BATMAN #671Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Tony Daniel and Jonathan Glapion
Well, this story went in a completely different direction than I expected. I thought, based on the previous issue's ending, that Batman and Ra's would team up to stop Sensei and get Ra's to the Fountain of Life to revive his body. I expected that to make up the remaining parts of this storyline.
However, they accomplished all of that in one issue. Batman and Ra's go and battle Sensei, who is apparently a god of martial arts and 'killed' Ra's and Batman in under two minutes. If not for the Fountain of Life saving Batman and, I guess, killing the impure Sensei, Batman would not have survived this fight. Ra's somehow transfer his essence to one of the monks in the area after he 'died', but I'm not sure how he did it.
In the end, the entire issue was as random as previous issues. Where's I-Chang? Where'd Talia and the Robins go? Did they just stay behind? Where's his League of Assassins to help Ra's with the Sensei? Where'd Nightwing go? He was in the last chapter and I expected him to meet up with Batman. Everything's just happening so fast and with very little explanation that I find it hard to even care what's happening or why the events mean anything. I still have no clue who Sensei is, aside from the random revelation that he's Ra's' father, which came out of left field.
However, I did enjoy the issue for the most part, but I would love it if they took the time build up people like Sensei or explain the various going ons before jumping to a new plot point. Also, I'm not sure what's left to do. I think Tim's supposed to join up with Ra's based on the covers and solicit information, but I still have no clue what's left to happen in this story. Ra's has a new monk body, but I guess that will decompose?
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