Don't waste your time reading this review.... Go read the issue !!!!

This is how you do comic events !!!

Well worth the wait!

What has happened to the art in this issue?! Last second COVID emergency replacement? Took me right out of an already stagnant storyline.

Feels like I flushed a toilet and am watching the water go around and around ....

Honestly, if anyone ese wrote this, the masses would probably give it a 4.

filler. That's it.

Next.

I hate Anthologies!

It feels like I only get one bite of an amazing steak before it gets taken away from me. Cause I want MORE of it!

But, as long as all the courses are good and I enjoy the overall meal then I guess I'm happy!

I have to be honest: I think this series is the weakest among all the mutants ones. Hickman is probably a genius (he creates universes and species with scientific details in this series), but almost all his stories feel... Empty. We read of all these characters (Xavier, Magneto, Apocalypse, Wolverine, Summers family, Jean Grey...) but nothing happens. Flashbacks, metaphors, ideas. I personally think that New Mutants and especially X-Force are definitely more interesting and less bland. more

Wasted potential !!

I don't know. Were my expectations too high?!

Maybe it's me and my expectations coming into it, but this run so far isn't anything I thought it would be.

The story feels like an airplane in a holding pattern waiting to land. Waiting for the Air Traffic Controller to give the OK to get to the final issue.

I do like Punchline, although I wish her background and reason to 'exist' was different.

Art is fantastic.

Wish this run felt more like a War. more

Things I liked about the issue........

1. I rather liked that Thomas had a history with Selina in his world. It's kind of cool that she was like his Robin sort of. It was an unexpected twist. And the fact that Martha kills her was sad but cool also. The whole we met here no we met here thing was over kill. I can understand it between Selina and Bruce but to use it between Thomas and Selina takes what was kind of cute it to far.

2. The art was good in some place not so much in others. Over all it was okay.

3. I liked the story. It was a bit confusing as you read it, but that is due to the way it's lined up. Once you have read it all through, it sorts it's self out order wise. Though still leaves you with questions. The way it was written it appears that the catch up is only for the reader and not being told to Bruce, so we can expect some retelling in the next issue probably.

4. I don't mind the placement of this story. I think it would have been so much better to have had it broken up and added to different issues further back in the arc. It would have helped with the story progression and made it feel like it was actually moving along somewhere. Also it would have been nice to have had some parts of it fleshed out more. But over all this issue was pretty good. I think King had a good idea with this story line but just doesn't have the experience under his hat yet to pull something this big off as he wrote it. I think it would have been far better if his whole run hadn't been about this story. That's where he went wrong and why we ended up getting so many issues of just time filler.

5. The tie into the Booster issue was a nice touch. I think Thomas got the gist of The Booster story from listening to Booster talking to Selina and Bruce afterwards.

Questions I have about this issue.......

1. Okay I have to say I loved the date issue with Bat, Cat, Lois and Superman. Loved it! But are we the reader now supposed to believe that considering the lives these 4 characters live and who they are, not a one of them felt like they were being followed and watched? Really?? I mean Superman has said many times he can find Bruce anywhere from his heart beat alone. So you don't think he would have notice the same heart beat (Thomas's) following them around?

2. How did Thomas make it through his world ending? That just wasn't very clearly shown. And on that how did R-Flash save him and when? He tells Thomas that he killed him. So he couldn't have done it while dead obviously . So when?

3. Thomas made a vow to war against anything that would cause his son pain. Except apparently himself. Because that is all he has done since he took up with Bane. Why? If he doesn't want his son hurt why not just go around killing all his major villains? That would have made more sense and Thomas was not above killing people. Are we to believe that his time with Catwoman changed his thinking so much that he couldn't see how this way was only hurting Bruce more? Bane could have killed Bruce easily when he broke his back. Plus putting Alfred in danger and then letting him be killed makes no sense at all. Bruce became Batman because he witnessed the murder of his parents. Why would he think that would be changed after Alfred is killed. Alfred was for all intents and purposes his father. Why would Thomas think that Bruce would not feel and make that same vow to avenge Alfred?

4. Wasn't the Penguin and Thomas friends on his world? I seem to remember a story where they I believe had a casino together??? Or maybe that was from some other world? I don't know it's hard to keep track sometimes and it doesn't help when they make movies of the different stories and change them around.

5. Bane is alive still. That is a major let down. So we can expect more annoying issues with him in them, no doubt once again bragging about breaking Batman. His sad and pathetic one claim to fame. So much for Thomas's promise to kill him for hurting Claire.

6. Why is Thomas drawn with the better body? Bruce looks chubby while Thomas looks fit. more

Another issue trying to retroactively show that there was always a story here when it is obvious that King was too lazy to do anything of the sort and needed these last dozen or so issues to cover his own tracks. We were supposed to get the answers to Thomas Wayne, but I guess it's the questions that King didn't understand, namely, how was there a Flashpoint timeline for him to come from and why wasn't he dead there? Having the Button story happen isn't the explanation, that is just the first time we asked the same question. Plus, pushing this idea that Batman knew what happened in the Gift with Booster Gold is just wrong and it's the second time it's been brought up as a key point in the story. Batman didn't go with Booster and thus never saw what happened in that alt-Gotham!!! Also, we go through round 3 of "whose plan was it anyway" and I want out! Thank god we have only one issue left because this run is full of lazy, uninspired writing that doesn't hold up under any sort of look and it the fact this HACK has won Eisners just makes that award lesser. In conclusion, Tom King is just an awful writer, an even worse storyteller (which has to be why he keeps putting others' literature and poems in his stories), and a 100% hack who has barely written one story in 84 issues and even stolen one on the way more