Human Target #6
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| Writer | Tom King |
| Artist | Greg Smallwood |
| Cover Price | $4.99 |
"The most acclaimed book of the year continues!
After a tragic confrontation leaves a Justice Leaguer dead, Christopher Chance, the Human Target, is one step closer to solving his own murder...but also one step closer to his own grave. With only six days left, can he find the truth through webs of lies?"
CRITIC REVIEWS
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Monkeys Fighting Robots - Zac Owens
Mar 22, 2022THE HUMAN TARGET is not just a sexy series with smooth storytelling and even smoother visuals. It also packs one hell of a punch.This issue ends out the first half of the series with a bang, promising that season two will see these characters engaging in a completely different story. Read Full Review
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10
DC Comics News - Derek McNeil
Apr 20, 2022The shocking events of The Human Target #6 make it clear that Tom King's series is outside of the official continuity or that it should be. However, that doesn't prevent it from being a damn good story. It's going to be a long summer, waiting for the series to resume, but I have high expectations that it will be worth the wait. Read Full Review
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9.6
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Mar 22, 2022I love the classic style of the art and how perfectly it matches the tone and mood of the story. It is a wonderful visual interpretation of noir style imagery. Read Full Review
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9.2
Comic Watch - Tyson Yurai
Mar 23, 2022Smallwood, King and Cowles are making one of the best noir thrillers of the year. Though the series will be taking a break for a while, I cant wait for its inevitable return and the fallout that this issue itself will bring! Read Full Review
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9.0
AIPT - Christopher Franey
Mar 22, 2022The last issue of The Human Target before its hiatus leaves the fans wanting more, ending on quite a cliffhanger as we get passion, a lovers' quarrel, and that last page surprise will make this wait insufferable! Tom King and Greg Smallwood deliver in this one-two punch in terms of art and story. I know I'll be racking my brains to figure things out before this series returns. Read Full Review
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9.0
Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson
Mar 24, 2022To be honest, this noir-tinged Justice League should bug me, but I find myself drawn in by the beautiful art and the skillful detective trappings of it all, even when the story gets darker than I ever expected. Read Full Review
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8.0
Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Mar 22, 2022The unpredictability of Tom King comics is part of what makes them so great. Read Full Review
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8.0
Razorfine - Alan Rapp
Mar 28, 2022We may not get much in the way of moving the case forward (with Ice continuing to be a distraction), or any new cameos from the Justice League International, but we do get a return in the jealous Guy Gardner who attempts to break-up the pair of squabbling lovers and faces Ice's fury. The scene, and its aftermath remind us that we are in a Black Label comic, separate from the current continuity of the DC Universe. As for the case, Chance needs to get back to work with only a handful of days left to find his answers. Read Full Review
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7.0
Weird Science - Gabe Hernandez
Mar 22, 2022The Human Target #6 drops a little clue about Chance's killer and thoroughly decimates any respect or good feelings you might have had for Guy Gardner. The writing is incredibly skillful, even if the character reinterpretations are downright distasteful. In any case, Smallwood's art is beyond reproach and worth the price of admission. Read Full Review
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7.0
ComicBook.com - Christian Hoffer
Mar 23, 2022While the comic dabbles with one of my underlying issues with The Human Target to date (namely that Christopher Chance is shown to always have the upper hand on every superhero he encounters), there's enough....weirdness going on with the narrative that temporarily dissuades those issues for now. Read Full Review
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3.0
Lyles Movie Files - Jeffrey Lyles
Mar 22, 2022It's a good thing the title is going on hiatus until September. Maybe by that point readers will have forgotten the state of the book when it returns. There's little reason to expect King will do anything differently as he seems content to trash this alternate version of the JLI. Read Full Review
USER REVIEWS
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My god!!
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Far as I can tell, the only people who hate this issue are Guy Gardner fanboys who already hate Tom King to begin with. I don't understand why people get their knickers in such a twist when King takes liberties with certain characters in Black Label books. Isn't the whole point of Black Label that it's for darker stories that are outside of DC continuity? So why do people get so upset when King changes things up? Why does he have to make every character behave exactly how everyone would expect them to behave? People need to get over themselves. I personally don't give a rip about how characters are "supposed" to act in books like this. If someone wanted to write a DC black label book about Superman and make him a Homelander-like douchebag, more
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9.5
Fans of Guy might not be a huge fans of this issue. Or this series. I'm not a fan of Guy, so... I love this.
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Oh no! Characters are acting out of character in an out-of-continuity series. The horror!
