2.0

A play on Alan Moore’s much better Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow, Gaiman’s end story to Batman is ambitious but lackluster. I would have liked a more definite ending rather than every character telling their own story though I understand he is referencing the many diverging series and plot lines Batman has undergone over the years. The Alfred story was interesting, though only as a what if, and it ultimately ended up a mixture of trying to be too deep and too sentimental. Moore’s end to Superman gave an actual ending, things of substance happened. Gaiman gives us some contradictory stories, a dream sequence and an end that is just as much a beginning. This one is disappointing