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Black Condor survived the most horrific upbringing imaginable in the slave camps of the Detroit industrial complex...and he's back to liberate his home! But will Condor's plan put the bigger mission to topple the Nazi government in jeopardy? Plus, the traitor within the team is revealed, Sam and the other Freedom Fighters launch their attack and the Cyborg Overman prepares for round two!
Freedom Fighters is one of DCs most entertaining titles and is overflowing with potential that should extend beyond three more issues. Read Full Review
If you like great character work, then Freedom Fighters #9 is a book for you. It's not often that comics are able to get into deeper emotional and philosophical exploration, but the very title invites creators to do so with this concept. What is freedom? How does one attain it? How does it slip away? This title consistently wrestles with such questions through some fun, thoughtful, entertaining and beautiful looking stories. It will make you think. Read Full Review
There's some strong worldbuilding and character work going on here, too, and it sets up a solid final stretch. Read Full Review
Freedom Fighters continues to be something special this issue in not only the emotions that are felt from the characters involved or the amazing art that portrays it, but with sense of awe that comes with each installment of this series. This is definitely one of the best books that DC Comics is putting out right now and I highly suggest that if you aren't reading this title that you get on the trolley now because you're missing out. Read Full Review
In conclusion, this issue wasn't as good as the previous ones, but if you've made this far you have no reason to give up now. It was a dip in events, for me at least, but the art was still great, there were some nice moments and the action was cool. If you're following it, you are and if not, know that this issue isn't representative of the whole. Read Full Review
The book goes out of its way to make us hate the Nazis " Hitler's grandson tortures two heroes in sadistic ways in the start of the issue, for instance " but it does little to establish the heroes as worth following. Read Full Review
Prelude:
Freedom Fighters really has been a sleeper hit but can Venditti keep it up?
The Good:
Love the human angle that the factory workers provide.
Likewise I like how Black Condor is shown to have a flaw. Makes him more human which is needed for this type of story.
Eddy Barrows art, like every issue, is amazing.
I also liked the interrogation scene.
The Bad:
Yeah, there isn't anything really unless you want to dive into semantics.
Conclusion:
Freedom Fighters continues with it's efficiently done story. No real negatives to it, but I do have to keep to my own scoring system.
Dark, great art, and consistent.
And so another issue of mediocrity passes. Yes, the Nazis are bad (hardly groundbreaking commentary), but they are also utterly one-dimensional. There is no subtlety or nuance in any characterisation on either side, and the heroes of the piece are utterly forgettable plot ciphers; why should I care about any of the heroes when none of them have any character, outside of being heroes (something we are told rather than shown)? Resultantly, when you place one of those characters in jeopardy there is no reason for the reader to care because they have no investment in the character.
As a comic, this is the worst kind of jingoistic drivel. It is so sad that a story and team with such potential has been wasted in this way. Venditti's ru more
This dialogue is a little wearing.
This would be so much more entertaining if it wasn't just so obvious. We get it: Nazis are bad. We also get that freedom is a good thing. I just think this could be so much better if the Nazis- sorry, Ratzis- were actual characters and not just bad guy X and bad guy Y. And same goes for the heroes. They're just as one dimensional. I think a lot of the reviews here are as high as they are because this book is a people-pleaser. The comic equivalent of oscar-bait. The art is good, but the writing falls flat.
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