(B+) 77% | GoodNotes: It throws a lot of stuff at the wall: what sticks is great, but what doesn’t bounces at your head and knocks you stupid.

Morrison is a great writer, and he's great at Batman. He also has... interesting tastes in stories. Here, Bruce Wayne has decided to use his wealth to fund a worldwide consortium of Batmen. Batman is everywhere. Sort of like McDonalds. On the surface, the idea is sort of silly, but it also works. It makes sense. Why wouldn't Bruce Wayne do something like this? There's some truly great issues in here. Teaming up with Catwoman in Japan, meeting up with Batwoman, the reservation storyline, and seei...

Some of these issues are really good, some not so much. I didn't like the weird Matrix-y issue at the end but most of the other ones are pretty cool

Yep, done with morrison's run on Batman. Besides Batman and Robin he's the worst Batman writer of all time. Goodbye!

This book collects the entire run of Batman Incorporated before the New 52 reboot DC Comics did with their superhero line a few years back. This is Grant Morrison doing what he does best with Batman, expanding the mythos by reviving and reintroducing characters and concepts that used to exist on fringes of the DC Universe. Batman Incorporated is Morrison latest take on the character, a culmination of sorts from prior stories that gave us Damian Wayne and a new version of the international Batmen...

Batman is going global. He can't be everywhere so he's training his “Bat” people all over the world. This first installment focuses on some of their tales.As usual writer Grant Morrison dips into old comic book tales and this is no different. “Mr. Unknown is Dead”: Batman's planned “Bat” in Tokyo is dead and he must deal with the immortal Lord Death Man, find a new Bats and creatively put an “end” to Lord Death Man. (STORY: B plus; ARTWORK: B plus) “The Scorpion Tango”: Batman unsuccessful...

Eh, what little I liked about this couldn’t make up for how little I cared about 99% of this. It was all over the place and while sometimes, mixing art styles can work, it didn’t here. So... eh.

THIS SHIT MADE NO SENSE. Like, even for comic book plots this shit made no sense. WTF, Batman? What is even happening here?

2012 review: Grant Morrison's up-vamp of a key comic book franchise goes a bit awry here, with Bruce declaring how he works with Batman and building a global brand, great idea or not, the execution didn't work for me at all. I've always found Morrison a hit or miss creator. I read the comic books Batman Inc. #1-8 and Batman Inc. Leviathan Strikes. 4 out of 12!First stop for Grant Morrison's mainstream comic book writing has be his New X-Men: Omnibus.

Every page is overly busy, almost to the point of hurting your eyes. Morrison's Batman is an acquired taste thanks to his insistence of needlessly overcomplicating plots and throwing in characters in the hopes that they stick. Whilst the concept of a Batman Corp works, the execution is extremely poor. A jumbled mess at best, an eyesore at worst, this is the definition of unmemorable.

What's this? A straight tale with no mind-bending subtext or fourth wall-breakage? Hell, the dialogue in the British sequence is positively Silver Age in its obviousness. Did Morrison decide to write "normal" just to be ultra-weird?No, this book slowly veers back towards signature Morrison territory - it just takes most of the book for that crescendo to become audible enough to detect it. It's interesting to read the back matter and see just how much attention Morrison and his artists put into r...

About fifty percent of this was fun to read.Some of the stories were coherent and fun, and some of them...were classic Morrison. In other words, there was a whole lotta flipping backward to see if I missed something that would make what I just read make sense.*sigh*And then I would remember who the author was. I thought quite a few of the new Batman recruits were lame, and there was also a noticeable amount of doofy villains. That guy with the parrot? Noooo.However, when Grant takes his meds, hi...

I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I finally decided to read and review each issue for Batman Incorporated (2010-2011) series last week. I've been hearing great things about it for quite some time so I picked it up right after its New 52 relaunch which meant that I missed the first arc of the series so I happily decided to come back to it once my self-imposed Batman Comics Diet happened by May this year. And I was pleasantly intrigued (and sometimes even perplexed).Some of you may...

It seems that everything that I have read from Grant Morrison has been first rate: All-Star Superman, New X-Men, the New 52 Action Comics. This collection is no exception. Here Batman is back from where ever he went when Darkseid obliterated him. He’s now setting up Batman Incorporated, a world- wide network of heroes to battle crime on a global scale. Here, it’s the Leviathan.The art is different for each storyline and is exceptional. I appreciate how Grant Morrison is reverential to the source...

Confusing. Unclear. Incomprehensible. Unstructured. Anticlimactic. Pure Morrison.So Batman, do you wanna talk about your new codpiece? I mean, I get it. Maybe it's functional, might even offer some added protection.... but it's a codpiece, Bruce. A codpiece. Bringing back the codpiece is like trying to convince people that you weren't wearing your underwear on the outside of your costume all these years: it ain't gonna happen. May as well put Robin in a green jock-strap while you're at it. And a...

Bruce Wayne reveals himself as the financial backer behind the Batman and that he plans to finance like-minded vigilantes around the world so that there will be a Batman in every part of the world under the umbrella title - Batman Incorporated.This book introduces a large number of the new recruits to Batman Inc as Bruce Wayne/Batman travels the world training up an army for the coming storm with a mysterious new cadre of evil called Leviathan.First up is a trip to Japan where Batman and Catwoma...

Batman starts to realize that he's overextended. He has his hands full trying to protect Gotham City, and other places around the world could use their version of Batman. That's where Batman Incorporated comes in. He sees and investigates good candidates that can take on the Batman mantle in a worthy manner in different cities. This volume focuses on Tokyo and Paris. The Tokyo storyline is pretty over-the-top and crazy. It reminds me of the crazy nature of Japanese and Asian action films. The vi...

Grant Morrison is often lauded as a comic-writing genius, but he has a very particular, nuanced style that I find eye-rollingly easy to hate. He likes to dig up and use crusty, obscure, nigh-worthless bits of a character's decades-long history and make them feel like important parts of a story you've missed out on. He likes to have characters give a lot of psycho-babble--"psycho" here meaning "psychotic," and he likes to pretend like he's using their ramblings to cleverly hide mysterious plot de...

Batman is fun again, finally!

There are bad ideas, there are bad books, and then there are the bad books with bad ideas. This is one of the latter.