DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War #4

It can be a little hard to follow at times due to the fast pace, but the last page has a shocking cliffhanger. Read Full Review

DC Vs. Vampires is more often not, hit or miss. Issue #4 is a hit, but not by much. The highlights include the artwork, the use of certain characters, and overall tone. The plot is still doing a handstand on the side of the Hoover dam, and has the structure of a standard zombie flick, but like a man doing a handstand on the side of the Hoover dam: it's hanging in there. In the penultimate issue, the suicide mission against "Baron Cinder will need to push things to a satisfying climax. Read Full Review

All-Out War has become a cause for cleverness in combining vampire lore with DC superheroes and, in this regard, it largely succeeds. Read Full Review

VEGES

Oct 19, 2022

The main story has gotten strong. First time both the main story and the backup are pretty good.

Simone

Nov 17, 2022

This is a surprise Mary Marvel book and its better for it because wow, they really found interesting stuff to do with her in this setting.

RivrSng

Nov 09, 2022

Mary Marvel is by far the best part in this story, I'm actually invested in her part. Midnighter and Starfire were fun as well. The backup is excellent as usual.

ZONS9

Oct 21, 2022

The main story is getting better, but it feels very decompressed, hope it can stick the landing and be a stronger read when put together. The artwork also flip-flops between absolutely breathtaking amazing pages and pages that are pretty messy in terms of panel reading.

SnakeWilson

Oct 25, 2022

Another great issue, once again I must point out the consistency in pretty much everything. The humor continues to be spot on, I think it is safe to affirm that the jokes are the highlight of this series. Alongside with the plot that just moves at the right pace. And last but not least, the action. That fight between Midnighter and Prometheus... Now that's why I read comics. And that also serves to encapsulate everything this series gets right. This is a short one since I'm late and probably everyone already gave this a read, regardless of that, another recommendation.

Gio

Nov 29, 2022

While the action was fast-paced and fun in this issue, the writing was a bit scattered. There were some plot-holes that kind of bothered e too, but nothing that killed the story for me.

Absolute Z to the 4

Oct 20, 2022

Gets a 4.0 thanks to the backup which isn't great but is readable. As for the main story, no comic has ever left me feeling this stupid. The artwork leaves me lost, the plot and dialog confused. It all goes right over my head. I have a feeling everything is actually quite simple, but obscured due to art I find difficult to understand despite the use of shading and some tones, and dialog that I think is trying to be clever but comes off to me as oblique. I keep buying this to stick it out, as I have good will based on enjoying the main series, but this is the last book I read each week, and I approach it with a big sigh, like taking bitter medicine, knowing that each issue is likely to baffle me more than the prior one. The number o f reviews here has dropped from 6 to 4 to 3 to 2, and user reviews dropped from 21 to 13 to 9 to 1 (this review brings that up to 2), so I can see that just about everyone but me has simply given up on this book. Perhaps this has been written solely for the personal amusement of Alex Paknadel, Matthew Rosenberg, and Ben Abernathy. more

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Dex Rober - Oct 20, 2022 (edited)

I actually thought these last two issues were a little better overall (for the main story), but I think this book is being carried by the backups, which are generally much more interesting. It doesn't help that this feels like it's being written for the trade (unlike the main series, which works well on an issue-by-issue basis) so it feels like we're being given the story in pills.