Quarter Bin 119 "DC 3-Packs Strike Back!"

DC doesn't seem to have released new packs recently; these are just more from the last round I hadn't gotten yet (each one has a featured lead comic). 

Batman Eternal #1, 16 (DC)
from 2014

I consider Batman Eternal to have been Snyder and Tynion's attempt to sprint through everything they were never going to get a chance to explore during the New 52 as they explored their own arcs, revisiting classic characters and even letting some new ones (Harper Row) a chance to breathe.  The first issue is early DC Jason Fabok, who would later have his true breakthrough in the pages of Justice League.  #16 is another one featuring art from Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs. 

Batman #7 (DC)
from 2016

This was one of the featured lead comics, reprinted as Batman: Night of the Monster Men #1.  As I've said before, I love that these are true variants.  I have no idea if they'll ever be worth money, but I just love that they exist.  "Night of the Monster Men" was billed as the first crossover event of the Rebirth era, and it seems positively tame in hindsight.  It's also funny that Tom King bowed out as writer for the tie-in issues, allowing Steve Orlando, fast emerging as a new force in the company, a chance to step in. 

Green Arrow #48 (DC)
from March 2016

It's downright baffling that DC didn't make a greater priority of Green Arrow once Arrow, the TV series, began and eventually expanded into a whole franchise.  This late issue from the New 52 era seems to have left Oliver Queen a...werewolf?

Infinite Crisis: Fight for the Multiverse #10 (DC)
from June 2015

Injustice: Harley Quinn (DC)
from 2016

The later was originally published as Injustice: Ground Zero.  But being reprinted with Harley Quinn in the title isn't merely gratuitous, it's also acknowledging that the story is all about her, plus a review of everything that's happened in the Injustice comics.  I'm not a video game guy, so the Injustice comics, and the Infinite Crisis comic listed above, are as close as I'll get to those experiences. 

The New 52: Futures End #13 (DC)
from September 2014

It's really shocking that fans didn't really care about this weekly series.  The assembled writers were certainly impressive enough: Azzarello (synonymous with prestige), Giffen (synonymous with DC weekly comics at this point), Jurgens (still synonymous with "Doomsday," the biggest comics event of the modern era), and Lemire (now synonymous with the modern vanguard).  I still want to catch up with it.  This issue features part of the Superman arc, where he's been amnesiac about being Superman.  It was also the mainstreaming of Batman Beyond.  Terry McGinnis seems on his way to...involuntarily bequeathing the role to Tim Drake in this issue...

Convergence: Action Comics #2 (DC)
from July 2015

I still love Convergence.  Maybe it's because it came at a dark moment for me, and it was a rare beacon of life.  I didn't read the Action Comics two-parter at the time, and I'm not sure what I missed.  Maybe not too much.

Trinity of Sin: Pandora - Futures End (DC)
from November 2014

I've written about Pandora often enough.  This version of her story reveals an alternate explanation for the character (Geoff Johns had a different one during the Justice League "Trinity War" event, and a much different fate in DC Universe Rebirth).  But it was certainly interesting to see this one, even if the art didn't really do it much justice.