When can we get an Ewing FF series?

Bringing back Cowan is a great idea, since the energy of the original - my favorite Milestone book - is there. Even if the storytelling feels a bit rote after just the one issue.

Sex and the married hulk. Somehow this works incredibly well.

If we have to have an angsty Jen Walters, let’s at least have Ewing write her instead of Aaron.

The sense of humor that was a cornerstone of the Robert Washington comic and the cartoon is missing from our hero, and that makes this something of a by the numbers read. Virgil is just not that interesting, though his sister and parents are. And the rather serious turn of events to close the issue makes me think that will lack the sense of fun we've seen in the past.

A surprising dud from the usually reliable Mark Russell. He doesn't really get the FF. He makes the huge mistake of not having Ben be Reed's best friend, and the large mistake of explaining just who that guy was in "This Man, This Monster." And it's a lot of tell instead of show. Never mind that Russell's sense of humor is missing.

It feels like Russell was given an outline of what to do instead of being allowed to tell his own story. more

If only I liked the sort of horror in view here because Seanan does it well. But it isn’t my kind of thing.

A rare weak issue of this series. Weak and confusing.

Thoroughly charming and surprisingly happy. Given that the classic "Hulk Smash!" Hulk was more or less missing when this series started, it's really wonderful how much he's taken over the book and how well Ewing gets that balance between his sheer rage and his childlike innocence. Of course, you still need a way to convey that, and this unique silent comic that is a tie-in to something I am not reading works incredibly well. more

The biggest flaw here is that Tomasi clearly had plans for what comes next that we will never get to see.

Well intended but utterly inert, since it tells without really showing. With very few exceptions, comic books that try to be essentially novels with illustrations don't work well. Nothing really engages here.

Plus Jeff Pierce comes across as a bit of a jerk. And trying to force together real world events with the comics of the time is clumsy. I don't mind calling out DC's racism of the period (and presumably of the moment). But trying to explain why the JLA didn't rescue the hostages in Iran rings false. (Also, Ridley gets his facts wrong. Iran didn't let the hostages go because it was scared of Reagan.)

Not a bad story, but never a great one, and not worth the high price per issue.

And where are the creator credits, especially for Tony Isabella? more

Where can I buy that cover?

I get the sense Spurrier wants to get rid of the monarchy.

If only Tomasi got to tell his own story by itself and not have to deal with Joker War.

The new creative team takes up very well from where the old left off.

Well, to my surprise, Rucka brought everything together. But how much better this series would have been if it didn't have to address things from the other Superman comics at the same time. We wasted three issues on that. And I still don't understand how Charlie is alive. But my biggest problem is that as fantastical as "we are remembering our alternate lives" is, the real fantasy here is that good journalism can save us all and that one great journalist can do that by herself. It doesn't work that way, sadly. It never has. I much prefer "press-paganga" to "copanganda" but it's still too much "hooray for our side" for my tastes. more

What if Tomasi were doing just another Joker story instead of being subordinated to Joker War? I lke this, but wish it weren't part of an event comic I have no time for.

Note to everyone who hated this for being like all the other issues of this series: why are you still reading? Save your money and buy something you will like.

Anyway, I appreciate that Bendis took the time to slow down and made Supes slow down as well. Even if he doesn't really have Dr. Fate's voice anything near right. And Maguire is welcome any time.

A good "what has happened so far" for a character with a convoluted history, but not a great issue.

Entertaining but mildly disappointing, with most of the stories covering familiar ground. The final Denny O'Neil story works best as a coda on his remarkable career. The best stories were the first and last.

I have no idea who David Barnett is, but he does good work. A pity that this latest effort to reboot the original teen wizard is about to be cancelled.

So remember when this was a down to earth comic about freedom of the press and immigrants? I don't, and I feel like even the usually reliable Greg Rucka doesn't either. And while I like the multiversal stuff and how it is a back door explanation of how Renee and Vic and Sister Clarice are in the current DCU, it doesn't belong here, even if it turns out that Lois is completely the Lois from the pre-Flashpoint DCU. Also, while I appreciate what Mike Perkins tries to do in illustrating the multiverse - love the cameo by the 1978 movie version of Kal-El's ship - he is not the best artist for such things. He is more suited to the noir and that is not noir.

And the ending is really muddled. What is going on? more

Another great issue, though clearly Vendetti had no way of knowing how it would resonate now.

But if Shayera is the current reincarnation of Carter's soulmate, who is Sheira Saunders?

A very strong ending, but it's hard to imagine that these 20 issues are going to have a place in the larger Sandman universe in years to come. I will miss Dora.

An incredible tour de force that alters everything while restoring the classic savage Hulk to his place as first among equals.

The terrible art and a sense that Bendis lost his way make this one a rare total misfire on the part of artist ans writer.

The first really good issue. And not by chance, the first one where Brainiac 5 gets to shine. Brainy is the best LSHer, and Bendis knows it.

A great celebration of the characters and the talents that loses points mainly because it reminds up over and over how much DC has wasted both.

Rucka and Perkins are having trouble seeing the forest through the trees. The trees are great, but the forest is getting lost.

Much more scattered then the Heroes special. The chain of events with Leone and the Invisible Mafia was good but should have been played out in Action Comics. The reveal that the Kents are indeed alive should have been in a book not about villains. And the scene with Lex, while funny (Fraction?) forgot that Lex isn't a businessman anymore.