Return to Detroit with Black Condor inFreedom Fighters #8(Venditti, Barrows, Herbert) for an emotional story about the price of freedom and the power of community in the face of oppression. Read Full Review

It's a real joy to feel the character of the Black Condor come alive in Freedom Fighters #8. This powerhouse of character exploration easily overpowers any shortcomings of the plot movement or scope of the issue. The intimacy of Condor's story makes this an issue you'll want to read. I have a feeling it will fit into the pacing of the full 12 issues marvelously, even though on it's own it's a little unsatisfying plot-wise. Read Full Review

En Freedom Fighters tenemos la oportunidad de explorar una de las tierras existentes en el amplio multiverso de DC, en esta ocasin la Tierra-X donde un grupo de metahumanos liderados por Uncle Sam batallarn por recuperar la libertad de las garras del Tercer Reich, buen nmero donde tendremos oportunidad de conocer los orgenes de Black Condor y que servir de prembulo a la Batalla de Detroit! Read Full Review

The Freedom Fighters enters its final act with a tension-filled infiltration mission. Read Full Review

With some excellent art and the idea that our heroes might not prevail by the end of this series, this issue really brought on the doom and gloom....... you know, beyond for the normal "Nazis rule the world" doom and gloom, but the tension was taken away because of the cliffhanger to last issue that put us in the know more than the characters so the whole time you're just waiting for the other shoe to drop and when it does, it doesn't feel all that big.  Still an enjoyable issue, but I hope for me next month. Read Full Review

That's the big problem with this series overall " there's an endless sense of hopelessness that makes it rather hard to read. For a series like this to work, we have to believe that the heroes are going to win. So far the heroes don't feel like they have things together enough for the rebellion to be a compelling opposition, but Black Condor's story is the closest we've gotten. Read Full Review

It's a reverse-Icarus tale, one where the flight of a son results in the punishment of his parents. That makes for an excellent, if broad, metaphor for the ways in which parents sacrifice to help future generations overcome oppression. Read Full Review

Prelude:
Been a while since the last issue but Venditti has been hammering home the American identity recently. Let's see if he continues on what is so far an excellent series.

The Good:
Eddy Barrows just makes his art sing. I always loved his work on Detective Comics but here he's gone to even greater heights.

I'm also loving the continued focus on the American people even as a non-American.

The Bad:
Not too much in plot progression, in fact the issue went by very fast.

Conclusion: Whilst this is a smaller chapter in Venditti's story, he's been continuing his theme of the character of the American people and it shows in this issue.

An improvement on last issue, especially with the art. Having said that, this series is still not reaching the heights that some are claiming. Black Condor is finally developing a character, but he is the only member of the team who is.

As part of a series, each issue of Freedom Fighters should form part of a larger narrative, but they don't. Like its predecessors, #8 fails to bring through threads from previous issues: this fundamentally weakens it.

I'm still reading it at the eighth issue, so it clearly isn't terrible, but neither is it all that great.

Okay.

Very meh and predictable, with the issue cutting off just as it started to get interesting.

Bleh.