While its connection to the new DC continuity is unclear, Generations Shattered #1 is afantastic story and a loving retrospective of DC's history. I can hardly wait to for the concluding chapter to see how the story wraps up and to see if it tells us more about the current shape of the DCU. Read Full Review

Generations Shattered will be a hard sell for some, considering what it's up against, but I think it is a great treat that takes you back to the sci-fi style of comics and epic scope of fantasy that will delight longstanding fans and get newer fans to check their history out even more. Read Full Review

This setup has potential and with Jurgens steering the way the event should make for another fun out of continuity epic while Future State is playing out. Read Full Review

Once again in the DC Universe, time ain't what it used to be. Read Full Review

Generations Shattered #1 (#DCComics @thedanjurgens @39aAndy @robertvenditti @hificolor @tenapolitano) is a high-priced nostalgia-bomb that is well-executed even if it isn't particularly ground-breaking. Read Full Review

GENERATIONS SHATTERED is a rerun of DC Comics' classics. This creative team, with 22 artists on board, are having loads of fun. Read Full Review

I'm not sure what the process that the three writers went through for this script was, but it's turned into a pretty entertaining throwback. Read Full Review

In the end, your enjoyment of Generations Shattered may come down to how much you like the creators involved and how willing you are to read yet another Crisis comic. This series is unlikely to be essential reading, but it is a ripping yarn on its own terms and that's more than some comics can manage. Read Full Review

We've got a big ol' story on our hands that is setting up what "everything matters" means from the end of Death Metal and the big takeaway about that in this "Crisis" level event that didn't wait at all to attack our new Multiverse is the way we and our heroes perceive time and events. Yeah, it's not all explained yet, but it's interesting nonetheless and I look forward to continuing this jaunt throughout what time is left and seeing how our heroes will be able to overcome this unshaper of the Universe. Read Full Review

Generations: Shattered was a most welcome surprise, and Generations: Forged can't get here soon enough. Read Full Review

Time travel, cosmic threats, action, explosions and more cool characters than you can shake a stick at; Generations Shattered has it all. Dark Nights: Death Metal has set events in motion that will forever change the DC Multiverse… or should that now be Omniverse, or even Metaverse? I don't know which of these names is correct, but I know what I'd call this issue. Read Full Review

When all is said and done, I feel like Generations Shattered #1 possesses a decent story but often loses track of it amidst all the time-hopping. Now that the team is assembled, maybe its follow up stories will be able to set the ship aright. Read Full Review

Generations Shattered #1 is a well-executed, but extremely familiar tale of multiverse hijinks. I can't count how many times the entire fabric of the multiverse has been at stake so the narrative here doesn't do much to distinguish itself. What's left over are a series of well drawn vignettes that range from average to spectacular depending on your fandom of appearing characters. Whether or not the pure spectacle of it all makes it worth the ten dollar price tag is debatable, but I imagine most fans of Death Metal and similar stories will find it a value. Read Full Review

Generations Shattered #1 is an oddity of a comic. It's hampered by its release along "Future State" making its story a bit confusing. The concept is quite good and entertaining, especially where it leaves things. But, it takes forever to get to the interesting part. It's a comic I both felt like a chore to read but at the same time I want to see where it goes. Read Full Review

Sadly, it will remain a curiosity rather than a fully fleshed out event. That is the biggest shame of all this. Read Full Review

This almost felt like the 1st time I picked up Marvel vs. DC all over again.
Most likely because Jurgens was on the title. No matter, at least he doesn't jerk readers around.
Everything but Booster Gold is what I came here for (even though old Booster Gold gave off an aura that I never thought possible to see in the character: respectability): time travel hijinks like this was Zero Hour all over again (Waverider I see you !), the appearances of classic heroes ( I even smiled when I saw Silencer ) and a band of misfits being put together to stop a seemingly unstoppable foe. This is what comic books are made for.
Now there are a few revisions to the team I would have made : Raven instead of Starfire , Rayner instead of Sinestro. But those are just my personal preferences , I am excited to see what every member in this book has to offer. Especially, Kamadi - since I have never read a book featuring him before.
Saturn Girl and Superman getting wiped out was just absolutely bonkers for me - Supes because of his power level , and Saturn Girl , because I've always had a soft spot for her since Legion of Superheroes was a saturday morning cartoon for me in my youth.
The threat is legitimized in these pages , and Hank Henshaw arguably has one of the coplest deaths that I have ever seen in comic book history in these very pages.
Doctor Light's teanslation issue was real, as well as her breathing in space - but in the final pages , when did she have the time to throw on her costume ?
The ending was obvious, but I was happy to be along for the ride. Even with that sobering look of horror of what human interaction will become with A.I. , curtosey of Batman running into some sex dolls. I am here for all of this.
Taking the latest Giant Size X-Men #1 reprint route and having a different artist on every page was a great idea (though in future issues J.R. Jr. would be a shoe-in for a full 32) and further sold the magnitude of what this series promises to be . Not from any word of mouth from the creators but from the art alone , from issue one onward this is going to champion storytelling in the medium of comics.
Not just a bloated event to sell multiple tie-ins , no this Generations shit is going to be concise and focused on the art of storytelling and I could not be happier.
I look forward to more smiles and awe ahead. Just because I got some while reading this issue, it doesn't mean I've had my fill.

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Well done book with some very interesting story elements. Plus, seeing the real Legion in the book really made me happy!

This was an experience.

I've never felt this way reading a comic besides going through Pre-Flashpoint stories and runs. Generations Shattered succeeds because it's a comic that is aware of the universe it exists in; it doesn't pander or stoop to hold your hand, it just tries to have fun with DC's vast continuity. You could put this in a collection of the 2006 Booster Gold series and no one would bat an eye.

A return to form for DC.

It's got a very appealing old school feel, it even feels like a Crisis type book, but not the best one. It's fun and that's enough. Dominus is made to really good use too.

Pretty fun, even if it was more of a set-up issue (which even for a setup had a bit too much filler). Curious about what happens next.

It's fun. Nothing grand or spectacular, but enjoyable in a basic sense. I could see myself enjoying it again on a rainy day or something.

The art changes bothered me, but I honestly didn't mind this. It's fun.

I would have given it more if Reis would have drawn more of it, his art was splendid.

Issues like this are a struggle sometimes when the artists changes so drastically that it’s in fact jarring.

This was okay.

My first impression was that this was a retread of Zero Hour and I thought "wow we're kinda scraping the barrel of 90's nostalgia here, huh?" — then I saw who the main villain was and realized that barrel has much lower depths to scrape. Nice art, though. It's good to see that JRJR's awful work on Action Comics was just a fluke.

A bricolage that resulted in a mess.

mediocre

Avoid it. 80 pages, none of them entertaining.

I love Jurgens as a writer but this was a bomb. Too many cooks ruin the stew. Save your money.