My first time reading the Dark Tower comics. I'm obsessed. This is the first arc and it would seem they run sequentially. It would be ill advised to pick up a different run but still manageable.
The lore of the world that King has built is rich and extremely meticulous. A magical alternate reality where King Arthur's descendants are gunslinger knights? Prophecies, witches, demons, magic, romance, brutality, and so much more. This is some of the most fun I have had with visual story telling. The art style is cinematic; crisp and very well thought out. There is so much to explore in this world. At the end of each issue are stories and myths that seem to be optional. I really love that they did that. You learn things about the world and about the characters that you don't need to know, but they add a lot to the story. 5/5. Very highly recommended. more

I feel like there could be something really great here if there was more time. Fun concept; it just took too much time to get there. Once we arrived, the comic was finished.

Wow, I will be the voice of reason here. This was awful for so many reasons. Shockingly bad. Where to start? Have any of you that are giving this 10/10 ever read any stories with John Constantine? Because there are key points in this story that he is not John Constantine, but just a projection of Si Spurrier. If John Constantine was kidnapped by a bunch of deadbeats, and one of them accused him of being "ableist" for making a benign insult to his mute friend, Constantine would not apologize. It's absurd. Then, Constantine starts sympathizing with his kidnappers. And then Si Spurrier starts writing the kidnappers as sympathetic characters. This man's moral compass is absolutely broken. Making a very slight insult to a mute person is something to apologize for but being a bunch of kidnapping criminal gangbangers is something to make excuses for? Nope. No thanks. I couldn't even finish the first issue. The real John Constantine wouldn't apologize for the insult to his kidnappers, he would tell them to "go cry about it" or something along those lines. Si Spurrier, you neutered a tough and rough character who has been to hell and back multiple times. Great job. more

Ahmed comes in for a couple of issues so he can validate his character, Miles Morales.

Christoper Cant(write)well is essentially a hired assassin for Marvel. A hired character assassin. This is a comic that provides a platform to belittle its namesake and to platform the next era of heroes. It’s subversive and mean spirited.

This one started off pretty bad, had a decent middle and then ended pretty corny. I am really over the hell cat parts, the fact that the team Tony brought is just ridiculous and the book just tries too hard in some parts.

Tony and his Space Friends get real close to stopping Korvac in this speedy running battle. It's a nicely-crafted episode in words and art; very entertaining. But it's still not doing enough to bolster my shaken faith in the big-picture plot. I have no idea where this is going, but with every issue, I suspect more strongly that I won't like it.

Mike Carey, who I thought was better than to stoop to petty politics, couldn't help himself. The story is pretty fun, nothing too stellar. But this just hits so many left wing tropes that are BEYOND played out. I mean, you want to talk about tropes? Let's talk about a white male radical right winger terrorist. What isn't a trope and what goes into the world of the absurd, is the suicide bomber vest he straps on. Have you ever seen that in your life outside of some left wing fever dream? Is there a single piece of modern fiction from the last 10 years that features the actual people who commit by far and away the most amount of terrorism on planet Earth? You know, the Muslims? Nope, we can't talk about them, because they will literally kill anyone that does.
The white male fathers are trash whereas the perfect angel black father swoops in like a miracle to take care of the daughter he never knew he had. Never mind the fact that reality is exactly opposite. This is what is so demented about the culture that I have to live in; people are informed not by facts, but by cultural entertainment like this. Where evil white racists lurk around every corner....oooo, so scary. We will getcha! Snap back to reality. What group commits the most hate crimes per capita? Hint: It isn't white people. What group leaves and abuses their children the most? Hint: It isn't white men. And yet, the drones that surround me have no idea because writers like Mike Carey, either have no idea, or he wants to will a different reality into existence. However, that isn't possible Mike, all you are doing is demonizing one group. And funnily enough, it happens to be your own. I guess the crocodile will save you....for last. Rant over.
The comic was fine as far as story craft goes. I would give it a 6/10 but you pissed me off so here is a 1/10. more

The first two issues were so great, but the decline has set in big time. We now have a ludicrous story which is more interested in attacking the white male than in the formerly interesting characters. Have we had a single positive white male in this tale? DC just cannot stay away from its divisive political agenda and identity politics. Dropped.

I just don’t care about any of these people, really. They’re not much of anything to me, so what do I care if an evil dollhouse eats them?

I never have read any prior Death Dealer titles before this. I absolutely love the tone and feel so far. I felt thrust into the dark world that has been created. Reminiscent of a Dark Souls game. Right off the bat in the opening sequence, a macabre horror comes striding out of the woods; melting away any humans it comes into contact with. I have great hopes for the future of this. It may have a fairly standard story ultimately, but the story telling is rich and the art is superb. I want to learn more about the cursed helmet that has forged the Death Dealer. I want to learn more about the undead villains that seek him out. This feels like comics getting back to basics, and yet somehow bringing some new modern tricks. more