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We aren't going to spend a ton of time looking at the Week 2 and Week 3 titles, in the way that we did at the beginning of the month. Still, it's worth checking in to see how DC's books are doing a year after the relaunch and to what extent the zero issues have played a role in helping to redefine the characters at their heart.

Beautiful art, nicely paced, with a predictable but perfectly serviceable plot. Her first appearance in the Batgirl costume is cleverly done and memorable.

Way too much exposition. It always feels like a crutch when you've got that many thought/inner monologue panels.

Once again we've got the big male antagonist making very thinly veiled sexual advances on our heroine. This has kicked up a ton of controversy lately and I have to wonder whether it might have annoyed some people a little bit more if it weren't Gail Simone writing this issue.

It's unlikely, of course, that anybody ever said that they wanted to see Batman's origin rehashed anytime in our lifetime.

Even his early years, which this issue operates within, are pretty well-mined territory. But coupled with Batgirl #0, it paints a picture. We're looking at the early days of The Joker as much as we're looking at the early days of our heroes. Here, it's the Red Hood gang, led by a maniac with a wild smile and a flower on his lapel.

Snyder and Capullo are great–they are becoming to Batman what Geoff Johns has become to Green Lantern–indispensible, and the top guys in a field of talent that includes some pretty respectable also-rans.

Still, the story itself is pretty boilerplate, just setting up for what's going to come in Death of the Family. So is James Tynion IV's backup feature–setup, I mean. It's certainly not boilerplate; rather, it's a a charming little tale that sees the way Batman impacted each member of his “family” in the earliest days of his career. It's a clever and touching little vignette that makes me eager to see what Tynion will do given a little breathing room in Talon.

I miss Tomasi and Gleason on Green Lantern Corps. There, Gleason's incredibly stylized artwork actually served the story, where on a non-cosmic book where he's drawing regular people it seems as often as not to detract from it.

There's a bit of a continuity gaffe here, too; Talia al Ghul is in possession of one of Bruce's cape-and-cowl apparatuses, presumably the one he left behind in the James O'Barr story where he and Talia first hooked up. But if Bruce was just putting together his ensemble in Batman #0 a little while ago, how can he have a teenage son (or at a minimum, I think he's been pegged at ten) who already had his costume before Bruce even did? It's minor but annoying, and frankly an issue that revolves around Damian is still likely to get more criticism from me because the character has never won me over.