I enjoyed this for what it is. It does a good job setting up an interesting premise and story, but there's a lot of this that just doesn't make sense. There's zero chance that the UP would be willing to negotiate Oa and the GLC as a planet but at the same time have Sinestro Corps and the Red Lantern Corps as willing participants. They bring up a lot of bad the Guardians have done, but all of that is nothing in comparison to the Sinestro Corps or the Red Lantern Corps. A lot of continuity seems to be thrown out the window here as well (not surprising though since Infinite Frontier and the future of DC seems to be lax with continuity, totally not confusing at all). That was my biggest problem. Also, idk if Teen Lantern is like this in the Young Justice books, but she came off as very annoying and not a character to root or like. I wanted to see a lot more Simon and Jessica, they've gotten the short end of the stick for a while now, it would be nice to see them get the main book. I get that the writer loves John Stewart, but he's had tons of exposure both in TV media and comics. The other Lanterns need some love too.
The rest of the story plays out pretty fair standard and generic sci fi. Nothing you haven't seen before if you've watched Star Trek, it feels like an episode of the Enterprise TV show but with DC aliens. The ending is also really hard to believe, but for the sake of this being a comic book, I'll let it slide. It's not as bad as people are saying it is, just not as good either. more

Awesome. Sci-fi mixed with real character motivations and emotions perfectly. I really loved the journey that Laura and Synch go through, as well as Darwin. It also sets up the Children to be even a bigger threat then before, but the mutants are now ready to fight back with the knowldege that they got from the Vault.

Amazing start. Yang continues to show how he is one of the best writers right now. He manages to create two mini stories into one book that intersect at the end, with both taking places in different universes. It's such a unique way to tell a story, I've never seen a book like this before. And of course, Ivan Reis is one of the best artists working at DC, and his work here is magnificent. The panel work especially is amazing, with each half telling a different story. It's just so unique, you have to read it for yourself. Great start, I'm very excited to see where this story goes more

In conclusion, no one gave a basis to justify the qualification and instead they flew into a rage. There are honest people who did not rate this number. And who asked me why five, the truth is that I had already read it to you, but it was an excellent opportunity to do an experiment on how many people only put the rating without actually reading it. And I'm glad they were few. In other places the answer was to base their qualification with their points of view. Thank you all for your participation this was very interesting.

Now talking about this number Tamaki starts with a Nakano's gala, where a Bruce who is no longer a millionaire but he was in the place, in a moment some thugs dressed as clowns or something similar brake the party, then Bruce leaves the place, i guess as a superman he is looking for a booth Telephone to change from Bruce to Batman to go back and beat the criminals, that does not make Nakano very happy.

After this everything slows down, Tamaki tries to put suspense on the number, but it felt quite lazy. Nakano continues looking for a way to stop the vigilantes, while the neighbor is kidnapped, at the end a man with white hair and with blood on his hands appears.

The only thing I really liked is how Bruce starts to make his own cave, nice part but not original. but I wonder. What did he do with the cave? exploited it? did he only abandon it? because I know Bruce left the mansion, why he did not use the cave. This has no logic, it's like just getting angry with Bruce and making him suffer. Dan Mora's art is impeccable.

The backup story is a little more interesting than Batman's, Damian, in short Damian finds out about some Mortal combat type tournaments, his mother diambles between being a mother and being a cold woman putting an ultimatum on him and Damian's response is jump out of the helicopter. What I liked was Williamson's agility in writing. It is not the great story but it is decent, without getting into unnecessary drama. though it was a complete cliche

Melnikov's art is decent, but not flawless. I still don't like Damian's new suit.

Pfff Maybe Tamaki will not drop the story with a lot of fillers, but with this number beginning I doubt it. more

Scott Lobdell fans are LIVID lmao

Edit: decided to raise it half a point just to trigger them some more

It was just a bunch of meh. My major complaint here was the panel layouts. I read a lot of comics, but even the layouts on many of the splash pages were confusing, leading to a confused reading order. The plot is paper thin, bad alien(? demon?) guy shows up and the Justice League shows up to punch bad guy. It had less depth than a Saturday morning cartoon show. Naomi also shows up because Bendis wants to put the character on the team in hopes that she will be a major character in other media. Keep in mind, I really like Naomi as a character, but she has no place to be on the Justice League right now. If anything, she should be on the Teen Titans or in another solo series to flesh out the character more. Characters usually graduate up to the league, this felt rather rushed. The JLD backup was better than the main story, but I'm sad and disappointed in DC that they relegated what probably was one of DC's best ongoings to backups.

