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I'm sorry I just can't waste my time with this anymore. This Absolute Power event is overdone and it's nothing deep. You wasted issues of Superman and Wonder Woman for this? God... I usually can read through some crap but you know I just value my time right now...

I understand the excitement for Next Level Deathstroke but Frankly this doesn't even compare to Lobo next level which has way better art and memorable writing. I was expecting more, the art looks like first drafts and the story is so shallow my interest died with each page I turned. This is no Marv Wolfman Deathstroke, staying away from this one for sure...

Only read this for the tie in event and wasted my time. Going to stay away from the tie ins they suck

Really did Steve dirty in this, forget about how much he's been through. According to the writers Steve is privileged. Anyone who starts off a comic with vampires attacking a soup kitchen should immediately be unemployed, and to top that promoting segregating superheroes because "white people bad bruh". Go to hell.

Boring, refer to RKS lmao

The art looks like it was made by some souless corporation making very neutral advertisements that will appeal to a large general audience. The only interesting piece of information we get out of this special is how Lois through Waller's Amazo Suit or whatever only stole these new powers from General Zod. So that's why he's returning to get his powers. Please General Zod. Get your powers back...

Who wrote this piece of Gaga a 5 year old? This is Trinity's first solo intro and this is what you come up with? You have her multiverse traveling with 3 different versions of herself doing stupid sh*t and talking goo goo Gaga throughout most of it. The Wonder Robin character looks and acts like Mort from Madagascar and everytime she shows her face I hope the friggin Penguins show up to blow her up with a bazooka or have her shipped out in a box to Madagascar. You could have done something serious here and make me respect Trinity or relate to her. Maybe show her childhood without all the goofy bull. You got little things in it but it feels like it is presented in a Disney Pixar fashion gross... This is embarrassing, Tom King either goes from being a high pseudo-intellectual to a babbling goo goo Gaga baboon.

Dear Lord, what are those basteeches (critics) snorting? Your telling me chasing hero corgis to save time and multiverse and acting like goofy a** anime girls is good writing? Are you guys jer*ing me off here? The dialogue is cringe, Trinity is annoying and has no personality just your baseline *OH SENPAI ME SO CUTE ME SO FUNNY* Anime personality... Hey DC knock knock anyone home?? You f**ked up! You should have hired a totally different writer to create a serious interesting story of Trinity. Who are you trying to appeal to here?!

These critics are either not actually reading the issue and just saying some copy and pasted paragraph they default to Everytime or they really have no taste at all. How can anyone think this is a respectable good solo story for WONDER WOMANS DAUGHTER. This is beyond stupid. There hasn't been enough time to develop this character at all through the new run so to just throw her into this inebriated monkey brained Anime plot is just ridiculous. This doesn't make me like her at all, it's bad enough King wrote her as this insufferable brat but now we have to read three brats babbling about traveling in time a gazillion times (FOR COMEDY BRO). DC SHOULD BE ASHAMED. Wonder Woman and her daughter deserve to be taken seriously and not turned into some f**King Deadpool. You unimaginative bafoons did the same thing to my favorite character Harley Quinn and now your doing that to Wonder Woman and her daughter. What kind of drugs are the people in DC taking?!!!

I liked DC vs Vampires and All-Out War, I have all the issues so I figured this should be good since Matthew Rosenburg wrote it. Nope, garbage, no idea what is going on here. Lame art, writing is atrocious. The next issue sucks just as much.

I'm not going to lie I enjoyed the goofy escapades of Damian, Jon and Lizzie, this was a nice way to humanize them. The art was fantastic and the dialogue wasn't s**t like the WW run. What turned me off despite all of that was how at the end Lizzie punches Diana in the face for not wanting to shoot her during her Amazon trials. The ish also shows that Diana also did this during her trials punching her mother in the face. BULLSH**! Why do you have to make Lizzie an insufferable competitive pain in the butt like every second she has screen time? But anyway no way in hell would Diana ever disrespect her mother like that in front of all the Amazons or even privately. That is so beneath her and disgusting King really is pissing and sh**ting all over Diana why is this being allowed?! And of course excusing Lizzie's behavior of disrespecting her mother Diana just because of Diana did it too, F**k you. That's Diana's one and only daughter she has every right to feel the way she did, Lizzie didn't have to disrespect her mother who oh I forgot happens to be WONDER WOMAN! Tom King must be some kind of sadist or masochist who thinks the only way to raise someone up is to tear someone down. These behaviors are completely alien to the Amazon culture, Lizzie could have just made an endearing speech to Diana that she had to trust her to survive the gun. That would have been good enough but no we have to defecate on these characters, who gave this the okay they should have been fired?! If this was suppose to make me respect Lizzie it has the opposite effect. And this was one of the things I was looking forward to despite pretty much being disgusted with this WW run. I was excited to find out more about Diana's daughter but now I see King is up to his usual tricks. It's going to take a lot for me to unsee this disgrace and like Lizzie I really want to like her too because she has my mom's name which is really cool. But if you keep making her a mean, insufferable, competitive brat like that annoying kid in school it won't be such a great time...

