With Bruce Wayne out of the picture, Dick Grayson picks up the Batmantle and fights alongside a wise-crackin’ Damian Wayne who can’t believe Dick thinks he can replace Bruce. Then it all ends in an explosion that Batman doesn’t appear to escape from (oh no!). Batwoman makes her debut in the fight, so cue some one-liners between the two bats. Things kick off with a big ‘ol battle between Batman and a gang of D-level villains not even worth mentioning. God-willing it’ll be the end of this era of DC animated Bat-features, because it hasn’t been the best. Batman: Bad Blood takes my favourite arc of Morrison’s grand Bat-Odyssey and transforms it into a 72-minute fight n’ cameo fest designed for electric guitar stings. The trouble is that these adaptations have been paper thin so far, essentially taking the simplest elements of Damian’s tale and little else. Fair enough, there’s some good stuff there. So, the powers that be essentially dropped all of the complex and deep-cut strands of Morrison’s story to focus entirely on the Damian Wayne/Bat family arc. As expected from Morrison, the sprawling narrative was complex and serpentine, not exactly the type of story that fit the direct-to-DVD action romps that Warner Brothers Animation favors for their DC properties. On the one hand, they’ve loosely adapted one of my all time favourite Batman runs: Grant Morrison’s epic 7-year Bat-journey that attempted to deconstruct and revive every era in the character’s history. I’ve been pretty conflicted about Warner Brothers Animation’s recent string of Batman adventures.
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