Writer: Frank MillerPlot: In a concerted effort to reawaken America, Batman and his select group of sidekicks assemble a rebel faction, and take action.
We're one issue in - the action is alive, the politics messy, and only one person dares to strike back...Catgirl.
Batman's praise of her ability, as he watches her scratch around with the clunkily-designed Batboys, comes off as a little much, drenching us with an over-eager father-figure.
This all seems to dissipate, when he launches the assault on Superman.
Okay, what was the defining moment in The Dark Knight Returns? The Joker riding a giant whoopee cushion. Next to that, the World's Finest duel.
The title of this book has "Again" in it, and that's no lie, because that's what we get: Superman goes up against Batman, and Bruce pulls out the big gloves. We've already seen this, so why spend ten pages on a redux? To prove that he can? Or to say that Bruce is three years older, and can't do it alone, so he needs a bunch of other heroes to help him get his vengeance in, on a brainwashed boy scout? Miller's succeeded in making me feel sorry for Superman, but unnecessarily so, because we've seen it before, in the original, no less.
In the first volume of Generations, John Byrne achieved an entertaining story about the World's Finest duo, as they progress along their timeline. When Generations II came along, that same writer desired to bring in a bunch more superheroes to add to the story.
Same thing here, and the remainder of the series will prove whether or not this was a smart move toward telling a new adventure, or repeating what has come before, with a little more humiliating muscle.
