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Message: [QUOTE="ATenderLad, post: 17166, member: 3864"] So I was reading some more books last night, decided to start Batman and Robin Eternal, a series from 2015 that ran a couple years. It's not bad, but boy howdy I wonder how this stuff goes down for people who aren't immersed in this crap. Just off hand, someone picking up Batman and Robin Eternal needs to know that Batman is now a GCPD mech suit being piloted by Jim Gordan, Bruce Wayne is a civilian with no memory of his vigilante life, Dick Grayson seemingly died in an event called Forever Evil but actually uses that as a cover for his new career as a secret agent, Jason Todd's *whole deal*. Then there's the stuff returning or casual readers might not know, like Tim Drakes entire 90/00's career maybe not happening in the wake of Flashpoint (notably his dads fine), Spoiler and Cassandra Cain are completely rebooted, starting over. Also, Barbara Gordon is ambulatory again, no wheelchair, and has resumed as Batgirl. Then there's just the crossover from a half dozen books from the Batman line, like Batman, Detective Comics, Grayson, Batman and Robin, We Are Robin, Gotham Academy, Batgirl. They don't all have overlapping plot with Eternal, but the changes to characters from each are reflected. (Mostly Grayson, as Dick is the main POV character.) Even I had to stop and refresh my memory on who Bluebird was, I hadn't read Snyder's Batman in a minute. Might be why graphic novel sales aren't inspiring, it's a fair bit difficult to follow a given character or story. Not a new problem, but something I was thinking about. [/QUOTE]

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