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That’s true.
You've seen all the clues. You've heard the testimony and eavesdropped on the secret confessions of the World's Greatest Super Heroes. Now, with the killer revealed, it's time to find out why. What could have driven a hero to the brink, to turn a savior into a murderer? Rifts will form between old allies, and the trinity of Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman will have their leadership challenged and will question their own judgment. Sanctuary has become something they never imagined...and it's still potentially carrying on without them!
After eight long months we finally know what happened at the Sanctuary, so does Lois Lane and, soon, so will the rest of the DC Universe at large. I know that this series has affected me, so how will the heroes of the DC Universe feel when they have the truth revealed? Read Full Review
Ultimately I loved this issue as a great story that focuses on a sensitive topic that isn't often enough discussed, and I feel it handled this subject matter in a meaningful way that will have a major impact on The DC Comics Universe of stories. Read Full Review
This amazing team has managed to answer all of our questions in one issue. The pacing is masterful and every page feels more massive than the one before it. As always King and Gerads are a winning combination. Read Full Review
The art by Mitch Gerards and Travis Moore is hauntingly beautiful. There is so much emotion and pain in all the characters and that is given vivid reality through the art. Read Full Review
DC's Heroes in Crisis provides plenty of answers and an emotionally rich story, but big concerns still remain. Read Full Review
This is it. The moment readers have been waiting for since the first issue of Heroes in Crisis hit the shelves back in September. Though the big revelation should be the apex of this issue, it's the character study - nay, deconstruction - that drives the book, and the series as a whole. Read Full Review
Ignoring the questions that would ultimately bring this down. As it is? Heroes in Crisis #8 was a work of art. So much emotion was poured into speaking to the part of a heroes life that we dare not explore. The parts which show us that no one is impervious to the things that break normal people. Read Full Review
All in all, I think Heroes in Crisis #8 anchors the story in a necessary way. It's hard to predict where the series as a whole will fall, but as a lead in to the final culmination, at the very least it's grabbed my heart and my interest. Read Full Review
A very well crafted issue that explains the complicated emotions Wally is dealing with as he struggles to get rectify events that spiraled out of his control. I encourage everyone to read it and reserve judgment until the story has concluded next month. Read Full Review
Tom King is wandering in uncharted territory and while I may not have always enjoyed Heroes in Crisis I recognize its value and the importance it has on readers and comic book writing as a whole. Read Full Review
For a book that promised to deliver a meta-textual story, we are now eight issues down, we are down to the last 22 pages. Will it have a happy ending? Will it have any impact on anything at all? As a warning message about how PTSD affects a person, with the amount of time it has taken to get here, I am not sure how effective it is. At this stage, i think I can applaud the idea, even if at times the execution has been a tad wayward. Read Full Review
There's no going back here, and that's a damn shame, and it makes this entire series feel rather sadistic and ultimately pointless. Read Full Review
A word of warning to all future comic creators; avoid creating legacy characters of revive them later. Read Full Review
Heroes In Crisis #8 is a murder mystery denouement filtered through a half-finished PSA - in its efforts to perhaps elevate the genre’s exploration of grief and the hero’s burden through the framework of a more traditional caped crimefighter tale, it winds up being half of both, and neither as satisfying as a team like King and Gerads are capable of delivering. Read Full Review
In the end, my own confession is I'm still not sure how I feel about HiC, other than bad right now today. This comic is trying something, and it's complex. I'd like to see it in full before calling it a failure. I also haven't entirely processed why this story makes me feel so awful. It could be the wrong character or characters are involved, or the disorientation at the start muddied my emotional investment, or simply that mass murder is inherently awful, regardless of its context. Read Full Review
The issue is one that I both love and hate. There's so much right and so much wrong at the same time. This will easily be the most controversial superhero comic of the year and folks will be up in arms. Unfortunately, that emotion is what stands out most of the issue. For a series about PTSD it has been hit and miss as far as connecting emotionally with those hurting and this issue is a prime example of that flaw. Read Full Review
