Batman #675

I have a love hate relationship with this title right now.  On the one hand I love that Grant Morrison is writing it and on the other hand I hate that I not only don't really like it but that I avoid it every month.  I bought the first few issues of the run when Andy Kubert was doing the artwork and I was having a great time until it started becoming clear to me that I had no idea how these issues were tying into each other and that the art was sliding downwards.  Actually it fell right off the cliff in my opinion.  And this issue in particular, with the new fill-in artist, was just ugly.  Plain and simple.  Bruce looks like the Hulk in that big reveal scene with Jezebel and any drama, for me anyway, was sapped away because he looked like The General in a pinstriped suit more than a man on the edge.  I don't understand why the main characters in DC have been getting such slim pickings lately in terms of artists.  This is Batman, hell B-man and the Outsiders has a great artist compared to this issue, why can't a core title have a great artist to match the level of writer associated with the book?  If it's to make way for the top talent to do Countdown then I think I don't need to say anymore. 

I want to like this book but the complexity of Morrison's sub-text is getting lost on me.  I don't know if it's because of the art or if it's because this is just not working.  I am inclinded to blame the art and no offense to anyone involved in this book but for my money I think DC needs to step it up and give their top characters some better artists.