Batman Inc. are arrested for moiderising some character called Abyss in Badhnisia (which is east of Crapland and just south of Nasty Place). Batman flies out to see what’s what.
The good news is that James Tynion is off Batman!
The bad news is that Joshua Williamson is his replacement!
The good news is that Williamson’s not hanging around for long!
The bad news-maybe-not-but-probably-bad is that Chip Zdarsky’s going to be the full-time Batman writer!
The good news is that I’ma stop with the good news bad news thing now!
So yeah, I’m back to reading the main Batman title now that Tynion’s no longer writing it (I stopped after that Joker War garbage). Even though Joshua Williamson couldn’t write a good comic even if you handed him one to copy, I was willing to give him a shot - and he flubs it, predictably.
The Abyss story couldn’t be more pointless or throwaway. Some bad guy does some bad guy things while some obviously good guys are accused of something bad until blah blah blah. Obvious, dull writing of a level I’d expect from a SaTURDay morning kids’ cartoon. Batman’s temporarily blinded, which seemed like an interesting development, until it didn’t slow or hindrance him in the slightest, so that was useless.
It’s good to see Batman Inc. again - it’s a shame they haven’t been used much outside of Grant Morrison’s work - but I’d have preferred seeing them in something better than this.
Speaking of blasts from the past, the final third of the book features a YA Batman team-up story with Maps Mizoguchi from Gotham Academy. Some Japanese Yokai (supernatural entities) called Kappa (water yokai) are in Gotham, some kids go missing, and so on. I don’t rate Karl Kerschl as a writer much either and this kid’s story only added to the feeling of this book being made up of kids’ cartoon writing.
I’m glad to see the writing lineup on the main Batman title given a shake-up so that it has a chance of being good for a change, but Joshua Williamson ain’t the guy to turn the quality around. Abyss is instantly-forgettable abysmal filler - an easy one to skip entirely while Zdarsky settles into the title proper.
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