This is Some Messed Up Stuff!
After Final Crisis, Bruce Wayne got sent to the past! The Return of Bruce Wayne is meant to show Bruce's journey through out time to reach his time line. Each six issues focuses on a different era and features a different artist. However the whole mini series is written by Grant Morrison!
Writing
If Grant Morrison wrote this, you can be sure that the whole book is good. Though I'm not much of a fan of cave man comic related stuff, Morrison's writing made it easier for me to read it. The way Morrison makes the cave man talks seems more realistic then the typical moans and grunts you hear on TV. The dialogue is very solid and very primitive sounding. Bruce only says a few things, which don't make sense to me. At the end, when Superman, Booster Gold, and Hal Jordan appear, Superman's dialogue was somewhat cheesy, but reveal a lot about the main point of the mini series. Bruce appeared as Batman, though he was wearing some dead giant bat skin thingy. Morrison also added a Robin like companion for Bruce, some guy (forgot his name) who had a domino mask painted on his face. The inclusion of Vandal Savage was very interesting considering his future.
The writing is very good, and hard to put in words for some strange reason. Morrison manages to make a cave man story with Batman in it very good, despite how weird it sounds.
Art
This issue was drawn by Chris Sprouse. Despite not knowing who Chris Sprouse is, I came to like the artwork very much. Everything was drawn nicely and I found no faults in it. Superman, Hal Jordan, and Booster Gold make a cameo at the end, and they too were drawn very nicely (Though they were colored black for the most part and only showed their distinctive traits).Bruce as a prehistoric Batman was drawn very epically. The fight scene was also drawn nicely, especially when Batman owned Vandal Savage's tribe.What I found neat about the whole "different artist for every issue" is that at the end of each issue, the artist of the current issue would sample the next issue by drawing the introduction to it. So for example, in this issue, Sprouse would draw an introduction to the next issue, which is drawn by Frazer Irving.
The art spoke for itself and was very well done with no faults seen in it.
The Good
The best part of the issue was how the art and writing came together. Sometimes, a comic book would have good writing, but is ruined by the bad artwork or vice versa. Batman owning Vandal's tribe was very cool as well. Also, Bruce's cave man name was pretty neat, "Man of Bats".
The Bad
The only problem I had with this issue was that I got confused half the time by the cave man things. The names confused me as I could not seem to remember who's who, and the tribal ritual things confused me as well.
Overall Rating: 9.5/10
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