7. Spectre And Batwing Enter Arkham
DC ComicsIn an event series as large as Eternal, one risk is that too many characters get jammed into each issue just because€well, just because they can. Fifty-two weekly issues is a lot of story to tell, and Snyder and the Eternal writers could have easily fallen prey to the urge of including DC characters that ultimately have little bearing on the actual story. It may be too early to tell, but although Eternal is indeed packed with characters old and new, the sense that all of them are connected and working towards the story (rather than against it) has been strong. Jim Corrigan's otherworldly alter-ego Spectre has popped up a few times, and his presence seems to indicate that the villains behind the current ills of Gotham could also be supernatural. And unlikely duos always make their way into miniseries like Eternal, this time in the form of Spectre and Batwing. Their first meeting is written predictably, but it's no less satisfying. Batwing is confounded by the magic of Spectre, Corrigan is somewhat irked at the inexperience of Batwing, but both are focused on the decidedly treacherous mission at hand.