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7 on Worlds' Finest #31 reviewThis is the fourth month in a row that this book has sold out from my local comic shop the day that it arrived in stores. Do that many people really buy this book? Why? Is it selling on name alone, because if so it’s not even spelt the same as one of the most…
My thought process when picking up Justice League 3000 from the comic shop this week: “Oh hello, old friend, so good to see you. It’s been such a rough month for reading that I get to crack you open and enjoy – OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED? Where is Howard Porter? Where are my overly intricate…
Hope is a dangerous thing. So are expectations, and last week’s Earth 2/World’s End combo gave me the slightest amount of hope that the conclusion to these series would be a worthwhile venture. In the “too long; didn’t read” version of this review: Nothing Happens. Oh sure, pieces move around the board and events take…
This issue should have been renamed “The People We Forgot to Include in World’s End,” because that’s essentially what this was. It takes all the Wonders who were barely mentioned and then never brought up again in World’s End and gives a hastily-told story that serves as little more than unsubstantial fluff. Writing duties fall…
Check out that cover, huh? “As Apokolips burns, Green Lantern falls – and the Earth is left unprotected!” Yeah, that doesn’t happen. Actually, Green Lantern is barely in this issue at all, and that’s a good thing. What we get instead is a Daniel Wilson story full of self-examination and acceptance in a time of…
The device driving the last few issues has been the bringing together of the many storylines that have taken up the bulk of World’s End. With so many narratives tied up together, one would think that ample freedom could be given to David Wilson and his writing team to create a coherent tale using the…
After using the hard copies for the last few reviews and a number of conversations with other readers and community members, I decided to take this issue into three parts using the Digital First issues. The good news was that I enjoyed this issue far more than the previous three; the bad news being that almost all the…
It’s been a very rough few months for Jason Todd and his strange trio of misfit outlaws. Between alien narcotic rings, Venom addiction, and being set on fire by one’s girlfriend, things are far from the ideal. Since Scott Lobdell returned to map out the narrative of Red Hood in his second stint with the…
Last time in Earth 2: World’s End we said goodbye to Superman for the second, and hopefully final, time. His sacrifice paves the way for the reforming of the Wonders and sets the stage for the rest of the series. There is still the Furies to overcome, one Grayson child to save, and the looming…
As we pass the halfway point for Earth 2: World’s End, we get a glimpse of just what the endgame of this series might be. Daniel Wilson’s story has taken us across Earth 2 and Apokolips, beneath the oceans and into the air, under the fire pits that pockmark the planet, and into the lives…
Welcome back to what is basically a prologue to a series of events that ended in the first issue of Earth 2 – Worlds’ Finest. That’s what this book is: it’s a prologue to a prologue to a book which has become defunct since the start of World’s End. And you wonder why it’s being canceled. …
The last two issues of Justice League 3000 have set the stages for a very strange set of reunions. After a surprising first arc and impressive epilogue by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis, this new arc of Justice League 3000 promises to bring the past and present (or future?) together for new battles with familiar…
We have reached just about the halfway point of Earth 2: World’s End’s run, and there is a great deal that still has to be resolved before the dust has settled between the Wonders of Earth 2 and the forces of Apokolips. This issue picks up where last issue left off, and now more than…
Earth 2 has taken a very unconventional direction since the introduction of World’s End into the DC Universe. Since World’s End started almost five months ago, the Earth 2 titles have been: introduce Huntress/Powergirl, Fury origin story, standalone Grayson tale, and now an Avatar origin story. One of the best written and entertaining lines that…
I’m just going to jump into this. You know that whole Doomsday fight that was dragged out through last issue and then promised in this one? That’s solved in about three panels. Then it’s two more pages of fighting and 25 pages of talking. And I’d be cool with that if this were, say, Batman,…
Well, Earth 2 World’s End keeps barreling on, continuity and logic be damned. I’ll get in to that later. This intro, normally reserved for a critique, questioning, or praising of Daniel Wilson’s story, will instead go to the artwork. Yes, the artwork. I’m stunned to hear myself say it, but we have a new art…
Last time in Earth 2: World’s End, a svelte new creative team had cobbled together a singular, poignant narrative that provided a big reversal for anyone who has been following the book since its inception. Rather than Earth 2 simply battling Apokolips, it seems that our Wonder-laden planet has becoming an offering to end the…
The Outlaws are going through some rough times, both on and off the page. The story has been so painfully misguided since its inception, taking two very human characters and one super-powered alien and have them travel through space and the depths of mysticism. They act more like wizards and starship pilots than disgruntled outlaws. …
With a new issue comes not only the slimmed-down creative team that I’ve been hoping for, but also a focused plot and a solid direction that sets the stage for the rest of World’s End. This so far one-sided war between Earth 2 and Apokolips is but a mere sham for the true machinations at…
It has been hard to find many overarching themes between each issue of Earth 2: World’s End, with its storylines twisting and spiraling apart from one another. This week, there is the undeniable theme of family in Daniel Wilson’s story. What place does family have in the apocalypse, and how do our Wonders handle it…
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