Batman: Fortunate Son

Batman: Fortunate Son is a 1999 graphic novel published by DC Comics. It was written by Gerald Jones, and illustrated by Gene Ha. It focuses on the early days where Batman and Robin/Dick Grayson tried to stop drug addicted rock idol named Izaak Crowe, who is hallucinating other singers from drugs.

Plot
During the early days of crimefighting and having a ward of his own, Batman investigates a drug addicted rock idol named Izaak Crowe who is masterminding a nationwide crime spree using teenaged fans as his henchmen, Batman runs into unexpected opposition from an unexpected source: his own ward, Robin/Dick Grayson. Certain that Izaak is not guilty, Robin sets out to uncover this bizarre and elaborate frame-up.

Why It's Unfortunate

 * 1) A dumb, yet ridiculous story revolving around the "evils" of music and how it affects rock idols that led them to do "evil" things.
 * 2) It even depicts music is nothing more than a "realistic" demonic drug that was basically inspired by real-life people, but just dumb to say.
 * 3) Misleading title: The title implies that it's about a fortunate son (either a rich, wealthy boy or a man). Nope, it's just about a drug-addicted rock idol named Izaak Crowe which should have been called Batman: Rock Idol, Punk Rocker, or Rock 'N' Roll. It's also an insult to the original Creedence Clearwater Revival song.
 * 4) False Advertising: The cover depicts Batman and Robin are investigating a theater which has the "Fortunate Son" title on the billboard, nope it's also doesn't have anything to do in the comic's story..
 * 5) Izaak Crowe is some generic drug addict, who hallucinates rock idols like a blonde man resembling the late Elvis Presley due to said drugs and tried to get away from his manager, Roy Lazarus, who is trying to keep Izaak off drugs. He goes as far as to bomb a music studio and a CD store for "selling him out" from his albums as well as giving said albums to people for free along with finding the corpse of the deceased Elvis Presley-lookalike and try to use his guitar against police officers. He never learns his lesson until he dies.
 * 6) Gene Ha's artwork while passable, is wasted with an attempt of trying to be realistic such as Robin's contorted face that looks like he's fifty years old and Batman's bunny rabbit ears in his bat-esque ears of his mask.
 * 7) Batman is out of character who thinks rock music itself is evil and tries to study Izaak Crowe. When he read his lyrics, he sees quote in the lyrics that affected his mental health was "Pigs from a gun!".
 * 8) Laughable dialogue with Batman describing music by saying, " 'Punk' is nothing but death and crime...and the rage of a beast."
 * 9) Hypocrisy: When before becoming a crimefighter, Batman states music is evil when he witnessed a punk bass player killing his girlfriend for no reason inspired from the real-life punk rock bassist, Sid Vicious. This incident led Batman to consider rock idols and musicians as "beasts" who commit "death and crime".
 * 10) Some filler scenes, like when Batman tries to investigate in Arkham Asylum and leaves from the inmates talking much about music being evil.
 * 11) The tone is utterly nonsensical if it was some black comedy.
 * 12) It has a bad message for real-life demographics such as money is only needed to survive and even tries to paint music as a demonic force by the hands of drugs.
 * 13) It is assumed that the author of this graphic novel, Gerald Jones, has no experience of what music is or it's effect on society, but he meant it as a "tribute" to music.
 * 14) *Speaking of Gerald Jones, he also wrote the infamous Pokemon comic strips, Pokemon: Pikachu Meets The Press.
 * 15) Terrible writing that is tries to show the "evils" of music in a dumb way.
 * 16) The reveal that Roy Lazarus being the mastermind using singer impersonators to set Izaak Crowe up to kill him for PROFITS makes no sense, and possibly one of the worst plot twists in this comic. His motivations of why he did this is uncertain when he commited suicide.
 * 17) Some villains like the Joker, Two-Face, and others from Arkham Asylum barely served any purpose to the story as they talk about music being evil.
 * 18) The ending never accomplishes anything of what makes music "evil" from Batman and is forgotten afterwards.
 * 19) Just like other Batman comics, this comic itself is quite forgettable and is never mentioned or revisited (besides another music-related Batman story titled Batman: Jazz)

The Only 2 Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) As mentioned in WIU#5, Gene Ha's artwork is passable.
 * 2) Robin is the only decent character who doesn't believe that Izaak Crowe is crazy.