I skipped the 6th and 7th trades, so this was a little out of context for me. I miss Tony Harris's art and the Opal City setting. The first story in the collection was great and could stand on it's own but the rest were a little disappointing. The first half of "Bat times loom" has no connection to anything happening in the rest of the volume. I guess it serves as the setup for the next trade (book 9) but why not just put it there and leave this book to the space-traveling, cosmic-empire-battling, galaxy-emperor-identity-crisis?
I for one don't care much for the story if the other Starman, the one in JSA or weather his soul is his own or that of some king who has to die four times to bla bla bla.
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