A flying Batmobile?

Really?

The Batmobile now flies like the vehicle in The Jetsons?

Really?

Seriously this is the biggest problem I had with the new Batman and Robin comic book line.

Unless you have no interest in comic books at all then you’ve probably heard the news, Bruce Wayne is dead and someone else is taking up the mantle of the Batman.  Now I know how Wayne died but please don’t ask me to explain it, it was one of those mishandled events in my opinion and even after reading Final Crisis I’m still a little fuzzy on the whole thing.

I just hope he isn’t brought back via another faith healer (once was quite enough thank you).

So I thought I would break my trade-paperback-only rule and buy a copy of the new Batman comic line Batman and Robin (I don’t know what’s happening to Detective and Batman, are they still ongoing?).  I’m glad I did because this one comic has given me so much to think about.

You see I’m coming into this fairly fresh as I’ve been avoiding Batman comics for the last year or two.  I read Knightfall once already, that was enough and also I didn’t feel like I had it in me to get up to speed on all the new characters including Damian, Bruce Wayne’s son who’s mother I assume is Talia?  There is also Red Robin? Well Red something anyway and of course Jason Todd is running around again.  

Talk about days of our lives.

So all that aside Dick Grayson the former Robin and Nightwing is now Batman and his Robin is Damian Wayne, I don’t know where Tim Drake (the last Robin) is but I don’t think that is important at this stage anyway.

Damian is a punk.

He’s angry and arrogant.

This doesn’t worry me as I’m sure he’ll come to respect Grayson as Batman, that or he’ll be clubbed to death by the Joker somewhere in the Middle East… hang on a second, that happened already.

I’m also perfectly happy with Grayson as Batman, this was the natural progression of the Batman line and I look forward to him taking his place amongst the DC universe heavy hitters.

The artwork was different, but crisp and I find myself digging it, the writing as well is perfectly fine.  But the damn Batmobile flying?  What happened to the Batcopter?  Or the Batwing?

I just don’t like it.

PS: I know, I know it’s incredibly crass to try and jam an extra syllable into the Jetsons theme to accommodate my title.