Rob's Rambling

Holy Batman, I have now jumped ship. As a professed Marvel junkie it should come as no surprise to the legions of comic fans that Dc is showing the esteemed competition how to get the most aesthetically pleasing art and craftsman of story telling The Return of the Demon. Ras Al Ghul who outside of the Joker is the penultimate Bat- villain. The story does begin in this years Robin annual. A gratuitous 1 page appearance and verbiage isn't necessary to have as Batman 670 is the prelude and gets you up to speed. However you will need to purchase the Bat family of books to read it all It does leave you hanging. Spoilers ahead as i will go in depth about the story. About 2 years ago a mini- series came out The Death and The Maiden which saw Ras bite the big one. Death is never permanent in comics so get over it. Fast forward as Talia has hired Silken Spider, Tiger Moth and Dragon lady to occupy Batman as A artifact is trying to be reacquired. It is flatly stated by Sliken Spider that the Demons Head is back and look out world. At the same time there is a splinter faction of the Assassin's being led by Sensei. It is now being established that Ras wants or needs Damian's body as his is deteriorated from crawling around the weeding fleshless ones brilliant. As any mother would do for her son she intervenes in saving Damain who runs to his father Batman.
Now Robin 168 comes into the fold. It show the brilliance of Damain who breaks into the batcave and states how hard it is and commends his father. Robin runs into Damain and the shit hits the fan. The dialogue that spews out of Damain and Tim you can actually feel. As Damain says " you think Batman will leave all this to a hanger-on like you, instead of his own flesh and blood". As it hits Tim with an original Hudson River school painting. The anger and distaste is captured most convincingly. As the end approaches Ras wants Damains body unharmed and anyone in the neigherbood taking care of as Tim and Damain are duking it out to be Continued. The art is handled beautifully by Tony Daniel in his debut on Batman what more of astoryand characther can an artist ask for. Freddie Williams III does a decent job on Robin with the writing by Peter milligan on Robin and Grant morrison on Batman.