Gonna spoil the shit outta this and by extension the end of Battle for the Cowl. Cool? Ok then

Lets start with the stick I have up my arse over Grant Morrison.
Been a fan of his writing for years, but his major output in 2008 namely Batman RIP and Final Crisis really put me off him. Both works divided the nerd community and I fell squarely in the "pretentious wank" category as both seemed more about showing how clever the writer was than delivering an entertaining story. I like books with levels you can go into, like Watchmen for example, but you can just read Watchmen as a cool whodunnit if you want to. Morrisons stuff didnt have that entertaining surface level to it, it was just confusing for the sake of it. Batman RIP especially annoyed me in particular the ending which seemed tagged on and pointless.

Why am I telling you all this? So you know how hard a sell I was on this book.

This was Morrison coming back to Batman after, in my opinion, fucking it up. If it had been my call they wouldnt have let him back on and definately wouldnt have been making a big deal about it. That said, I love the character, I wanted to be proven wrong.

Issue one seems to have done that.

This book basically is the first outing of the new Batman and Robin, these being Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne. Grayson obviously being the original Robin who has reluctantly taken on the role of Batman and Damian being Bruce's son.
The dynamic between them is played very well and reminiscent of when Bruce Wayne first took on Jason Todd who was also a bit of a shit and who I have to admit was probably my fave of the Robins, though I am in the minority with that. They were both characterised really well and I really enjoyed both their interactions with Alfred who as always is the rock in the Batman books. Looking forward to seeing how Gordon takes it and if they will pretend he is too dumb to notice a new guy under the cowl. Would hope Grayson admits who he is to him from the off.
A new villain is introduced called Pyg who is genuinely disturbing and will be a good warm up for the Joker confrontation we know they are counting down to.
Art by Frank Quitely is excellent as always and I gotta admit I was totally won over by this book and am eagerly waiting for issue 2.

Nice work Mr Morrison, it was a pleasure to be proven wrong.