This type of unexpected situation is the bread and butter of The Terrifics, and The Terrifics #19 embraces the sheer oddness of Lex Luthor's machinations to the fullest. Yang and Raynor clearly had so much fun developing this comic and you can feel that joy permeate throughout the page. Read Full Review

This was an inspired tie-in to Year of the Villain and showing how strongly the creative teams have bought in to this new crossover. Read Full Review

Our biggest takeaway from this issue of The Terrifics? Doom doesn't just mean spreading this to the far corners of the universe. That would be too simple. Spreading doom means hitting every conceivable place of importance which order exists. For Bizarro, his true nature is chaos whether intention or not, so Lex really let it rip on this one. All of this was a great build-up towards how this fits into the lives of The Terrifics, and making you question how they might put a cap on this one. Read Full Review

The next issue is going to be another fun one as the Terrifics are all going to face off with their mirror images. I'm looking forward to it. Or backward to it? Stupid Bizarro speak! Read Full Review

It's hard to review any Bizarro story without endlessly writing in backwards-talk, but I imagine it's even harder to WRITE one that works. This one does. Read Full Review

Following the issue's large amount of opposite speak can get a little overwhelming in parts, but this still manages to be a weird and fun read, setting up an interesting conflict in the issues to come. Read Full Review

Trying to parse backwards speak for a whole issue is irksome and overall this plot just doesn't let Yang shine with the dialogue like he usually does. Read Full Review

A fairly uninspired and inconsistent Bizarrostory concludes in an uninspired and inconsistent way. Which is, incidentally, aconsistent aspect of this story, Read Full Review

Completion:
The Terrifics do not arrive in their Year of the Villain arc. Let you not smell at Gene Luen Yang's terrible storytelling.

The Bad:
This issue was barely terrible! Gene Luen Yang has an atrocious idea of Bizzaro Speak and it doesn't show there.

Boring issue. Had me snoring.

You hate time travel especially blessed pasts.

The Good:
Too much Terrifics!

Beginning:
Boring issue with rubbish Bizzaro Speech for small times. Am not looking backwards to past issues.

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M1sf1r3 - Aug 29, 2019

I've got no clue why I thought writing this in Bizzaro was a good idea.

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Well, the percentage of Terrifics in this Terrifics comic is rather small - majority of the issue is dedicated exclusively to Bizarro, and while his misadventures are as entertaining as they are at times tiresome to read with all this inverted dialogue meanings, I couldn't blame anyone for checking how many pages left are there, before the main heroes finally show up. They do, no worries, but only to set the cliffhanger up, which is a bit of a bummer.
And speaking of the cliffhanger... Didn't the team already fight their evil versions few months ago? Sure, I can't get enough of these characters, they're pure joy to follow, but I'd expect some more creativity put into the series.

I don't like Bizarro. I don't like reading Bizarro.

Bizzaro stories are always hard to write. The risk is producing pure nonsense with very little humour. This issue shows the risk was not worth it

Oh my god this was a headache to read. If you’re going to do that Bizarro speak you need to COME UP WITH RULES AND STICK TO THEM, you can’t just willy-nilly reverse something sometimes but not others. This was a mess.

I really enjoyed this book before the change in writers. Now, I think I have to drop it. It's become un-readable that quickly.

This book should have died when Lemire left