Batman and Son/Grant Morrison

Batman and Son by Grant Morrison; graphic novel; 200 pages

This started out strong, but quickly devolved into terrible. This collection starts with an arc in which Batman faces off against Talia (Ra's al Ghul's daughter), and learns that their long-ago liaison resulted in a son. Add in the fact that Talia's weapon of choice is an army of genetically engineered "Ninja Man-Bats" (!!) and it made for a pretty entertaining, if campy, story. Then, for reasons that are unclear, Morrison inserts a prose story that might be one of the most poorly written, gratuitously violent things I've ever had the misfortune to read. It's riddled with plot holes, the action scenes are unclear, the font is hart to read, and the purple prose is enough to make H. P. Lovecraft blush. I read the last third of the book on autopilot, because I was still reeling from the horrible writing in the middle. Very disappointing.