Pretty good book, but it's weird that it's a one-shot.
Basically Omega advances the story we've seen in Batman and ... since the death of Damian, and doesn't come to a conclusion. Instead, it sets up the next round of stories.
Which promise to be good. And this was good.
First, I enjoyed the art by Andy Kubert, which I don't normally. He's upping his game, where he's not just a weak-tea clone of his father.
As to story, Batman is in such extremis -- battling troops from Apokolips -- that he actually teamed with Ra's al Ghul for a couple of pages. Not for shock value or a cover shot, but because the situation called for it and Batman's not stupid.
And Batman is so not stupid here that when's he this outmatched he actually calls for help from the Justice League! When was the last time you remember him doing that? Anyway, he calls in the League -- but which currently has a couple of wild cards in the persons of Captain Marvel and Lex Luthor!
And, yes, the League helps, but they also blunder badly, and Robin's body is lost to Apokolips, while Ra's and Talia's body also slip away. The League charged in and did the wrong thing, largely because the League currently has Captain Marvel and Luthor! (See how this all ties together?)
Anyway, the inevitable heads its inevitable way (we know Talia and Damian will be resurrected, right?), but there's some great character bits between Batman and the others -- he gets to punch Luthor again, ahhh, bliss -- which includes the idea that maybe Batman wasn't just stubborn those hundreds of times he failed to call in the League, that maybe calling in a bunch of juvenile knotheads with the powers of gods doesn't exactly work according to the meticulous plans of the Dark Knight.
So, good book. The only flaw is that there was no reason for it to be a one-shot. It would have worked perfectly well as this month's issue of Batman and ...
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