Cerebral, though almost excessively so. It's a thrill to watch Bruce Wayne traverse different eras of time in a fight to return to the present, but Morrison's highly cryptic means of storytelling force you to reread sections rather than making you WANT to reread them. In the end, though, the threads tie together in a satisfying (if not wholly understandable) way. Even one of Morrison's weaker Batman outings is still better than most other stuff on the stands these days.