Neil Gaiman writing a swan song for Batman should be a monster geek out for me, but I'm so tired of the comic industry making events out of killing (and later resurrecting) major characters. See Marvel's Captain America for a recent example. Plus this somehow fits into yet another huge continuity reboot that DC is doing that I don't have the time or patience to try and understand. I'm not sure if Batman is supposed to be alive or dead at this point, but since it doesn't matter because he'll be back one way or another shortly, I really don't care. 
 So even though Neil Gaiman has written a surreal love letter to Batman that gives shout-outs to the various phases of the classic versions of the character we've gotten over the years, the whole thing just left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe they could have just begged Gaiman to take over the book for a while and write some Batman stories that didn't involve killing him or pretending to kill him? Nah, that would have made too much sense...