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This crossover event was OK, but I really could’ve done without it. I’ve been happily buying Hornsby and Halo for some time now. I don’t want to have to buy a bunch of other different series in order to get the story.

Rocketfellers is okay. But I’m not really interested in getting into that series. Trillion Dollar Kid has its moments, but I’m just not invested enough to continue follow ing this story either.

Now the last page of this comic shows that this Unbelievables arc will continue into both the Hornsby and Halo series as well as Rocketfellers. I am NOT interested, nor am I happy with this. If this is where the series is headed I just might have to consider dropping Hornsby and Halo from my pull list.
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Batman is one of the best characters around. just like Spiderman. it's the Pinnacle of comics. so why on both books are these writers awful? Fraction cannot tell a story! We in fact get fragments of multiple stories. all started. not finished. many abandoned. and Matt has the balls to throw in one more with a groups of assassins coming to Gotham to kill Bruce. Finish just one plot point Matt F raction! Jesus Christ and the idea Bruce didn't read Alfred will, and was a member of a secret society of butlers who were with heroes ? WTF sense does that make given Batman's origin and Alfred was already the butler to the parents?? stuff just happens. all over the map in this book. Im losing my patience with this book.Fraction needs to dial it in and actually tell a goddamn story. this book is a wreck with some cool moments but at least it's absolutely gorgeous to look at. the elevator fight is awesome and a highlight of the book. if Matt can tell a story from start to finish this book could be very cool. but this just isn't it. more

Forced and contrived.

Verity simply wins over Damian off-screen? Balderdash!

Stop with this nonsense and just bring Alfred back already.


Why does Joker look like he’s been eating too many hamburgers? I don’t recall him being that chubby?

The art looks great in some panels but looks like discount manga in others.

I don't know what to do with this issue. We are introduced to Verity Pennyworth. Apparently, Alfred, instead of having a unique relationship with, first, Thomas Wayne, and now Bruce is a secret member of a society that creates servants for heroes. Forget the fact that Alfred worked for the family before there ever was a Batman. But he now has a heretofore unknown niece.

And Bruce didn't know about her because he didn't read Alfred's will even though it was on his desk for nine years. Is Alfred an AI or ghost or a figment of Bruce's psyche? I still don't know.

And Fraction has visited a couple of the 27,000 plot threads he has going. This one is the Joker. After a couple of issues, he reminds us that the Joker is still in the bacta tank and plotting his evil plan. What the plan is, we don't know. But I am sure that's it's something totally original, like the laughing fish. And I can't wait to find out how he tricks the shrink, who for some reason is in charge of Damian. The trick will be original and not something like doc has Stockholm syndrome or she thought she was the one who could get through to a stone-cold maniac who enjoys inflicting pain because it's fun.

This is more of the same for Fraction. Lots of set up, but nothing actually happening. The Jim Gordon plot - nowhere, the guy with cop footage - nowhere, Poison Ivy as major - nowhere, Vandal Savage as police commissioner - nowhere.

This run has been going on for a year and it's still all setup.

The art was good, but I hate Verity's pointed shoes. Not the footwear a domestic service would wear. You need comfort and arch support.

Overall, not a great issue.

Or I could be wrong.

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This was way better than I could have hoped for.

The characterization of Bruce Wayne, Dick, Grayson, and Alfred pennyworth were perfect!
I particularly love how Robin enjoys a good laugh at Batman’s expense. This is some of the best writing. I’ve read for Dick Grayson in a very, very long time.

Catwoman was also written quite well.

Kudos for the reference t o Batman Dark Night Dark City/The Return of Bruce Wayne.

Very much looking forward to the next issue.more

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I’m honestly glad that this story arc is finally over. I didn’t exactly hate it, but didn’t really love it either.
Too many characters fighting for screen time. Difficult for any one of them to really get the attention they needed to stand out. And still no real payoff to the injections that were given to El sie and Chloe back in issue #22.

