Things just keep getting worse for Red Tornado as he’s called in to face his most ferocious foe yet…the Board! This group of money-hungry investors are willing to do just about anything to turn a profit, and that could mean the end of Heroz4U. Now, as the company’s stock plummets, our hero questions why he got into the lifesaving business in the first place. When the time comes, will there be anyone left to save him?
In an age where anti-work movements are on the rise, One-Star Squadron #3 is a mirror being held up that adds entertaining context to a bad situation. One-Star Squadron is a funny, clear-eyed dissection of office politics and the stupidity of corporate ideology. When it comes to satire in comics, Russell and Lieber are peerless. Read Full Review
Lieber does a great job with the art in the issue by keeping it focused on the characters and their humanity. The style is great for this type of story and really focuses on the people of the story instead of the events around them. Read Full Review
DC Comics' ONE-STAR SQUADRON seamlessly moves from the hilarious to the flat-out sad. Russell, Lieber, Stewart, and Sharpe are creating an indictment of our throwaway culture. They lure us in with plenty of laughs, before giving us a poignant punch to the gut. Read Full Review
This crazy workplace comedy takes some really interesting twists this issue, making me even more excited to see where all of this is going. Read Full Review
Like many of Russell's works, he does a great job of getting his point about the world across. I'm not sure this one quite gets the characters it's using to tell it, though. Read Full Review
There's not a lot to like about the situation, which is horrible for a lot of people, from the pill-popping Minuteman to Red Tornado trying to be all things to all people to the ruthless corporate raider formerly doing business as Power Girl. There is a lot to like about seeing it, like a fine cable drama where you watch messy lives stay messy, avoiding whatever is like that in our own existences. Read Full Review
There's too little depth to these characters and too much familiarity to the mockery. Read Full Review
If the story had at least some unique twist, maybe there would be a redeeming quality to make it worth your time. But, as it stands, this comes across as Russell's thinly-veiled attempt at chastising the corporate ecosystem while using DC characters as puppets in his stage play. There's nothing uniquely DC here. There's nothing bitingly clever or funny here. And, there's certainly nothing entertaining here.Bits and PiecesOne-Star Squadron #3 is a dull, depressing, tedious look at sad characters with sad lives doing sad things. It's not funny or clever, and there's nothing uniquely DC about this story except for some characters wearing DC character skins. The only message here is, "corporations suck, so spend $3.99 to read all about it." Read Full Review
Honestly, this is a great miniseries. It hits that sweet spot of being funny while also being gut-wrenching. The closer you are to the grind of low wage labor, the more gut-wrenching it can be. In the past, I've been critical of Mark Russell's political commentary, not because I disagreed fundamentally with it, just because it felt a little overplayed. But this, maybe simply due to my own recent experiences, feels fresh to me.
Right, I wasn't excpecting anything from what happened here... but I loved!
A great satirical take that pumps out a healthy mix comedy and tragedy often at the same time.
Pretty boring but those who want to read a uNiQuE cRiTiQuE oF cApItAlIsM (or, as one critic reviewer put it, "anti-work movements", whatever that may mean) will love it for ideological reasons, of course.
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