Battle for the Cowl has a full review so here are the rest of the books for the week:

Brave and the Bold #23

Rip Hunter arrives and tells Booster to leave Magog alone as he will save important lives, before turning evil.

Final Crisis Aftermath Dance #1

We find out that the Super Young Team is a being manipulated into fighting false threats to distract from a crisis that Japan is undergoing.

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This week sees the return of a Major DCU character in the pages of FC Legion of 3 Worlds #4 . It is the return of

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Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by Andy Kubert and Scott Williams; Covers by Andy Kubert and Alex Ross; Variant sketch cover by Andy Kubert

What ever happened to the Caped Crusader ? Part 1:

We start this issue with an voice over of someone asking where they are. The response is Gotham City. We then see a Catmobile pull up into crime alley.

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Written by Geoff Johns; Art by George Pérez and Scott Koblish; Covers by George Pérez                                                                                                                                   Normally I save the critique portion for the end of the review , but this book is too good to hold back the praise. For everyone that was complaining that Final Crisis the main series made no sense, direct your eyes this way.

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STORY BY
Grant Morrison
ART BY
Doug Mahnke, Tom Nguyen, Drew Geraci, [more...]
COLORS BY
Alex Sinclair, Tony Aviña, Pete Pantazis
LETTERS BY
Travis Lanham
COVER BY
JG Jones, Marco Rudy

We start the final issue at the White House, where in a scene reminiscent of Watchmen, A man is holding a sign that says "The End Is Nigh". The President is being briefed on the red skies and other strange occurrences that have been happening. He asks to be left alone and the President reveals himself to be Superman. He then flies to meet this Earth’s Wonder Woman: Nubia. They find a craft that is breaking through the red skies and they comment that it contains heroes inside of it. The craft opens to reveal the Supermen of the Multiverse. Captain Marvel tells them that he is here to recruit the Supermen of the Multiverse on a misson of life or death. We then move to the JLA Watchtower where we see Power Girl, Starman and Frankenstein with dialogue that says that this is all that remains that is not Darkseid. It also talks of how the Metal Men from Earth 44 came through a dimension shard and went crazy from the magnetic field.   We find out that the narrator for all of this is Lois Lane. She tells us that they are loading a rocket

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  We star the final issue at the White House, where in a scene reminiscent of Watchmen, A man is holding a sign that says "The End Is Nigh". The President is being briefed on the red skies and other strange occurrences that have been happening. He asks to be left alone and the President reveals himself to be

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Faces of Evil : Deathstroke #1

  Great Issue. A brief origin recap before we see a Ravager/ Deathstroke battle. Slade starts anew and has a new apprentice by the end of the issue. 4 out of 5 Titans.   Put It on the Stack.

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  DC has spoiled a major plot point in their toy solicits for April  by revealing the first member of the Black Lanterns . It is

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For those that asked , here are the images below from Final Crisis #6 that show Batman being hit with Darkseid’s Omega beams and then the resulting Superman / Batman Image that ended the issue.

Written by Grant Morrison; Art and covers by J.G. Jones and Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino

We start out this issue with Brainiac 5 and Superman in the bleed between universes. Brainiac tells Superman about a weapon that was developed that could turn thought into reality and that it was locked away to prevent disaster. He is about to show it to Superman when Superman starts to fade away into nothingness.

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Marvel will be up later on today or early tomorrow.

Justice Society of America #22

  The final chapter of the Gog saga ends rather abruptly as Superman-KC tears off his head and mounts him to the source wall. Then he heads back to his time and we get to see his world age all the way up to 1000 years in the future. OK issue but a really quick ending for Gog. 3 out of 5 JSA-ers.

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Only time for a quick review of last week’s books since it was a short comic week with delivery on last Friday.

Batman #684

  Last Rites Part 2 finishes up with Nightwing taking out the fake Two-Face. The art is a little uneven at times, but a decent conclusion to the story. 3 out of 5 Batmen.

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  Written by Grant Morrison ; Art by Lee Garbett; Cover by Alex Ross; Variant Cover by Tony Daniel

We pick up the story with a montage of Batman and Talia Al Ghul the night that Damian was conceived and continuing with Batman vs Ras AL Ghul , Batman Vs a Shark saving Commisioner Gordon and more with Talia. We then cut away to Bruce Wayne in the back of the limo he was in last issue asking Alfred if he ever thought his life could have been more eventful.

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Written by Grant Morrison; Art and covers by J.G. Jones, Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino

We start with the trial of Hal Jordan before the Guardians and Alpha Lantern Kraken. She has accused him of hosting a New God and being responsible for crimes. Guy Garderner and Kyle Raynor show up to reveal that Kraken is actually Granny Goodness reborn. She starts to drain the central power battery in order to give all the power of the Green Lanterns to Darksied.

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Written by Grant Morrison ; Art by Lee Garbett; Cover by Alex Ross; Variant Cover by Tony Daniel

This is part one of the Last Rites storyline which presents a new take on some key moments in Batman’s history.This issue somehow ties into Final Crisis, the connection should become more apparent after issue 5 of FC is released.  Alfred is supposedly behind the walk down memory lane and there are some great moments from some Silver Age stories that are highlighted here.  There is also some comedy in the form of Alfred imagining what would have happened had another creature such as a snake or moth flown in the window instead of a Bat.  Now onto some spoilers..

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Its that time again, a sentence or two review and a rating.

Amazing Spider-Man #575

    I have hated most of the post OMD stories, but this one was fun. Great new take on an old villain.

3 out of 5 Spider-Villains.

Avengers The Initiative #18

A lot of Skrull reveals and a well told Secret Invasion Tie In. 4 out of 5  New Avengers.

Final Crisis Rage of the Red Lanterns #1

Awesome story introducing not one but two new colors of Lanterns. Great artwork as well. 5 out of 5 Green Lanterns.

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Its been awhile but this issue picks up one month in the future from the events in issue #3. The Earth has been enslaved by the Anti-Life Equation and Darkseid’s forces are attempting to bring him back via a human incarnation. The heroes are scattered at 6 Watchtowers across the world and are are cut off due to the Anti-Life Equation being broadcast on all forms of media and communication. We see a screen showing that some heroes have been catpured, some are offworld, and some such as Batman and Superman are MIA. The Flashes (Barry and Wally) escape from a band of Justifiers seemingly led by Wonder Woman. Black Lightning leads another group of Justifiers on an assault of the Hall of Justice and they capture Green Arrow. The final scene shows the rebirth of Darkseid and his final judgment that the holocaust on humanity should never end. The story much easier to follow than the earlier installments and moves along at a quick pace. The artwork by Jones and Pacheco is phenomenal. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the series plays out.

Overall due to the huge amount of improvement. This rates a 4 out of 5 Batmen.