Guys, when I went to pick up Batman this morning I skimmed Birthright #3.
How do I put this...what Byrne explained in a few panels, Waid took an entire book.
And, do you know what the wrost part is?
He didn't add anything new. He didn't tell us anything we didn't know. AND he didn't write anything to enhance the characters.
So, what was the point in the comic? All he did was take something that, at most, should have taken him 1 page to tell, and stretched it out into an entire comic.
There is no point in retelling an origin if all you are going to do is stretch out the way the story is told. It's so fuckin' boring b/c it doesn't add a thing to the mythos. And it's pointless!
I was hoping this would be a stroy to get in trade for my collection. I would say that I hope it has been cancelled, but, that really screws the people who have bought the first 3 comics. And these aren't cheap!
How can DC ask us to invest in their product, and we invest a lot more than money, we invest time and emotions, if this is the crap that they release?
Again, this book should never have made it off of the editor's desk.
