The fun, light-hearted tone of Sideways has been met with tragedy and importance from these last few issues, overall positioning the series above its contemporaries within the imprint. With the upcoming first Annual for the title solicited to have legendary writer Grant Morrison helming the scripts, this series is about to get a whole lot more interesting. Read Full Review

The creative team is building Sideways up to stick around in the DC Universe for a long time. Hop on board now while you still can. SIDEWAYS has an experienced and the series is starting to heat up. You won't be disappointed. Read Full Review

In the end, this was a good issue with a lot of emotional weight. I also like that Derek's world is opening up, and more importantly, we get a prelude to him interacting with the rest of the DC Universe. As one of the new heroes on the block, it will be interesting to see what role he is set to play in larger events. Read Full Review

All in all, another solid issue of Sideways, which remains one of DC's best new titles. Read Full Review

Sideways #7 was a hit or miss issue. I can't stress it enough how much potential this series has, but the execution of events and actions leaves much to be desired. It's okay to be different from most rising hero stories, though not to the point where you lose what is appealing about most of them. Read Full Review

Sideways continues to be one of the more enjoyable of the New Age of Heroes, showing heart, fun and now multiversial shenanigans. Worth a read Read Full Review

With Dan Didio taking over on writing duties full-time, Sideways #7 is both the most ambitious issue of the series, and the most troubled. Read Full Review

After the tragedy at the end of the last issue, there was the hope from the cover that the event would be the focus of the issue. Unfortunately, most of it is glossed over in favor of a team up story. Read Full Review

Overall, Sideways #7 was okay. The character continues to grow and improve which is great. He has potential and this upcoming arc will likely serve to unleash more of it. Read Full Review

The characters are disingenuine and completely out of character. Instead of defining the character and moving on from here. the plot goes completely... sideways, and I'm not given a reason to care about the aforementioned tragedy nor the people who are affected by it. Read Full Review

Plenty of great emotional moments, and the inclusion of Seven Soldiers made me very excited about the future of this book. Nice to see Rocafort back on the art duties again.

• Dan Didio (Author) • Kenneth Rocafort (Pencils)

• Kenneth Rocafort (Cover Artist) • Ivan Plascencia & Dan Brown  (Colorists)

• DC Comics (Publisher)

Sideways #7 picks up with the aftermath of Derek's (Sideways) mother's murder last issue. The melodrama is dialed back a bit and the story initially benefits from the change. There are some solid moments that are relatable. Derek expresses regret that he didn't answer his mothers call and we see that she called him 12 times before she was killed.  We also get a nice scene in which Sideways rifts to the morgue to ask her for forgiveness. The Seven Soldiers of Victory are added to the mix and everything starts off golden. 

The middle portion of the comic drags it completely off of the rails. Derek's father has pulled him out of school to give him time to grieve. After about a week Derek decides he's ready to go back. His best friend Ernie confronts him about not answering the phone after his mother's death. She cared for his mom and wanted to show support while he dealt with the loss. Derek flips out. One of the other student's chimes in about him being an asshole but then goes overboard and says at least it's not your real mother that died. Derek pushes the kid using his super strength and some other kid tells him that no one cares about his mother and then throws an open bottle of water at him.

At this point, Derek flips out and opens a rift between the school and the local lake and uses it to flood the hallway and the students with it.

The scene rapidly escalates until Zatanna freezes everyone and teleports him away with the request that he assist the "Seven Soldiers of Victory on a mission". She says she can make everyone forget the events of the past hour if he agrees to help. Derek agrees and the comic ends with him rifting open a portal into the unknown.


I completely checked out of this story in the middle of the comic. No one treats their best friend like Derek treats Ernie. If he really didn't want any attention from the other students why go back at all? I lost both parents in a short period of time. I took a few weeks off and it was still hard for me to return to work. People knew about my loss and asked how I was feeling. I was really emotional but I wasn't freaking out at people that were only interested in my well being. Not saying that no one reacts like Derek does in this issue but it makes no sense that he would blow his secret identity in this manner.

Sideways is not a superhero. He's an Emo kid with superpowers.

Even the bullying is extreme. "It's not like she was your real mother". Wow, just wow.

Derek started out with aspirations to be a YouTube star and created a segment called "Stepping out with Sideways". Clearly, he's an attention seeker. The fact that he's freaking out because people are asking if he's okay is counter-intuitive to what was originally set up for the character.

I don't believe that the writers have any idea where they want to go with Derek outside of his superhero persona. Ill follow-up for a few more issues but if the writing on this series does not improve I'll have to drop it.

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I really aggressively did not like this. Seven Soldiers things aside (and that was a huge sore spot for me, don't even get me started, too many spoilers), the dialogue was really bad, the plot is stupid, that whole bullying thing was insanely dumb, and I love how he was like "not answering the phone was the dumbest thing I've ever done! proceeds to ignore several calls from his bff" also I'm sorry but I haaaaaate that whole "I must stay away from her for her own safety... I must be cruel to save her!" shit. It is a tired and hackneyed trope and I despise it with all my heart and soul.

Justin Jordan and Dan Didio started with an interesting premise but lost it fast with the politics and pushing the justified hatred narrative that is the drug of the moron masses.

It is sad they had 4 solid issues and the last 3 have just been atrocious garbage.

Maybe one Dan will realize that the Dark Knight is one comic story, there can be others.

Maybe Justin Jordan will grow up one day and be a professional.