Generations: Forged #1
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| Writer | Dan Jurgens, Andy Schmidt, Robert Venditti |
| Artist | Bernard Chang, Colleen Doran, Bryan Hitch, Dan Jurgens, Paul Pelletier, Mike Perkins, Joe Prado, Marco Santucci |
| Cover Price | $9.99 |
Dispersed through time by the villain Dominus, our ragtag team of generational heroes-featuring 1939 Batman, Kamandi, Superboy, Steel, Starfire, Sinestro, Booster Gold, and Dr. Light-must find a way to restore the timeline...and what they ultimately discover is something far, far greater. You'll have to read it to believe it as time dies...and generations rise!
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9.2
Monkeys Fighting Robots - Jake Palermo
Feb 23, 2021Generations Forged shows off the parts of DC's history that gets forgotten in ways to put them into the spotlight. With the many creatives at the helm, it's how they all manage to build off one another that makes a memorable story. Read Full Review
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9.0
DC Comics News - Derek McNeil
Feb 23, 2021Overall, I had a great time reading Generations Forged #1 and its predecessor, Generations Shattered . It was an entertaining adventure spanning different eras of DC's publishing history. It read like a bit-sized version of Crisis On Infinite Earths. And while at first, I thought it held some worrisome implications for DC continuity, those fears have been assuaged. But I won't be pleased if Infinite Frontier reveals that the Linearverse is the main DC Universe after all. Read Full Review
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8.5
AIPT - Christopher Franey
Feb 23, 2021A story of what makes comics fun, while creating new concepts and expanding your philosophies. The art came together better in this issue I feel and the threat was high, but wrapped up a little too quickly and nicely. I hope the new concept of a Linearverse gets explored more in future DC Comics. Read Full Review
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8.0
Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Feb 23, 2021With only two issues and spaced a few months apart, this doesn't feel like a core part of DC continuity. It feels more like a tribute to the many eras of DC Comics it celebrates before everything gets reshuffled again for Infinite Frontier. And on that front, we can definitely call this story a win. Read Full Review
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8.0
Dark Knight News - Steve J Ray
Feb 23, 2021It's comics like this one that make me proud to be a DC Comics fan. Read Full Review
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8.0
Nerdly - Dean Fuller
Feb 24, 2021Although I'm not sure the ten dollar price tag is justified, I would recommend this. Just. Silver Age Krypton got it over the line for me. Works every time. Read Full Review
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7.0
Comic Watch - Matt Meyer
Feb 23, 2021Generations Forged #1 isn't a world-changing comic, nor is it a wholly original one. But it is charmingly retro, and despite being a victim of downsizing from five to two issues, comports itself as best it can and can't help but leave readers with a smile on their face. Read Full Review
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7.0
Batman-News - Michael Escalante
Feb 23, 2021While some sequences are truly special, overall the book trades in simplistic characterizations that heavily rely on the reader already being a fan. Read Full Review
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7.0
Forces Of Geek - Lenny Schwartz
Feb 24, 2021Sadly, I had a feeling this book will be lost in time itself as there is nothing grounding it to anything. Read Full Review
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7.0
COMICON - Olly MacNamee
Feb 27, 2021Generations Forged #1 is a disappointing second half to what would have been if Dan Didio hadn't been shown the exit at DC Comics. Whatever they did salvage has been hastily slapped together and put out for schmucks like me to grab with my hard earned money. Read Full Review
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6.8
Weird Science - Eric Shea
Feb 23, 2021While I love the art in this book, I feel that the story took a big dip in what it was previously doing because the majority of this issue is padded out with our heroes just trying to get back to Vanishing Point to take on Dominus, while never really setting up the villain's motivations beyond a Wandavision-Esque angle that doesn't fit with who the character was before this story. There's still some fun nostalgic fun to be had out of this story, but the scope of what we had previously was seriously diminished here and ending up just being underwhelming overall. Read Full Review
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6.0
ComicBook.com - Jenna Anderson
Feb 24, 2021It feels like it's on a completely different wavelength from much of the publisher's recent, trailblazing storytelling, but it still proves to be an enjoyable journey. Read Full Review
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5.0
Newsarama - Scott Cederlund
Feb 23, 2021Whatever this Generations event started as, morphed into, and finally hit the comic stands as, it is ultimately another rote and forgettable attempt by DC to offer up some logic behind how all of these stories relate to one another. This is weird because it feels like the recent Death Metal event tried to accomplish the same goals as DC tries to move into whatever its post-continuity existence is going to be. Maybe there aren't enough writers and artists to create a good comic that's driven more by editorial dictate than it is by creative thought. This is a corporate comic that does nothing other than giving DC another chance to try to get its continuity right. Read Full Review
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4.3
Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson
Feb 24, 2021In an attempt to make sense of continuity, we're given another explanation that combines Hypertime with a handwave, all following a big ol' senseless crosstime fighty-fighty. Definitely not worth ten dollar. Read Full Review
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2.0
Critical Blast - RJ Carter
Mar 05, 2021Like I said. These writers -- these writers who have written some of my absolute favorite books during my forty-seven years of reading comics...they know better. Read Full Review
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10
Great to see 1939 Batman Again! This is a 1980s/90s-style story for fans of specific old characters, especially those whose characters no longer exist in the same way due to endless retcons by DC Comics, such as the 1939 Batman.If you are such a fan, this works for you. I am, and so for me, I am glad to see 1939 Batman back. In anything. He could be reading the telephone book. I don't care. But if you are looking for a coherent story that makes sense, well, that's a different situation altogether. Dominus (previously a Lord of Order and priest, Tuoni) appeared in 1990s Superman comics, and I think an appearance in DC Universe Legacies #1. But most readers don't care about this villain. He is just a placeholder. They just want to see old more
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9.0
So Scott Snyder made an unreadable mess with the Dark Metal crap and they had to bring in Jurgens to clean it up. Got it. Over all this book was pretty good.
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7.5
While there's a lot of filler here, overall it's still a great book, touching upon various corners of the DC Universe. Hopefully the ending sticks around, as I'm feeling a bit burned out by DC trying to sort out their messy continuity.
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7.5
it was decent. at least we know why heroes cant age.
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5.5
A bit too long and very... comic-y. It was fine. I liked the first part more.
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4.5
I did not enjoy reading this.
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2.0
80 pages of nothing.
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