In recent months, Earth 2 has served as a sort of supplement to it’s weekly cousin, World’s End.  This week the formula is changed, and instead of getting another origin story or a one-shot of less-featured characters readers were treated to what is basically another issue of World’s End.  So that’s two issues this week,…

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…

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…

Who’s up for an origin story?  Anyone?  How about four?  “Origins” is just that, with a look into the pasts of the Four Furies of Apokolips.  The exploration of the issue as a whole is going to be pretty short, seeing as how this is mostly background for some characters who haven’t really made an…

Welcome back to Earth 2!  After the debacle that was Future’s End Month, we’re back to the present and Earth 2 is catching its breath following the death of Bizarro and the attack by Apokolips.  I’ll come right out and say it: There’s a lot of recap and a lot of story, which isn’t necessarily…

The previous issue of Earth 2 earned, in my opinion, a perfect score.  I have been writing since high school and have always adhered to the rule that the greater the build-up to the climax of a tale, the greater the payoff has to be.  Prior to The New 52, I had read all of…

When we last visited Earth 2, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl had initiated a daring escape for the imprisoned Flash, Superman was busy on a date with Red Tornado Lois, and the rest of the Wonders had met up with the World’s Army on Amazonia to plan their counterattack against the forces of Apokolips.  Wasting no…

Well I didn’t review Earth 2 Annual 1 seeing as how it revolved around a couple of characters that are going to be pretty much nonfactors in the Earth 2 universe going forward.  Al Pratt, The Atom, was last seen freezing to death in Moscow and getting his arm ripped off by Superman, and Batman…

In the previous issue, Red Tornado Lois and Evil-Superman took an awkward trip to Smallville, Val-Zod demonstrated his pacifism by being nothing more than a Kryptonian-shield in a fight, oh and Batman blew up half of Gotham along with the Bat-cave.  Superman’s path of destruction may have been tempered by Lois’ return from the dead,…

Superman has come face-to-face with not only his Kryptonian brethren, but also his dead wife, Lois Lane, who’s been reanimated in the body of Red Tornado.  Green Lantern has returned from the grave, the remnants of the World’s Army are gathering on Amazonia, and Batman is with the remaining Wonders busy underneath Gotham City plotting…

It’s been two weeks on Earth 2 since the return of Superman and the death of Steppenwolf, and we are finally treated to the revival that’s been hinted at for several issues now.  If you can’t tell from the cover: Green Lantern’s back!  And there’s several fantastically-drawn pages thanks to Nikola and Trevor Scott, who…

If you haven’t read Earth 2 Annual #2 or the respective review, I highly suggest you do so before continuing further. Anyway, I don’t know if I’ve seen a more brutal opening to a comic issue in the New 52, but the first few pages of “The Kryptonian, Part One” show us just how impactful…

We are still dealing with the fallout of Superman’s return, but the Wonders have regrouped and now have perhaps the only two weapons that can be used against the returned Kryptonian.  Batman’s Kryptonite and now another Kryptonian who was apparently being held by Terry Sloan seem to be the only viable options for defeating The…

Superman has left the scene of the previous battle at the Arkham Base, and the remaining Wonders may have a chance to collect themselves before launching a counterattack.  They are interrupted, however, by hordes of Parademons bearing down on them from the sky.  The majority of the action in “The Dark Ages, Part 3” takes…

With Superman and Batman’s return to Earth 2, the world now needs the joint power of all the Wonders to repel the forces of Apokolips.  In the opening chapter of “The Dark Ages” arc, Tom Taylor has brought his talent from Injustice: Gods Among Us to showcase another tale of Superman turning on his adopted…

Earth 2 could not have picked a better writer to replace James Robinson, and I’d like to think the reveal created by Robinson at the end of last issue was made specifically to introduce Injustice: Gods Among Us’ Tom Taylor.  If you haven’t read “To The Victor…” please, please, do so immediately.  Ok, now that…

Wow.  When Earth 2 has finished its run, regardless of how long or short it may be, I think I’ll look back on “To The Victor…” as the point where the series succeeded or failed.  So much was done in this issue, both good and bad, that really encompass the spirit of Earth 2 so…

Now that’s what I’m talking about!  This is the issue that I was dying for last time around, which I guess makes it all the more sweet.  Just look at that cover; if there’s one thing Earth 2 has gotten right on a consistent basis, it’s the greatness of their covers.  “Battle Cry” has my…

Well this issue completely threw me for a loop going forward in the Earth 2 universe, and I think “1,370°C” highlights everything I dislike in this series.  It hurts me for to say it, because for me the last two issues were the best back-to-back issues since the very first two.  This feels more like…

In the previous issue of Earth 2, Khalid Ben-Hassin fully accepted his role as Doctor Fate, and set out with Flash to defeat the evil sorcerer Wotan.  Wotan is holding Jay’s mother as a hostage, waiting for Khalid to deliver him the power of Nabu’s helmet, but Fate and Flash have other plans in mind.…