Basically, this all foreshadowed the end of Bruce Wayne, with replacement Batman, and a mastermind claiming to be his father (who had faked his own death). Basically he started this big epic about “the black hand”, a sinister supervillain cabel conspiring to bring down Batman, and rewriting the character’s history to include ALL aspects of his past (including retconning his “off-world” adventures as a mind-altering psychodelic experience he underwent). Okay, I don’t apologise, I enjoy this stuff – but I acknowledge it’s geeky.Ġ1.) Writer Grant Morrison took over the main Batman title after DC’s last big crisis (okay, there was one arc written by another writer, but it has been Morrison’s since). This going to get geeky, so I apologise in advance.
They don’t call him the world’s greatest detective for nothing. Riddler?Īnd the scariest part? He’s 100% right. O’Hara: It all adds up to a sinister riddle… Riddle-er. Robin: But wait! It happened at sea! See? “C” for Catwoman!īatman: Yet - that exploding shark was pulling my leg! Gordon: You mean, where there’s a fish, there could be a Penguin. Batman and the Boy Wonder have just been attacked by a shark, leading to the infamous “Bat Shark Repellent” scene, and the Caped Crusader (because it’s just… wrong to call Adam West’s version of the character the Dark Knight) must figure out who was behind the plot:īatman: Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder. In recognition of that fact, and in acknowledgement of Grant Morrison’s description of his book as the Adam West television show filtered through the lens of David Lynch, I give you perhaps my favourite moment of 1960s Batman, from Batman: The Movie. My copy of Grant Morrison’s Batman & Robin hardcover should be shipping from Amazon today.