Strange Adventures #11

DC Comics'STRANGE ADVENTURESis nearly finished. With one issue to go, it's safe to say this has been one of the best series to come out of DC Comics. Read Full Review

The penultimate issue of Strange Adventures focuses on Adam and Alanna, the core of the entire series. While the war allegory is on the back burner here; King, Gerads, and Shaner create an amazing comic that is a highlight of the series. Read Full Review

The writing by Tom King is quite excellent. He is doing some amazing writing here and it shows. The art by Gerads and Shaner is great as well and I commend them all for amazing work. Read Full Review

This penultimate issue ends on a somewhat unexpected note and sets a lot up for the final issue that will be out next month. Read Full Review

Both Gerads and Shaner continue to deliver brilliant and beautiful imagery throughout this issue. The different styles continue to both brilliantly contrast and complement each other on every page. Read Full Review

Strange Adventures #11 is a great example of how comics storytelling can play with time, space, and emotion in unique ways. The art team is doing incredible work thanks to the masterful plotting and a constant give and take. As penultimate issues go, this issue delivers plenty to ponder and promise for the finale. Read Full Review

Most of King's works these days might not be in continuity, and while this story is brilliant on its own, that might be for the best here. Read Full Review

The execution is par excellence in both writing and art in Strange Adventures #11. The sole possible negative still awaits the conclusion in the next and final issue. Don't stop now, but this isn't the place to jump on either. The conclusion will determine the ultimate assessment of this series. The storytelling has been fantastic and a wonderful entertainment experience, but its legacy remains to be revealed. Read Full Review

Strange Adventures is set up for an interesting ending that I'm completely unsure of which way it'll go. It's been a fascinating ride so far and this installment really puts Adam and Alanna through the wringer, especially since we've seen them so close together recently with all that has been going on. Any relationship can go really bad like this for a lot of reasons, though this one is definitely one of those Hollywood kinds of things in just how screwed up it all is. Tom King's crafting of the story has had me engaged for the entire run and I'm looking forward to seeing how he attempts to stick the landing and if it works for me. Read Full Review

Strange Adventures #11 is a masterful exercise in inflicting misery on both the characters of the story and the readers brave enough to buy this book. If watching a couple argue as their marriage falls apart sounds like a good time, this one is right up your alley. The score reflects the technical quality of the art and writing. Enjoyment has no place here. Read Full Review

King hasnt been subtle with his take on Strange, painting him early on in the maxi-series as a suspect hero. Even as the evidence continued to mount that there really wasnt a twist, there was some modicum of hope that King had more in store than trashing the good name of a classic Silver Age hero for the sake of realism. Read Full Review

So that's what Strange Adventures was building to this entire time? Seems like it probably should have been a 6-issue miniseries. Read Full Review

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Jul 27, 2021

Man, this is the best issue of the serie, so far.

Crimson Knight

Jul 27, 2021

WTF

Linkush

Jul 27, 2021

After discovering the truth from Mr. Terrific, Alanna confronts Adam about it. The issue itself is split into two. On Rann, we see how the war has ended and Adam and Alanna's loving relationship meanwhile on Earth, we see them argue as their marriage falls apart. The difference between both timelines helps to show how heartbreaking this situation really is. We see Adam desperately trying to make this all work out, justifying his actions, thinking himself a hero, not realising what he did was sacrifice earth for the people he loves which is understandable, but not something you can say is heroic. Tom King shatters Adam Strange's heroic image, revealing him to be a fraud who cares only for the people close to him. However, it's not presen ted in a black and white way because, ultimately, nothing in real life is black and white. Especially war. more

Batman Jones

Jul 28, 2021

Damn. This, Rorschach, and Supergirl have all been fantastic. King and his artists have been on fire. I think all 3 will be evergreen books. It's hard to save my 10's, but I'm doing my best.

Avanvolk

Feb 24, 2024

It all comes to a head. What a tense showdown between Adam and Alanna. Gerads and Shaner's art throughout this series have been nothing short of masterful. It's incredibly satisfying to read a comic where the writing and art complement each other so well and are up to the same high standard.

deen

Aug 03, 2021

Controversial as it has been, I honestly do not understand the vitriol thrown Tom King's way for his treatment of "revered" characters, when alternate universes, realities, timelines, a literal infinite frontier is laid out before comic fans at all times. The second someone creates something iconoclastic, everyone reacts like their mothers got shot. Relax. The old Strange Adventures tales are still there. Batman has gone through a thousand iterations, some extreme, some traditional, some a mix of the two, and he's endured for decades. I found this issue to be pretty great, and the series as a whole works really well as a companion piece of King's Mister Miracle series. While in that series we see a marriage triumphing over trauma, in thi s series it's the dissolution of a marriage over one big lie. We should all be accustomed to being given a Big Lie lately and being told to support it at all costs, even when we know full well it's a Big Lie. How far are people willing to go to support a Big Lie? What justification do the ends provide for the means? It's a challenge to the reader, and I'm up for it. Folks grousing about these challenges are free to not read it and indulge in something else. It's not a knock on those unwilling to accept the challenge, it's not for everyone. But complaining about it like it's "ruined" a character or legacy or whatever, is kind of silly. It's comics. Relax. As ever, absolutely fantastic art on this issue, as with the rest of the series. Watching the two art styles converge on that one page with the 3 column Watchmen layout was nothing short of magic. Unlike Geoff Johns' Doomsday Clock, I feel that this series has been paced just right, with the climaxes coming at exactly the right time and not being rushed in the final two issues. I look forward to the final issue and then perhaps reading the whole series again in one sitting. more