The art of Heroes in Crisis #8 is superb. The same can't be said for anything else about it. Read Full Review
It really hurts me to say how much I don't like HEROES IN CRISIS. This is the epitome of telling and not showing, and it does a disservice to readers. There are some problematic ideas about mental health being violent here, as well. And while the art is great, I almost have no time to talk about it because the writing falls so short. (Sorry, Tom King, I still adore you.) Read Full Review
The artistry is on point, and some of the ideas work, but the penultimate issue of Heroes in Crisis does little more than just explain what happened. Read Full Review
Screw this festering wound of an excuse for a comic. Its writing is stilted and it fails as a supposed mystery, but the fact that the entire thing is just an excuse to make Wally West a murderer" That's what pushed me over the line. With as bad a treatment as this character and its fans have gotten, he deserved better and the readers deserved better. Screw this damned book and all the souls that helped it slid out of the diseased birth canal that is the current state of the DC Universe. Read Full Review
There is absolutely no reason why any reader should ever waste a penny of their hard-earned money on Heroes in Crisis #8. This entire big event has been a sad waste of time and money on both the part of DC Comics and the reader. Read Full Review
The issue is gorgeous thanks to the work of Mitch Gerads and Travis Moore, but unless the finale delivers a big surprise this story is not sticking the landing. Read Full Review
The killer is revealed in this issue, but despite all of the revelations, I still don't believe the reveal is the truth. Regardless, whatever is the truth, I feel as though it doesn't matter. This story has gone nowhere, and with a mere twenty-two pages left, I can't imagine that it actually will go anywhere. The interesting aspects of Heroes in Crisis are long gone, and now I just want the story to end so we can move on. There are too many holes, conveniences, and examples of piss-poor characterization for me to remotely care about this book or take it seriously" And that really is a shame because this book, as a whole, does have moments of greatness. Read Full Review
VerdictI didn't like this issue. It feels a little mean spirited but not in a way that's interesting. Wally's reveal makes this series a lot more generic than it I thought it was. The story is not over so it could go somewhere interesting but this issue on its own doesn't work for me. The art is nice though. Read Full Review
This comic is an absolute travesty. I cannot possibly recommend anybody spend their hard-earned money on it, nor even waste their time reading it for free online. Skip this comic at all costs or be prepared for some righteous anger. Read Full Review
This might be DC's most controversial issue since Batman's wedding. I don't expect a lot of longtime DC readers to be happy. Maybe King has some fantastic finale planned, but this isn't the one to have readers excited about the end of this very divisive story. Read Full Review
This is a gorgeous comic book but the ludicrous story pulled me back. This isn't as emotionally investigative or genuine as Tom King thinks, and that's unfortunate. Read Full Review
Maybethe story as initially intended might run better, but this one is justinsulting. If you are still collecting this series, please get help. And if youare still reading it, please get medicated. Read Full Review
It's insulting and shows a contempt for the audience that does not feel intentional but is there nevertheless. It excavates King's larger misunderstanding of who Wally is and what motivates him as well as bringing into relief just how little we know about how Sanctuary was supposed to work. Read Full Review
Heroes In Crisis is tragically disappointing. It's a book with a fantastic creative team handling some phenomenal characters. But ultimately, it feels hollow, serving a mystery plot that doesn't work Read Full Review
But the series is also driving away longtime readers - like me - who won't take kindly to this vulgar, ugly, and offensive treatment of characters they've loved for decades. Read Full Review
I've never taken a comic book so personally nor identified with a comic character so completely.
Amazing stuff.
Absolutely loved this book!! Deals with mental health in an incredible way and shows the vulnerability of its characters
Can't wait to see what's next!!!
We’re here, at the end.
I had questions, here I found the answers.
Who
How
Why
The pacing is great and the introspection of Wally’s personal trauma is really good.
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We've arrived at the point in the month when I read Tom King's Heroes in Crisis and Tom Scioli's Go-Bot's. Unfortunately, Go-Bots has ended and we're left with is Heroes in Crisis.
I visited my Local Comic Shop late this week and by the time I got there, the ending had already been spoiled. Actually, I'm not sure if you can really talk about this comic without discussing the reveal so Ill get it out of the way.
