Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman: Witching Hour #1

Tynion has raised the bar, and Justice League Dark may not be the flagship Justice League title, but it's the best we've had in a very long time. Read Full Review

"The Witching Hour" ends at a point in which Justice League Dark is firing on all cylinders and quite frankly, I'm not sure how I'm going to manage to wait for the next issue of Justice League Dark to hit the shelves in a month. Read Full Review

A fantastic conclusion to an event that seemed to do everything right. If you like horror, magic, fantasy, over the top battles between god-like figures, or strong character and world building, I recommend this book to all of you. Read Full Review

James Tynion IV's script is extraordinary humanizing. As The Witch Hour draws to a close, Tynion asks his readers who the true villain is, Hecate or a corrupt society seeking to tame rather than embrace? Blanco, Mendonca, and Merino enhance Tynion's script with intense artwork, depicting every second of this heart-pounding conclusion. Read Full Review

The Witching Hour might be the ideal blueprint for how DC approaches small-contained mini-events going forward. Weekly releases with the same writer limited to two or three titles to make it easier to follow and digest. As an added bonus, the crossover has me anticipating what Tynion will follow up this event in Justice League Dark. Read Full Review

The end of The Witching Hours lives up to its haunting name and the promise it made to change how we view magic in the DC multiverse, and I can't wait to see the repercussions. Read Full Review

One thing is for certain with the end to this crossover, a new age of magic is here and its characters connected to it are in for some exciting times! Read Full Review

Yes, this five part comic book clinic has closed its doors, but " as is the way with all great sequential art " every prologue is prelude. I urge every reader to pick up all five chapters of this terrific story, and Justice League Dark1-3. If you crave comics that entertain, scare, thrill and look fantastic, then your search is over. Read Full Review

A good finale, and a good overall purpose to the crossover storyline, one which opens new doorways for both Wonder Woman and Justice League Dark. Read Full Review

This is an ambitious finale that seeks to fundamentally change magic in the DC universe. Read Full Review

Hands down, the best book of the Justice League line right now, Justice League Dark is doing some great things with all of its characters, setting up fascinating a new age of magic, and taking its cast in new and interesting directions. Read Full Review

The world of magic is rewritten in Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour #1, as James Tynion IV continues to put pieces into place for an even more expansive story to come. For fans of the magical elements of the DC Universe, Justice League Dark and Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour #1 is essential reading. GRADE: B+ Read Full Review

Tynion IV competently balances the spectacular and the tragic in this unpredictable denouement. It's so dramatic that you can't help but wonder where he goes from here; we'll just have to wait and see" Read Full Review

Justice League Dark Wonder Woman Witching Hour #1 nicely concludes this story and although some parts felt slightly rushed, writer James Tynion IV nicely linked the story to the first arc and it was great seeing Dr Fate again, although I'm guessing his part in all this has just begun as with the Justice League Dark. The story has also resulted in some new players in the world of magic as artist Jesus Merino successfully brings it all together as the first blockbuster event of Justice League Dark finishes. Read Full Review

Standing tall visually and setting up some interesting things for the DCU's spellcasters, Justice League Dark/Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour #1 is fun chaos. Read Full Review

The Witching Hour finale is imperfect but fascinating. It's a well drawn and tightly scripted affair that sets a lot of things in motion but also forgets to conclude all of the things that have happened in the past. What seems to be coming is scintillating, but a little more focus here could've gone a long way. Read Full Review

The conclusion to the Witching Hour might not be as great as the rest of the story, but an okay read nonetheless. Read Full Review

Everything comes to a reasonably satisfying close, though the nice visuals are obscured by an absolute deluge of copy. You might like the explanation behind the Witching Hour, you could appreciate its lasting ramifications. But man, you will have waded through a slog of prose to get there. Read Full Review

In the end, I'm not sure that I was happy about reading this this week. It was a LOT of filler, didn't feel like a lot happened, and it seems like the consequences, save one, have lived their life and decayed. I'm not really pleased about Diana having seemingly expired some usefulness as a JLD cast-member with no continuing connection to the world of Magic. Not sure where we go from here, or if Wonder Woman has a place in this darker, more scary corner of the DCU Read Full Review

