Now, this is a bit more like it. $15 gets you the wonderful "Time and the Batman", which cleverly dovetails Silver Age Batman into high Morrisonian weirdness, two issues that fill in the missing pieces between "Batman RIP" and "Final Crisis" (pretty nicely, although I think I still have questions), and what seems to be the requisite side story for the collection actually turns out to be a pretty nice piece about Dick, Damian, and Bruce (through the lens of crime-fightin', of course). This is way shorter than the other Morrison Batman collections; however, it's probably the most cohesive of the post-Final Crisis ones (that I've read so far!)

Wow, I just wrote way more about 50ish pages of comics than I ever have about any novel. ( )

I've never been a fan of Morrison, nor do/did I enjoy his Batman run. ( )

Batman's all about the mystery, or he used to be, and boy is this TPB a mystery. There seem to be a few different story lines that get told, and all sort of have to do with time. There's a 'missing' story from the RIP story line which gets inside Batman's head even more, and sort of connects the RIP story line to the Batman Returns story line. And finally there was a Batman and Robin story about who Batman really was, frowny not bendy law and order guy, or someone who sees the whole person and their greys too. Not a bad collection of issues, it's just that the stories seemed a little too random to me to be put together into one TPB. ( )

It feels like a collection of bits. Because it is. But some of the bits are quite good. Others only seem...necessary. To fill us in on stuff that wasn't clear. But it helps set up "The Return of Bruce Wayne", which so far seems great fun, so that's good.

I guess I was a bit underwhelmed after the brilliance of Morrison's Batman & Robin, but the "future Batman" stuff is still interesting. Of only there were more of it! ( )