I was there for the new52 beginning and still remember the WTF, THIS IS ACTUALLY AWESOME BATMAN!!!!!. After Morrison's super meta run, it was equally good to have a BIG Batman book where it was all gotham, detective work AND a daring take on the canon. I like it that Lincoln March was never proven to be actually Bats brother, but there was that element of "hey this is the new continuity, so who knows..". And the Owls are really cool, even if the secret society has been played to death. It felt believable, at least to me.

(my fav issues of the entire run are the ones from the first half of Owls- I remember the tingling in my stomach when I was reading the issue with the upside down art, or before that, the whole Batman being proven wrong on his denial of the Owls. Amazing comic book stuff.)

Death of the Family felt flat, tbh, and I don't think the run repeated the quality of the first year, (Zero Year was fine, but i didn't like the origin redo with the ball-thing; I liked Endgame a lot, and Superheavy was fun for what it was) but it was always a pleasure to see Capullo's art, his Batman is simply put, iconic already.

Their "Last Knight On Earth" was actually the best story from the duo since Owls, imho. I absolutely loved it.