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Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul Is The Biggest Disappointment Of 2007

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Warning: Here thar be spoilers!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I owe you an apology. Based solely on my love of Batman and respect for Paul Dini and Co, I hyped the Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul storyline like nobody’s business. I talked about how I don’t know much about al Ghul, but everything I had heard about him being the Moriarty to Batman’s Holmes and so on had me intrigued, that the prelude in Batman 670 piqued my interest, and pledged to follow the entire crossover.

I followed the crossover, I gritted my teeth through every scene featuring Talia and her annoying crotch dropping, I kept watching for something to change, secure in my belief of Batman and good storytelling, and now I am pissed. At the end of the crossover in Detective Comics 839, everything returns to the status quo. Batman, Robin, and Nightwing all go back home, none the worse for wear; Damian disappears again, albeit possibly more mature; Talia is still a backstabbing wench. The only change we get are Ra’s is alive again - I didn’t even know he was dead and even if I had, it doesn’t take a crossover to return an immortal - and the only things even close to a twist were the revelations that The Sensei was Ra’s al Ghul’s father and the White Ghost was al Ghul’s son. Frankly, I don’t really care about either one.

And this is why this crossover was the biggest disappointment and waste of time in 2007, a year full of some pretty big piles of crap, including Countdown, which wasn’t too far behind in its second-place spot.

On a side note, does anyone know Damian’s last name? Is it Damian al Ghul or Damian Wayne?

tag: batman, Biggest Disappointment of 2007, comics, Damian, DC, Paul Dini, Ra’s Al Ghul, Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul

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