Pseudo-Live-Blogging: Grant Morrison's Batman Run - Grotesk (Ostrander Fill-In Story)

So, here are the thoughts that go through my head as I read the Grotesk arc by Ostrander and Mandrake, published between Batman & Son and The Clown at Midnight:

• Wow... this isn't very good.
• So these guys want this other guy's sister? Ten gets you twenty he's the villain.
• This is so bad it's giving me a headache.
• Johnny Karaoke? SERIOUSLY? And his Geisha Grrls?
• Headache... getting worse!
• Once again, a Gotham vigilante thinks Batman should understand his mission of vengeance.
• I think this headache is actually my brain trying to escape from my skull so that it can poke my eyes out. I don't blame it. In fact, it might be for the best if it succeeds.
• Well, at least we won't have to worry about seeing Johnny Karaoke again.
• And the sister dies too, so we have no loose ends that might bring ANY of this back around. Outstanding.

Well, in the final analysis, the best thing I can say about John Ostrander's four issue cliche is that I'm done reading it. Now I feel like I need a shower. And some steel wool. I'd have rather gone a couple months without an issue of Batman than read this. I'm normally the first one in line to scream when a book I like has delays. "Why not give us a filler story" I might say "while the regular team tries to get their book back on track?"

If you hear me say this, remind me that his line of thinking got us "Grotesk".