So what is wrong with me? I am not enjoying anything Bat related that is new

[K. Jones]

I think it's okay to not have enjoyed a lot of it. But I'd point to some gems that I enjoyed even amidst a lot of hard looking and critiquing of just about everything that's gone on for the last, oh, ten years of Batmanning.

Tom King & Tim Seeley's GRAYSON is probably my favorite comic of the Post-Morrison Bat-books. Because after a bit of a rough spell being just second-fiddle to everything going on, it gives Dick Grayson a proper direction, and that direction is "This is the Sequel to Batman Incorporated". Tim Seeley's "FUN" and obvious love of Morrison-era and Silver Age weirdness really removes all of the problematic parts of Tom King's "form over function" storytelling and balances it out strongly. As a writing duo they're actually immeasurably stronger than either of them is as a writer solo. The shame is that they moved on to working on the next phase because of Line Turnover before the last arc was completed so guest writers had to finish the script based on their story notes, but the ending at least still comes through as consistent, and thankfully just transitions into Seeley's Rebirth Nightwing run, which continues that momentum for another 20 or so issues. King was gone from that but it was clear since King was writing Batman and the time and Seeley Nightwing that there was still a communication and direction influenced by each other. I mean until at some point, Seeley more or less wrapped up his ideas and King was like ... well okay, now in Batman I'm just going to write Nightwing out horribly - which could have spun into a neat direction but did not, did the total opposite, where DC really botched it and we're still stuck in it.

I thought the original Burnside era of BATGIRL revamp was pretty strong. Simple, good concepts for villains and costuming. Some nice revamps of "Lost" Batgirl rogues gallery from the Bronze Age into the modern. And it went on concurrently with GRAYSON which made that period ("Divergence", basically the last year or so of the New 52 period but with a bit of follow-up in early Rebirth era) pretty strong for Batman's allies even while Batman's stories himself were a bit meh.

I quite liked Pat Gleason's ROBIN: SON OF BATMAN series. It ends with a writer and art transition and a pretty dull story ending, but the Gleason stuff feels good, picking up from the Tomasi Batman & Robin New 52 run but without the awkwardness as Damian finds himself in situations that feel like the actual things Damian should be doing, like teaming with a young girl "rival" / "ally", bumping up against Deathstroke again, bucking his maternal legacy, and dealing with Al Ghul drama. While that story kind of breaks down and stops working, it does pick up briefly in another place - the opening act of Rebirth Teen Titans, which feels pretty good as a coda where Damian finally deals with some Grandpa Ra's al Ghul drama and meets his cousin. But after that it's not really a Bat-Book feel anymore, it's just a TT book (although I love that incarnation, Damian's Rebirth TT, because every one of them has a super-villain parent and the book is ostensibly them dealing with that for 20 or so issues).

Lastly, every time Batman enters the picture in Priest's DEATHSTROKE, including the ridiculously goofy but kind of amazing "Damian paternity battle" of BATMAN vs. DEATHSTROKE.

Is there anything else I can think of off the top of my head that delighted me? Unsure. I liked the "Eternal" revamp of Catwoman where she was a crime boss.