Every issue of DWJ run feels good. Almost always my week's highlight when it comes out. I feel sad for Magnus and hope he can get his act together.

Last page reveal. Well I wonder what will come of that. The stakes feel so high with this one. It keeps me on the edge of my seat! A must read.

That splash panel of two robots duking it out and one just smashing the other ones face. Does it get old? No. No it does not. Art is 10/10. Story continues to build. Every page is enjoyable.

Great issue. Art is top notch. Arthur getting use to these new powers is interesting and I quite enjoy the 'blood bending'.

This Arthur feels like the answer to when people mock Aquaman as weak and ineffective.

Also to counter some other points. It is not like Arthur killed a living person. He saved the woman's life and destroyed the corrupted evil within her. That still feels well within his character. He isn't killing people he is cleansing corruption/infection/evil. Important difference.

I do look forward to this story and where it goes from here. more

Hot dang I forgot what amazing art on Aquaman does for him. He is back and this was an amazing start. Epic fights, a clear story set out, logical actions by all parties involved, love to see it!

When great art and great story telling merges you get an opening shot across the bow like this. Wonderful.

John's opening, beating up Kanjar Ro is quite funny, got a good chuckle out of that.

Also this book clearly has two writers, I assume Adams is doing the general plot while Morgan does the finer details (as Adams needs to ensure this book follows the general plot points he needs it to hit to make sense with his GL book). Sadly you can tell this as the general concept makes sense and I like where it is going, but the character to character interactions are a bit weak. Morgan I think needs to really work on being a writer. Maybe Adams can train him into a great comic writer? I can only hope.

Also what is it with John pulling all the ladies? Like I know he is a cool dude and I like him but dang, it is kind of funny and a touch bizarre watching him get flirted with that much. Not out of character per say. Just something you almost never see (Correct me if I am wrong). more

Good stuff in this issue.

One thing I will say is Pasarin cant draw faces well. Everyone looked a touch cringe. Honestly that is where most of the marks are lost in this book. The art. The story itself was a great starter for a new arc. All the set up that week needed to see the build the team was done.

Nice to see Carol again and the relationship between Hal and Carol is cheesy but cute. Also things look like they are going to go South really really fast with the Spectrum fracturing. more

Coming off of a great previous arc, I like the ideas for this arc. Kind of odd to make this a one-shot but that is on DC not Adams. DC has been doing weird stuff like this for a while now.

Art was good, I enjoyed it and it felt high energy.

As for the story, its nice to see how this is a rebuilding. This issue offered so much hope and I loved to see it in a GL book. DC has so little hope in so many of its books. Nice to see this next arc start from a point of strength (even if it doesnt last long). more

Pros: Zatanna is written well and in-character here. Campbell seems to get here which is great!
The art. My goodness I love seeing Campbell draw Zatanna it is wonderful. Top marks.

Cons: This thing just crashes the intro. It is so rapid and gets into the action without really proper build up. That being said, if it was going to be drawn out it would have been worse, so as long as he was just doing that for the first issue to jump in, I wont judge too harshly. If he keep jumping point to point then it will really make the story a disjointed mess. Next issue will tell! more

The past 3 issues have been weak honestly, and I swear Prince himself knows it. Ice Cream Man in the book even says this is a 'hit-or-miss anthology'. Like Most issues use to be hits. I would say 80-90% of the issues 40 and before were pretty great. 41-43 have all week really really weak. I dont know if I am going to continue this if these phoned in issues continue.

Do I like the idea of the one-page horrors? Yes, I like it.

Do I like the stories themselves? No, about 60% are pretty uninspired or outright boring. more

This issue had a nice scene of Jackie meeting Sara, but not a lot going on. Ok overall, better than the last issue.

One side note. In a steamy panel of Ian and Sara Ian embracing is drawn as like 5'0. Sara looks like a giant and he looks really short in the embrace and its hilarious dumb. Artist needed to check their perspectives.

This book is flailing. I thought we would get some cool darkness, instead we just get one intro page at the start of him walking. This has the same beats as the original but just worse. Read the original. Better in all ways.

It was ok. Decent art, decent story, fun fights. Nice to see Bullseye get creative with how he messes up people so that was a plus. Of course one scene had to have people eating at a table. A classic marvel page waster.

I probably like this more than most people but I will admit that Year of the Villains derailed this. Actually that event was terrible and derailed a lot of runs. It was a terrible idea by DC that in the end helped kill this run.

Now all that being said, Venditti did the best he could and the story is still pretty interesting. Is this as epic as the previous stories and will it be remembered? Very likely not. Is it a fun volume with some good fights and some well written stories? Yeah. It delivers that. Get this at a decent price and enjoy! more

Again Venditti continues his amazing story putting together all the lore of Hawkman into on coherent story. I believe this and volume 1 are likely the best Hawkman stories ever told. A must read for anyone even remotely interested in Hawkman. The mangum opus of Hawkman if you will.

Art delivers. A pleasure every page.

I cannot believe I am saying this but Cantwell pulls it off. The surprise of 2024 for sure. This series is dark and really ends with the cycle of pain being continued from one generation to another, but a slight message of hope as you see some changes of betterment with Luke.

The father son moment with the bomb was done really really well and the art was perfect for it. Some might call it cheap emotional play but the moment honestly called for it, and it what let plastic man end on a positive note instead of being the thing he always feared.

A great read and a perfect example of a black label done right. This could never occur in the mainline, but this was an excellent Plastic Man story.

Robin rebuking Batman when he went to the JL was also interesting. I never really got on board with that part of the story as it felt so out of character, but I assume it was parody all the way. The rest of the story was quite strong anyways.

