Great art. But the Krypton story could have been told in three pages and really nothing about Krypto makes any sense. Though I have to admit, dogs bore me.

More sure footed than the first part, though I still don't love the Kents being so young.

That is a lot to pay for Dan Jurgens, but he seems to have found new life as a writer so many years after his first go-round on Supes, and he's a lot better than Williamson. But the story here is the art. Redondo might simply be DC's best.

Kind of fluffy, and why not just make the bad guy a talk show host instead of going for something overly contemporary. (A video podcast isn't a podcast, it's just more video!) And if you want to see Jim Gordon and Perry White, much better to read another World's Finest, the one by Dave Gibbons and Steve Rude.

Sokid issue if a bit padded. The scene with Batman asking parenting advice is incredibly unlikely but heartfelt.

Fun and sweet but aims mainly to put all the toys back in the toybox since there is canon yet to come. But what works works so well. Even if I am not quite sure how Uhura is still alive and well.

The art is great - I love the first page and the easter eggs - but it's hard to say this was exciting. Waid did a better job with Marvel's history than with DC's. And really, the stuff at the end is more essential.

Really scattered and characterization that doesn't go with anything I've seen for any of these heroes. Especially Captain Atom, who no one at DC, even his creators, have known how to make interesting since Flashpoint.

Waid is really making it worth our while to read yet another early Robin story. He's so much better than Loeb in The Last Halloween, and matches the beats of the long ago year one story from Dixon.

Volume 1? Really?

Unreadably ugly.

More like Plastic Man: No Point.

First off, people who got the FCBD special had to pay for it after all. That stinks.

There is the seed of a good idea but only after yet another retelling of Superman's origin. And the art is surprisingly sketchy. And why isn't Lois Superwoman? And what is the industrial use of kryptonite anyway?

Got this from my shop by accident since it was labeled Lore War. And I really don't know from Shaxs or from Ryan North. But hey, I paid for it, might as well read it. And this was a lot of fun, if at times too determined to be meta. I mean, who can't get behind killing fascists?

In essence the final issue - though in reality not - and a good place to end, with a nifty "machina ex deus" that restores things with panache. Also, i love the all too brief interactions between the four engineers.

Starting off with "Times Past" suggests a deep and unexpected voyage to the past a la the issues in Starman with that label. Alas this was kind of light on calories and story, more filler than anything else. Nice art, though.

Solid but not spectacular first issue with a certain timeless quality that is probably the only way Waid could approach Superboy. But if the Kents are in their 30s or 40s then, just how old is Clark Kent now?

Fun FF story but every FF story of late reads like every other. It's all Waid light.

The X-Men story was clunky.

Nothing here begs me to keep reading, though nothing here is bad, either. Except JRjr's art.

I am not sure what is happening but the art is stellar.

Don't care much about We Are Yesterday. Very much care about this comic. Waid does so much better with just Batman, Robin, and Superman than with dozens of heroes.

This story is way too long, and the substitute artist is pretty bad. Plus it's pretty anticlimactic once Firestorm (who Waid has no sense of how to write) can suddenly make kryptonite.

Are we running out of steam? This wasn't bad - how can it be with Xermanico's art? - but it was sort of spinning its wheels. Why is the Spectre without a host again? Why would anyone bring back G'Nort? Something is a bit off.

Where's my typewriter? I have to send a letter to DC demanded this series continue!

I honestly don't like the premise of "time traveling villains from the past" since you know they all fail (and also are really bad teammates). But the execution of the story here is really good, though the art is not. Again, Waid does much better when he isn't juggling sixty heroes and six plots.

What is a John Stewart story doing here instead of in his own comic? I have no idea. But I love that someone is finally questioning John being a Marine. Morgan Hampton, however, will raise questions as a Black man that Phillip Kennedy Johnson, white active duty soldier, never will. more

A really good story that happens to connect to another comic by the same author that isn't nearly as good. The strength of this and the weakness of that is cast size. A handful of heroes is more than enough to be entertaining. JLU is just too crowded.

A solid finale though a bit crowded. I really wonder what sort of market there is that can't support a comic with both Peter and Miles.

Happy Xermanico is back. But wow, Adams is throwing a lot of stuff at us. Dan Garrett AND Gnort?

Apparently Al Ewing knows DC lore and Batman as well as he knows Marvel lore and the Hulk. His first go round with the Bat is a stunning success. And those name drops of Conway and Milligan suggest his influences are the grounded Batman stories of the former and the weirdness of the latter.

The backup story probably sat in a drawer for years, but it's fun and smart, and between the two stories we have a welcome return to the humanistic, even likeable Batman DC so rarely features. more

Disappointed that instead of a full length story by Waid and Davis, we are in "the only way to celebrate big events is with inconsequential short comics" mode. Waid still knows how to write the FF, but a story with four splash pages is a waste of his skill. Davis's story is likewise pretty good but minor. Ironically, the story by Andrew Wheeler, who is unknown to me, was the best of the bunch.