DC All In Special #1

I am ALL IN! Wow, what a crazy, incredible sight to see when an unstoppable force of hope in the Justice League meets an unmovable object of destruction in Darkseid. Snyder, Williamson, Sampere, and Craig are living up to actions that are more vital than words, and I believe in this initiative as it is taking the DC Universe even further. I'm looking forward to the next chapter in this saga! Read Full Review

DC All In Special succeeds in building hype for the publishers new initiative. Snyder, Williamson and artists Daniel Sampere and Wes Craig present two very different perspectives of the DCU. It's ambitious, unique and distinctly DC and I can't wait to see what comes next. Read Full Review

A bold new vision of the DC Universe is born! Through the writing of Williamson and Snyder, the daring shake-ups are an easy hit with readers. Sampere, Craig and their respected art teams unleash two unique and equally monumental starting points for an alterative take on the legendary comic universe. Read Full Review

DC All In Special #1 is a unique concept. Heralding in a new era, a new world is introduced using heroes and villains. Read Full Review

World collide in DC's All In Special #1, paving the way for the new Absolute Universe to kick off in thrilling fashion. This one-shot showcases both the heroics of the Justice League and the dark machinations of Darkseid in a dual narrative issue that sets the stage for an exciting new era in DC Comics. Read Full Review

This launch is on FIRE. You can't say that they didn't go big for this special issue. It captures everything I loved about theJustice Leaguecartoons & sets the stage for some epic new challenges for our Super Friends. The artistic visions of Sampereand Craig worked perfectly to craft this dual perspective book, and the colors from Sanchez, Bonvillain, and Spicer paint a truly intense and vivid picture of the world to come. Adding Dan Mora's art to the mix for the Center Spread is like adding icing to the cake, because it really makes everything that much better. That final page thoughI got goosebumps. Read Full Review

To debut these two narratives, DC has chosen to do a flip-book two full-length stories, each with their own narrative tying into each other and colliding in a big reveal in the middle. It's an innovative technique to say the least and it also turns into a great story. Read Full Review

Williamson and Snyder craft a fantastic story for Darkseid in this part of the story. It is beautifully dark and thrilling and I love the art and its gritty visual style. It is perfect for this story and a wonderful contrast to the beautifully clean art of the Alpha story. Read Full Review

So, is DC All In Special #1 worth reading? Well, for fans of DC Comics and epic superhero battles, this one-shot is a must-read. It's a thrilling and visually stunning introduction to the “Absolute Power” event, featuring a massive ensemble cast and a high-stakes conflict. While the story is primarily focused on setting up the larger narrative, it's still a satisfying and enjoyable read in its own right. Overall, this issue is a thrilling and visually spectacular one-shot that sets the stage for an epic DC event. Pick it up if you enjoy superhero team-ups, cosmic battles, and epic storytelling. It's a great way to get excited for whats coming after the upcoming “Absolute Power” event. Read Full Review

This is just the beginning, but with All In DC has put its best foot forward, and the future couldn't be brighter. Read Full Review

DC All In Special #1 is the jumping off point for the new Era of DC Comics, beautifully drawn, beautifully written and it will be talked about for years to come! Read Full Review

DC All In Special accomplishes everything it sets out to do in creating the new foundation for the DC Universe. Read Full Review

All-In certainly lays the groundwork for some exciting stories to come from DC Comics for the rest of 2024 and beyond. Hopefully this refocused initiative is given suitable time to develop an audience as this could be a fun shift in directions for DC. Read Full Review

I liked this a ton. And it made me interested in both the new DCU books as well as the Absolute books. All around win. Read Full Review

Like its design as a flipbook to be read in both directions, DC All In Special #1 is a real dichotomy of execution. As a stand alone comic, it's great. If you read it, you'll enjoy the content that's there and the art and storytelling are excellent from all sides. It's even going to be worth reading a few times to catch all the references. The other side, though doesn't really do the job of grabbing the reader for what comes next in Justice League Unlimited or the Absolute Universe titles. Certainly the spectre of ANOTHER event is enough to dissuade readers from becoming too attached to what's going on. Read Full Review

This issue does a fine job of setting up the new status quos, the new universe, the new bad guys and everything else it needed to for All In and Absolute. Read Full Review

