Batman’s in prison because… And Zur is in Failsafe and he’s Batman because… Then Absolute Poo-er means more robots and Batman’s gotta… Yeah, so Batman the series is in shit shape. Chip Zdarsky’s run has been about as bad, if not worse, than Tynion’s, and DC needs to change things sharpish.
Dark Prisons is such a boring book. How many times do we need to see Batman escape from a prison? How many more creepy former mentors of Bruce’s are going to come out of the woodwork? How many fucking times can we possibly see Batman fight the T-1000 knockoff Failsafe??! This stinks. Zdarsky’s got not ideas and, worse, he’s fucking up others’ like Zur-En-Arrh, which was a cool throwback when Grant Morrison did it but now the character is rendered as just another cheesy Batman villain.
Even when that garbage is over, the succeeding storyline is no better. Absolute Poo-er has begun where Amanda Waller, aka the poor man’s Nick Fury, has stolen a boom tube that Bat and Cat have to take back. And Waller’s also somehow taken everyone’s superpowers and replaced them with Failsafe-esque robots. Great - more dumb robots.
The whole thing feels so uninspired and dull. Nothing about Absolute Poo-er seems interesting. The Absolute line is intriguing to me but it doesn’t need to be set up with some crummy comics - Absolute is an alternate universe. We get it. DC has been doing this shit for decades, it doesn’t require explanation.
I really hope this is it for Zdarsky’s Batman and we don’t get another crappy, bloated, endlessly trite and pointless volume. Dark Prisons is, like all of Zdarsky’s Batman books have been, utter crap. Roll on the Matt Fraction era.
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