Well, as I've said before, it feels refreshing to have an Elseworlds with actual creativity in its storytelling approach, and this issue is the perfect example. The apocalypse plot takes a backseat to finish three personal stories (personal stakes work better than higher stakes) and character elements that were introduced issues ago have a payoff in a way that feels natural and understandable for the characters, while still keeping the momentum of the drama and having had "episodic" worldbuilding before this. This is how you do a serialized storytelling.

Having re-read thsi whole thing before this issue, reading this in one go probably works better than issue by issue. The backup was great as well.

An Elseworlds with actual creativity in its storytelling (instead of just following a bunch of tropes). I actually enjoy the fact that the apocalypse plot takes a backseat to tell three personal stories. Personal stakes work better than higher stakes.

That twist was pretty cool.

I think this spin-off is being carried by the backups tbh. They are excellent. The main story is just fine.

Mary Marvel is by far the best part in this story, I'm actually invested in her part. Midnighter and Starfire were fun as well. The backup is excellent as usual.

Pure excellence.

Doesn't *quite* stick the landing as much as I hoped (Ivy's "hero turn" is a bit too quick for how hardcore her kills were at the beginning of the series and the "We're the Green" scene is good but a little Deus Ex Machina*) but the rest is so good it's still a high quality story. * I suspect the story originally maybe ended a bit more ambigously before it got extended for a second arc, so they had to alter the ending a bit for Ivy to keep having adventures.

Pretty good as always, I'm really digging the lore though the timeline can feel a bit confusing character-wise.

Not for me, I'll probably leave it at this issue.

Selina shouldn't have been killed so quickly (in general, my only problem with this series is that they have all these cool antagonists with built-in personal relationships with the protagonists but they kill them too quickly ) but otherwise good issue.

You've got this awesomely wacky concept and the best thing you can come up with is... Let's do a JL origin again, this time with bad puns? Stupid plot, zero characters and the "fun" is stuff anybody could come up with in 5 minutes. I really wanted to love this, but this is dull as dishwater, which is the worst thing you can say about a book that LITERALLY FEATURES SUPERHEOES AS DINOSAURS. DWJ has been phoning this.