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Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul
- Hardcover
- Author: Grant Morrison, Paul Dini
- Publisher: DC Comics
- Release Date: May 2008
- ISBN-10: 1401217850
- ISBN-13: 9781401217853
- List Price: $29.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryBatman's immortal foe, Ra's Al Ghul, should be dead at last -- so how has he returned to haunt The Dark Knight? And what does his return have to do with Batman's teenaged son, Damian -- whose mother is Ra's Al Ghul's daughter, Talia? It will take the combined skills of Batman, Robin and Nightwing to get to the bottom of these mysteries and stop Ra's Al Ghul's insidious plans! |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Mixed, yet enjoyable, tale of the return of one of Batman's greatest foes
Rating:
Grant Morrison, Paul Dini, Peter Milligan, and all others involved have done better, but what's been presented here is a fun, action-packed, almost cinematic story of the resurrection of one of Batman's best villains: Ra's al Ghul. Batman, Robin, Nightwing, and a whole host of others, good and bad, race to prevent Ra's from possessing the body of Batman's son, Damian Wayne, and defiling the mystical hidden city of Nanda Parbat. Although the ending is rushed and the artwork could be better, the story works and is quite enjoyable. Not one of Batman's best adventures, but quality nonetheless.
Highly entertaining read
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People are far too critical of this book, and it is a real shame, as the book, cover to cover is a fun read. This is a comic. Yes, I know it written in large part by Grant Morrisson, which raised expectations, but it is a comic book. It isn't meant to be Shakespeare. it is menat to entertain, and man ohhh man, does it ever. I couldn't put it down. The art is truly wonderful, and the colors masterful. The story, though far from perfect, keeps you truning the pages. And the ending is satisfying and restores a charcater that DC was insane to EVER do away with. Give this one a shot.
disappointing
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The storyline of Ra's Al Ghul resurrection is not other than a inoffensive run of great talents (Morrison, Dini, Pearson etc) on a great character, Batman: the mountain gave birth to a little mouse in this case...
A washed out story that leaves you with a "so what?" aftertaste in your brain. The art is consistently good, but imho without any personality.
I hope the rest of the batman run by Morrison will be of another level.
Poor!
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Why does DC continue to publish these mega crossovers? Since the early 90's Batman has been subjected to overstreched storylines which run through Detective Comics, Batman, Robin, Nightwing and whatever other monthly Batman comic being published at the time.
The problem with this form of "pass the batton" storytelling is it inevitably streches the story too thin and the artwork ussually suffers at the hands of artists rushing to meet impending deadlines.
The writing on the book is a mishmash. Heavy weight writers Grant Morrison and Paul Dini have written some of the best Batman material, but their work does not come through over the pencil work of so many different artists. The fact that they only wrote four of the seven or so chapters does not help the flow of the storyline either. To get around the crossover story format, Dini and Morrison focus on the story of Batman's search of Ra's Al-Ghul, while other writers focus on Robin and Nightwing's individual dilemma's. This approach only helps to fracture the story into two, hindering momentum.
It should be stated that readers looking for the "realistic" approach of the Christopher Nolan Batman films will be dissapointed with the over-the-top action. The fight between Robin, Nightwing and 200 ninjas in the Batcave, where the ninjas are held at bay while Nightwing and Robin exchange witty banter is paticularly cringeworthy and borders on slapstick. For protege's of a master strategist like Batman, the decision to stand and fight an army of sword weilding assassins seems out of character and works againt the notion of Batman being the most plausable of the DC superheroes. It also diminishes the villains of the story if they cannot win with the odds stack so high in their favor.
The artwork is a mixed bag of good and bad. Fill-in artist David Baldeon and departing regular Robin artist Freddie Williams II do a great job on the Robin Chapters, while departing Detective Comics artist Don Kramer does his usual substandard job on the Nightwing chapters.
Ryan Benjamin and Saleem Crawford draw the Detective Comics chapters and do an above average job, assuring that DC will never hire them for a regular stint on the Batman monthlies; that honour goes to Tony Daniel and Jonthan Glapion, whose extemely sloppy, Jim Lee knockoff style artwork has been deemed worthy of "gracing" Grant Morrison's future issues of Batman by the powers that be at DC Comics.
Although we don't see as many of these mega crossovers anymore, when they do appear they are ussually disruptive to the momentum regular writers of the monthly comics try to build, and this story is no different. New readers looking for the best of Batman should look at some of the classic Batman tales of the 80's such as Year One, the Killing Joke, or Morrison's own Arkham Asylum, as well as more recent classics such as Ego, long Holloween, Batman Black & white, or Paul Dini's current run with artist Dustin Nguyen. The Ressurection of Ra's Al Ghul should be buried in the "soon to be forgotten" pile.
Damian Wayne; Think I might hurrllll....
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I can't wait for Grant Morrison to stop writing Batman. This is some of the worst garbage to spew out of the DC Universe. Ra'a Al Ghul is kinda cool... Talia and her test-tube batbrat not so much. Only Nightwing and Robin redeam this meandering story at all.
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