In my humble opinion these two digital first books have two of the most consistently best written books from DC since they started and after Smallville's last issue yesterday they're both finished. I am really going to miss these books. The nice thing is that they both went out on high notes.
With Smallville it took me all the way to the second to last issue before I realized what the overall theme of the book was. The television series was about Clark's journey to becoming Superman. The Smallville comic series has been about the coming together of the Justice League. First we had Batman and Nightwing (whose endpoint in the book was something amazing!), then we had Wonder Woman, then the Monitors attacked and we got to see all of the heroes that Clark has met throughout the years and worked separately with come together to form the Justice League. Great stuff!
In Batman we finally got to see the family back together (minus Tim Drake who I felt was unfairly left out of the final issue). Since the animated series started it was clear that something had happened with the Bat Family that had drove them apart. In the final issues Kyle Higgins finally addressed what happened and made moves to put the family back together. Again Great stuff!!
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