Psycamorean

Jul 27, 2021

I'm not even a huge fan of this run, but this was a well done issue. Merlyn is insane with his brainwashing conspiracies. If I could rate him lower than a one, I would.

mynameisraj

Jul 27, 2021

The idea of "marriage is a war" is very apparent throughout this book. Adam & Alana are killing the remaining Pykkts on Rann w/ the relationship at its height while we see their relationship fall apart on Earth is done beautifully! The emasculation of Adam by Alana is really rough but well deserved here as well. She compares Adam to Mister Terrific while calling him weak despite all he's suffered. My first reaction after this issue was "fuck".

TSMack

Aug 02, 2021

Adam's odd behavior in this issue makes one wonder if he is a type of Manchurian Candidate. I expect King to throw another curve ball in the series finale.

Fracadactyl

Jul 27, 2021

Adam Strange gets an appearance that evokes more of a noir type vibe in characters. I know people don't like how Silver Age concepts of pulpy adventure won't always sit right with people. But with how often past titles with Strange deal with war, maybe it's time to stop sugarcoating that aspect. Because let's be real this issue goes into how the stress of fighting such a war affects people. Real wars don't have epic battles, most of them are driven out by policymaking. And as real world politics suggest, they often come with impossible standards that affect soldiers' psyches. You might even say marriage is like a war, a struggle to maintain a healthy relationship. But with how conditional some parts of that maintenance is, it can seem to o overwhelming. more

Ryan

May 27, 2025

Hard to rate any series of this issue out of the green with how good the art is but the story itself just doesn’t click for me. The flashbacks are pretty boring, and theres not enough content in the present day story for any solid pacing to be established

TheKize

Jul 29, 2021

The artwork in this series continues to be amazing, and the writing is well-crafted for a slow burn story. But I just can't get on board with a DC series that seems to have as its principle aim to portray a longstanding hero as deceptive and amoral. It's just not as interesting as the publisher seems to think it is.

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Merlyn - Jul 29, 2021

Thank you, someone here gets it!

Merlyn

Jul 27, 2021

How can anyone genuinely like this horror show where a hero is turned straight into a villain? Brainwashing is the only possible answer, I posit that if this was written by Bendis, the rating would be under 5. But since it's King, let's all throw 10s and 9s because he'll get an Eisner for this lol. If I could rate this under 1, I definitely would.

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Loafy Trophy - Jul 27, 2021

You are literally the biggest whiner, maybe on the entire internet Why hate-read books by an author you don't like? I can't imagine having a life so sad that I'd have to resort to hate-consuming a product just to find some sort of perverse form of joy. Maybe go outside or something.

Merlyn - Jul 27, 2021

Butthurt much?

Merlyn - Jul 27, 2021

Also, fake account, who are you really? Because this is a new account and I imagine since you know I'm a "whiner" you're not new here. Or are you this butthurt that you specifically made this account just to comment here? That's so, so sad. :(

Loafy Trophy - Jul 27, 2021

Sure, I'm the one who's butthurt. Maybe look in a mirror then say that again. Seriously though, if I don't like a book or a writer I drop it a move on with my life and find stuff I do like. I don't go shit on a creative team's hard work every. single. week. like a child because I have nothing better to do with my life.

WhistleBlower - Jul 27, 2021

Merlyn is just ass-blasted because not everyone shares his radical bootlicking ideology.

Merlyn - Jul 27, 2021

My ideology being... not liking heroes turned into villains?

Merlyn - Jul 27, 2021

No, you just create a new account to bother to comment here, that's sooo much better. :))

Loafy Trophy - Jul 27, 2021

So it's cool to create an account specifically to single-mindedly trash a writer you don't like but not to trash someone's half-assed reviews? Ok Felicia

Merlyn - Jul 27, 2021

I mean, I created this account half an year ago and I reviews hundreds of comics, most of them not written by King. But don't let that bother your crazy talk, keep going at it. :))

mynameisraj - Jul 27, 2021

It's a Black Label book that's not in main continuity, liberties are allowed.

Merlyn - Jul 27, 2021

There's "liberties" and there's butchering of a character. This is the latter.

mynameisraj - Jul 28, 2021

I’d disagree. Having been through the horrors of war, tortured by the enemy, having them capture his daughter and being given the choice “Give us Earth or your daughter is dead” it doesn’t seem like a butchering. But agree to disagree here I guess.