Chloe is showing signs of infection, as I expected she would. But we didn’t get the horror reveal of her turned into “Bad Kind” like we did with Leland, who turned almost immediately. And that really dredged up my anger about how this story treated Leland all over again. So if you’re a character with no development, you get sorted immediately. But if you get even just a fraction of depth, then plot armor keeps you around a little longer. Oh! And somehow Chloe and Moosh are able to understand one another all the sudden? I guess the plot needed to move, so let it be so?

This issue didn’t end as violent and visceral as I had expected. And I’m honestly very grateful for that. I truly hope that Lord, Ghost, Gigi and her kittens and all the other animals that were rescued at the end had found their Happily Ever After. I wouldn’t mind if the story continued on and we didn’t really follow them anymore. Just a page or two just to see them safely written out of the story, as we now can just really focus on Elsie going forward. Having seen the preview covers for the upcoming issues #26 and #27 has me excited for where this series will be headed. I’m hoping this will be the status quo for a good long while, until this series is ready to be wrapped up and concluded. And I’m truly hoping that it will be a satisfying one, finally wrapping things up where we see Elsie in a similar scene like we first saw her in the first page of issue #1.
“This was every day. This was perfect.”more

While I was initially very annoyed to learn that Hornsby and Halo was heading into a multi series comic event, I decided to buy the tie-in series for kindle rather than just sit the event out completely.

So far this story has been okay. But I really don’t plan on buying Trillion Dollar Kid or Rocketfellers once this is done.

I just really hope Ghost Machine doesn’t plan anymo re crossovers. Because then I would have to strongly consider dropping Hornsby and Halo, and that would be quite disappointing.
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While I was initially very annoyed to learn that Hornsby and Halo was heading into a multi series comic event, I decided to buy the tie-in series for kindle rather than just sit the event out completely.

So far this story has been okay. But I really don’t plan on buying Trillion Dollar Kid or Rocketfellers once this is done.

I just really hope Ghost Machine doesn’t plan anymore crossovers. Because then I would have to strongly consider dropping Hornsby and Halo, and that would be quite disappointing. more

Hornsby and halo has always been an good/okay comic. It's light hearted fun and has a little mystery to it. But god damn do I hate that trillion dollar asshole. "I have money so I'm important. I'm mega super rich, here's a t shirt!"

Matt fractions run on Batman has left me with really mixed feelings. This issue by itself isn’t bad despite the ending. However when you look at the series as a whole , how nothing fits. The start-stop nature of this series-I’m utterly frustrated. This series is just all over the map. What happened to the Joker and him calling Batman Bruce ? What happened to the Mayor and Pam with the Bat signal m ade from drones ? What about AI Alfred? The need to tell us about all the Bat-tech is gone also. Like I said. It’s the nature of this series when we see it as a whole. Start- stop. A disjointed mess of a series but a mid level issue. Just not good enough. Matt is stuck reintroducing things over and over because so much is left hanging around. The art is gorgeous at least. more

This is a weird issue in that it is all setup. But Fraction’s run has been all setup. I am still waiting for some payoff. The issue references a cop being killed nine issues ago for not killing Batman. Nothing comes from the reference other than to remind you that it happened.

The Wayne board of directors have put an open contract on Bruce, but the Japanese shinigami straight out teenag e mutant turtles kills a middle man for trying to fire her. How does that works? Does she expect to get paid after killing her employer? (I know he is just a flunky, but he represents the employer). Bruce’s board hires someone to kill Bruce because he won’t let Wayne Enterprises build weapons. They’re evil because they are capitalists. Well here’s news, pure capitalists don’t care how money is made, only that money is made. It could be arms, it could be tangerines, they don’t care.

If someone wants to make money selling weapons, why not just take over a company that makes weapons. Taking over a company that doesn’t make weapons, that’s a lot of work. Completion with other arms makers. Developing weapons from scratch. Hiring weapons designers, retooling factories. Fighting management who oppose your plans. You see where I am going.

Also, doesn’t the Fox family control Bruce’s assets? But that was a plot from another writer. No point in tying off that loose end. Continuity is for nerds.