DC is back, but that phrase feels a lot less special than it used to due to editorial constantly going back to its well these past few years. That doesn't mean the DC All-In Specialisn't a good read - just an overly familiar one. Hopefully, the mystery of Darkseid and the new Absolute universe will add some spice to the recipe in time. Read Full Review

Perhaps surprisingly, I had a great time reading this special. While I wouldn't claim it's the most unique or special comic out there it adequately sets up the Absolute universe and is simply fun from end to end. Read Full Review

Omega was an enjoyable read steeped full of Fourth World goodness and a dash of Legion of Super-Heroes flavoring. I always love any story crammed full of DC lore and sporting cameos from lots of different characters like Azriel and Eclipso. Read Full Review

In the final analysis, DC All-In Special is a conflicted book. It is not a bad one, for it manages the task of establishing just how the new Absolute Universe is created. However, it does little to inspire enthusiasm the Absolute Line will be more than DC's answer to the Ultimate Universe of Marvel Comics. Read Full Review

DC All In Special #1 begins a new era for the reformed Justice League just in time for Darkseid to hatch his most diabolical plan yet. Broken up into two comics as a gimmick works in theory, but the execution is far from perfect, with the first half stumbling toward the end and a second half that delivers much less quality overall when compared to the first. This was supposed to be DC's most important comic in years, but it sure doesn't feel like it. Read Full Review

COREMARK

Oct 05, 2024

“My Legion!”

CrackerCJ

Oct 02, 2024

Un gran abrebocas para el universo Absolute. Una historia compacta y loca, tanto por un lado como por el otro. Hace que el universo Absolute cobre sentido, y dan muchas ganas de leer más. Muy bien logrado.

daspidaboy

Oct 02, 2024

While the second half of the story is a bit confusing, this was a very solid start. I will miss the old DC Logo though

fthissite

Oct 04, 2024

This feels like the writing team is at least trying and putting forth more of an effort than most modern comics do. This at least seems professional and involves an actual effort by the DC team instead of letting writers run wild and do any stupid thing that comes to mind. Most things have been done already so this book might appear to be retreading old ground but I can at least stomach it compared to modern dumpster fires like Fire and Ice: Welcome to Smallville, Birds of Prey, the millions of symbiote & spider clones or any of the mutant titles of the last five years. Hopefully this will go somewhere. I doubt it but at least this issue is pretty good.

K-23

Oct 30, 2024

The first half was fantastic but the Darkseid story kind of dragged.

ElPerroDeLosComics

Dec 02, 2025

Una genial introducción al universo absolute, espero ver que Booster gold vaya a tener mas importancia en toda esta narrativa

Screaming Enigma

Dec 22, 2024

I was pretty into the "Alpha" side of this, but not so much the "Omega." Don't get me wrong, I thought the "Omega" story was fine, but I also found it a little hard to follow a good chunk of the time. I did like Craig's art, but it also didn't always work the best for me. The highlight of this, in my opinion, was Booster Gold, primarily in the "Alpha" story. I wonder how that will get followed up on.

Kenjamin

Dec 08, 2024

Art: 3.5/5 Story: 3/5 Total: 6.5/10

fzanca

Oct 05, 2024

I'll start with the fact that the artwork on side A is really from the same artist that draws Wonder Woman and the only reason I'm still collecting that King title. Darkseid, the guy who is completely impervious to everything, hacks his own hand off with a simple axe. C'mon. I like Booster Gold, but I don't care about this gimmick called All-in. It's because DC can't keep readers on their normal continuity titles, so they are shooting for the fences. I'm All-out. My Comic Review Channel - https://youtu.be/3YhmGswxenw

Psycamorean

Oct 14, 2024

Man, this issue was too hyped up for me. I heard so much about how cool it was all gonna be, and what we got is... what we always get. It's fine. It's totally passable. I hope the gumption in its presentation is channeled into the All-In initiative and we get some great comics. This on its own though? I probably wouldn't recommend it. Like, if a friend of mine were to lapse on their DC reading and decided to jump back in with All-In, I'd just tell them to start with Absolute Batman #1 or any of the other myriad of soft relaunches. This is supposed to be the start of something big and new and exciting, and it feels like the start of every DC event/initiative for the last five years.

