Once you are done reading this, you will build a time machine so you can move ahead until next month. I cant believe this is already half over. DC, if you are reading this, please make sure you give Cecil and Adriana more to do with these characters once this run is over. Please. Pretty please. Read Full Review

This book really is a must read. Pick it up if you arent already doing so. Read Full Review

Female Furies #3 is another triumph for this series. Castellucci goes a bit more subtle and it pays dividends. She uses this halfway point in the series perfectly. There's the feeling of a bookend to this one, the ending of somethings and the beginning of others. Melo's art keeps wowing, fitting Castellucci's scripts to a tee. Readers familiar with the Fourth World will see where the story is going from here but Castellucci's proven how good she can be, so it will great to see what she adds to what readers already know. Read Full Review

It's pretty brutal, but the creative team handles it all very well. There is a great ending here too that hits the reader hard. This is one incredible book. I'm not sure where we might end up next, but I know I have never read anything quite like this comic. Read Full Review

Adiana Melo creates some beautiful and dynamic art in this issue and all of the characters looks expressive and emotional. Read Full Review

While this issue ends ultimately with sadness, there is just a bit of light that shines as Barda meets Scott Free (winkwink). Their coming together makes me happy. And their coming together makes me eager for the next issue. Read Full Review

The amount of just pure emotion -- both in the Castelluci's writing and Melo's art -- is absolutely palpable, and the way it progresses the narrative in this issue is admirable. Read Full Review

Beautiful art combines with some strong (and pointed) storytelling to make a story that's at once dreamlike and all too real. Highly recommended! Read Full Review

Female Furies' trajectory completely switches by this issue's end. It's brutal and heartbreaking all at the same time, a damning indictment of a society of entitlement. Though heavy-handed in its approach, this book's blunt-force impact is hard to deny. Toxic nerds beware. Read Full Review

The story moves along, with a few permissible hiccups, but fails to capture the reader's attention. Despite the issue being weak visually, there are some cool scenes of Apokoliptan interiors that should interest any fanatics for the anti-life equation. Read Full Review

As this bizarre, disturbing miniseries reaches its halfway point, it finally establishes its main character and a strange and upsetting theme emerges " this is essentially a textbook fridging story, only the person the fridging is intended to motivate is another woman. I don't think that makes it any better, as Female Furies #3 once again takes us from a brief moment of hope to a never-ending wallow in horror. Read Full Review

Meh, this didn't have much of what made this series stand out before, which were the particularly effective scenes of sexual abuse. Without those, the series just sort of becomes bland. And it really just makes me think a lot of these characters, especially Big Barda, are just the worst. It took Aurelie being murdered to make Barda see the problems here. Not the begging and the crying or any of that. Even after she helped hide the body of one of the abusers in the first issue. It's kind of funny that this clearly feminist book resorts to a much maligned trope like fridging just to get one of the characters to a place they should already be at, if not for what in hindsight feels like a particularly forced attitude for the character in the context of this series itself, not even regarding any other story that this one contradicts. I think this is what happens when you're writing for the stereotype that fits your message rather than the story or characters. And I won't discount the message. There's some good things being said here. I just think the execution is haphazard as hell and it shows that the writer really doesn't know what they're doing. more

This mini series continues to disappoint a lot.
Granny wants to bring Aurelie back to the team by forcing Beautiful Dreamer to manipulate her mind, but Granny wouldn’t need to kidnap Beautiful Dreamer for that, because she could torture her herself. Or this is usually Desaads task, but since all men on Apokolips are portrayed in this mini series as sexist assholes, we of course won’t see any interaction between Granny& Desaad. This series also messes up Scot Free‘s escape from Apokolips, which is quite short. But that’s not the only one. This series wants to follow Jack Kirby’s New Gods, but it contradicts everything, that was written ever since& Jack Kirby’s own version.
For example: While in 40 years of comic book history there was never any sign of hate between Desaad& his sister Bernadeth, she of course hates him in this mini series, mainly because all male characters on Apokolips are sexists. The comic ignores, that Desaad& Bernadeth always talked proudly about each other. Both characters deserve better.
Same goes for Darkseid, who suddenly out of nowhere trusts Granny the most, not Desaad, who ussually is the only one, who has his trust. But that’s just another attempt of the writer to make female characters more meaningful in the worst way possible fully ignoring, that female characters already were important on Apokolips. Why not explore the Female Furies more by actually portraying them as strong female characters, who can kick asses? Why are they constantly portrayed as weak petty little girls, who are just victims of men? This portrayal contradicts everything about their characters& apparently in the eyes of the writer women can only be victims, but never psychopaths themselves.
Instead of giving us a badass mini series& character exploration of Darkseid‘s elite fighters, we are getting another Me too agenda forced on the characters of the Fourth World. The writer ignores, that women on Apokolips aren’t more victims than male characters& also continues to portray them as weak.
What’s really sad, that the amazing art is wasted for this bad story. After the New52 disaster it’s great to see Jack Kirby’s character versions again. It’s great to see Desaad in his normal version again, but unfortunately this run doesn’t do him or any character justice. Still better than Darkseid War, but nonetheless as a big fan of the New Gods it’s painful to read, what the writer is doing to these characters. It’s a mess& it gives new readers a total wrong idea about how great the New Gods actually can be. more

An extraordinarily misjudged attempt at the 'Me Too' generation.