

Batman in silly costumes going around different time periods. Mehs.

Grant Morrison - writerChris Sprouse, Frazer Irving, Ryan Sook, Yanick Paquette, Lee Garbett, Georges Jeanty & Karl Story - artists4.5/5 starsBatman was cast backward into time by the death throes of the cosmic god Darkseid; as a consequence the dark knight lost his memory and became a living battery for some kind of evil, negative energy that builds up through time. The confused superhero wakes thousands of years in the past and is forced to battle his way through successive time periods, build...

(B) 74% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: It feels non-canonical in an Elseworlds sort of way and leans too hard on conceit and attire at the cost of plot cohesion.

So, Bruce is back. Well, I guess that alone is worth at least 3 stars, right? The actual story behind his triumphant return, though? Hmmmm. It's a little convoluted and confusing to say the least. It felt like (to me, anyway) that there were too many different little extra plots that were crammed into this. I just wanted to see how Bruce fought his way back. I mean, Blackbeard? Really? And what was the deal with Annie? Is she the reason for the dark turn his life took or something? A Wayne curse...

Well that was...weird. More a collection of Batman through time stories without a strong payoff.

5 🌟Enjoyed this comic. Cool to see Bruce travel through time and have many different Batman costumes. Nice to see the other members of the Justice League as well. Glad they were able to stop Darkseid's bomb.

I frankly struggled while reading this book. When I'm expecting something in the main timeline of the hero, I find it jarring/upsetting to try to immerse myself in an alternate timeline (or in the case of Return, timeline*s*).That said, I *did* enjoy the new-ish ways that Morrison put Batman in unusual settings and forced him to get his balance back each time. I wasn't so happy with the early appearances of the Justice League - it seemed an unnecessary intrusion of exposition (to tell the reader...