Wally West, traumatized from the events of DC Rebirth and the loss of his wife and children has snapped and is revealed to be the murderer behind the events at Sanctuary.
So my working theory walking into this issue was th more
Great series doesn't slack off for its big reveals.
Very good story. But it is to hard to understand for most comics readers, that's why it has so bad raiting.
Intrigued, waiting for the final
Still a better story than Identity Crisis! There, I said it.
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Wally has his own Scarlet Twilight and I predicted it from the first issue. As expected the response is quite wild, but this issue is not entirely without merit. It does show a dark look at mental illness, and it isn't like the seeds weren't planted since Rebirth. What sucks is the execution. I feel like Wally snapping and doing it of his own free will would have been a lot heavier, instead he sees he isn't alone and loses control of the speed force, which makes it look like an accident and that he hates the idea of other people sharing similar pain. Also, instead of looking to his friends for help and explaining that he didn't mean it... he executes an overly convoluted plan tha more
We get the answer, but to what end? King almost always has great endings to short series so I am trying to reserve judgment. But it seems like one other artist or editor involved would say "hey is this a great idea after bringing Wally back, only to make him a accidental killer and then cover-upper?" I am not angry about this series, just disappointed regarding what could have been.
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I surprisingly overall liked this issue, because it makes a lot of sense.
My problem with Rebirth, when it first started was, that it concentrated way too much on the heroes, because only they seemed to remember their Pre52 life, while the villains were totally left out. It also never made sense to me, that the heroes just could live with memories of 2 lives& could deal with them. Having memories of 2 different lives would turn everyone crazy& like it or not, but most of the heroes are just humans. HIC adresses this problem.
I‘m also glad Wally is the murderer & not some random D hero/ villain, because this would be really boring. He is making a confession about how & why he committed these m more
I have extremely mixed feelings about this. Yes, it's a complete assassination of one of my favourite characters of all time. I hate what's happening here, and there's no justification for it. But on the other hand, I found the writing to be much better than on the previous issues, and I've quite enjoyed reading this issue, besides the fact that it also made me furious as well. As I've said, I've got very mixed feelings and I am very confused about all of this. The art has been fantastic, though.
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Ok… I get it, Wally is having a tough go of things. His family is gone and the love of his life doesn’t know who he is. That sucks and I sympathize. That does not give King an excuse to ruin Wally’s legacy. His revival was considered a “return of hope,” but what did we get instead? A bizarre explanation as to why Wally hacked Sanctuary, accidentally killed everyone and then proceeded to cover it up in the most convoluted way possible..? It reads like a pathetic D-list villain’s origin story, not the first-string Leaguer the Flash is known as. I was one of the few who really enjoyed the direction HiC was taking, humanizing gods and giving an insight to some of their biggest troubles was interesting to me. This took it way too far more
Convoluted turn off.
"I lost that control"
Disappointment. It's the feeling that accompanied this book from issue #3 onward for me and for many others from the very beginning. Now everything is revealed. The whos, the hows, all of it. And it is utterly disappointing.
Not everything is in this issue is in Crisis though. Surprisingly, the dialogue doesn't feel very Tom King. The word "yeah" is used, I think, once maybe twice. Some of the explanations that are presented to us make sense. At least as much as anything can in this book.
- Wally knowing how to set up and doctor a crime scene;
- Moving people with such speed, they don't even notice; well he is supposedly the fastest of the fast;
- And him losing control of speed fo more
So... Wally snaps and kills everyone, then decides to cover up what he did by making it seem like Harley/Booster did it, just so he could then come back and kill himself??
I mean, this is pretty fucking stupid. I'm so disappointed in this series, like really disappointed.
The art was great as usual for Gerads but King just missed the mark with this event.
This is issue as well as the series was so disappointing. What readers will find is an issue that explains the entire story. Sounds great right? Wrong! A comic that felt like a mystery with clues sprinkled in along the way turned into a writer withholding information for 7 issues, giving absolutely no clues, so he can drag readers along to make them THINK it’s a mystery when in all actuality King tried to make this series way to deep giving readers pointless and useless information for no good reason.
