The Truth is this book is bad

Dear Scott Snyder,

Why did you have to include Earth 3 in the page with the reactions to Doom's victory? I thought that everyone was clear after Bendis fucked up with his little "Superboy-wormhole-Crime-Syndicate-in-the-past" bullshit, but you just had to mess it up again didn't you!

So I guess Forever Evil didn't happen now? One of the best line-wide events in the decade has just been erased from continuity just for this little mention?

I don't care if you destroyed the Gotham by Gaslight universe, orif you showed my boy Catman, or if you did a little Watchmen reference at the beginning of the book, I just want my MAZAHS!

-SONOFBATMANN

Besides that, the art was good but the plot was just set up. more

Tom King has officially turned bane into the biggest fool in Batman's rogues gallery, while simultaneously leeched all of the tension out of this worthless event.

What the fuck was the point of these past 8 issues if Batman and CatGod are just going kick the shit out of Bane with ease? Even better is the witty banter between Cat and Bat while they fight the so called "ultimate villain" of King's entire run, the one who apparently planned every single thing that has plagued Batman for 85 issues.

But wait... Bane isn't actually the ultimate villain because Thomas Wayne just goes BANG BANG BANG and now lets do a "Button Part 2" so King can explain how he came back.

Janin's art is pretty good in this issue, but it's completely wasted on a shit script. But I guess King won an Eisner or two so he's technically one of the best writers in the industry.

Three more issues baby! more

Great start to essentially the stopgap between Season 1 and 2 of Morrison's GL Run.

This issue takes place in the new timeline altered by Hal Jordan's use of the Miracle Machine, remaking the reality in Controller Mu's image. In this new reality the GL Corps never existed, with the Guardians having been exterminated millennia ago. Hal and Belzebeth have pretty much been just taking out every planet level threat and converting them into the Blackstar doctrine, leaving no opposition.

I appreciate Morrison's references to the old Moore GL story "Tygers", with mentions of Guardian skin being fashioned into toilet seats and drums as well as the intro to the descendants of the Five Inversions, the Demons of Ysmault that Atrocitus once belonged to.

I always love a competent Mongul (FTMWHE, Sinestro Corps), but sadly he gets taken down fairly quickly by the legions of Mu's will. We also got to see a Blackstar Jess Cruz and Simon Baz which I thought were nice touches.

I don't know how I feel about the Hal x Bee romance we get here, but you could argue that there was quite a bit of tension during issue 5 of Season 1 while Hal was being initiated on the Vampire Planet.

Even though the book was just exposition, I enjoy the fact that Morrison has put the time into developing the Blackstars into a different kind of threat that the Corps has to eventually take down. No more colored lantern corps, no more entities, just vampire queens and omnipotent oans. more

DCEASED #6: "Deus Ex Lantern Corps"

Remember the magic plot with John Constantine, Zatanna, and Dr Fate introduced back in the GDTD special? Guess what, it doesn't matter because this series sold like gangbusters and it's sequel time baby!

This whole series after Issue 1 felt like it was just checking the boxes for a "insert post-apocalyptic DC Universe zombie story". Everything seemed so predictable to me, and the big twists didn't even have that much of an impact. Green Lantern Black Canary? DeSaad escaping Apokolips? Literally anything else? Nah, let's just have another hero die and they have to beat him. Haha Green Arrow sucks because Batman didn't have a contingency plan for him LMAO.

The GDTD special was fantastic in my opinion because they had a set goal, with the readers knowing that it was going to fail miserably.

But really Taylor? Sequel bait? I expected better. more

I liked the last one better.

This one was just a recap of Reign of the Supermen, but with Lois instead. No world-building, no interesting character interactions, just pages of Lois being very angry and killing people.

Brad Walker's art is always a plus for me, but the story left something to be desired.

A bearable Tom King Batman comic. It's not good, not terrible, but readable.

I like the art.

The one thing that prevents it from being shit is the fact that it is just a compilation of Batman doing wacky silver age stuff like fighting dragons and aliens, riding horses, and competing in boxing matches for charity.

Very stale, but it accomplishes its function.

Disappointing and mundane.

Spend your money wisely and buy the Lex Luthor Year of the Villain special instead.

This series is so fucking good.

I'm guessing that the deus ex of this story arc is going to be the use of the Other-Kind to combat the power of Circe, because there is literally no other way they can beat her. The Injustice League Dark is such a cool concept and I really hope it sticks around even after the ending of this arc.

This series is off to a great start but the issues feel so short!

I love that the BWL is getting ready to take down Apex Lex, in what I hope is a dope fucking showdown. I'm still holding out for the Superboy-Prime vs Batman Who Laughs fight, because literally who wouldn't want that.

I miss the old Lex.

The solicits kind of spoiled the arc for me so I've kind of just been checking the boxes while reading these past few issues.

I'm really happy the Anti-Monitor is back in his OG Crisis armor (Second Version). I also like how they mentioned that he had the ALE removed from him back in Darkseid War, proving that though Mobius was created by Perpetua (issue 22), he always reincarnates after death in the 6th Dimension, linking all of his separate versions (COIE, Sinestro Corps War, New 52).

