Tag: Chris Burnham

Death of BATMAN Ally

Batman Incorporated #7 courtesy DC Comics
Batman Incorporated #7 courtesy DC Comics

  The Joker is tormenting Bruce Wayne and promising the Death of the Family in the Batman books. Talia Al Ghul’s Leviathan has claimed an ally of Batman’s global family in Batman Inc.

  Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham are bringing the pain to Gotham City in this week’s Batman Incorporated #7. This is just one of Burnham’s pages courtesy Comics Newsarama. Bruce’s ex-lover wants put his Batman franchise out of business. The battered heroes lost one of their own. In this issue we see the aftermath of Leviathan’s shocking assault. Damian will take on his mother’s champion with the fate of Gotham City hanging in the balance.

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Batman Incorporated Goes Back to the Future!

 

Batman Incorporated #5 courtesy DC Comics

Batman has seen the future. It’s hell. The Joker’s final gag on Gotham City is the last laugh from another Bat villain.

This week’s Batman Incorporated #5 is the most disturbing and relentless chapter of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s epic war between Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul for control of their son.

Bruce Wayne declares that Damian can no longer be the new Robin. In this chapter Morrison takes us back into the twisted future he created in Batman #666. In this nightmarish world Damian is Batman, Gotham City is plagued by Jokerized zombies and the last hope lies inside Arkham Asylum.

Chris Burnham delivers every dark, gritty, gruesome scene of a badass Batman and Gotham gone insane that Morrison conjures up. The issue is packed with action, some very disturbing acts and a cliffhanger that thrills your heart and breaks it.

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Batman Incorporated Goes to Work!

 

Batman Incorporated #4 courtesy DC Comics

Bruce Wayne in a death grip. Merlyn and some of DC’s greatest assassins assembled. Leviathan’s grip on Batman’s home is getting tighter. Good thing there’s a new dynamic duo in Gotham City!

In this week’s Batman Incorporated #4 Bruce Wayne’s global crime fighting franchise goes to work against the forces of Talia Al Ghul’s League of Assassins. Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham give members of Bruce’s army great screen time and moments. This issue features the debut of Wingman and Redbird – this twist is a great example of how the creative team deliver crazy comic fun mixed with drama, violence and sharp humor.

Morrison and Burnham have been building to a huge showdown between Bruce’s Batman Inc versus Talia’s Leviathan for the soul of their son.Just as the war is coming to a head Bruce makes a decision in the final panel that may seal Damian’s fate. It’s another entertaining chapter that ends with a “WTF?!” moment.

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Batman Incorporated Begins

Batman Incorporated #0 courtesy DC Comics

Are you ready for the war? We have to wait but it’s worth it. Batman’s global team of crimefighters vs. Talia Al Ghul’s Leviathan army are about to battle for Gotham City. This week’s Batman Incorporated #0 shows how Bruce Wayne assembled his network of heroes.

Grant Morrison and artist Chris Burnham conceived this thrilling story – it’s fast with perfect pitches of humor. Frazier Irving creates a different tone for this origin story. The characters really pop because the backgrounds are almost not there but the hero’s action is featured over moody color tones. I think it works as we learn the many unique profiles of various agents of the Batman.

I’m not sure if we really need a zero issue for a book that hasn’t been out that long but I enjoyed it and it made me hungrier for the Batman/Talia war!

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Batman vs. Talia, Leviathan Takes Gotham

Batman Incorporated #6 courtesy DC Comics

  Bruce, Talia, Damian – is this the most dysfunctional and deadly family dynamic in history? The battle for Damian’s destiny and Gotham City heats up in Batman Incorporated #6.  DC Comics The Source shared the cover and preview for the issue coming in December.

  Bat-robots versus Man-bats! Leviathan seizes Gotham City. The Heretic returns. Grant Morrison dreams up the most fantastic and frightening scenarios and artist Chris Burnham delivers. There’s a twisted mind-meld that fills each issue. This may be one of the perfect combinations of writer, artist and characters.

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Love and Death in Batman Incorporated #2

Batman Incorporated #2 courtesy DC Comics

  July 20th we’ll know if Talia Al Ghul is appearing in Christopher Nolan’s final Batman film. Fans have speculated that Marion Cotillard will be revealed as the daughter of Ra’s Al Ghul in The Dark Knight Rises.

  Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham create a dark love letter to Batman’s deadly dearest in Batman Incorporated #2. The duo share Talia’s harsh life growing up as the daughter and pawn of the criminal mastermind. The story takes us inside the minds of Batman’s most complicated enemies and sets the stage for what will be one hell of a payoff.

  We relive some of the most powerful moments of Talia’s life and deadly love affair with Bruce. Morrison builds the issue to the present as Talia confronts her father and forwards her plot to punish Batman. We’ll see how her betrayal is tied to the shocking assassination of Robin in the premiere issue.

  Chris Burnham was born to make Grant Morrison’s script come alive. From harrowing fights to Talia’s revealing closeups Burnham’s distinctive style is perfect for this twisted tale of love, revenge and death.

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Batman Incorporated – Back in Business and Business is Awesome

Batman Incorporated #1 by Chris Burnham courtesy DC Comics

  Batman Incorporated #1 Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham’s imagination scares the hell out of me. I think this issue could make me become a vegetarian. I had to get that out of my system first.

  Bruce Wayne is under arrest at a funeral. Then we go back one month on a twisted bloody journey to see how Bruce got to this point. Along the way we meet Goatboy, Bat Cow, Mutants and horrific agents of Leviathan.

Morrison makes this issue move fast, feel packed with story, punch with wit and shocking moments. Burnham’s art is dynamic and innovative feeling. What Burnham delivers in facial expressions from Damian’s frustration to an amateur killer’s fear makes you feel, laugh and fear for them.

This is a MUST read. I may have to go to Morrisoncon just to bow to Morrison and Burnham for creating this book. Although I don’t think I could eat steak or burgers at all during that weekend. I’m afraid it would be Bat Cow.

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Burnham on Batman Inc

Batman Incorporated #1 courtesy DC Comics

  I had the opportunity to meet Chris Burnham recently at Emerald City Comicon in Seattle – and I got a Batgirl head shot sketch! Burnham is joining Grant Morrison on a new Batman Incorporated. The new title is part of DC Comics New 52: The Second Wave. DC revealed preview art and a new quote from the artist.

Batman Incorporated #1 courtesy DC Comics

  “Oh, man, I am so excited for this book to come out! Grant and I have put our all into making this the best reading experience possible. We’re trying to do away with the widescreen movie-wannabe comics of the last ten or fifteen years and make the comicbookiest comics we’re capable of. Breaking borders, impossible perspectives, intricate panel interplay, sound effects, speed lines, splash pages, and some stuff that I’m not quite sure how to put into words. Words are Grant’s department, anyway!

We’re throwing everything we can think of at the wall and I’m pretty sure most of it’s sticking. It’s exciting, dramatic, funny, violent, deadly serious, utterly ridiculous, and, hopefully, moving. We’re doing our darnedest to dress the entirety of human experience up in tights for 20 pages a month and punch it right in the teeth.”

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