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Batman: Time and the Batman Free FREE BATMAN: TIME AND THE BATMAN PDF Grant Morrison,Fabian Nicieza | 128 pages | 03 Aug 2011 | DC Comics | 9781401229894 | English | New York, NY, United States The Batman Set Shows Dark, Gritty Gotham With Easter Eggs in Exclusive Set Video Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Batman by Grant Morrison. Fabian Nicieza. David Finch Illustrator. Tony S. Daniel Illustrator. Andy Kubert Illustrator. Frank Quitely Illustrator. Cliff Richards Illustrator. Richard Friend Illustrator. Four of the top artists in comics today join forces with writer Grant Morrison to tell tales of the Batmen of different Batman: Time and the Batman. This volume Four of the top artists in comics today join forces with writer Grant Morrison to tell tales of the Batmen of different eras. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Gotham City United States Apokolips. Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your Batman: Time and the Batman thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Batmanplease sign up. See Batman: Time and the Batman question about Batman…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Batman: Time and the Batman. View Batman: Time and the Batman 12 comments. Dec 12, Sesana rated it liked it Shelves: science-fictioncomicssuperhumans. It isn't exactly worth reading on its own, and would actually be pretty much incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't read both RIP and Final Crisis already. It also isn't necessary to understand The Return of Bruce Wayne. It is, however, a pretty interesting read, especially since it's mostly narrated directly by Batman himself. I flagged the cover as awesome, and it is. There's also a whole gallery of really cool Batman art at the back of the book, by several different artists. Mar 06, Anne rated it liked it Shelves: comicsgraphic-novelsread-in It's been a while since I've read Batman: R. I vaguely remember Bruce being drugged, and then hilarity ensues Anyway, I guess that this sort of fills in some of the gaps in R. P and Final Crisis. Morrison's writing is always trippy and weird, but I'm hoping it will all come together for me once I read Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. Jun 11, Jesse A rated it liked it Shelves: library-it-upgraphic-novels. Largely unnecessary but not bad. Jul 21, Sam Quixote rated it liked it. This is a kind of collection of B sides and rarities from Grant Morrison's Batman: Time and the Batman Batman storyline. The first concerns a meshing of Batmans, present and future, in a number of futuristic backgrounds - this was the best looking part of the book but was confusing to me, even though I've read the others in this Batman cycle Black Glove, RIP, Return of Bruce Wayne, etc. There's also a This is a kind of Batman: Time and the Batman of B sides and rarities from Grant Morrison's epic Batman storyline. There's also a good one shot story of the new Batman and Robin, Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne, and about the shades of grey in crime. One day they'll collect all of the Batman books of the sequence into one or two absolute editions and readers of those will, or might, find all of the storylines make sense, but for me, having read each of these books 2 or 3 months apart, it's a bit confusing. All of the time travel stuff is way out there with Morrison introducing the concept of "time bullets", literally a time travelling bullet that is every bullet ever made Reading some of Morrison's stuff, it probably helps being on several drugs in order to, er, "get" the point of the stories. Reading them here in Batman though is a bit strange and oddly unsuited to Batman: Time and the Batman world. Some nice art aside, the stories in this book aren't essential to the enjoyment of other works in this series specifically "RIP" and "The Return of Bruce Wayne". This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Not my favorite. This is definitely an appendix book within Morrison's run. We learn a tiny bit about Professor Carter Nichols, the scientist who creates the time travel device that allows Bruce to escape. Which in itself is very confusing. And then the more useful R. Imagine that, a theme of time in "Time and the Batman. I'm glad I read it and can refer to it later. But it's definitely choppy and not really meant to be a cohesive storyline. Jan 24, Anthony rated it liked it Shelves: batman. The rest Batman: Time and the Batman kinda eh. The first story is pure Morrison confusion, though I appreciate the idea of a Batman story spanning 3 generations. Aug 07, John Yelverton rated it really liked it. It's great to have Batman back, but it's awful that Grant Morrison is allowed within yards of the character after his recent "contributions". Mar 10, Ben rated it did not like it Shelves: graphic-novels. What a mess. Why in the world would you collect these stories in this way? It seems they are addendums to other storylines; in that case, collect them with those storylines! This is like a short story collection that is really a collection of final chapters from novels. Further, there aren't really any new ideas here. I guess I'm slow cause I have no clue wth I just read. Oct 26, JB rated it really liked it Shelves: my-dc-collection. Another great piece in the Grant Morrison's Batman run puzzle. I will say that you'll enjoy it more if you've read the previous books in Morrison's Batman run and Final Crisis. It does highlight some of the most important things that happened in Final Crisis. It shows a case that involves Batmen through time I'm always in for stories involving a character through history and stories with time traveling. The Missing Chapter was great to read too, this story shows you what happened to Batman after the events of R. The Great Escape might be my favorite story in this book. I love how this story shows how little Damian knows about his father and how it's Batman: Time and the Batman clear he really wants to get to know him. The greatest thing about this story is Dick explaining to Damian why Bruce let one bad guy "get away" intentionally and it's a beautiful reason. A reason you can understand Batman or rather Bruce Wayne making. This part alone made the book for me. Highly recommended! 'The Batman' Release Date Pushed to March The series picks up from Final Crisis 6. The series detailed the journey Bruce Wayne takes through the timestream of the DC Universe after being deposited in the distant past by Darkseid in Final Crisis. The time periods are prehistory, Batman: Time and the Batman witch huntspirates at sea, the Wild West20th-century Gotham City just a few months after Thomas and Martha Wayne were murdered, and the present day, and usually depict the Batcave or Wayne Manor. Bruce Wayne also visits "the end of time". Morrison described the vastly different time periods in each issue. It's Bruce Wayne's ultimate challenge — Batman vs. As far as his artistic collaborators on the limited series, Morrison explained, " I know Chris Sprouse is penciling the first one, so I'm fairly Batman: Time and the Batman it'll be the best comic set in the Late Paleolithic Era that you'll have seen for a very long time. I'm a huge fan of Chris' work, so I'm keen to see what he's done. I think Frazer Irving might do the second one, cementing his reputation as the comic world's most prominent Puritan Goth Adventure artist. The series will follow the heroes' journey to find Batman who was lost in time following Final Crisis. The final issue was released in Novemberwith Sook sharing art duties with Pere Perez on his issue. Caught in the explosion of the time-and-space-bending Omega Beams of the New God tyrant Darkseidan amnesiac Bruce Wayne Batman: Time and the Batman cast back in time to the dawn of history. Nearly killed by a tribe of Neanderthals led by the immortal caveman who will become Vandal Savage Batman: Time and the Batman, Wayne is rescued by a younger human, who returns his Batman: Time and the Batman belt to him. Operating more on instinct than actual knowledge, Wayne dons the pelt of a giant bat and uses the tools in his belt against the cavemen, but is eventually forced to flee by jumping over a waterfall. When he recovers at the bottom, he finds he has jumped further forward in time, arriving in Puritan times. His first act in this new era is to save a woman named Annie from a monstrous, tentacled creature, after which he tries Batman: Time and the Batman build a life for himself in the small colony of Gotham. Calling himself "Mordecai", he joins the ranks of the local witch-hunters alongside his own ancestor Nathaniel Wayne, and uses his forensic skills to solve crimes that might otherwise be blamed on witchcraft.
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