Knight Terrors #1 shows that the real world is just as intense as the nightmares. An issue that is jaw-dropping to look at, the visuals are pivotal to help tell the story. The art style changing page by page is fascinating and helps the exposition be read effortlessly. Read Full Review

The crossover enters its third week with a sharp little dive into the background of the big villain and a bit of a closer look at a character who is between series of his own. The crossover has had its ups and downs throughout the first two weeks, but its honestly been one of the better DC crossovers of the past couple of years. Some of DCs better writers have worked on it, and theyve all been pretty well integrated in the course of the series. There are still a couple of weeks to go, but the crossover has been a lot of fun going into the third week. Read Full Review

DC's summer event continues with a high-octane adventure that will have you worried for the heroes. Deadman gets some excellent moments as he squares up with Insomnia to search for the Dream Stone. This creative team will have you wide awake for their quest to save the day. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors First Blood #1 is available now at your local comic shop and is free to read on the DC Universe Infinite app. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors #1 is a worthy read and a fun start to a potentially epic comic event. Read Full Review

All of the artist bring their unique styles together to create some great, dark and nightmarish visuals throughout the issue. Read Full Review

This makes a good "spine mini, but this event overall will depend on how compelling the individual stories manage to be. Read Full Review

A strong start for the four-issue miniseries, Knight Terrors #1 puts you straight into it, and looks damn good while doing it. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors #1 is an entertaining debut. While the horror genre feels out of place in the warm summer and overall the comic doesn't quite completely excite, it's still a fun and intriguing event with a lot of potential. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors does a great job of setting up Insomnia. I'm excited to see where the Nightmare Stone actually is and what he is going to do with it. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors #1 is a comic that plays it safe. There's a formula here for a standard superhero comic with just enough exposition for the rest of the event, and it checks all the boxes. The action is fun and well drawn, and there's not really many overt flaws to criticize, but at the same time there's nothing exceptional to praise. For better or for worse, Knight Terrorscontinues to serve mostly as a springboard for its many tie-ins. Read Full Review

Guiseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi and Caspar Wijngaard team up on the art. Their styles don't mesh as smoothly but it's functional in telling Deadman's story. So far there's not a lot of reasons to be excited for this event, but at least this time DC seems committed to it. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors #1 contains great art and answers about Insomnia, weighed down with too much fluff and repetition about Deadman's origins. Layer on too-convenient answers about how people survive the big sleep and an inconsistent demonstration of Deadman's powers, and you get a mixed bag of a comic. Read Full Review

Full of zombies and nightmarish creatures, Knight Terrors seems designed for those who liked previous crossovers such as Blackest Night. Read Full Review

Ultimately, Knight Terrors #1 isn't bad. It's just a symptom of how crowded and contrived the entire event feels so far. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors #1 is a boring issue full of recap and exposition. I'm not sure if Joshua Williamson knows the characters he's writing or if he's twisting them to force his narrative forward, but it's already starting to get messy.  The art was good throughout this issue, but the scariest thing going on in Knight Terrors so far is how much it's killed the Dawn of DC momentum. Read Full Review

Knight Terrors #1 dedication to selling Deadman as the lead of DC Comics big event was ultimately a bad decision. Because of this choice there is no time spent on the impact of the Knight Terrors story on the DC Universe. This leads to a villain that is poorly presented and a scope for the big Dawn of DC event coming across as small. As a result Knight Terrors feels like a comic book event you can skip out on reading. Read Full Review

I really enjoyed issue 1 it had a great flow and I was really intrigued by the plot. This was Deadman doing a bit of detective work while inhabiting the body of the greatest detective of all time. I really like the pacing so far as building a back story and motivations is really important to me. I also love how Deadman is Taking center stage as he is one of the dc characters I really like that doesn't get used enough imo. I'm a huge fan of everything justice league dark so this is all right up my alley but I do have to say I'm really shocked we haven't seen some jld characters that you'd expect such as swamp thingbor Constantine. Overall this was a really good book with beautiful artwork that matched the tone of the plot perfectly. I think this story and concept could really be phenomenal if done right and we are off to a great albeit imperfect start more

This series’ greatest flaw is when DC has chosen to release it. Probably could have held off a few months and released this later in the year after Dawn of DC had some more time to breathe.