This issue was so upsetting with a conclusion that appeared to be wrapped up in an issue that leaves fans scratching their head as to why he would do this to Wally West, a character that literally stood for Rebirth, and how he more
I am really over DC's event comics that are not what DC promises. The reveal feels convoluted and outside the character of the murderer. DC continues to get a pass on these books that are supposed to rewrite the status quo but never do. Doomsday Clock never is out in a timely manner and we have long passed the promise of the importance of Dr. Manhattan being a major part of the DC Universe. Dark Knights Metal though many enjoyed( I did not) was quickly overshadowed by the weekly Justice League relaunch. Almost every New Age of Heroes book has been cancelled. DC Black Label got bogged in controversy and DC did not stand by their product but the extremely slow release schedule of every title makes it seem like an afterthought.
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Heroes in Crisis continues to be long and painful read, bastardizing everything its characters stand for, all in the name of barely coherent, incompetent deconstructionism.
King tries, and fails time and time again, to do what giants like Alan Moore (Watchmen, Miracle Man) did before him, taking the concept of a good superhero fighting bad super villains, and twisting it around, giving it brutally realistic depth and switching black and white for an entire spectrum of greys.
Here, in this series, however, this deconstruction was done so poorly and obnoxiously, it's hard to take it seriously even for a moment. Which is a problem, considering this piece of filth is set in the main continuity, thus can't be simply disposed, for more
I’m so grateful that this series is putting out the message that we need to hear: the mentally ill are dangerous and they will hurt you. It is only a matter of time until they snap and kill us all. Thanks Tom King!
Seen people on twitter to give this series a chance, that you shouldn't judge the series based on the first few issues, that you should withhold judgment until the end -- but just like it happened with Secret Empire, initial impressions ultimately proved right... in the words of Jay Sherman: It stinks.
Art was good but damn how this just revealed everything seems so lazy! And the reasoning is eh! Now let’s see what bad guy Wally is all about. Plus seriously why did he go in the future instead of saving everyone!
Wow.
There are so many other ways this series could have drawn upon the issue of mental illness and given a pounding finale. I have no problem with who the killer is but the story is wrecked by an oversimplified story, a lazy reveal who is the killer and worst of all, a boring story that could have been made far more exciting.
I'm still not sure how he went from having a tragic accident to framing two innocent people and setting then against each other.
That's an Anakin Skywalker Killing Younglings leap of villainy right there.
Why does DC hate its red headed characters?
Ive been a Wally fan since Wolfman and Perez New Teen Titans, then read all of his Flash solo series when he got the mantle, well into the fantastic Mark Waid run.
He was my favorite character on the Justice League tv show, which is my favorite cartoon series of all time.
Grant Morrison's JLA had some of the best flash moments ever, and it was Wally.
This issue would be very sad for me if I hadnt burst out laughing at how god fing awful the way the "accident" happens.
Worst major series I have ever read from DC; TK and Bendis are the iceberg, and Didio is the drunk inept passed out captain.
0$ spent on comic books in 2019 so far, an more
Ruins Wally in the purest sense of the word. Art is slightly decent, and that's all.
What even is this
Oh my god, this is so needlessly convoluted and stupid. Not to mention, the dialogue here is atrocious. Like Bendis on his worst days. You want to tell a story about a hero driven to the brink and lashing out? Maybe don't spend the bulk of it on a mystery that intentionally goes nowhere because that hero, that character we're supposed to feel for, also methodically set up a murder scene, framed two innocent people, and distracted the superhero community for days (or was it longer like "The Price" suggested?) just so he could admit to accidentally killing people? Also, computers don't work the way King thinks they do so that whole part about Flash finding all the data and putting it back together in an instant is shenanigans.
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We were better off without the answers. Nothing makes sense. There is no emotional weight in the plot. Wally’s actions are completely out of character. Heroes in crisis isn’t just terrible it’s insulting. I can’t see how the writer of vision and mr miracle is capable of writing such giant pile of garbage.
Wally West sends his regards.
I admire and respect those who have liked this issue and series. You guys must have a serious willpower and mindset (no offense).
