The patron Batman of hangovers?

As an aside-- I picked up a copy of your book at NYComic-con and read it a few months back. It was great stuff!

I give a bit more of an extensive review on my blog.

It doesn’t seem fair that you didn’t read the last four All-Star Batman’s and yet you question why everyone thinks they are terrible.

Now, now. We don't really wish to scar the man for life, do we?

Seriously...I've read summaries @ various sites, and I agree with Greg's assessment above. Undeniably lovely art aside, this is just an incredibly bad comic, to the point of obviously demonstrating contempt for its audience. I fully appreciate the so-bad-it's-good' pop culture principle, but the unabashed love for this stuff strikes me as a wee bit masochistic.

Damian is standing before the three Batghosts, but that doesn't mean he isn't one of them. In fact, he says that the third is the worst. Why is it the worst? Easy-- it's the biological son of the Bat.

Another touch-- compare Damian's hairdo on that page in 665 to the outline of the shadowed Bat that he's standing right next to. Unless Damian is Wolverine's son, they appear to match.

Plus, the key is that the third Batman sold his soul, which Damian has already done, and destroyed Gotham, which happens on Damian's say-so. His line at the end confirms this.

This is quite possible; I could be looking at it in the wrong way. However, in issue #665 you can see Damian standing before the three Batmen ghosts, which suggests that it is not him. Plus, Bruce states the third one "destroyed Gotham." Given the mess Gotham seems to be in as seen in #666, I am thinking Gotham was already destroyed (in a way) before Damian kills the anti-Christ Batman.

In his run to date, Morrison has presented three Batmen who are haunting Bruce Wayne. These are versions of hismelf. The killer Batman with a gun first appeared in Morrison's first issue. The Beastial Batman was the Bane-type Batman from the previous issues. The Demon Batman is the anti-Christ Batman in this issue. In #665, Bruce states: "The third sold his soul to devil and destroyed Gotham." In this issue we learn that the Demon Batman is returning for a second time when Damian kills him, so this issue assumes that Bruce Wayne failed the first time around.

Which makes the only Big Two superhero books I currently read (in trade) She-Hulk and Blue Beetle (and whenever a Ultimate HC comes out I consider it, but I think I've dropped U. Spidey).
I'd be reading Busiek's Action Comics, cause that first trade was awesome, but nothing else has come out since.
What's that about?

My love for this comic is only superceded by All-Star Superman.

I think I'm just about one or two more good issues of X-MEN away from really getting excited about this again. Carey's first issue or so was full of potential, but the stories floundered there for a while. But the past two, especially this one, show Carey starting to pull his threads together wonderfully. If he can keep this up (and if the solid-but-so-far-without-much-point Endangered Species doesn't fall flat), Messiah Complex could be quite something. Not that I think it will -- I've been saying "[upcoming event] could be quite something" for a decade now with the X-universe, with mostly junk to show for it -- but Carey and Bru at least act like they've been planning stuff. Now if only they could get artists without distracting tics....

Other than that, I thought that this was the most fun issue of Batman in Morrison's run so far.

Morrison’s Batman is probably the worst thing he’s written since… er… a very long time ago.

Yes, it has been a while since WildCATs shipped.

It ran for 4 issues, claimed that another storyline was coming, then nothing more was heard until Ellis announced the series had been cancelled on his myspace page.