Well good work Cantwell, take your win. You finally got one after all these years! more

Another good issue from Cantwell in a shocking surprise. Things just go from bad to worse for plastic man. Well that and another murder doesnt help. Can he save himself before everything falls apart? I honestly cannot tell.

Still the writing of the JL is so cynical and so odd, the different artist clearly sets it up to be a sort of parody version of them clear but I still find it jarring. more

this is an actual shockingly good series. Christopher Cantwell has not been my favorite writer, but I am happy he proved me wrong. I hope this series sticks the landing, its the biggest surprise of 2024 imo

Ok I am going to be the voice of defection here and say I actually really like all the threads and how things are bouncing around. It has this feel of building tension. Like all these threads that Kirkman is drawing our attention to have critical pieces of info and they are all unraveling at the same thing. Some will no doubt give lore, others will be planing clear B or C plots but eventually one is going to explode and affect the others. That will be so much fun to read when it happens.

Otherwise I quite enjoyed Springer and Hot Rod's convo and really reminding us how inter-related these planets are to Cybertron.

Sollia and Handroid are a fun pair with Handroid just giving up at point due to the weirdness. All these plots are so much fun I cannot wait for the next issue.

Art is solid as always. more

I’m really impressed with how Kirkman is managing so many plots at once and also successfully developing each of them.

"You LOVE Handroid' then the look on Solila's face as she admits maybe she does sometimes is my favorite panels in this issue. Laughed as it was so in character it felt great.

Now onto the meat and potatoes. Great issue! Great art! The entire ethereal interaction was gold. Loved that scene. Seeing HotRod was great. That last panel... well that doesnt look good for basically everyone.

Lots of moving parts this issue compared to last and it really made the set up from last issue felt needed and valuable. This series has been carrying on in great fashion. I love how it fits into the Energon universe and I love the dynamic of this pseudo-dysfunctional duo. more

We get some Cobra-La, some more lore, and some needed 'adventuring panels'. No big action this issue but it does what it needs to do: set up the pieces for the next issues. Is this issue an 8.5 on its own? No, but it is in context of what has come before it (as in it builds on it and this flows well, it follows good writing patterns).

I continue to enjoy the art, I feel like now I would have a hard time reading Void Rivals without Lorenzo's art. more

We bring in the characters from Cobra-La in this issue as well as the conflict between Darak and his dad. Not sure how this is going to finish up. Meanwhile, handroid leads his counterpart into the depths. This story continues to move. I wonder what he has as the ending to this because like Sacrificers this has a limited story.

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Good solid story. I enjoyed the art and a lot of things wrapped up as this was more of a cool down issue (totally fine in my books). Also sets up a lot of the challenges that everyone is going to have in the next arc. I am excited to see where it goes!

Also while I did feel like the final 2 1/2 pages were boarderline wasted due to all the 'blackspace' to hype up some unknown entity really did feel ominous. Like that feels like whatever that is there is going to be a shake up. I look forward to this all. more

Another brutal issue. We are really starting to see a lot of break down within the deceptacons and the autobots. Factions are forming everywhere and I am not sure how each team (or the creation of new factions), is going to look in a few issues. Honestly this feels still fresh and exciting.

Also when it comes to out of the pan and into the fire, we have Prime. Poor dude is just being put through the ringer again but he still holds strong. In today's comics, Prime is one of the few who works to do right even when doing wrong/seeking vengeance would be easier or feel better. He doesn't use the BS power of friendship either, just a mission, and an ethics framework that he sticks to even if it is painful.

Also dang beachcomber, I really hope you do something interesting later, as your pacifistic oath is likely going to lead to far more death and harm than good in this universe. more

Well Starscream in this Energon universe is a POS and a survivor. A manipulator, not all that competent and forced against his will originally to kill (till I guess he learned to like it). We also learn you should just put him down when you get a chance, and some humans learned that the hard way. This second part does a great way of painting what role Starscream will play in this universe.

I must admit I laughed that now Martin is his illustrator. At least Starscream appreciates good propaganda! more

Might be the weakest issue in the series so far. Not that it is a bad issue by any means. It is just simply a good solid backstory with Starscream. Functionally radicalized because someone he knew was killed. A story that is simply, and common in real life so it works. Good base to build on.

So Prime went medieval on Shockwave. Also that choice... geez that was just a brutal issue. Optimus is being push well into the utter limits of what he is capable of handling and I do wonder where this goes. This series has basically been pedal to the metal for 12 issue, the autobots need to heal and I have no idea how this new status quo will work out especially with the fallout of the actions.

Cybertron will never be the same.

Art is great as always.

Also this is how you end an arc. Massive impact, massive choice, clear and devastating stakes. This is what keeps readers invested. Take note DC and Marvel. more

Another slam dunk

In this issue you can just feel the tension and anxiety on every page. Things are going to be intense next issue and that final page... oh man it looks bleak.

Art is great as always. I wasnt sure about Corona at first but he has delivered in a big way and has never disappointed.

Cute issue, but a few things keep it from being as good as some previous issues.

Art felt like a decent step down. It doesnt 'jive' with the previous issue styles, especially that this was a kid issue. Too dark and thick lines, too 'gritty' for a kid issue.

Writing felt sloppy. I dont think North has a good voice for N'Kalla. I mean she is a newer character, but this felt more like an adult trying to teach a lesson through a kid rather than a kid actually speaking. North might know how to write the FF but he doesnt do a good job with the kids.

Overall plot line was just kind of weak. Without the weird science fun, the book just doesn't have its spark.

Nice lesson but a missed opportunity sadly. more