Samuel Almeida

Nov 04, 2018

I loved the end of this story. It sure has A LOT of text for a comicbook but it needed it and it was perfect. Halfway through this i prayed to Circe to appear again in the JLD in the future and it seems like i will be very happy!!

cincyfan

May 17, 2021

This whole event has been unbelievably great in every way! This is brilliant writing and beautiful artwork

I Review Comics

Feb 24, 2019

After a couple of middling issues, The Witching Hour ends up nicely with one of the strongest conclusions to an arc I've read in recent memory.  Let's start with the negatives. I feel that the Witching Hour event probably could have been reduced to 3 parts or have been released as a single graphic novel. I know that these crossover events are designed to increase interest in multiple titles but when the story starts to fill padded fans notice and with comics costing between 3.99-4.99, filler issues are almost painful. If Wonder Woman #57 and Justice League Dark #4 were removed entirely I'm not sure how much content would have actually been missed from the story. The key strength of the series is the strengthening bonds between our heroes. Zatanna and Wonder Woman are both strong and extremely powerful. They feel like co-leaders and it feels great to see character growth and rapport as the series moves forward.  The Hecate is given a truly sad and tragic origin story. Her motivations are understandable and relatable. She was worshipped for her magical abilities and then imprisoned when the wonder assigned to her prowess turned to fear.  ​​ I think that the defeat of the Hecate was plausible but with the JLD going against god-like entities the solutions to these crisis's need to be more imaginative. Plot armor isn't a serious problem yet but could easily turn into a crutch if the threats continue to escalate. The art is on par with the rest of the event. Everything looks great but there aren't any blockbuster moments rendered. Nothing jumped out as offensive either. It was nice to see the upside-down man again as he is one of the creepiest villains I've seen In a DC comic to date.  ​​   Overall The Witching Hour was a serviceable diversion. It works in solidifying the direction of the Justice League Dark team. I appreciate that DC comics contains these events to one or two series and not pulling the entire line into the mix. If The Witching Hour had been a Marvel event there would have been 50 meaningless tie-ins and 100 variant covers.  ​​ This issue was great and despite the stated gripes, the comic worked to tie the entire event together into a satisfying conclusion. It also works as a great double sized single issue. Not sure how memorable this event will be long term but its a sterling reflection of the potential of the series and characters therein.  more

Spacey Medicine

Jun 02, 2019

This was pretty cool but real talk, Constantine deserves so much better, and I kiiiinda saw that ending coming a few miles away.

Simon DelMonte

Oct 31, 2018

Strong ending that finally ups the ante on the mythic elements of the story, and that clearly changes the status quo for magic in the DCU going forward. Poor Swamp Thing.

Psycamorean

Nov 03, 2018

I liked this but there was just way too much exposition and the ending had me sighing, when they clearly were going for excitement.

daddyT

Nov 02, 2018

from a base of 6, this gets a rating of: 7. +1 because: mildly interesting. a bit too formulaic for me

egonnn244

Nov 02, 2018

The Witching Hour had drawn to a close... This event started to lose it's steam a bit after the second part, but it was still good. This issue, however, a conclusion, is kinda boring. It's really exposition heavy and not that much happens in it, excluding a few last pages. We learn the origin of Hecate, other pantheons of gods and the magic as a whole. And that origin is pretty good. It ties itself to the Upside-Down Man and Dark Multiverse and meshes well with other mythologies. But I would prefer for exposition like this to be given at the beginning, to flip this event. To start slow and end with a bang. Instead, this event had a really good opening, but the ending could have been better. Still, it's nice to see Wonder Woman try ing to end the conflict peacefully and the very ending sets up some interesting things to come in the pages of JL Dark. more

waltgator93

Oct 31, 2018

Good issue to close an awful crossover. We finally get a full fledge magic team to stop a powerful villain. Unfortunately they weren’t the ones to stop her. This crossover was nothing more than a set up for the upside down man and return of circe. What may have been great on the drawing board ended up being a disappointment on paper.