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And Batman: Knightfall was very well received, wasn't it? But do I need the three volumes to get a complete story?
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Yes. It's a 3-part arc of Batman being defeated, replaced, and coming back, so if you're going to read one, then you kind of need to read them all. That said, it's a very 90s sort of tale, so YMMV. (I read it from the library a long time ago and wasn't particularly impressed. Same goes for Death of Superman, which I guess was okay in that 90s retro grim-and-gritty your-newer-and-less-competent-heroes-can-never-take-the-place-of-the-beloved-old-ones-who-were-the-best-at-what-they-did wannabe kind of way.)
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I have never read a Green Lantern, Aquaman, or Flash comic, so I feel I need to educate myself and pick up at least one from these guys. My obsessed-with-superheroes 6 year-old son needs a father who knows his stuff. Maybe The Sinestro Corps War (that guys shows up in Forever Evil, so at least I know who he is).
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What I've read of the Sinestro Corps stuff (from the library) was pretty decent and in the case of those "Tales from the Sinestro Corps" backups or whatever they were, told good and interesting stories about the members. Some of the assorted Lantern Corps Wars stuff has also been part-adapted into the Green Lantern animated movies and series, IIRC, that you might be able to watch with your son if that's a bonus selling point. Flashpoint has also been adapted into an animated movie that I've seen, but was not particularly impressed by (haven't read the original comics, which might be better).
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That 52 thingy looks interesting, too. But I don't know what it is.
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It was one of those year-long "event" storylines where they did this gimmick that some of the main heroes had disappeared for whatever reason and so they put together this year-long arc focusing on the more minor heroes stepping up to take their place and how they were managing to cope with the apparent losses and such. I actually rather liked this one, and it had some strong and interesting storytelling that led to some good and ongoing character development for often-overlooked DCU mainstays like The Question and the Shazam family. But a big chunk of it was reset by future events, I think.
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Anyway, any suggestions?
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I will give you an anti-recommendation for Identity Crisis, which I read from the library a long time ago and remains overhyped trash that tried too hard to be ~shocking~ and ~edgy~ while at the same time pretending to have a pretentiously ~deep~ and ~meaningful~ point about the ethics of [SPOILER REDACTED] which nobody in the DCU really cares about anyway unless it suits the author's agenda. Also (and more importantly, TBH) for a variety of reasons, the whodunnit of the murder mystery just doesn't make sense.
Also, I personally wouldn't spend money on Zero Hour. It's probably not all that bad a piece of storytelling, but it was a very long-ago event meant to reboot and reset the new DC Universe for once and for all, and obviously they've since done the retconning equivalent of quietly going into the next room and never mentioning it again. So your time is kind of wasted on that unless you're a morbidly curious history-of-the-DCU completionist.
Hope this helps.