Grant Morrison won Eisner Awards, so I had high expectations of his Batman book. I came away quite disappointed --- clearly, I've aged out of the audience for this. The first thing is that the collection is badly organized, so you're getting fragments of the story out of order or with connecting stories taken out. That made it quite challenging to stay engaged and interested throughout the reading.
The second issue is that you've got someone introduced as Bruce Wayne's son. By the middle of the book you realize there's no way Bruce Wayne is a secret identity --- everyone seems to know that he's Batman! At no point do we ever get the feeling that Batman is competent. He seems to be bewildered, reacting to events rather than anticipating them.
Then there's the mystical stuff involving Ra's al Ghul and his daughter, and that storyline was never very attractive to me. I checked this book out of the library and am glad I didn't pay money for this.
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