First off, I rated this a 2 overall.  This is because the art pulled the story up from a 1. I can't believe this is the same guy who wrote Starman. Robinson has certainly lost his shine.

Many of my comments agree with usagi, who also reviewed this book. I will try to address some different things, although some of the glaring problems can't be avoided.

First, the characterization of Dick Grayson in this issue was terrible. He is nothing like the Dick Grayson we see in the Bat-books. The dialogue is terrible. "ONWARD, TEAM...WE MUST FREE ZAURIEL!" Sorry, Dick is not that formal. In fact, I can't think of anyone outside of a Golden Age character who would talk like that. There were numerous examples of Batman dialogue that were just wrong.

 I also don't see him coming up with such a hair-brained scheme like he did in this issue. This aims to be a Bruce-Batman complex plan, but it's not even a GOOD plan.

Let's talk about that plan. It depends on so many plot mechanisms that it's improbable. Blue Lantern creates a sniper rifle, with a bullet to carry Mikhail and the Atom, which Congorilla fires into Shade's head. Really? Let's break this down:

1. The Blue Lantern makes a sniper rifle? As a bearer of hope, he shouldn't be making weapons, should he? I thought he needed a Green Lantern in proximity to do much more than hope for the best! And no, Alan Scott or Jennie don't count - that's the Starheart. Different thing.
2. The Atom just shows up, conveniently, to shrink Mik down enough to ride the bullet. BS.
3. So Congo Bill retained his marksmanship skills in the gorilla form?
4. Would a bullet really penetrate Shade's skin? They try to explain this away, but does he even have a body like we do? Does he have an organic brain as shown in this issue, or is he all shadow energy inside?

And what's the point of getting inside Shade's head? So Mik can use his light energy to banish Eclipso's influence? Won't that harm or even kill Shade? And why is Eclipso's influence represented by big black spiders? Really?!

All this bring me to the end of the issue, which was just cheap exploitation. I don't know how long Robinson had planned to kill Donna Troy. Maybe from the get go, although I don't recall anything else leading up to this, other than the events in this issue. In another article, I wondered about what DC editorial told the writers of the non-Flashpoint books in the interim before the reboot. Sounds like someone told Robinson "Do whatever you want," and he took it to heart and decided to kill someone off just for sensationalism. There is one more issue, so it may show that her death releases all this "God" energy S.W. mentioned, thereby destroying Eclipso, but I doubt it. On the surface, it looks like the other part of Dick's big plan was that Donna go beat up Eclipso. Because she's "The One" or whatever. But is she just really faking that she's trying to free Zauriel to draw attention away from the "real" plan? And she DIES making this feint? At least let her die a heroic death!

Maybe that explains her disappearance from the cover of JLI #1? Maybe they wanted her gone from the new status quo. Or maybe Robinson just got a wild hair. Dunno. All I know is that this was terrible from a story perspective. Is this worse than Red Arrow freebasing and beating guys with a cat? Maybe, at least no heroes were killed during that!

The art was OK, sometimes really good. It made the issue readable. Not a 5, but pretty well done.

I guess I will read the last issue. I'm very disappointed because I thought Robinson had started to turn this book around some. And then this.