There’s no real consistency in tone or feel to the book and, most importantly, in his writing of Damian. Kubert’s writing is, to put it charitably, all over the place. Perhaps there’s a comment on Kubert’s part in how Batman dies suddenly and unexpectedly, but it’s a strange way to open the issue.Īnd that’s just the start of the strangeness of this issue. Kubert created a scenario which, by all counts, probably shouldn’t kill Batman… and yet somehow it does. While the fact that he didn’t simply retell “Batman Incorporated” #8 and switch Damian with Batman isn’t a bad thing, the method in which Bruce does bite the big one is positively… pedestrian. That’s really the first of a number of curiosities present in Kubert’s writing here. Spoiler alert, by the way, but the cover really gives it away anyway and it would be hard to talk about the issue without mentioning it. Right off the bat, we see that instead of using a major moment in Grant Morrison’s Batman saga to subvert Kubert opted to create a whole new scenario in which Batman dies. That’s really all you need to know going into this story as it has no connection to anything else. Andy Kubert, who help co-create Damian Wayne as he was introduced way back in “Batman” #655, returns to illustrate and write this imaginary story the serves as a prequel to the Damian as Batman story from “Batman” #666. What does happen here… isn’t an awful lot, to be truthful. Well, ok, Damian doesn’t really become Batman here, but it is only the first issue. Damian Wayne, the son of Batman, has adopted the cape and cowl as his own… but what horrific events set this troubled hero on the path of his dark destiny? It’s a possible future that may never be in this epic miniseries written and drawn by one of Damian’s co-creators, Andy Kubert!
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