Fun FF story but every FF story of late reads like every other. It's all Waid light.

The X-Men story was clunky.

Nothing here begs me to keep reading, though nothing here is bad, either. Except JRjr's art.

I am not sure what is happening but the art is stellar.

Don't care much about We Are Yesterday. Very much care about this comic. Waid does so much better with just Batman, Robin, and Superman than with dozens of heroes.

This story is way too long, and the substitute artist is pretty bad. Plus it's pretty anticlimactic once Firestorm (who Waid has no sense of how to write) can suddenly make kryptonite.

Are we running out of steam? This wasn't bad - how can it be with Xermanico's art? - but it was sort of spinning its wheels. Why is the Spectre without a host again? Why would anyone bring back G'Nort? Something is a bit off.

Where's my typewriter? I have to send a letter to DC demanded this series continue!

Please fix the metric so that "no rating yet" isn't recorded as a zero.

I honestly don't like the premise of "time traveling villains from the past" since you know they all fail (and also are really bad teammates). But the execution of the story here is really good, though the art is not. Again, Waid does much better when he isn't juggling sixty heroes and six plots.

What is a John Stewart story doing here instead of in his own comic? I have no idea. But I love that someone is finally questioning John being a Marine. Morgan Hampton, however, will raise questions as a Black man that Phillip Kennedy Johnson, white active duty soldier, never will. more

A really good story that happens to connect to another comic by the same author that isn't nearly as good. The strength of this and the weakness of that is cast size. A handful of heroes is more than enough to be entertaining. JLU is just too crowded.

A solid finale though a bit crowded. I really wonder what sort of market there is that can't support a comic with both Peter and Miles.

Happy Xermanico is back. But wow, Adams is throwing a lot of stuff at us. Dan Garrett AND Gnort?

Apparently Al Ewing knows DC lore and Batman as well as he knows Marvel lore and the Hulk. His first go round with the Bat is a stunning success. And those name drops of Conway and Milligan suggest his influences are the grounded Batman stories of the former and the weirdness of the latter.

The backup story probably sat in a drawer for years, but it's fun and smart, and between the two stories we have a welcome return to the humanistic, even likeable Batman DC so rarely features. more

Disappointed that instead of a full length story by Waid and Davis, we are in "the only way to celebrate big events is with inconsequential short comics" mode. Waid still knows how to write the FF, but a story with four splash pages is a waste of his skill. Davis's story is likewise pretty good but minor. Ironically, the story by Andrew Wheeler, who is unknown to me, was the best of the bunch.

Dark doesn't begin to cover it.

Really solid if strange and even disturbing storytelling, with great art and character moments.

Not as the same level as previous issues. I think we really did have too many Metamorphos.

The art is great, but the rest is scattered. The use of a G20 summit felt perfunctory - "those clowns in Congress, what a bunch of clowns" - and while I know Waid developed the Bart pictogram, Bart hasn't been like that in years. (Also, didn't Bart go with Max into the future?) And the new bad guys are...just the old bad guys but at eleven?

The very fan friendly Greg Weisman has said that the direction of the current arc was editorially mandated. It definitely shows, and I assume he also knew that this series would be the latest Marvel comic with a short run. So he does his best with the material at hand, but probably counted down the moments till he could return to Gargoyles.

To a large degree, there is nothing here we have not seen before in terms of rewritten realities and alternate versions of characters. We've even seen it in Trek a few times. but the execution is smart, clever, entertaining, fun, and thought provoking. And Lore an "omega level" threat works so well

Isn't it sad that this run of the mill comic is a breath of fresk air after years of mediocre Batman stories on the flagship title.

Is this the best comic DC is doing now? It's a pity it's only six issues, though it's probably not sustainable. And dear lord, the meta of the Who's Who page with the deeper meta of "marital status" retconned" is hysterical.

The focus on the fate of the Red Lanterns is both welcome and strong, and finally having someone talk to John is good. But please, DC, remember than Shayera is with Carter now. Let's not prioritize the continuity of (very good) animated shows over the continuity of the comics. (Sometimes I think I am the only one who read Vendetti's Hawkman series.)

OK, I guess I should have trusted Waid to make sure Superman's moral compass is working. But the story is both slight and overstuffed.

Is it possible that the character Waid was always born to write is Dick Grayson? If so, can we get him on Nightwing?

The Waid section was quite good, unsurprisingly, thought the notion of a Superboy who was active in 2005 makes me feel odd, and should the 60ish Waid be the one to write that? The Slott part was a muddle, well intended but clumsy with its climate change message and lacking the assurance of his Marvel work. And the Williamson section wobbles a bit. Plus the art was kind of messy, with a Lana Lang who looks 16 as an adult for no reason. This makes me want to read Waid on Action, but not the rest. more

Kahless II is not nearly as interesting as the regular cast of this comic. But what is interesting is that Kahless the Unforgettable was not nearly the hero the Klingons say he is, and in fact was just as bad as we were told he was on TOS. Didn't expect that.

DC: We have a new Swamp Thing
Mark Waid: I don't like him, so I will shove him aside and use Tefe Holland.
DC: Sure, why not?

A real slap in the face to people who liked Ram V's series. Also, "magically restoring the Amazon rain forest" feels tone deaf in the face of the actual slow motion doom to it in the real world.

Solid meant and potatoes comics storytelling, though I want more of the classic JSAers.

Man, this is dark. But part two is something of an improvement over part one. My main issue is how much of a loser Plas sees himself as.