As for the comic itself though, I’m pleasantly surprised! Insomnia seems like a promising villain, and having Deadman as our protagonist makes the narrative much more interesting than if the series featured Batman or Superman in the lead role. The aesthetic is pretty cool (if inappropriate for summer), and it seems like Williamson is setting up interesting themes of repressed trauma.

Story is interesting and makes up for the art

This issue was fine. The intro was mostly Deadman lore recap. Story was ok, but man if that is actually how the villain formed, that is so boring. Just some inmate with powers from the rain. I wont hold judgement on that yet, as I hope there are more character building twists but so far that is lame. The end though, I did enjoy the last two pages.

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After First Blood, this was an alright continuation that set up the event decently. It did feel a bit fast-paced at times and repeated the same thing continuously - which was that Insomnia wanted the Nightmare Stone.

After last week’s prelude KNIGHT TERRORS FIRST BLOOD #1, KNIGHT TERRORS #1 hits shelves this week as the official kickoff to the event’s main miniseries. Publishers love to create special beginning and finale issues of their events to artificially inflate the amount of #1s they can claim and promote and that was evident here. That was the case here, as there was no reason that KNIGHT TERRORS #1 couldn’t have been an oversized debut issue combining these two stories as they felt like one story cut in half. Joshua Williamson continues writing the story he established in FIRST BLOOD and is now joined by Giuseppe Camuncoli, Stefano Nesi, and Caspar Wijngaard on art.

After an initial monolouge from Deadman that provides an interesting character backstory, the issue picks up nearly immediately where FIRST BLOOD ended. Deadman has taken over the sleeping body of Batman (who is locked in his own nightmare fighting Insomnia’s control in the KNIGHT TERRORS BATMAN tie-in) and spends the vasty majority of the issue locked in battle with Insomnia and his nightmarish zombies. We also get some additional backstory on how Insomnia came to powers when Deadmen enters his mind in hopes of learning his weaknesses. Insomnia regains control of himself and expels Deadmen from his mind, who then escapes the scene to seek help. The story ends with a shocking reveal — the return of a DC character who readers haven’t seen in quite some time!

My favorite parts of this issue were Deadman’s opening monologue and the time he spent exploring Deadman’s mind. They offered some much need character-focused storytelling that FIRST BLOOD and a few of last week’s tie-ins severely lacked. I’m really liking Williamson’s use of Deadman as the event’s narrator and wondering if this event would have been a more interesting Deadman limited series. Unlike many DC characters who often serve as the narrator for a major cross-over events, Deadman hasn’t been oversaturated recently. While it may seem like an easy escape to use an already dead character as a means of avoiding the explanation of why an alive hero didn’t all under Insomnia’s control, Deadman has served as a unique perspective on what’s happening to the entire Earth.

It was also quite interesting to see how Williamson weaved in past DC events to provide backstory for Insomnia, giving him a stronger connection to the DC universe. In addition to this character development, Deadman’s time spent inside Insomnia’s memories helped shed more light on the Nightmare stone’s potential location.

I much preferred Williamson’s dramatic writings in both of these scenes to the somewhat comedic direction he took during the main confrontation between Deadman and Insomnia, which also permeated much of FIRST BLOOD. It resembles light-hearted hero vs. villain banter you’d find in superhero comics from the ‘90s and ‘00s which feels off considering the traditional horror environment the event is trying to build. KNIGHT TERRORS THE JOKER showed that dark humor can be used effectively and is a much better complement to the horror theme.

Not to keep highlighting the same two scenes, but the Deadman monologue & his time inside Insomnia’s mind were also visually superior to the main story’s artwork. The distinctive styles used for each scene perfectly matched their respective tones — most notably a sketch-like approach to line-work and muted colors were brilliantly used during Deadman’s intro set in an abandoned circus.

Overall, envisioning KNIGHT TERRORS #1 as the missing second half to FIRST BLOOD makes me a tad more interested in the event’s major tension between Deadman and Insomnia. The cliffhanger ending also got me excited for the next issue and where the full story may be headed. Unfortunately, the issue did nothing to make me more interested in the event’s tie-ins and while that’s not necessarily it’s job, it makes one wonder if they included so many potentially inconsequential stories just for sales.

Rating: 7/10 more