KittyNone

Oct 03, 2024

The creative bankruptcy of modern superhero comics epitomized in just 25 pages, arbitrarily squishing together elements you remember from long ago, playing Weekend at Bernie's with the corpse of your lost childhood. No purpose to anything except to swaddle you in memories of when you used to buy comics because you loved them, desperately hoping that you'll pay to chase those fading traces the way an addict endlessly reaches for the beautiful feeling of that first high. Sometimes I worry that superhero comics are dying as their aging readership does; reading this comic makes me feel like it's time to take them out back and put them out of their misery.

Abrakadabra

Oct 06, 2024

It is basically meta universal Snyder obsession again. Darkseid finds his true self again (like a freaking schoolgirl) again. Wait, when did it happen last time? Oh yeah, last Crisis... God damn it, Snyder is as repetitive as much as Batman writers try to strip him of everything Just hope Absolute Universe will slap regardless of it.

REYNARD

Oct 02, 2024

This comic epitomizes what is wrong with DC. You have two mercenaries in Snyder and Williamson leading the pack of mundane and uninspired writers. These are cannibals, picking at the feet of their betters, scraping the tombstone library of story-past for any epitaph to sustain an event or story arc or whatever you want to call the derivative droll they put out. Long gone are the days of wonder, the imaginary beyonds of Fox and Broome and Haney and Kanigher. Julie Schwartz would be turning in his grave. Jack Kirby too. There is a reason for the alienation of true auteurs in this industry: Morrison, Moore, Gaiman. Because even as they try to bring comic books back to their roots of poetry and mythology, the Empty Hand manifests itsel f to reap. They came, they conquered, and they departed after realizing there were better things to do than play back & forth with the carrion crows who run DC. DC has been hanging under the fangs of the Empire of Mammon since the Golden Age, when Liebowitz and Donnenfeld stripped the company from its original owner, Major Wheeler-Nicholson. What's happening now is more insidious. An ultra-pollution of the narrative, a sacrifice submitted to strobe-torture before being disemboweled. These people are going to ruin everything just to feed their wallets. If you don't believe me, read this book: "WHAT IF EVERYONE JOINED THE JUSTICE LEAGUE?" "WHAT IF DARKSEID AND THE SPECTRE MERGED?" "WHAT IF DARKSEID FOUGHT EVERYBODY AND BEAT THEM WITH HIS LAZER BEAMS?" "WHAT IF HE MADE A BAD UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING IS BADDER AND MORE BAD?" "wait, don't we already have Earth-3 and the Antimatter Univ-" "WHAT IF EVERYBODY WAS A DARKSEID AND THEY HAD HIS LOGO?" "WHAT IF EARTH ONE WORKED OUT BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN BY US AND WE MADE EVERYBODY TOTALLY EDGY AND ULTIMATE AND MARK MILLAR AND METAL AND FRANK MILLER AND BRIAN AZZARELLO AND SO COOL?" "DO YA GET IT? 52 DAYS EARLIER? 52 DAYS LATER? REMEMBER THAT WEEKLY BOOK WRITTEN BY TALENTED WRITERS? REMEMBER THAT PUBLISHING INITIATIVE THAT FUCKED EVERYTHING UP?" "WHAT IF DARKSEID WAS MAD ABOUT BEING DARKSEID, BUT WHAT HE REALLY WANTED WAS TO BE DARKSEID IN DARKSEID LAND, WHERE BEING DARKSEID WAS COOL?" "WHAT IF ALL OF OUR CHARACTERS EXPLAINED EVERYTHING THAT WAS HAPPENING AND SAID EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE THINKING AND FEELING AND THEIR MOTIVATIONS WERE SIMPLE AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND? MAN, WRITING COMICS SURE IS EASY!" "HEY, IT'S THE MIRACLE MACHINE! REMEMBER THAT? I READ A GRANT MORRISON COMIC GUYS! I LOVE LOOKING AT ALL THOSE PRETTY PICTURES IN THAT GRANT MORRISON COMIC!" "DARKSEID DARKSEID DARKSEID OMEGA BEAMS DARKSEID APOKOLIPS I DIDN'T REALLY GET FINAL CRISIS BUT I READ THE DC WIKI PAGE DARKSEID DARKSEID DARKSEID!" If there is one redeemable quality, it is the art. Sampere and Craig are very talented. It's a shame they have to waste their time drawing absolute nonsense. At least they get a check. more

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Sollywoods - Oct 3, 2024

And the winner for most pretentious review ever written goes to.... you!