If Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, how will Apokolips handle five Female Furies who have had enough of Darkseid's mess?! In this exciting finale, Big Barda has mobilized her sisters to take on Darkseid and his mewling minions once and for all-and the whole planet is going to feel it when the Furies throw down!
Yes, it's a feminist manifesto.
Yes, it's not for me. (Or maybe it is...and if that's the case, she might have tried to tell it a touch less heavy-handed.)
But - FOR WHAT IT IS - it's a really good story highlighting the challenges that women have in recognizing that they actually have real power if they all row oars in the same direction, that men do a fantastic job dividing and conquering. And the reasonably happy ending makes this fantasy book all the better.
My real issue is the fact that this miniseries apparently is out of continuity...but they didn't bother to tell us. DC has a burden to explicitly say, "This isn't really happening in our DCU." In fact, the upending of the world of Darkseid inside of continuity -- especially in light of Year of the Villain -- makes the Furies' burden all the more real. (And it would be kinda cool, continuity-wise, to have the women start running the show on Apocalypse and put Darkseid and the schmucks on the run for a while. YotV aside, of course.)
The art is good. The artist is talented. That said, the artist never should have been assigned to draw Jack Kirby characters. The character work had all of the required elements of Kirby's characters...but none of the style that made his artistic exaggerations work. They looked like gorgeous Barbie dolls dressed for interplanetary warfare. The only female character that, to me, came close to the Kirby mode was Granny Goodness...and that's because her distinguishing features were her face. The artist HAD to copy Kirby there. With Barda, she could drop that massive hair/helmet thing on a pretty face and call it a day. Even with Lashina, it looked like Barbie covered with strategic strips of duct tape. None of the exaggeration.
The criticisms I have were not strong enough to overcome the fact that I enjoyed the book on its terms.
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„A really good story“ 😂 it’s portraying really every character out of character & is forcing a fake feminist agenda on these characters. This shit also has nothing to do with feminism. Feminism is about equality not about bashing men. Thank god this trash isn’t in contuinity. That’s really the only time I’m glad DC changed the origin of the New Gods.
Respectfully, one aspect of feminism is navigating a world dominated by men. I recognize that the story doesn't speak to me as someone who has had to put up with men's buffoonery, but that's what it does and it does it well...especially in this final issue.