Also Damian hates The Great Gatsby, so screw him. Fraction has made Bruce super lame. Under his watch Vandal Savage has taken over police. Poison Ivy is mayor, and his own board of directors is in the midst of taking over his company. Can’t he do anything right?

Also, female shrink who is secretly being conned by Joker will apparently be Damian’s nanny because Bruce can’t be bothered to put in the work as a dad, and a grand niece Alfred will be Bruce’s major dojo. Guess she missed the funeral and being mentioned at all in 80 years of Alfred. Again why have continuity when you can pull stuff out of your ass.

Nice art. But not a great issue. Or I could be wrong.more

I didn’t mind the split issue format this time because I know that we’re finally going to get all our characters together for issue 25.

!!!!! Minor spoilers ahead…..

We were really left hanging this time. We see that Elsie and Chloe are both alright (FOR NOW) but only one of them that was injected last issue has a natural immunity to the LV-9 virus. So one of them could tur n into “Bad Kind” at any moment.

I’m a bit worried about the story with the dogs. Are they mistaking this man as the serial killer from their original mini-series? Or is this guy another killer? I guess the not knowing builds suspense?

Either way, all answers will be revealed in issue 25 next month.
Very much looking forward to it!
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I'm all in on the continuation of The Trillion Dollar Kid.Tomasi continues his brilliant writing and the artwork is well above average.This has been a fun story so far and I am looking forward to more of this.Image is still blowing away the top two.

I am extremely displeased that this series has entered a multi-title crossover event. I never liked these things.

When I buy a series, it’s because I care about the characters. I could have bought the Rockefeller’s but I never felt the compulsion to. The story never seemed all that interesting to me. And while I’m sure there are readers out there who love them, I’m just not one of the m. And I really have little to no interest whatsoever in the Zillion Dollar Kid either. So this is the first issue of Hornsby and Halo where I have absolutely NO clue what is going on, as I didn’t read the first part of this crossover, because it took place in a completely different series.

Do I hunt this comic book down? What other comics will I need to buy in order to understand this story?

Or do I just cut my losses and drop this comic altogether? Time will tell.

And it’s really too bad, as I was enjoying the earlier portion of this series.

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I had some Amazon Kindle points to spend, so I decided to buy the trillion dollar kid #1.
I didn’t exactly love that comic. I doubt I will continue buying it after this crossover is finished. But at least they gave me the context to enjoy this issue a little bit more. Well, I’m still not thrilled that all these series are having a crossover. I did very much enjoy the bits of this comic with Zachary and Rose.

I’m not sure if I read this correctly or not? But it sounds like Zachary and Rose will be continuing with the rest of this crossover event. I really hope so. Because if that’s the case, then I’m invested enough to follow the rest of this event.

I’ve decided whether this event is either good or bad, I’m still going to continue buying Hornsby & Halo comics. Just hopefully they won’t do another one of these crossovers in the series again. Because that sort of shenanigans has made me drop comic titles completely.

Having actually understood the context of this story I’ve raised my score a few points. more

Plot
The Trillion Dollar Kid is the one who begins narrating this installment and introduces new characters to this universe of the Unbelievables and the shows Zach and Rose trying to live a normal life.

Zach visits his parents in prison, where they ask him to dig something up and take it to their lawyer so they can sort everything out. Of course, they treat him very badly.

Rose helps her parents at the soup kitchen, but she continues to avoid taking responsibility for her mistakes and pretends to be perfect, which causes problems for everyone. Her deceitful nature often takes over.

Their pets, Pepper the cat and Tucker the dog, reveal that they are agents of Sydney and have been watching them since they were children. Pepper and Tucker take Zach and Rose to Sydney's house where the Highborne Stone is located, a kind of tetrahedron that serves as an archive of their past. It reveals to them that they were brought to Earth to create empathy and balance in their nature, but that if they don't, they will fight for control of the planet in the future.

