Convergence Review

Finished reading Convergence, this is the main series of DC Comics event that brought back old universes the were previously thought to have been written out of existence. The book opens up with Superman being incarcerated by Brainiac shortly after defeating Vail Dox Brainiac during the Superman: Doomed story. Once braking out Superman encounters multiple versions of Brainiac before he is through off the world as the Brainiac's fall back into the ground while Telos looks over. Next a group of heroes from the recently destroyed Earth 2 find themselves on the mysterious planet, when they are attacked by Telos, the living embodiment of the planet and declares a tournament to determine which city from different types of universes is the fittest and worthy to call the planet home. While Telos is distracted the heroes of Earth 2 escape his restrains leading to Green Lantern discovering that the Earth is toxic to him and that the best way to defeat Telos lies underground. The heroes then split as Batman and Dick Grayson head to a local Gotham in hope for some backup while the rest of the heroes head to an entrance under the surface were they meet a man named Deimos along the way who guides them to the underground city of Skartaris. While Dick comes face to face with Telos once again after a large group of Batman's villains follow him and Earth 2 Batman from the Gotham they travel from. Overall this was a good book as its able to distinguish each type and variation of a characters throughout the book extremely well, which is a credit to the art and writing teams. The character interactions are great from the meeting between Dick and Alfred to Dick's interactions with Telos which helps to give both characters some great development. What lets the book down is that it feels it need the knowledge of what happened in the Superman: Doomed story, the Futures End and Earth 2 series'. Additionally the book itself has a very slow start which takes a little while to get into, which ultimately leading to an incredibly satisfying end to the book and the overacting story of the Earth 2 and Earth 2: World's End series'. 7/10.