More evidence that Yang remains one of the best superhero writers at DC. Read Full Review

This issue seems to push that a little bit further in a direction I'm not exactly happy with. While last issue it was clear that while fundamentally different, the two work together well and like each other. This issue again veers into the all two common realm of breaking the two apart. Read Full Review

The creative team delivers on the concept of the last World's Finest story in a unique and satisfying way. Read Full Review

If you've made it this far, you have to be a DC fan. Make sure you've read all the best DC Comics stories of all time. Read Full Review

This is a fun issue. A lot happens within its pages, but it's all balanced out so well that everything fits nicely. The pacing is tight, the writing crisp, and the art solid. If you're looking to relax with some light reading, then give this book a chance! Read Full Review

The Artists deliver some great art throughout the issue. I would have liked to see more action to match the tension of the plot. Read Full Review

A bounce back is better than an utter flop. Read Full Review

Overall, Future State: Batman/Superman #2 was an enjoyable read and showcased a fun, yet interesting, dynamic between the two heroes. The way things were left between Batman and Superman at the end comes across as a strained and tense friendship, and yet with the vague feeling that if push comes to shove, egos will be put aside to help the other out. Read Full Review

Future State: Batman/Superman #2 concludes this very near Future State title with glacial pacing, explanations that are paper-thin, and gross body horror art. Thankfully, the art is the highlight of the issue, but this title is one of the mediocre Future State experiments. Read Full Review

Giant, insane monsters and mutants abound, so if his run on the ongoing series will be this bananas it will be worth looking at. Read Full Review

You can skip this one without missing much unless youre really curious about the rise of The Magistrate. Read Full Review

Gene Luen Yang is one of the most underrated writers of especially Superman and I look forward to his ongoing. This wasn't his best, trust me.

And so Future State officially ends. Well, there's still going to be few related releases next month, but the hectic two month long event finally reaches the finish line, and I couldn't be happier because after 8 weeks of reading (and reviewing) every single comic from it, I feel drained and exhausted. It's been a very rough and uneven ride, with some good comics, some terrible ones as well, with their quality shifting faster than time signature in a Dream Theater song.

This comic is my last to review. Why this one? Dunno, honestly. If I was to make a punchline regarding this event, I could have chosen a better fitting title, but by sheer accident this one's the last, and there's no real big analogy concluding Future State. Because it is a consistently decent comic. There's no big shake-ups, there's no revolutions, it's just a fun little escapist read. Gene Luen Yang plays very safe, giving us a pretty good mystery, albeit predictable (which I really can't criticize him for - after all it'd be near impossible to write something truly surprising AND 2 issues long), and setting up the reason why fascist controlled Future State Gotham City is on its own.

And probably that reason is what left me with somewhat bitter taste in my mouth. It's just... a rather forced, won't you agree? Yeah, I get it, it was necessary and all, but the explanation and Bruce's reasoning are pretty off. I can't say I enjoyed this sudden and radical turn of events. I believe this could have been handled better.

Overall not a bad comic - probably one of the safer and most digestible entries from this horrendously uneven event. more

Gene Luen Yang’s final chapter of this Batman and Superman team-up reads like the final chapter of Batman and Superman’s friendship, strained and exhausted, before the events that lead to Superman’s exit from Earth and Batman’s descent into the worst version of Gotham City ever imagined. It’s sad because even as the two allies see their friendship falling apart for various reasons, they still maintain a lot of mutual honor and respect for each other, though they won’t admit it.

Following up on the heels of last month’s story, Superman has been captured by Professor Pyg while Batman discovers that Pyg is working for The Magistrate, though he’s pretending to be leading a resistance group against Gotham’s evil overlords. Somehow, The Magistrate has discovered a way to synthesize a form of kryptonite that allows Pyg to not only get the better of Superman but perform some experiments on him as well. Batman realizes that the experiments Pyg has been doing have allowed him to replicate certain parts of Superman’s physiology into biological weapons, making Gotham an even more dangerous place for vigilante heroes.

Of course, the story wraps up with Superman and Batman removing the biological threats, destroying the lab and the research, and making sure Professor Pyg gets locked away in Blackgate prison, but the story doesn’t end there. Realizing that The Magistrate’s synthetic kryptonite is a bigger threat to Superman’s life than Clark is willing to admit, Bruce turns the table on his friend and banishes Superman from Gotham City under the pretense that the genetic modifications are too dangerous to fall into the hands of the Gotham villains.

Stephen Segovia helped Ben Oliver on the linework this issue and Arif Prianto is back on the colors. The artwork is once again exceptionally stunning and among the best on the stands today. It is somewhat of a shame that these artists aren’t on a higher profile comic that will get them more exposure, but those comics are also not as good as this one, so I guess there’s always a silver-lining.

Just as with issue #1, this issue is only $3.99 and features one story instead of attempting DC’s new initiative of adding extra stories and raising the cover price. Those extra stories can be a mixed blessing as some are better than the feature and are worth the bulk of the cover price while others are downright terrible and would be too expensive if given away for free. Since this story alone is worth every penny and one of the best that Future State has to offer, I’m glad it didn’t get tied down with anything else.

Even if you skip most of Future State because you know better than to buy the mess that DC Comics is currently publishing, grab these two issues. You’ll be glad that you did.

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Pretty decent ending to one of the better Future State books. Excited for Yang's upcoming Batman/Superman stories.

This was alright. Nothing special.

Much improved over last issue if you ask me. The mainplot is still not that interesting. I don't find the false face society nor Mistery Pyg intriguing nor threatening enough to warrant the team-up. However, the dynamic between Bruce & Clark is strong. It's what their dynamic should be, even if I find Bruce to be a bit to much of a, well, prick.
Art's not bad either. The designs of the monsters are pretty good, decently horrifying.

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