As the third sequel to a well-received original film, though, I don’t feel it particularly warrants embarrassment. Yeah, it stank, but people still knew and liked Batman. It didn't really tarnish the brand in the way it might have done if it had been released in, say, 1988.

The convenience factor of having so many heroes in the same city at one time hasn’t escaped my notice. There has been some suggestion that it’s not quite a coincidence (apparently most of the ‘90’s week heroes were in Metropolis fighting Parallax, and Swamp Thing talks about being “drawn” to ‘80’s Gotham before the…

I’m of the exact opposite opinion. The flagship Convergence series has ranged from terrible to forgettable. The tie-in miniseries have been pretty much consistently great. But they’re not about the plot, they’re about the characterization.

If there’s a song/album I specifically want to hear, sure, I’ll buy it (though typically not through iTunes, as I hate the client with a passion). That’s not the same itch that services like Pandora or Spotify scratch, though. There are times, fairly frequently in fact, where I don’t want to know the song I’m about to…

Truth be told, I’ve never been the world’s biggest fan of the Batman books. When they’re good, they’re great, but more often than not I find the near-fetishization of Batman himself as infallible immensely irritating. And I have a long held grudge against the range and its editors for screwing with non-Batman titles I…

I think it’s just unclear inking and coloring. In the top panel, it looks to me like the oval is supposed to be there, but it’s barely visible in the shadows of the cape.

To be fair, he’s probably presuming that this Bruce’s history is like his own son’s. The original, Bruce Wayne Batman from Earth 2 grew up believing that Thomas Wayne had been killed, but discovered later than it had happened differently. It’s a long, spoiler-y story....

I’m not sure I agree. This is such a loaded scene, not just on Bruce’s part, but on Thomas’s as well (given the events of the Earth 2 series that introduced him). I don’t think there’s anything that could have been shown that wouldn’t have been a disappointment. Handling it the way they did was the most tasteful…

The Thomas Wayne Batman is not a new character introduced for this series. He’s been a regular in DC’s Earth-2 book (and it’s follow-up, Earth-2: World’s End) for some time now. Suffice it to say, this isn’t a Marvel style “what if?” The premise isn’t as simple as “Bruce Wayne’s dad becomes Batman instead of Bruce,”…

I honestly didn’t think Convergence #2 was terrible. It wasn’t good, to be sure, and it’s utterly workmanlike nature has pretty much shut down any expectations I might have been clinging to that the series was going to get its act together and be anything memorable, but it wasn’t bad. After the first two issues, where…

I don’t consider myself negative. I’m just sick of the idea that every single game deserves, if not needs, a sequel. None of these franchises would have existed in the first place had Square Enix decided to just keep pumping out sequels to Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

The last few Mana games were terrible. Sword of Mana (the DS remake of the original Seiken Densetsu/Final Fantasy Adventure) might have been the worst game I own for the original DS. Honestly, there hasn’t been a truly stellar game in the series since Secret of Mana itself, and that was decades ago. I think I’ve come…

It depends on the comic, I think. I agree, looking back, that it’s not clear what’s going on in the Nightwing/Oracle issue, but it’s made relatively apparent in the Harley Quinn issue (there’s a scene where the depowered Poison Ivy gets her powers back and turns green in the process), and is a central plot point in…

As soon as the domes came down, everyone’s powers returned. By the time the Flashpoint Hawk people left their version of Gotham, they were back at full capacity.

I didn’t have any real trouble following things, but I have noticed that, after 2 full issues, we’ve really only gotten a quarter to half issue’s worth of plot. And basically none of it isn’t replicated in the tie-in issues anyway. Brainiac/Telos is obnoxiously long-winded, and I’m not sure why anyone at DC felt that…

That’s next week. Seriously. He’s apparently costarring in the Matrix Supergirl issue during “90s week.”

That's not hugely dissimilar to their role in the comics, actually. Heat Wave was a fairly early comic book heel/face turn, and became good friends with Barry Allen before the latter's (temporary) death in the 1980s. Captain Cold has never really gone straight, but he has an interesting relationship with the various…

I think, in both cases, the in-story events reflect the upheaval the publishers themselves are going through. By most accounts, Marvel started planning Secret Wars several years ago, probably in the aftermath of the runaway success of The Avengers and the realization that being cogs in the Disney machine was really…

You know, the one and only thing I liked about DC rebooting their universe with Flashpoint back in 2011 is that I could imagine that, somewhere, there was still a continuity where Dick Grayson was Batman (well, a Batman at least... and the one in the Justice League), where Donna Troy was a high profile heroine in her…

Well said, and a star for giving props to the underappreciated-by-modern-audiences Arch Oboler.