The Trillion Dollar Kid is tracking them down using his parents' secret files. He needs the Unbelievable to get his parents back.

Thus begins this first crossover in the FAMILY ODYSSEYS universe, a crossover that's going to shake things up and connects with the comic The Rocketfellers and the upcoming Trillion Dollar Kid.

Art
It creates a balance between a naive style with somber touches and rich details, forging a powerful artistic contrast between the horror of Hell and the blinding light of Heaven.

Summary
Zach and Rose finally understand their origins and what they mean for the balance between Heaven and Hellmore

This was a great issue to get caught back up with the series, as well as give more depth and insight into our main characters and their beginnings. Fleshing out the origins of Rose and Zachary was beautifully written with lots of heart. Something that Peter Tomasi excels at.

I really loved the handling of Pepper and Tucker in this issue. I’m glad that they finally revealed to Zachary a nd Rose that they can speak, and that they, like Sydney, have been watching over them.

I really love how Pepper is written. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in comics, right next to Elsie from the Feral comic series also by Image.

As for this crossover event. I doubt I’ll be picking up the other series of this Unbelievables concept. I just don’t care about the characters in these other series. I’m only invested in the characters I’ve been reading in Hornsby and Halo. more

Good but short. I don’t like the split issue format. Just as the issue began to pick up momentum it was over.

I like the development the characters are getting. Especially Elsie.
Lord is finally starting to show some maturity and that’s a good thing. I can’t wait for the next issue, but it’s frustrating because I know that issue 24 will have the same shortness of the chapter beca use of the issue being shared with the other story dealing with the Stray Dogs. The portion dealing with the dogs was also very good but it too was over far too soon. The dogs are fine but I honestly am really only interested in the cats that we have been following this whole time. The side by side separate stories feel very much like they are just building towards the conclusion in advertised anniversary issue number 25. This current arc was most definitely written for the trade.

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Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles is a very different type of story from most other comic books. It’s not only told in very nonlinear form but also told in an esoteric manner. Meaning that you have to reread it at least twice through to understand certain aspects.
That being said, the first time I read it I was quite torn. In some ways I was really getting into bits of the story. But there wer e parts that I was absolutely lost on. I really had to force myself through the first read. I didn’t pick it up again until over a year later.
BUT….. once I finally did, it was SO worth it!!! My second read was so much more enjoyable. After reading it the second time I immediately went back and read it a third time and it became even clearer.

There are two factions at play here. The Outer Church and their pursuit to enslave, torture and abuse anyone they choose. And a band of resistance fighters called The Invisibles.

The story opens in Egypt. King Mob, one of The Invisibles is seeking guidance. His team is scouting a new recruiting for their group.

Meanwhile in Liverpool we are quickly introduced to a young teenager named Dane, who is (how should I say) very rough around the edges. Dane has had a rough start in life. He lives in an apartment in Liverpool with his mom. He’s got a group of friends, who together get into a lot of….. mischief.
One night, Dane trying to impress his friends, decides to raise the stakes and set their high school ablaze. In doing so, he and his buddy Gaz are apprehended and are sentenced to serve time in a juvenile detention center, named Harmony House. What they don’t know is Harmony House is a front for the Outer Church. Boys who enter Harmony House are forever changed. Some even become food to be consumed by the Archons. Those that do survive are stripped of their identities and become servant drones.
So The Outer Church is aware that The Invisibles are seeking Dane and have their own nefarious plans for him. Now that Dane is in their grasp……
Well, you’ll just have to read the story to find out what happens.


The very first line of the story starts with- “And so we return and begin again”
This is a play on the idea that this story is built for the reread. To get the most out of it, you have to “Return and begin again.” And the more you do the more you will understand.
It’s gotten to the point where I’ve reread this story in its entirety so many times that I’m beginning to lose track of how many times I’ve read it.

If you are thinking about reading The Invisibles, I highly recommend it. Just please keep in mind that the first time reading can be a bit confusing at some parts. But any confusion will clear up upon rereading it. And making those discoveries is half the fun.more