Neal Adams returns to some of his most beloved characters in the DC Universe. But man, is this book a stinker. Throughout two miniseries, Batman asks the question 'Is a Batman who kills still Batman?' And as he tries to find the answer, he becomes embroiled in a caper of unimaginable silliness.
Bruce Wayne constantly flying off the handle. Ra's al Ghul in need of the Dark Knight Detective from his League of Assassins and is kinda a wimp. A hollow land in the middle of the earth made up of evolved Dino-hybrids. A caveman Caped Crusader! A solid state and visible Deadman. A Boy Wonder, almost eaten by trolls. And Batman gets giddy as a school boy when he breaks a bucking pterodactyl!
It all really doesn't make much sense.
Here's the deal- if Adams hadn't tied everything up in a very nice, shiny package, Batman Odyssey may very well be the worst comic book I have ever read.
On several occasions, I was ready to give up on this book. I took a couple of medium sized breaks from it as well. (To take a breather any longer would mean possibly forgetting just what exactly was going on.) I adore Neal Adams' work. I don't know what the hell this was!
Age is not the friend of an artist. The joints swell. The eyesite fades. And that stamina to do an all-nighter is gone. And the quality of Neal's work has definitely seen the affects of time.
It's like when I watched Disney's The Black Hole after years of enjoying and marveling at it as a child. Returning to it as an adult was not pretty. The sci-fi movie I loved so as a wee child was in reality garbage. Sometimes, it's best to allow the good things of your past stay there. For me, that means not reading anything of Neal Adams' that was published after 1999.
Not Worth Consuming!
Rating: 3 out of 10 stars.
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