Product Description

When his parents were murdered, billionaire Bruce Wayne vowed to dedicate his life to avenging them. Now he is Gotham City's greatest protector...he is the Batman.But Batman has spent so long avenging crime that he has lost sight of his life as Bruce Wayne. However, his initial plan, a trip to Europe, is cut short by the arrival of hundreds of ninja Man-Bats, not to mention old flame Talia, daughter of his nemesis Ra's Al Ghul...and a boy she claims is his son!Two of comics' most critically successful and best-selling creators - Grant Morrison ("The Invisibles", "We3") and Andy Kubert ("Ultimate X-Men") - join forces to kick off a weird and wonderful new era in the Dark Knight's career!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #349762 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Grant Morrison is one of comics' greatest innovators. His long list of credits includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, JLA, Seven Soldiers, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles and The Filth. He is currently writing Batman and All-Star Superman. Andy Kubert, son of comics master Joe Kubert, has long been one of comics' greatest young talents, with work including both X-Men and Ultimate X-Men, Adam Strange, Captain America, 1602 and much more!

Customer Reviews

A proper comic!
What a pleasure to read a comic collection that isn't written like another mundane police drama teleplay. This book fizzes with the joy of ideas. It is a wonderful and compelling reading experience and shows a deep understanding and love for the medium of comics. If you have become jaded by the real world pretensions, stylistic limitations and just plain lack of imagination in many modern mainstream comics, this might just be the book to rekindle the fire that made you fall in love with this medium in the first place. It's a thrill!

Left me cold
Not sure how to feel about this.
Batman is one of, if not THE, best characters in the DC universe, with amazing and astounding adventures that span decades. Recently Knights End, No Man's Land, Hush and War Games have shown Batman at his best.
I was looking forward to this, the build up to Batman R.I.P.
Problem was, I got bored reading it.
The art is wonderful and show's Kubert's A game is on who.
Only this is it feels like Grant Morrison isn't trying, almost to the point of not caring.
It's like this story is a paycheck to him, that's all.
Sorry if I've upset and morrison fans but this tale left to flat and not wanting to read the following stories.
I will get BatmanRIP when it comes out but for me Batman And Son was a dud.
One you don't really need to buy, just read what Wikipedia says about it.

Missing?
I couldn't make head nor tale of this story, and found it boring and jumping from one story to another with no explenation as to any of it. I think the writers need to step back and compare the older stories to the newer ones and see where they are going wrong. If this is the way the writers are going I think I'll stop buying graphic novels altogether.