EDIT: wow i didnt even notice this until someone pointed it out to me, but the Flash in this issue is colored wrong or there's some shenanigans going on. He's referred to as Barry but has Wally's red hair, so either the colorist messed up or Bendis didn't communicate it to them clearly. more

Time to add Nightwing back to my read list. Very happy to have quality writing on this title once again

This was a lot more light in tone and humor compared to the Kindred storyline we just got. I've been pretty meh about this run, so this was a nice little comedic issue. I am worried about hopping back in because it seems like this run is all over the place and lacks any real direction. I thought it would climax in the Kindred storyline, but that quickly wore out its welcome. Then all of a sudden, we get back tot he hijinks and humor that was part of the early issues in the run. It seems like Spencer himself is running out of ideas more

SO GOOD. Fantastic issue dealing with mental health and self doubt. It's such strong character work for Elektra, Daredevil, and Kingpin. The ending too is just such a good cliffhanger, I just wish I can read this weekly instead of monthly

Literally this rating is only for the Zdarsky story. It was so good, it was one of the better Red Hood stories I've read in a while. I'm one of those people who thinks Jason Todd works better as a mistake/lesson for Batman, and that was shown here as well as providing much needed characterization for Jason as well. The other stories were serviceable, which to be fair, is all you can ask for in an anthology. The strengh of the Zdarsky/Barrows story really carries this book, and I hope that Zdarsky continues his work in the next issue. more

Good start, even though the premise wore out its welcome. If this is just Diana going through a different sect of mythology each arc, I could get behind it. But this felt a lot more lowkey than it should have been. I was expecting more interactions with the Norse gods, but we only see Thor in one page, while Diana's main interaction is with some man(?). The art was good, I'm still interested in what is gonna happen next, hopefully more epic. more

Huge breath of fresh air. This issue felt a lot more like the action and events took the story forward rather than just the classic Bendis decompression. It feels like big events are happening. The premise is not unique, but I like the twist that Jon seems like the focal emotional point here. As others have stated, even if it does go through with its premise, it is very likely to be temporary or a fake out. Still excited to keep reading a new voice for Superman. more

Awesome stuff, I'm just very curious to see how much time has actually happened in the vault vs outside of the vault. I was hoping to see some of the Krakoa stuff

Decent start. It drops you right into the middle of the story, so it definitely isn't new reader friendly. You have to be familiar with 90s X-Men history to understand who these characters are and what is happening. The art from Booth also works a lot better here vs his art in the ongoing Hickman book. The colors work a lot better here than in that book. I'll keep reading for the nostalgia, but nothing major or insane for those looking for that more

this series is damn good

Probably the best recon I've read in Marvel in the past couple years. Everything about this issue was awesome: the action, the stakes, the twist. That twist at the end is so damn cool, Cates is ending his Venom run with a massive bang, and I'm all here for it

This is the best future state book by far. These two issues have floored me and have really gotten me excited to see Jones writing and drawing the ongoing. If the quality of that ongoing is as good as these issues, I'll be excited to read it. This is the only solid Future State book that I can firmly recommend, maybe Dark Detective as well.

God damn does Zdarsky always deliver. He even makes a tie in enjoyable to read. I love the use of two artists for different parts of the book. A lot of books these days use multiple artists to get the book out on time, but they draw the same story and it's very jarring to read a story and the art changes from one page to the next. It works here because it's telling two stories, so both parts feel very organic and look great. The story is also so fun and ties into Zdarsky's daredevil as well. This book is so damn good more

Still loving this era of X-Men. The art in this issue is a little rough though. The pencils are fine, but the coloring feels very flat, and I don't want to blame the colorist here because he has done great work with the rest of this series when Yu and Asrar drew. But I don't think it matches with Brett Booth's style, you'd need a colorist from the 90s to make this art work. It just feels off when I was reading it, the modern coloring on Booth's 90's style pencils. Other than that small complaint, still loving this series. I just hope all these one shots get a payoff issue later in the future or gets paid off in an event that Hickman will write more

Story is boring, art is worse than the first issue by far. Time to hop off this series.

