Despite leaden one-note characterization and grating, clumsy dialog and an utterly false contrived ending, this is one of the most overpraised stories in comics history. Because the subject matter was "significant" and "relevant" and "hey look, comic books aren't for kiddies anymore!" you weren't supposed to notice how heavy-handed it was. (And to be fair, the wonderful art also disguises many sins in the writing.)
Several issues of this run were actually very good, but this was not one of them.