This is not the intense legal thriller I was promised.

Important distinction.

I actually liked the first 21 or so quite a bit. It's the most focused and strongest art in the series. Fabok getting poached by Johns was a big loss.

Let me know what you think of Batman Eternal after reading it in a much more compressed time period. I ultimately quite liked the ending, but I was frustrated for a long stretch in the latter half of the series about the pacing.

Agreed. Wonderful world-building, and I'm thrilled to learn that those characters will be reappearing soon.

So I read some Convergence tie-ins while ignoring the main series. And I'm honestly not thrilled about many of the other eras in DC history beyond the pre-New52 era, so the only other issues I'm likely to pick up in future weeks are Parker/Shaner's Shazam and Len Wein's Swamp Thing.

I highly recommend The Question issue if you've read any of Rucka's work with Renee Montoya across Detective Comics, 52, and Gotham Central. It felt the least "canned" of the Convergence stuff I read. Wonderful Two-Face stuff.

I feel like we're watching different seasons. I'm really enjoying all the running storylines. For the first time in several seasons, I haven't started watching an episode knowing for sure who would be gone by the end of it. And while there are some really frustrating (or downright crappy) people in the game… Rodney,…

Hmm. This is problematic. My money just got out of my wallet and walked away.

I also worry about over-exposure for Kamala. BUT Waid's voice would seem to fit these characters pretty well, so we'll see.

See, whereas I jumped off of Earth 2 pretty much from the moment the Weekly was announced. I didn't much care for the idea that all this fantastic world-building Robinson and Taylor had done was going to be torn down.

Oh, Long Halloween is great. Loeb and Sale's best work, I think. Recently picked it up in the Absolute Edition to replace my old paperback edition that had fallen apart. The Absolutes are pricy, but definitely the best showcase for Sale's artwork.

And now, since I didn't see it elsewhere, time for WHAT DID YOU READ THIS WEEK?

I love Snyder. I read literally everything he writes, for (mostly) better or worse.

Agreed. Grayson and Gotham Academy are top-of-the-stack books for me. Both books that bring something very different and fun to the DCU that I neither asked for nor knew I wanted.

Infinite Crisis definitely had some of the best tie-ins (VU and DoV mainly) for any mega event.

You say the peacock.

The hardcover includes profiles of every single family (largely cribbed from the floppies), many of the back-cover in-world ads, a fantastic map of the world post-Macao, and sketches and design work with commentary.

I'm onto those next. I bought some — read: too much — Batman during the 75th anniversary sale and have been working my way through it. Wrapped up Rucka's run on Detective Comics recently and looking forward to some of the late last-era Batman stuff.

Our tastes are apparently very similar. Besides Lazarus which I've gushed about everywhere else in this article, there's…