ok so yeah I mainly read DC, mostly due to the obsesive fanboy nature of my brother.
so what's going on?
The travesty known as Countdown has finished finally. It was all useless, and stupid and certain aspects somewhat trivialise final crisis.
Spoiler is back from the dead in the most unconvincing retcon in DC's History
Booster Gold is the best currently running comic by DC, you should all read it.
Batman R.I.P has begun. One character is rumoured to die.
Gotham Underground's cover hinted at the return of two dead Batman characters. One I've mentioned, the other is hinted in the latest Booster Gold. He's perhaps the coolest character in the Batman mythos and I am so very fucking excited for his return.
(Superboy) Prime vs the legion of superheroes. It's handbags at dawn for the epic battle of a crybaby vs 5000 useless nobodies.
Final Crisis is comming. The final of the crisises... until 2010 or something :/

Man my brother is gunna be bankrupt.

Fuck DC comics seriously man.

The fuck is going on with everything, this is why I don't bother. Marvel has their fuckin Civil War WWHULK Secret Invasion(which is amazing) bullshit but DC just has Crisis over crisis.

Dudes grant Morrison is writing Final Crisis and Batman.
Grant Morrison is THE BEST comic writer.
Also the whole Green Lantern Sinestero Corps war is by far the best thing to have happened in mainstream comics in such a long time.

Man, for whatever reason I haven't read a DC comic in years, but I'm actually really curious to see what Grant Morrison will do on Batman! Would I need any sort of backround information to understand what's going on in that comic at the moment or could I just get into it immediately?

well I jumped into it from being about a year behind and I kinda don't know that much about who anyone is. It's only at the first issue of the story though.

Final Crisis has been so confusing! I have to use the SA comic forums to follow half this shit.