One of the handouts in the goodie bag this year was the zero issue of "Blackest Night," which I gather is DC's latest event (and there were panels about it, too).
Having read it just now, I'm really nonplussed.
Rather than go on at length, let me point you at my more extensive complaint about sticking to continuity at the expense of good storytelling. Let me quote the Flash from this very comic:
That's my point. Death isn't necessarily the end. Not in this line of work. You. Me. Clark. Ollie.
Indeed, somewhat ridiculously most members of the Justice League have died and come back. This is the superhero comics version of the soap opera "everyone having sex with everyone" problem. All the rescinding of story points in service to never, ever resetting the world fundamentally devalues the stories, and it makes the whole thing a tasteless mash that I don't care for at all.
And this is independent of the writers. I like Geoff Johns. Still, I find nothing appealing in this "event."
I'd much rather see the DC universe reset, say, once a decade, than to see the stories devalued and the characters turned into hapless telenovela players rather than the interesting characters they honestly good be.
Or, more simply, I would pay to read a brand-new take on the Batman story every couple of years.