I will never buy another DC book Tom king writes, actually I’ll never buy ANY book Tom king writes. This dickhead has had way to many chances and he just fucking sucks. DC is failing terribly on screen and that has now leaked into its major comics as well, thanks to investing in Tom Kong not king cause he’s just a stupid ape with a pen. Go write kite man and fly the fuck off a building
No.
A huge disappointment. For a guy who wasn't invested in this or even cared.
First of all. Spoilers.
So, they ruined him. Wally. I get why.
He is the only one, who could fake this, who had the power and the knowledge to do how. I get that. He was a broken guy, I get that. In some way, it makes sense.
If it wasn't for this huge issue that Kings has. He doesn't change the story to fit the characters. He changes the characters to tell his story. And it shows. King tries his best to tell why Wally did it. But it's still wrong, doesn't work and the revelation feels so forced.
Wally didn't mean so much to me, but I'm sure he meant a lot for some readers. And this is why this is so bad. If some more
The only reason I bought this crap is so I can say I have the issue that ended Tom King's career.
I don't care if he wrote "Mister Miracle". I don't care if he wrote "Omega Men" or "Vision". I have never been this mad about a comic since "Cry for Justice" came out.
It hurts me to say that I'm still going to buy the next issue.
Thanks for killing Rebirth King and DiDio!
Tom King doesn't know how to create.
he has no idea how to inspire.
all he knows how to do is to destroy.
Tom King just continues to prove that he's a horrible writer. As I've said before, DC really needs to get him off all of their major books/characters.
Now, while there is one issue left for King to fix this mess of a story up, it doesn't change the fact that this event was a tremendous failure, from start to finish. The peak of this mess (unless King REALLY outdoes himself with issue #9) comes from this issue's complete bastardization of Wally West. I really don't know what to say in regards to this character arc, aside from it being completely out of pocket and contradictory to the foundation of what Wally's character has been built upon since his re-introduction 3 years ago; part of me is just baffled by the inane logic that led up to this point (the whole "few billion years, few seconds" thing is simply awful), and part of me isn't sure where they'll take things from here. At best, Kin more
no surprises, only bad explanations
btw, king doesn't know anything about wally, right?
The art was fine but this story was so bad that even that couldn’t save it for me. Tom King seems to have never read anything with Wally West in it before because he knows nothing of this character and how he thinks. He also seems to not understand how computers work. He takes Rebirths symbol for hope and makes him an “accidental “ mass murderer by losing control of the speed force? Pretty sure that the last time the speed force unleashed a storm like that people got powers. Anyway, Wally then goes around and frames Harley and Booster, the guy who has saved countless lives is now framing innocent people. Wow. Then he goes into the future to kill himself? What kind of idiotic, convoluted crap is that? This whole series was garbage more
It’s confirmed the real “crisis” of Heroes in Crisis is Tom King’s writing.
I expected a poor resolution to this story as by issue #5 barely any progress was noted in the story. I was unprepared to how absolutely abysmal this book and entire event would come to be.
This is absolute crap, irredeemable garbage through and through. I do not recommend anyone read much less buy any issue from this title.
Wally’s character is assassinated. Through his actions he is now a scumbag.
Harley Quinn is confirmed as an actual patient as Sanctuary, a recovery/rehab center for HEROES, something she is decidedly NOT and thusly HAS NOT PLACE BEING THERE.
It’s nice at least Flash War’s fallout is more
Character Assasination 101.
Perhaps this story works for the team behind it. Perhaps this is a meaningful psychotherapy for the writer and artists. I can respect that and I understand it. I give this series a low score because it doesn't work for me and it has affected negatively some of my friends. Yes, it's "just comics" but as comics can affect you in a positive way, so they can in a negative way. There's not a lot to say here. This issue was spoiled before the series started and so is #9 for those interested.
I have no problem with sad stories, stories that make your heart cry. One of my favorite books is Secret Six and it's full of sad, depressing moments. And so is Clean Room. Which also has more gore and violence.
But both of these books used these el more
I wish I could give 0 stars.Having read the entire issue and 8 issues of this dumpster fire event,I'm happy it's ending
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