Really overdoing it with the Damian and Jon sh*t at this point. I wouldn't even put Kings level of writing with fanfiction...

I'm reading this through the deluxe edition because I want to get an idea on what the upcoming Supergirl movie will be like. Not being a fan of Tom King on how he has been handling WW and Trinity so far this is tolerable compared to those atrocious depictions. Nonetheless I can;t help but feel like Kara is out of character and written like a trashy whore you would meet at 3AM in a dark part of the city. I understand it is her birthday and she goes to planets with weaker suns so she can feel the affectsof getting drunk but frankly this feels like I am reading e beginning of some Deadpool knock off. Which urks me greatly because this is why I hated king's Trinity so much where he turned her into a wanna-be Deadpool. Now it's a very basic introduction to this version of Kara and of course you can;t go without King's over-bloated narration which in this is done by Ruthye. Ruthye is seeking someone to kill a wretched killer named Krem who murdered her father in cold blood. She crosses Kara's path in a bar and the story goes from there. Krem steals Kara's ship and the ish ends with Supergirl stuck on this planet, Krypto has an arrow in his upper shoulder etc. This is very basic so far and feels like I am watching a storyboard for a movie. Now the nice part about the deluxe edition is the re-coloring really makes this a stand out, and the drawings are really nice. Each page feels like it flows beautifully from one to the next. I can see there might be some good development of Kara as you go through this series but so far so good. Lastly, Tom King has an introduction in the Deluxe Edition and I have to give him credit for being slightly aware that he is aragant and bragadocious and his story about his daughter was a nice touch. Yet this does not make me overlook his destruction of WW sorry. And as always everything is about him. I have read many introductions written by the greats from Stan Lee, Peter David, etc. They write about themselves in such a way that was entertaining and educating at the same time. Peter David would tell you in detail what inspired him to create a darker Aquaman and thoughout his preface didn't need to brag about his "career", he imparted his comic knowledge and love of the medium in a beneficial way toward the reader. Another example is how Stan Lee in his introduction to the Silver Surfer Omnibus made it very clear that comics were designed to transcend Hollywood movies, not be Hollywood movies. He wrote that beautiful intro back in 2007 in such a beautiful and honest way that I always refer back to it once in a while when talking about Stan Lee. Tom King however always has to remind you that he was in the CIA, served in war twice in his "misspent" youth. While in this intro he seems to attempt a stab at modesty, it fails again and comes more off like bragging points. I don't get a sense of a true love of the medium of comics like I always did from the past greats of our time.

I'm starting this off with a 1 out of 10 for Krypto. Really,you had to kill off Krypto? Is that what we have to look forward to in the Supergirl movie? What BS, now we get stuck with Ruthye who is as interesting as Bebe Newell playing Lilith on Cheers but atleast Bebe is funny and talented. The story is already crap, and Tom King continues his campaign of over-narration and he completely missed the lesson "Show don't tell. Ruthye and Supergirl in this ish are traveling through space, and Supergirl teaches Ruthye to wash her hands with soap. Yeah seriously. Back to the over-narration point this is no joke. Most of the pnls are filled with Ruthye's annying, emotionless, wordy bubbles that don't add anything to the story. She literally at the end ofish 2 explains to you what happened right after ish #1 on how Krypto dies. This was a cheap trick by King, and should have been shown to you the reader in the beginning of the comic not told to you by some manaquin. But whatever King would have done would not make up for killing Krypto. This is a comic, you could come up with any solution to save Krypto. So with Krypto out of the story, the interest is already dying down. This would be unique and nice with a favorite super-pup besides Kara (even this raunchy, nasty, modern Kara OF version). In fact with Krypto this story would stay tolerable but already the tolerability is low. So hat was really dumb Mr. King... The art is still good but that's it so far. I know you don't believe me but I tried to go into this positively despite King's involvement but he makes it very difficult...

