This isnt a bad issue by any stretch, and it has a very, very strong concept at its core, and its such a strong concept that it actually winds up carrying a great deal of the title. The strength of the action also helps, but it cant overcome an overall lackluster cast of characters nor the times where the visuals fail. Its worth reading if theres a pre-existing fandom for either of these groups, but the characters dont come through enough to achieve greatness. Read Full Review

Crippled with sloppy, rushed art and a scattered narrative, there are a few decent moments sprinkled throughout that keep this issue from being a total loss. It's never aggressively bad, nor is it ever elevated above mediocrity. Average is the best way to describe it. Read Full Review

If you picked up the first issue of this series and were waiting to see what happened, this issue will most certainly be a let down. So much more could have been done when you take a team of characters like Wetworks and Azrael and pit them against each other. It could have been a violent, dark and action packed story that is of it's time. Instead, it reads like any other superhero book with some heavy handed dialogue. The idea behind Convergence is a good one, taking a version of heroes and villains throughout DC's rich history and have them face off. This issue does that, but does so without embracing what made these characters so popular at the time. Read Full Review

Hama does what he can under a time crunch, and the story definitely echoes that, but the results were never in doubt and thus the conclusion lacks any lasting punch. Read Full Review

This is certainly a step up from the last issue but with no real background or knowledge of who the Wetworks team are, this is just a issue about our heroes playing hide and seek with over the top caricatures of a 90's action movie........ a direct to video 90's action movie.  The art though was better here than in the first issue, but when it's all said and done, this tie-in is just a let down. Read Full Review

The structure of Convergence: Shadow of the Bat is actually kind of fun, but the writing is truly lousy. Expository dialogue, unimpressive one-liners, and incredibly generic characters drag down what could have been a perfectly inoffensive comic. It's definitely not as frustrating as the last issue, to which it has essentially no connection, and the art, while different, is rather nice, but I can't imagine anyone actively LIKING this issue. Better plotted than its predecessor but utterly generic, Shadow of the Bat #2 offers little to new readers and nothing to fans of the Zero Hour era. Read Full Review

Ugh. Such a disappointment. I had high hopes for this series. I must admit I never read the adventures of the Wetworks crew so I don't know how well they were portrayed in this series. But Azrael was portrayed atrociously. We deserved better. Read Full Review

However there's no real reason to read Convergence: Batman: Shadow of the Bat #2 unless it's for purely masochistic reasons. It's an impressively dull issue that barely continues on from the first in a logical fashion and stands out as being a particularly pointless part of the Convergence event. Read Full Review