Batman Incorporated #11 – Review

By: Chris Burnham (story), Jorge Lucas (art), Ian Hannin (colors)

The Story: Who will save Tokyo from the rampage of Power Rangers on motorcycles?

The Review: This title is certainly no stranger to scheduling weirdness.  Instead of getting to join the other 52 titles that became part of DC’s relaunch, it released a giant-sized one-shot that made its place in current continuity even more questionable.  Months later, it finally returned to the stands as part of DC’s “Second Wave” of titles, only to be delayed early on out of respect to the allegedly Joker-inspired shootings in Aurora, Colorado.

You’d think that three-month delay would’ve given Grant Morrison and the rest of the creative team plenty of time to fully develop the series to its intended finish.  And yet, with the finale of Batman Inc. just a few months away, we get this bizarre filler issue written not by Morrison, but his artistic partner Burnham and interrupting what should be the climax of this entire series for an interlude with Jiro Osamu, the Batman of Japan, and the Super Young Team’s Shy Crazy Lolita Canary.  In the words of Liz Lemon, “What the what?”