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.

Dark doesn't begin to cover it.

Really solid if strange and even disturbing storytelling, with great art and character moments.

Not as the same level as previous issues. I think we really did have too many Metamorphos.

The art is great, but the rest is scattered. The use of a G20 summit felt perfunctory - "those clowns in Congress, what a bunch of clowns" - and while I know Waid developed the Bart pictogram, Bart hasn't been like that in years. (Also, didn't Bart go with Max into the future?) And the new bad guys are...just the old bad guys but at eleven?

The very fan friendly Greg Weisman has said that the direction of the current arc was editorially mandated. It definitely shows, and I assume he also knew that this series would be the latest Marvel comic with a short run. So he does his best with the material at hand, but probably counted down the moments till he could return to Gargoyles.

To a large degree, there is nothing here we have not seen before in terms of rewritten realities and alternate versions of characters. We've even seen it in Trek a few times. but the execution is smart, clever, entertaining, fun, and thought provoking. And Lore an "omega level" threat works so well

Isn't it sad that this run of the mill comic is a breath of fresk air after years of mediocre Batman stories on the flagship title.