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  <title><![CDATA[Batman: R.I.P. (The Deluxe Edition)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Legendary writer Grant Morrison concocts an unthinkable plot: The death of The Dark Knight! Collecting BATMAN #676-683 in an oversized Deluxe Edition, this volume features artwork by Tony Daniel. While Bruce Wayne drops out of sight, The Club of Villains begins a crime spree through the streets of Gotham City, while Batman's allies attempt to keep order in the city and find The Dark Knight.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">1</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2009</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Batman: R.I.P. Deluxe</original_title>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 17:55:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 19 17:56:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I went into this book like I just groped a pepper spray packing woman’s self defense course graduate-partially blind. Not being familiar with Black Glove or the preceding storyline, I oft felt myself bodysurfing a low tide wave of confusion. I'm starting to realize that trying to follow Grant Mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46910348">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 23 07:22:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been enjoying Morrison's work recently (I'm currently a little way into his late-80's run on DOOM PATROL). R.I.P. was a disappointment, however. The storyline was very confusing, and the oh-so-fearsome Black Glove group of super villains was just too easily defeated. I liked the idea of a &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46849019">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 13 12:46:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So the BATMAN R.I.P. saga wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be.  While the artwork is fantastic, the story was kind of hard to follow.  I didn't like the fact that Batman was going crazy (again), I believe that he is a much better hero when he is in his right mind (or as right of mind as Batman...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49169174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review will be for both The Black Glove and for Batman R.I.P.:<br/><br/>So what if there was a super-super-super criminal mastermind that has been following and manipulating Batman from the very beginning?  Orchestrating his every move, his every love affair, his every nemesis to bring him to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65095152">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>2009#60</strong><br/>Awalnya tidak begitu mudah dicerna karena aku tidak mengikuti seri &quot;Batman &amp; Son&quot; dan &quot;Black Gloves&quot; yang sebenarnya harus dibaca terlebih dulu karena merupakan babak2 pembuka seri ini. Selain itu Morrison juga banyak memakai tokoh2/cerita2 Batman lawas. Batman of Zu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75004080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55580402">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 10 12:03:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[First things first.  Before reading this you must read Batman and Son, and Batman: The Black Glove. If you don't you'll be lost.  That being said, let's go... <br/><br/>Seriously?  Is this how it's going to end? The picture set out in the final chapter of Batman and Son is now starting to come int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55580402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55658096">
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  <date_added>Mon May 11 07:08:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 11 07:56:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Epic Fail.  Morrison's story is overly ambitious, overly complex, and self pretentious; there are simply too many stupid ass symbols, confusing half-lines and philosophical musings flying around which, by the end of the book, don't mean anything.  Imagine being invited to the funeral of Batman.  Epi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55658096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63338700">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you know every plot and story that has ever been written for Batman, then you will probably love this book. Batman R.I.P. is a collection of references to some pretty obscure and old Batman comics, and if you don't know those references in detail, then you will be a little confused, and way let d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63338700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72141450">
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another excursion into the brilliance of Grant Morrison, who's maybe in my mind the most important writer of our time. His ability to take characters who I don't even find terribly interesting (like Superman or Batman for instance) and come up with completely bizarro and inventive takes on them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72141450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44163885">
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    <body><![CDATA[It is quite an interesting story, though Batman disappears/dies in the end.  Earlier Batman was caught and put in isolation for 10 days, among other things.  Earlier (maybe even earlier) than that he went to Tibet and completed the most advanced Vajrayana Buddhist meditation (dhyana,) involving goin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44163885">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do not read this without having read &quot;Batman &amp; Son&quot; and &quot;The Black Glove&quot; first. <br/><br/>Reading this for the second time, I can't believe I actually read it the first time. It's no wonder I was horribly confused back then. Then, the R.I.P. storyline was the... let me check m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50327748">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Batman gets cut by one of the Black Glove's minions on the first page, drugging him in the process.  A little later, Jezebel Jet (who wouldn't have spotted a girl named Jezebel as being linked with the villains?) utters a code word Dr. Hurt implanted in Batmans' subconscious during an isolation expe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33164218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73597616">
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    <body><![CDATA[Morrison hasn't written much of anything that I like lately. I used to love his stuff but now his writing style has seemed to loose and up its won ass for me to care. In order for me to like a comic book I have to at least understand what is happening. I'm not a dumb person but I found it hard to ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73597616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Batman has trained his mind, body and spirit to the peak of human ability over the course of his lifetime. But even the World's Greatest Detective has his limits -- and now, more than ever, he must exceed them to survive.<br/><br/>Be forewarned, if you aren't familiar with other main Batman storyl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66699875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not up to snuff with other Batman titles.  The story was choppy.  There were constant references the big events that clearly took place during the storyline that were not in this collection.  I think that those events must have been in other contemporaneous comics, but their absence hurt this collec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60458079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the final part of the black glove story. the art isnt very nice but the story is fantastic. morrison attempts to renconcile all of the weird stories from batman's past issues and constructs a history of batman that acknowledges all of his past adventures, no matter how weird (see: bat mite, batman o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59876799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as the individual issues of Batman.  I builds off of 2 years of mystery where a secret organization is gambling that they can destry Batman.  While it works as Batman story, the big reveal of the bad guy is neither clear nor suprizing.  More of a &quot;to be continued&quot; end than a &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67901447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came into this book, not knowing much of the background of villains and Batman, besides broad ideas from the movies.  I got really confused during a lot of this.  I think if I followed the series religiously, I would understand and appreciate it better. The ending, especially, just dissolved on me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49620181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost perfect.<br/>Batman's first line, about how his new batmobile didn't quite turn out the way he pictured it, is a dead-on accurate statement about reader expectations, rewrites, editorial interference, and general confusion revolving around this brilliant arc.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While this does not contain the end of the Batman RIP narrative, Grant Morrison creates a great cast of villains and a better narrative. Batman is tested in ways that truly damage him, and he's just not the same. Good stuff, but could have been a little more coherent. ]]></body>
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