Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #6

After striking gold with each issue, the creative team behind 'Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville' craft a perfect ending to a perfect book. I'm excited to see where these creators go next. Read Full Review

Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #6 fantastically concludes one of the most unique series to come out of DCs current publishing line. Read Full Review

The book is a bit silly, but also really fun and heartfelt. It's a blast throughout and hopefully we'll get more adventures from these two. Read Full Review

The all-star here is definitely Bustos' distinctly Kevin Maguire-influenced art. Read Full Review

Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #6 ends the ill-conceived mini-series the way it started - badly. Starer's pitch and execution are fully terrible, several plot points make no sense, and the finale only partly resolves the myriad of conflicts, but not the most important one. Read Full Review

derbycomics

Feb 07, 2024

From the first page of Issue #1 this book wasn't shy in being a campy best friend story which didn't take itself too seriously. It never lost sight of that mentality over the course of its run and ends here staying true to that same mindset. Was this a deeply philosophical character study? Not in the least. Was it dripping with heart, offering tender character moments while putting its main duo in situations reminiscent of the I Love Lucy episodes? You bet it did! Joanne Starer's finale ties up the plot nicely (which had gone off the rails in spectacular fashion), bringing the two best friends back together and giving the rest of the background characters, including Martha Kent, a great sendoff. Starer's ability to create fully fleshed o ut characters in a story that could easily have evolved into a cast of one-note caricatures has been one of the most impressive feats across this whole series. Natacha Bustos and Tamra Bonvillain have this series an equally joyful book to read with vibrantly bright colors always reminding readers that this was never meant to be a dark and brooding story. The designs and colors always bordered on Saturday morning cartoonery, but never crossed the line into complete outlandishness. It fit the tone of Starer's script perfectly. I'm so sad to see this book end, but so glad that @dcofficial let it see the light of day. We need more minis like this as part of larger, publisher-wide narratives. Hopefully we get to see Fire & Ice on some fun adventures again soon! more

Von Esper

Feb 06, 2024

Awful. Terrible writing and dialogue. A slap in the face to Fire and Ice fans. I can't believe critics read this and actually thought it was good.