The story by Joshua Williamson is surprisingly very good! It feels like a great dynamic between the team, a lot of them dont trust each other and there's actual character building. I did find the hypocrisy hilarious with DC though. There were great character moments, and I loved the twist and callback to Morrison JLA. That's the monkey's paw though for me is that I enjoyed it because it reminded me of Morrison JLA, literally pulling a plot point from the first story arc of that run. No originality is found in terms of plot here, it feels very by the numbers plot wise. But I'm fine with it as long as the characters are enjoyable to read. The Ram V story was surprisingly very boring and not good. more

Now this is what I'm talking about. The Batman story in this is awesome, probably the best Batman I've read since Batman Universe (not that big of an achievement since the two main titles since have been boring, but still). Dan Mora continues his streak of amazing art here, I really love his art and the vibrant colors from Jordie Bellaire. It's definitely a different feel from the normal Batman book, which usually is filled with muted colors. What I really liked is the setting for Bruce Wayne. It feels very different, and it finally brings Batman back down to his low point. He gets shot and hurt multiple times, so there's tension when you're reading the book. The mystery of the Magistrate is also very cool, I want to see how it plays out. A lot of people will probably notice how this is much more well received than the New Batman Future State book. In my opinion, the Batman story in that book feels very by the numbers, like nothing's changed. This feels like a big change of pace in setting, story, character, art style, and I can't wait to read the next issue. The Grifter story is also pretty cool, I just think this entire book takes advantage of the Magistrate vs Capes environment much better than the other Batman book did, which still just seemed like Batman is some god that the government can't contain or control. more

Enjoyed this a lot, and I don't really like the Eternals as characters. Different twist than I was expecting, and I'm excited to read the next issue. Of course, Ribic is amazing, and here it feels like he's back to Thor God of Thunder levels of epic.

My relationship with DC is starting to decay I think. Future State as a whole now seems like such a corporate push. Feels even more corporate than New 52 was. This Superman book was as generic as Superman books go. Jon doesn't feel like his own character at all in this book, you could have replaced him with Clark and it would have been the exact same book. Also, with the amount of times Braniac has attacked Metropolis, you'd think it would have been incinerated to the ground by now, but here he is again to attack Metropolis once more! And guess what, Metropolis is gonna be shrunken down, oh wow! All of these ideas are so cookie cutter and boiler plate. The only Future State book that should be taken seriously so far is Wonder Woman, which truly feels like a different direction in tone, character, and story. I hope that the upcoming future state books will change my mind, but if these were the big guns that DC decided to start Future State with, I may have to switch to Marvel full time only on my pull list. more

For some dumb reason, I thought since Dan Didio left that Wally would start getting better treatment. Nope because guess what? Wally's evil again, wow haven't seen that before. It's such a fall from grace for a character who literally carried the name and mantle for over 2 decades with some of the best runs in comic book history to just get shafted by the company due to one writer's love for Barry Allen. Many people, myself included, grew up on Wally West Flash not only in comics, but in the animated series. That Flash was Wally West! It's just frustrating to see. more

I read all the Future State books this week, this is by far the best one. It has a perfect tone of the Wonder Woman epic adventure while also maintaining a healthy sense of humor that comes with a new character. I actually care about Yara Flor since she's a charming character and has a well defined goal and purpose. In Batman and Superman Future State Books, it just feels like more of the same, plus the anthology stories were hit or miss. I enjoyed that this was just one story throughout the entire book and was well focused. The art is spectacular, I expect nothing less from Joelle Jones. Yara also has the best character design I've seen in a while, it just looks great for a Wonder Woman revamp with a different twist. This is the Future State book to pick up this week if people need a recommendation more

Weak ending. It wasn't as epic as it was trying to be nor did it achieve any sort of emotional impact. It was just Batman beating up the bad guy for most of the book. Also Hitch's art looks incredibly rushed and not good at all. It's hard to make out a lot of the action in some pages and panels.

I really enjoyed this issue, with one slight negative. They bring in the Hand and start talking about them and how they're important. Enough of the Hand, they've plagued Daredevil long enough, why are they always in every story? I get that they are important to the mythos ever since Frank Miller introduced them, but I was so looking forward to a run that didn't have them as an antagonist. Bendis did this perfectly where the antagonist were street level thugs mostly and Matt's internal problems. Soule's run, which was the run before this, also had the hand as a major player. I just think they're overused and I hope that they don't pop up again. But besides that, I love the tone of this issue and the characterization for Elektra. They make her likable and someone you can cheer for rather than a femme fatale character. She works as that, but it is nice to see a change of pace. more

Fantastic. Don't really have much to see outside of that. It's just an epic event and epic start, which is what I want events to be, not a slog like Empyre. READ READ READ