The Terrifics #19
| Writer | Gene Luen Yang |
| Artist | Max Raynor |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
Somewhere in a twisted, distant corner of the Multiverse, up is down, back is front, a smile is a frown-and Bizarro is king! But light is the head that wears the crown, and Lex Luthor's offer of time manipulation has given our villain a new purpose: to turn back the clock on creation. To win, Bizarromust enlist the help of the only team that could tackle a task such as this: the Terribles!
CRITIC REVIEWS
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DC Comics News - Derek McNeil
Sep 03, 2019Whenever a new issue of The Terrifics comes out, it's always the first book I have to read. Jeff Lemire created something special with this title and the quality hasn't slackened since Gene Luen Yang has taken over the reins. As Bizarro might say: The Terrifics am worst DC title! Me hate it! Read Full Review
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9.7
Black Nerd Problems - Mikkel Snyder
Aug 28, 2019This 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
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9.0
Lyles Movie Files - Jeffrey Lyles
Aug 28, 2019This 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
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8.5
Beyond The Panel - Jideobi Odunze
Aug 28, 2019Our 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
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8.0
GWW - Dusty Good
Aug 28, 2019The 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
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7.3
Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson
Sep 02, 2019It'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
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6.0
ComicBook.com - Jenna Anderson
Aug 28, 2019Following 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
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6.0
Geek Dad - Ray Goldfield
Aug 28, 2019Trying 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
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5.0
Weird Science - Reggie Hemingway
Aug 28, 2019A fairly uninspired and inconsistent Bizarrostory concludes in an uninspired and inconsistent way. Which is, incidentally, aconsistent aspect of this story, Read Full Review
USER REVIEWS
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8.0
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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8.0
I dug it, but getting used to Bizarro speech and then switching back to normal on the last few pages really scrambled my brain.
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7.0
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.
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3.5
I don't like Bizarro. I don't like reading Bizarro.
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2.0
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
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1.5
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.
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1.5
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.
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This book should have died when Lemire left
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