Batman’s alternate personality with terrible fashion sense is back with a vengeance

polygon.com:

The return of the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh was a final-page reveal in last month’s Batman. Reading it, I was skeptical I would enjoy anything that came next. Not even the powers of writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Jorge Jiménez could get me past that mountain of sheer weirdness.

And here I sit, eating crow. Zdarsky and Jiménez made a Batman of Zur-En-Arrh-focused issue that I actually enjoyed.

Who is the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, or at least the version created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Tony S. Daniel? Oh, you know, he’s the emergency backup personality Batman created within his own mind who takes over when the Caped Crusader’s main personality is sufficiently compromised and immediately puts on his own butt-ugly version of the Batsuit.

And who among us hasn’t bifurcated our own consciousness just in case we underwent a psychotic break right when Gotham needed us? It’s a totally Normal Dude thing to do.

Why is the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh in this story? Well, a relentless robot named Failsafe is trying to kill Batman for murdering the Penguin (it was a frame job), and it turns out Batman asked the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh to create Failsafe just in case he, the main Batman, ever crossed the line, and now he, the main Batman, needs the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh to come out and turn Failsafe off.

See? Totally Normal Dude life events.

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