I love a good team-up book. After reading this, my only concern is that it looks like they're going the way of Marvel Team-up, when it came out a couple of years ago. For those unfamiliar, there wasn't a set hero in the book, it kind of flowed from issue to issue. So like this one was Batman and GL, next issue is GL and Supergirl, and it just keeps flowing like that, rather than forcing team-ups, or whatever. Now the problem, really, with the Marvel book was that the stories were boring. It also started out with a pretty good artist, but then later on, issue 8 to 12 maybe, they switched artists and never went back. And the second artist was nowhere near as good as the first. Now I know this is only the first issue, and I have to give it a chance, but, I was looking forward to that series and got really disappointed. I'm not saying that's going to happen hear. Heck, with Mark Waid and George Perez on this book, this should be a bowl of pie ala mode every month. And I'm sure it will be. But I'm a little gun shy. Anyways this was a pretty cool book. Hal's coming back from outer-space and he finds a corpse about 13000 feet over the earth. It's fresh and it looks like it died of a gunshot. He immediately contacts Batman, who also has a corpse. An identical one to the one Hal found. And there's reports of the same corpse popping up all over the world. But they do have a lead, he has a casino card in his pocket. Once they're in Vegas, they find out that this particular Casino is owned by Roulette. When they try to confront her, she's being attacked by aliens. They're after a book that this guy, the corpse, Drake, brought her. It's the book of Destiny, and it showed Roulette that Batman and GL were going to lose to the aliens, and they would get away with the book. Sure enough . . they do. So now GL is heading to their planet, Ventura, to find out what's going on. Anyways, like I said, it was a great book and a fantastic cover.
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