The art by Brent Peeples is great. The storytelling in this is tops. Again, I just wanted more meat to this. It was really cool but I wanted more room for the story to breathe. It felt like an appetizer to a meal. And that the meal never really came to the table. Read Full Review

If you've enjoyed the event and its subsequent tie-ins so far, you'll enjoy this. Read Full Review

While not as harrowing as King Shazam, horrifying as the Scarab, or violent as Sky Tyrant, Deathbringer has a more psychological feel to it. Much like the Troia storyline in the Rebirth Titans series, it almost seems like destiny that Donna would end up being evil again at some point. Deathbringer wasnt my favorite of the introductory one-shots, but with decent art and good writing, it was still an enjoyable experience. Read Full Review

Much like the title it spins out of, this comic leaves very little impression and lacks the scares of the other infected. Read Full Review

This comic is all over the place and collapses under its own weight. The creative team tries to balance a political debate of sorts in a meta human town with a big fight, Donna's mental struggles, and BWL's plan to infect Donna for"reasons. Since this book only has about twenty pages, there isn't enough space to properly develop all these different ideas. The book also doesn't add much to the main narrative in Batman/Superman. All in all, this comic is entirely skippable. I wish I had more positive things to say, but it is what it is" Read Full Review

Overall, the implications of The Infected: Deathbringer#1's ending holds more weight than the actual story itself. Quinn has shown that she knows how to write complicated characters buckling under expectation and responsibilities but this isn't brought over to Donna Troy. While she gets close to this, she misses the mark, lost in her own wordsmithing. But with a fluctuating team, all of these issues are understandable and I hope that the next time we see Deathbringer in other event issues, she's given her fierce due. Read Full Review

The Infected: Deathbringer #1 tries to use Donna's convoluted history to its strength, but with Quinn putting so much weight on this unstable foundation, the issue easily crumbles. Read Full Review

I mean none of it makes sense, the whole last part of this issue felt so pointless. What was Donna's endgame here? Whatever, it doesn't matter. Oh the art was pretty good so... there's that. Read Full Review

" Doanna is dead. I killed her. "
- DEATHBRINGER

I could have done just fine without this issue. Considering the writer is Zoe Quinn though, I did expect it to be far worse.

Prelude:
So far The Infected have been passable but how does this issue go? It's Zoe Quinn so I'm not too optimistic.

The Good:
It's an interesting point on Donna's past.

The Bad:
I was so bored I watched Youtube for an hour before coming back to this.

Conclusion:
I can't be bothered to write a full review. It's boring but brought up an interesting point.

This was extremely whatever. Definitely didn’t make good use of its characters or ideas, too boring to be mad at.

Utterly forgettable issue, adds nothing of consequence to the overarching story or furthers Donna Troy's character. All it does is give is create "edgy" Donna that is somehow just a far less effective Troia, so it's not even original.

I can't say the writer did much of anything, while the artwork is decidedly what carried the issue.

Not worth a purchase, not really even worth reading to be honest.

For somebody who calls herself Deathbringer, she sure does not bring a lot of death. Nor anything else which would make this comic memorable. There is few decent moments in here, like the scene where Donna and Rachel have a bonding moment talking about headaches, but not only they hardly push the story forward, nor are enough to outnumber boring, slow paced talking, and talking, and talking. And I like comics with lots of dialogues, as long as it's meaningful and engaging - that's why I love Alan Moore and Sean Murphy's works. And that's also the reason why I usually really dislike writers like Quinn, Tamaki or Bendis, who simply can't achieve the same results, despite trying so hard.

Overall a mediocre comic. I've read worse, for sure, but this is something that will be forgotten in a week, tops. On time read, then throw it away and forget it ever existed. The art is pretty good, though, so even if I have 0 intentions to ever re-read it, at least I may look at some panels from time to time. more

This is an incredibly boring and forgettable comic. I can't recall what happened in it and I just finished reading it. I thought Donna Troy was the most obvious and best choice for this new Infected Secret Six, but I think this may be the worst issue yet. Wow, this is bad.