Last week, Convergence #0 set the stage for DC's latest big event with a setup-heavy issue that succeeded more on the strength of its art than its story. Unfortunately, issue #1 unfolds in much the same fashion. The Convergence conflict isn't the most complicated storyline DC has ever wrestled with, but you wouldn't know that from the long, drawn-out way these comics are setting up the plot.
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Whereas issue #0 pitted the New 52 Superman against the one, true Brainiac, issue #1 shifts focus to the surviving heroes of Earth 2: World's End as they encounter Telos, the living embodiment of Brainiac's world and its 40 bottle cities. If that previous sentence makes your brain hurt, Convergence may not be the comic for you. It's becoming increasingly clear that this is a book that celebrates and flaunts continuity. Most of the appeal of Convergence, after all, is the idea that the classic DCU and various other alternate realities are getting a chance to live again. Without a healthy knowledge of DC lore and an attachment to these other realities, there's not enough of a hook with Convergence.
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