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surreal
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9.5
Holy crap. This is the kind of bold storytelling that got Tom King his fame in the first place. Despite the nature of comic books, especially superhero ones, its not often where you have a moment that completely takes you by surprise. One that no one could have seen coming. This book is one of the rare exceptions. If you dont feel your heart race at the implications of this issue, then I feel you are dead inside. This book makes it very clear that it is firmly outside of known continuity at this point, and thats ok. Theres no going back now. This will be a controversial issue for some, but for me, I will say that at the very least you cannot accuse Tom King of being too safe a writer. Wow. Art is phenomenal as usual. I ca more
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So crazy, can't wait for the following issues.
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9.5
"Twelve days. That's all I get to find who murdered me. And I just spent today fighting, drinking, screwing, and killing." I'll make sure to avoid any real spoilers but man. I had been waiting to read this run as a collection but had to gobble them up digitally after it received a 2022 Eisner nomination for "Best New Series". Greg Smallwood's artwork is absolutely beautiful (so clean). Tom King was already controversial in comic circles before this book. Whether you hate him or love him, either way he evokes strong feelings from fans. He seemed to upset a lot of people with this Human Target story. I didn't particularly care for his Batman stuff or Omega Men. On the other hand, I for one enjoy most of his Black Label DC character more
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9.0
Hoo boy, lots of anger from the Twitter crowd on this one, over a few certain panels. Interestingly enough, there seems to be a lot more positivity from those who read this in full. This issue doesn't quite progress the investigation, but it does push the characters to a point of no return, greatly upping the stakes. It's an intense middle point that leaves readers on edge for the second half.
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9.0
Tom King goes all-in on the noir here and damn is it good as the femme fatale really lives up to her name. The use of a classic JLI trope was smartly done and it really gives the series a feeling of forward propulsion that our main characters can't return from. I love that King is using the Black Label to take such a big swing. And what's left to be said about Smallwood's sublime art that hasn't been said already? He's able convey more emotion and meaning in just a glance or a touch than most artists can fit in an entire book. A perfect example is the quiet moment at the start of the issue between a coughing-for-sympathy Chance and Ice. In just a few almost wordless panels, Smallwood let the entire argument between the two playout, reso more
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9.0
Gonna be tough waiting for the next issue.
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9.0
Christopher Chance said it best to sum up how screwed he was from the get go "It was a good game. went to overtime. But we lost in the end." This is a story about choices and how far can you go before it's too late and where exactly is the point of no return. King does well here. Greg Smallwood is just magic as always.
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8.5
Can't believe it's going on hiatus for so long. This issue has me itching for more! It's also the most I've ever been invested in a JLI story, these versions of these characters I am really, really enjoying and it is likely that this is where they're only ever going to exist. I'm totally fine with that, the ride's been great.
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8.5
I thought it was a pretty solid read. One of the better issues.
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8.0
This is a good issue, although I found it a bit lacking. The femme fatale stuff with Ice worked better in issue two than it does here. I feel it stretching a bit too much here. I tend to find femme fatales boring in general, so the fact that this series managed to get past my bias before only makes it worse that it's starting to fail in that regard. I don't care about Guy Gardner getting killed. I will say, I feel like it's a small hole in the story that Guy's ring doesn't fly away to find a new bearer as soon as he dies, which would alert everyone to his being dead. I feel like that's a very obvious obstacle that should've been accounted for. Maybe it will be next issue.
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7.5
The story is compelling but I can't say I like it.
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7.5
Story itself and art are so good that it's hard to rate lower than 7.5 but i completely understand the lower ratings. Starting to finally see why people hate Tom King. I get it's out of continuity since it's Black Label but this was just lazy character assassination for the sake of shock value. Not just for Guy but for Ice just as much
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7.0
Why you do my boy Guy like this?
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3.0
The best I can say is, at least it's a black label book, and as such, can be ignored. Smallwood is an excellent artist,and his craft and talent are on full display. My low rating for this comic is no reflection on him. The story... is ok. Just ok. If you enjoy the way Tom King characterizes his heroes, then you'll probably be fine. Speaking for myself, I do not. It's wearying to read a series in which everyone is a terrible person. This issue's victim is Guy Gardner. He is portrayed as the worst kind of stalker ex-boyfriend, creep, and bully. He is killed in a way that is patently ridiculous, and our romantic leads have sex among the thawing pieces of his shattered corpse. I probably should have given a spoiler warning, but frankly, more
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1.0
TK really comes across as having a bone against the JLI
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Great art from Smallwood, but holy shit this is some of the worst character assassination I've seen in a Big 2 comic since Marvel's Civil War.
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Crap. Tom King is good sometimes and other times a very bad writer.
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