Man, I used to love Batman. The Animated Series was my gateway drug into the world of comics. A couple issues of Gotham Adventures here, a The Long Halloween there and before I knew it I was dropping fat cash weekly at the comic book shop. I was getting all the Batman titles which eventually spilled over into the rest of the DCU. Then something strange happened.
Batman sucked. It was a rude awakening when it hit me that I really wasn't enjoying the books anymore. Could have been that it wasn't the books at all and I had just developed my own comic reading identity and decided Green Lantern and Superman were more the heroes for me. Grant Morrison has enough of an adoring public to support that theory.
But Batman #678 did it. The Batman of Zur-eh-Arrh knocked me out. It was the last straw in a scarecrow full of crazy bullshit that started me down the path of dropping the book. (Which was documented in a later strip.)
-Gint
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