I am an old school comic fan of the Hulk (Trimpe/Buscema era) and the only DC that ever hooked me back then was The Demon. (And that was a Kirby, go figure.)
This thread is like a case study on why I am not a fan of DC, which would be better titled DEM Comics for Dues Ex Machina Comics.
(def: a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty.)
Superman's powers are so great that any direct confrontation is pointless. The drama is weather or not he will "save the day", not if he will get hurt. Now he is even holding black holes in his hands? Even if he does not generate new power's out of thin air, there is always some application of his Super-whatever abilities to yield a completely unexpectable result. Also, once you can go back in time to fix things, there is no reason to not reverse the clock entirely and correct all of history's evils.
And then there is Batman. I do not see any difference between a "gamma-descrambler" and "Bat-anti-Hulk-spray". The Batman TV show really had this character nailed on a satirical level. (Not that they were not mocking the entire comicbook hero genre in that series.) Whatever he needs will miraculously appear on the belt or the car. Face it, there is not enough room between Adam West and the Dark Knight to slide a slip of paper between them. The silliness is still the same, dispite the cooler names for the "wonderful gadgets" and the noir settings.
And now I am told that the Green Lantern has become really powerful? Maybe because he was the object of ridicule on the WWE via his fan, the Hurricane, they felt the need to juice him up. And sure, he can just summon a "de-hulkifier" with his ring to convert the Hulk back to Banner.
I bet DC still dervives most of its income from two properties (SM and BM) that are nearly a century old. Talk about a creative drought.
And these crossover comics are another manifestation of a creative vacuum at both companies. Stan should be stripped of all decision making authority for actually allowing the Hulk to be taken by the likes of Batman.
Outcome decided by pole? Talk about prosituting your art.