Batman (2016-) Vol. 6: Bride or Burglar

Really enjoyed this, another good read from tom king. Enjoyed how it was split in to 2 different stories. Looking forward to picking up vol. 7.

If you're buying this, you've read the earlier issues. This is a fantastic run overall, definitely worth the buy

The road the wedding. Nothing very exciting. The Poison Ivy arc os good but just that

Why? Catwoman why?

“Batman - Bride or Burglar?” collects issues #38-44 of the Rebirthed title, with two apparently single-issue stories bookending a two and a three-parter.For some reason, while the four stories are mostly very interesting, they didn’t quite fit together, having a wide variety of styles and themes; though being slightly autistic, I may just not have realised what the connections were as we are deep in relationship territory here.The main problem I noticed was that Bruce and Selina are shown sharing a bed, with Selina occasionally sneaking out at night to de Catwoman stuff without Bruce noticing or Alfred telling on her. Is Batman taking a holiday? What happened to the ‘creature of the night’ business?It might be of course that he’s done an early shift as Batman and we are seeing them together at the end of the night; but there is still more of the domesticity business that feels right. It could also be that we are seeing the opening-up of Bruce Wayne and the return to the original pre-Dark Knight Detective, which would tie in with the Rebirth premise that lost time-streams are starting to bleed through to the regular reality. The opening story is about Bruce Wayne, and the closing story features a chase through those very same lost time-lines as we see the Batman/Catwoman romance growing through a series of flashbacks that feature the various Batman and Catwoman costumes from Batman #1 (1940) all the way through to today, and the final Catwoman costume as shown on the front cover…The two multi-part stories also have relationship stuff going on, one way or another, as well as continuity connections – though I have no idea where the plot for the first, two-part one featuring Wonder Woman comes from, as there is a very serious back-story that comes out of nowhere for me, anyway. It might be a tribute to those insane stories from the 1950s and/or the Grant Morrison period, I suppose, but I’m hoping there’s an explanation somewhere.The second, the three-parter, involves Ivy and Harley, and arises from events in the previous volume, which was a flashback to the beginning of the current timeline, and again is very reminiscent of one of Grant Morrison’s Batman/Catwoman team-ups, where they really do function as a team, though with Selina a bit more reckless than even a Robin would be.Although I keep referring to Grant Morrison’s Batman a lot, as someone observed in a recent discussion over on the Marvelmasterworks dotcom website, Tom King is not the next Grant Morison, but the first Tom King.He really has renewed the title and character by taking what had become a formulaic character that has been locked into a second-rate version of Frank Miller’s original idea, and showing that there is still room for change and renewal.Right; I’ve talked myself into another 5-star review. I’m surprised sometimes at how my subconscious makes this stuff up as I’m typing and explains to me what it is that I’ve overlooked. Is this why people keep diaries?