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5 on Batman/Superman #16 reviewI’ve been looking forward to this. Yang seems like a good writer, and of course Reis is one of DC’s top artists. I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this, but as soon as I opened up my review copy and saw the art, I set everything aside to see what this one’s all…
About a month after the final issue of Future State: Dark Detective, we finally get to read the start of Tamaki’s present-day story. I find Dark Detective to be a flawed but very entertaining story, and so I’ve been cautiously optimistic about Tamaki’s Tec run. But is this first chapter as solid as I’m hoping…
Like the previous issue, this offers a quick and easy read, and it’s a quite a bit of fun overall. Yang writes Batman and Superman well, and manages to put both characters in the spotlight. The way this story is structured helps to achieve that. It’s a good choice to separate the two heroes so…
This is the fourth and final issue of Future State: Dark Detective. It’s been entertaining so far, but every issue left something to be desired, mainly in the writing department. What Dark Detective—not just the main feature but the miniseries as a whole—needs is a strong conclusion. That won’t undo any of the missteps that…
So far, Future State: Dark Detective has been a mixed bag. The main Bruce Wayne story has some outstanding moments, but also hinges on a couple of strange writing decisions, including a glaring plot hole (when everyone assumes that Bruce is dead because they found a body in the river that vaguely resembles him). That…
This issue offers a quick and easy read, and though it isn’t without flaws, there’s a lot to like here. Gene Luen Yang writes Superman well. I love that Superman takes the time to listen and talk to a teenager that was going to take his own life, and I love that Superman stops to…
I enjoyed the first issue of Future State: Dark Detective. I was looking forward to the continuation of both Batman and Grifter's stories in #2, and was slightly disappointed to find that the Grifter story isn’t in this issue, though it will likely pick up in #3. What we’re getting instead is a Red Hood…
In my previous review I said that the creative team had lost me, but I also said that I was hoping that the creative team would be able to deliver a strong finale. Unfortunately, I don’t think that is the case. This series has had stellar moments, but I’m not feeling this final issue at…
It's a double feature! In this issue we have two full-length stories, one about Bruce and another about Grifter. That's bang for your buck, although it also means that it's going to be a little bit more expensive than monthlies usually are. So is the content worth the money? Let's have a look. DARK DETECTIVE…
After six core issues and a ton of tie-ins, we arrive at #7, the conclusion to the Death Metal event. Though I’ve praised and enjoyed parts of the story, I’ve also been critical of it. I think that many of the tie-ins were quite bad, slowing the core story down and sometimes outright contradicting it.…
Here’s yet another Death Metal tie-in, and I’m not going to beat around the bush. I’m tired of this event. The core series is far from perfect but at least there are certain aspects to it that I can still enjoy. However, almost every single one of these tie-ins has been mediocre at best, and…
I haven’t been the biggest fan of Williamson’s Batman/Superman run, to say the least. To me, this title has been problematic since #1. This is Williamson’s final issue, though, and despite not really enjoying the series so far, I have been hoping that he could deliver a fun conclusion to his run. Has he managed…
This is the final issue of Tomasi’s Detective Comics run and, unfortunately, I am not too enthusiastic about it. Before I get into specifics, I just want to say upfront that I am a big fan of Tomasi’s work in general and that I think cutting his run short is a mistake. While this issue…
It’s the penultimate issue of Death Metal, in which the creative team has to get everything and everyone in place for the grand finale. There can be no more detours. The key word is “focus!” Last time I said that I didn’t enjoy the issue until the final pages, when the heroes were rallying and…
Death Metal, as an event, has been a mixed bag. Some of the tie-ins were quite bad, while others were pretty good. I think this isn’t the case with just the tie-ins, but the main story as well, which isn’t quite the homerun that I want it to be. True to form, The Last Stories…
Just when this book starts to get back on track, after the mess that was “Joker War,” it turns out that this issue is also the penultimate chapter of Tomasi’s run on the title! It seems a little odd, because to me #1032 doesn’t feel like the penultimate issue of an arc, let alone an…
DCeased as a whole has had its ups and downs. There have been outstanding moments, and there have been certain creative choices that I disagree with. Still, I’ve enjoyed this series…up until this point. I’m afraid that the creative team has lost me. I just wasn’t enjoying this issue. For starters, I’m not a fan…
Batman and Superman created an AI program to stop villains, but for some reason this program decided that in order to figure out how to stop them, it would have to become a villain itself. It has created a Composite Superman/Batman robot to accomplish this goal, and our heroes have to find a way to…
This week’s Detective Comics is yet another example of Tomasi’s ability to write strong characters. We see this on the opening pages, as Nakano is being visited by The Mirror, who tries to get Nakano to side with him. However, Nakano straight up tells Mirror that he has no interest in “having [the election] being…
So far, Death Metal has been hit or miss for me. The artwork throughout has been outstanding: I love all the character designs and the overall death metal-inspired aesthetic. I also like that there is this looming threat against the multiverse and that Wonder Woman is leading the heroes in an effort to overcome this…
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