Four-year-old Bruce Wayne waits for his parents to come home safely. A neat ficlet, getting right to the roots of Batman. Manages to be both sweet and chilling, since we know what happens next all too well.
Stephanie Brown, also known as Spoiler, finds the Green Lantern's ring. The young heroine discovers that with great power comes ... well, nothing good, since this is a Benway story. Dark, disturbing and superb stuff, but that should come as no surprise if you're familiar with the author.
This piece unfolds in reverse, beginning with the corpse of one of Batman's allies and working backwards through the events that lead up to the tragic death. The gimmick is never allowed to overshadow the human dimension of the story, but manages to underline it nicely. Kind of like Memento with superheroes, and that has to be a good thing.
Six intriguing drabbles, six surprising romantic possibilities for Oracle. (None of which involve Nightwing.) I was especially impressed by the amount of dense canon 'rith managed to convey in such small spaces - I understood what was going on perfectly, and I'm no DC fangirl.
The Batclans of two different eras celebrate Bruce Wayne's birthday, but these things never quite go to plan for the spandex and kevlar brigade. A fun story with a good balance of humour and action, and almost all of the heroes closely associated with Batman play a part.
A short walk inside the Joker's head. I probably don't need to tell you that it's not a pretty place to be ... yet oddly fun. His domain is a nice place to visit, but is it possible to stop living there?
Alfred does some cleaning, and contemplates some necessary truths and some even more necessary lies. A lovely slice of characterisation for the man who takes care of all those little practicalities around Wayne Manor, both the physical and the more nebulous psychological.