Batman # 681 - Batman R.I.P. The conclusion: Hearts in darkness

 Just as it looks like the Black Glove is going to achieve their goalof destroying the Batman, he shows them that it was only at his whim that they achieved as much as they did. Flat out, this was a bad ass book.  The story was obvious, and the R.I.P. part does not show up here. Nothing in this story will effect the Batman for very long. Yet, it was still a cool read. One part in particular, was when the Joker realised before hand that they had underestimated Batman, so he leaves the party early, knowing things were about to be turned around on the Black Glove. Nothing to do with any other book with R.I.P. in the title, but pretty cool on its own.

batman is trapped in a coffin buried six feet under. joker turns on the black glove members kills one of them and makes a bet of his own: he gets out and brings you all to justice. he does just that. but of course ther's a chase and there batman follows hurt in a helicopter crash. everyone believes him to be dead. An excellent read as one of the "final" batman story but it just doesn't seem to have a real ending. but still good read tho 

That's right I said it. The supposed "conclusion" of RIP is nothing but a cliffhanger. My husband speculates that the Batman in Final Crisis is Nightwing in the batsuit but I haven't read that yet. So as far as Nightwing picking up the cowl at the end of this issue, I'm not sure what to make of it just yet.

Ok, so that's it. The Black Glove is done. Yeah. I wish the finale issue was more complete. Usually the final issue of an arc is the best. This definitely isn't.

Even with the cool scene with the League of Assassins turning into Man-Bats. I wish this issue went out with a bang. Sure, Bats fake dies at the end and then possibly appears at the end. I know what really happened to Bats and how he "died", and it actually had nothing to do with this arc.  Blech. I'm tire.

This arc had it's high points, and it had it's low.