Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne

ARTISTS

Writer: Grant Morrison
Pencillers: Lee Garbett, Pere Perez
Inkers: Alejandro Sicat, Walden Wong
Colorist: Guy Major
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
Editor: Mike Marts

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CHARACTERS & SETTINGS

heroes: Booster Gold, Green Lantern II, Rip Hunter, Superman
supporting: Skeets II

Setting: Last-century Vanishing Point, DCU

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ISSUE SUMMARY

Cover Description: Batman swings recklessly into a gunfire. (No Booster Gold.)

Brief Synopsis: The Time Masters arrive at Vanishing Point.

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

This story has been reprinted in the following issue:
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne (2012)

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ISSUE ANNOTATIONS

Page 6, panel 2
Rip Hunter, Superman, Skeets, Booster Gold, and Green Lantern arrive at Vanishing Point 10 minutes prior to its "total disintegration."

Page 6, panel 4
Booster's comment leads directly into the Time Masters appearance on page 4 of Batman: the Return of Bruce Wayne #2. All of the dialogue on this page (excluding the single narrative balloon) was previously seen in that issue.

For more annotations from this issue which occur at a different point in Booster Gold's chronology, click here (for near-future Booster Gold) or click here (for slightly farther-future Booster Gold).

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ISSUE REVIEW

Boosterrific Review: If there's anything to be certain about a Grant Morrison-written series, it is that the story won't make much sense when it's all over. This issue (and in fact this series) wants to be a bigger event than it is. The inevitability of Bruce Wayne's return steals any emotional impact. Batman, a rational detective who focuses on small-time crime, is a poor fit for all of the ridiculous god/time/fifth-world mumbo-jumbo that provides the thin veneer for a typically Morrison bit of meta-fiction (DC Heroes as modern gods/ideas) that suffers from taking itself far too seriously. It's not a terrible book: it's just not everything that it wants to be.

Boosterrific Rating:

• Currently 3.0/5 Stars.

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