Out With A Bang
If you didn't like the first five issues, you're either not going to like this one, or be glad that this is the end of the storyline.
This one brings everything full circle. You can see from the cover - it's Green Lantern and The Batman. The first issue was The Batman and Green Lantern. But if you look closely at some of the patented Perez rubble, you might see the kitchen sink. This one's got just everything else, so why not?
Not only do you get Green Lantern and The Batman, but you get Adam Strange - who looks a lot better than he did in 52! - Supergirl, and The Men Who Weren't There!
This entire storyline about the Book of Destiny feels like a whole, complete, total univese(s)-shattering, world(s)-rocking crisis. This could easily have been amped up, and filled with just about every DC Universe character, with someone running around popping heads off and punching chests through (Yeah, I'm looking at you Superboy-Slime, I mean, Prime!) I'm glad that Waid, Perez And The Rest (Professor and Mary Ann) decided to take the high road.
It feels like such a Silver Age moment when Adam Strange and Green Lantern pull The Batman through time. To one side of the brain it makes absolutely no sense, it's magical and wonderful and you just have to go with it.
What happens to Supergirl is just plain doofy. kryptonian or not, I don't believ that she has Wolverine's healing factor. Reading it and re-reading it, I scratched my head and thought, "Seriously? You're gonna go with that? Seriously? That's what you're gonna go with? Okay."
When "The Men Who Weren't There" show up it was such a movie reveal/payoff. It was cool, and felt like there should be some really cool theme music to it. maybe you could figure out what four men in the DC Universe would be outside the Book of Destiny and who could save the day. Me, I started reading comics after they had faded from the spotlight. It's good to see them back and in their prime.
Give me The Brave and the Bold over any other stunt event series any day. A good solid buddy comic that gives me something like Superman and Batman; Green Arrow and Green Lantern or Green Lantern and The Flashor Green Arrow and Black Canary; Booster Gold and Ted Kord/Blue Beetle - or Spider-Man and just about anybody else in the Marvel Universe. And maybe a kitchen sink just for kicks.