While we get more fighting this week, the great character moments are a reminder of what really makes this book a must read.  Brian Buccellato pulls at the heart strings a couple of times this week and the stage is set for an explosive end to Year Three.  Year Three is back to being magical, just in a different way. Read Full Review

The very fast paced nature of this series can be disconcerting in a lot of ways, but I enjoy it because it's giving us something separate and is just pushing through to hit the key points. It's a battle that doesn't demand severe characterization and depth but rather one that has it so that you have to know the cores of the characters involved and their motivations, which has to carry it as a whole. And it largely does, which is good, because these are more distilled versions of them facing impossible odds against a backdrop of some real despair with all that's been lost. There is some surprising heart in here, which comes from Dick and Bruce as they take a moment to talk amid all of it, but there's also a good mix of humor and utter insanity throughout that keeps it propelling forward. It may not be high art, but it's damn fun and leaves me smiling with each installment. Read Full Review

More cringe-worthy and ham-fisted dialogue, more plot-induced stupidity, and more pointless deaths for cheap shock value.