{"id":631,"date":"2007-07-10T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=631"},"modified":"2007-07-10T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:38:38","slug":"year-one-batmanras-al-ghul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/10\/year-one-batmanras-al-ghul\/","title":{"rendered":"Year One: Batman\/Ra&#8217;s al Ghul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/year1.jpg\" alt=\"Year One: Batman\/Ra's al Ghul\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Devin Grayson<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Gulacy<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Jimmy Palmiotti<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-254-1<\/p>\n<p>Produced to cash in on the movie <strong>Batman Begins<\/strong> this run of the mill adventure is set after the death of the immortal Eco-warrior and criminal mastermind. Batman is sent on a quest to restore a dubiously &#8216;New Age-y&#8217; balance to the Earth, which he inadvertently disrupted when he destroyed all of Ras al Ghul&#8217;s life-restoring &#8216;Lazarus Pits&#8217;, mystical chemical baths which would now appear to be the planet&#8217;s way of voiding detrimental energies.<\/p>\n<p>Galvanised into action by a posthumous letter from al Ghul, and the distressing fact that all over the planet dead things and people are coming back to a ghastly semblance of life, Batman goes on a very pretty, monotonously action-packed but terribly silly rampage of action before he restores the natural order. Why haven&#8217;t all the mystical busybodies that guard the planet noticed before now? Where are Superman and the Justice League?<\/p>\n<p>Rushed and ill-considered, and with plot holes you could drive a fleet of hearses through, this disappointing jumble from the usually excellent Devin Grayson will hopefully be soon forgotten. Surely this is one graphic novel that only the most non-discriminating Bat-fan could love.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005, 2006 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Devin Grayson, Paul Gulacy &amp; Jimmy Palmiotti (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-254-1 Produced to cash in on the movie Batman Begins this run of the mill adventure is set after the death of the immortal Eco-warrior and criminal mastermind. Batman is sent on a quest to restore a dubiously &#8216;New Age-y&#8217; balance to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/10\/year-one-batmanras-al-ghul\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Year One: Batman\/Ra&#8217;s al Ghul&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}