Grant Morrison is in my head. A couple days leading up to Batman and Robin #11 I began thinking about the story Morrison had laid out so far. One thing that sprung to the forefront of my mind was Oberon Sexton, admittedly because of this cover. So, my thinking turned to a suspicion of him actually being Bruce Wayne, back in Gotham having taken up a different guise to ingratiate himself with the Bat-family.
Page 18 of the issue, Damian Wayne straight up asks Sexton if he's Bruce Wayne. I am DC's monkey. They still won't get me to buy anything spinning out of Cry For Justice, regardless of the Eisner nomination.
Batman and Robin #11 looks fantastic. Detail is a thing I love in my comic books and Andy Clarke throws in plenty of it. I try to appreciate flashier styles with less detail, but for me there's nothing like seeing comic book characters in what look like real places that I could walk right into. Clarke and inker Scott Hanna do an amazing job on the book from a visual perspective.
This is quite the book from a story perspective as well, it explains why Damian hit Dick in the previous issue, knocking him down a hole. It puts Talia in an interesting role, delves deeper into the man with the "Double You" carved into his back, introduces another bad guy at the end of the book (who I had to look up because I'm a noob) and for good measure throws in "99 fiends" as well as a bat-demon.
The one thing I didn't get right away was that something happened to Batman in between when he was last shown underground and when he surfaces. He claims he's "found it" I thought he was just talking about the bat-demon sculpture, but apparently we're gonna need a flashback or reveal later to find out what he found.
Great issue, not light reading (and never really is with Morrison) by any means. It's something I really had to focus on and read twice to catch some of the stuff. I don't mind that though, because this is a comic that I want to read multiple times.



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