Death of Starman was very anti-climactic and it's pretty much Kendra's fault.

Let's hope that the series picks up again. more

Thank you for putting a book out like this DC.

Interesting how the Fuginaut acts as the opening narrator of the issue. I wonder if he'll act as a sort of "crypt-keeper" for these stories.

Very excited for the Infinite Crisis and Blackest Night issues.

I love me some Multiverse stories!

This is a legitimate waste of paper, ink, money, and most importantly, my time.

Fuck Morse code, now you can just punch people to convey a message. - Tom King the Scholar

I really enjoy the perspective shift to this new team in the last two issues, and the set up for them being the new JL Odyssey is great as well.

Omega Jessica is hella thicc.

The Orion twist was cool, and I hope it'll be explained soon, since he and the rest of the New Gods disappeared following the destruction of the Source Wall.

Great art and story.

I love the world building that Orlando does in this issue, and I feel it really amplifies the experience.

Melmoth name-dropping the Metaverse blew my mind, and I also loved Frankenstein putting together the team (Even tho Gotham City Monsters is kinda stupid).

"...and that's when thing got knocked into twelfth gear!"

I fucking loved this.

Morrison at his finest, with Sharp's pencils only amplifying the sense of amazement.

The Final Crisis tie-in and the multiversal elements are just the perfect finishing touches to this book.

I hope that they come out with a volume containing all 12 issues instead of the two trades.

Good, but I wish the plot wasn't so static.

Hero dies -> Hero becomes another hero -> Villain helps out -> More heroes die -> Wholesome/emotional moment -> More heroes die.

What separates this from any other apocalypse/Blackest Night/zombie story? What's the point of all the deaths? What about DeSaad? What about the other New Gods? Has the rest of the universe not reacted to this?

I really hope that the magical plan that was teased in the one shot turns out to be interesting, but everything seems stale besides that. more

Not good at all.

The only difference between this and the past few issues is that there isn't any good art to help its score.

Side note: The quotes that King pulls are fucking useless and add no value to the dialogue whatsoever. "Oh wow, King is so deep! He quotes Aristotle and Plato!" What a hack.

Good, but it doesn't feel like a Geoff Johns book.

The story moves at a snail's pace (for me at least), and guess I miss the high-stakes no-stopping action and world building that I was used to in his recent Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Justice League runs.

Yes, I understand that he is obviously occupied with Doomsday Clock and Three Jokers, but I can't help feel like he wrote an outline for 3-4 issues, and stretched it out to fit 7.

This will definitely read a lot better in trade. more

This would be so much more entertaining if it wasn't just so obvious. We get it: Nazis are bad. We also get that freedom is a good thing. I just think this could be so much better if the Nazis- sorry, Ratzis- were actual characters and not just bad guy X and bad guy Y. And same goes for the heroes. They're just as one dimensional. I think a lot of the reviews here are as high as they are because this book is a people-pleaser. The comic equivalent of oscar-bait. The art is good, but the writing falls flat. more

Alvaro Martinez is officially one of the best artists in the industry.

Fantastic special. Much better than its predecessors (DC Holiday special).

Ranked Stories:
*Rip Hunter story - 8/10
*Batman 666 - 8/10
*Superman One Mil - 10/10
*Flash story - 6/10
*Supergirl story - 8/10
*Aquaman story - 7/10
*Firestorm story - 7/10
*Kamandi story - 6/10
*Catwoman story - 5/10
*Green Arrow story - 9/10

"The jet was just the delivery method punk... I'M ALWAYS THE WEAPON!" - Batman

Fun issue, but my one problem is that this series doesn't really stand on it's own without the context of its predecessors (Metal, Justice League, TBWL). It just feels like a glorified prelude to "YOTV: Hell Arisen", which is gonna be the real deal.

I would love to see that Batman Who Laughs vs Superboy Prime fight though. more

Wow.

I got a lot of early Morrison vibes from this issue, and I absolutely loved it. Also reminded me of King's Darkseid War: GL on shot. This is what DC needs to focus on when they put out single issues like these: do something interesting! I wish that more one shots could tell stories that dive deep into the DC lore while working in tandem with threads utilized by other writers.

Please read this book. more

I love a good multiverse story, and Lobdell sure seems to be delivering.

Very happy that the Mobius Chair leftover from the Darkseid War is being used again, and I'd love for them to mention that it was Manhattan that killed Metron.

President Superman is always a good sight to see. I hope Linda Park and Wally are developed more since we've barely seen her since the first Titans arc back in 2016. more

Not worth the effort, just look at my previous review.

Clay Mann is great as always, Tom King is not.

"Dear lord, why do I even try?" - Tom King (Batman #77)

This issue felt a little shorter than the last two. I love Howard Porter's art, but it wasn't on par with New World Order and it reminds me of Drowned Earth (which was not amazing).

The twist at the end was predictable, and seeing as the solicitations reveal one of the brothers siding with Perpetua, the false hope doesn't have much of an effect due to the guaranteed success of Doom.