Okay so where to begin on this, lots of thoughts from this sh*t ish. I'm still bummed about how Krypto's death was handled like nothing happened. I mean this is KRYPTO. King completely glossed over any emotion this could have brought out of Kara,but I guess we can't afford Kara to look or be vulnerable because muh feminism...It comes off though like Kara didn't give a crap after he died. I know the real Supergirl would never act this way, I mean c'mon Superman showed more emotion in James Gunn' horrible movie when the robot died in the end then Kara did for Krypto. POOR WRITING. Secondly the more annoying and overly written Ruthy is the more her bubbles just go over my head. I find my mind forgetting her meaningless tripe the second I finish her dialogue. She is also a reminder of wy I hate the Last of Us, (I love the Last of Us) but I hate how it createdthis trend in all media of the little girl being carried around dangerous situations and bonding with the protector. It only worked beautifully in LOU I, everyone else trying to do this it comes off bland, lame and unimaginative. But with Ruthy it is worse because King doesn't do anything to me her stand out or be likeable at all. A particular immersion breakingscene in this ish is when Ruthys gets hot at while sleeping and Kara bviously saves her. But in his action packed moment that should be intense, King ruins it with this over the top bland narration that makes you say "damn, they missed!" I must also question further James Gunn who after Superman I suspected to be a poser. And no Gunn posing in pictures with old Action Comic issues is not enough to convince me, that is pure PR. Gunn wanting to base his Supergirl movie off of this only solidifies my feeling that he is a fake. Why? Well this is the worst Supergirl comic I've read, and this only exposes Gunn's level of Comic lore. you can go back to Peter David's Supergirl run and have superior content you can use for a Supergirl movie compared to this generic trash. So that also tells me that he is only picking this because it is the newest thing by Tom King and for some reason DC has a hard on for King, as King also influenced Superman movie which is evident because how bad it was. Gunn's decisions are corporate based, he is no Sam Raimi who had a genuine love for Spider-man comics in his life for example. Back to this ish, the art has taken a major hit and looks worse than previous two. The beautiful color design can't make up for the lackluster pencils in this particular ish. The story continues to suck and clearly King has no original ideas in his mind and regurgitates concepts he reuses. For example his horrid Wonder WOman run, issues 22-24 i believe with the "Mouse Man Knows" mantra seems to have seeped it's way into this. Kara and Ruthy discover the Blue aliens committed a holocaust on the Purple aliens and Krem joined in on the genocide before Kara and Ruthys arrived. Wow he must have committed this systemic genocide pretty quick from when they left the first planet to this one. MORE BAD WRITING. King can't help but lecture his readers about things we already know about. He forgets he's writing a superhero comic.

So I've made a mistake. Krypto is not dead. But me thinking this only proves King is a horrible writer. Why?I went back to issue #1 to see where I misread Krypto's death and here's what the last few panels say. "The mender explained that there had been hunting poison on the arrows-- it didn't affect people too bad, but it was killing the animal." "He could save the pup, but he would need a hefty sample of the original poison, for each hunter mixed it differently." Here's where I misread and thought Krypto was dead. "As Krem of the yellow Hills was nowhere to be found, the animal was lost". And the panel shows Krypto with his eyes closed, and the artist drew his body disfigured and emaciated. Everything about this panel screamed "KRYPTO IS DEAD". Even the artist interpreted it that way clearly. Further evidence of King's tell don't show philosophy Ruthy goes on too narrate "Later, I was by her side as she stroked the sick dog's face, I saw her tears fall." This should have been an amazing one page panel of Kara tearing on a sick Krypto with his eyes open looking at her eyes too. This would have made Krypto's fate more clear and hopeful, maybe with Kara whispering too him "I'm gonna find you that cure boy, just hold on." So in ish #4 when Kara randomly shouts out "I have to save Krypto" it comes off mental and completley random because there was barely any mention of Krypto's status in ish #3. I'm happy he's still alive but this comic still suffers from Tom-Kingitis. This comic has no grounding, no consistancy at all except the generic themes of adult and child journeying and seeing evil things with moral lessons as cliche as Taylor Swift. Gail Simone's Wonder Woman for example had that grounding, familiar characters would come in to remind you of Diana's world, and Diana's world of supporting characters and lore only made her story more of a rich experience. King takes Kara away from her grounding and expects her to float all on her own. A clever writer would make Kara the main character in her own story and use the familiar characters of her past runs serve as supporting structures. But no, Kara has to be strong feminist who needs no writing structure. And yes, King fails at using supporting characters in his WW run as well but in this they don;t exist at all.

While this is so far th most bearable ish, it still sucks. The art is top notch here, the monsters, the deadly planet with a green sun that was made to kill superman is all awesome. Kara is weak and unable to defend herself, and so Ruthy is holding the line until the green sun sets and Kara can power back up. But throughout this beautifully renditioned ish, the writing itself turned reading through each page a total slog and I was thankful for each moment I was getting closer to the end. Now look, I'm not a stingey goody two shoes when it comes to cursing, I curse plenty in my daily life. So having Kara curse doesn;t bother me totally however it is out of her character. When people complained about Batfleck cursing on BvS I defended it. Knowing it was out of Bruce's character I always used the excuse "it's Snyder's universe, its darker, Batman's mortality is more prevalent than ever, and his human side comes out more." Still you won't see me advocating Bats cursing on comics though, leave that in the films. So Kara cursing gets really annoying in this, I mean she makes me look like a saint! It just comes off like constant b*tching and complaining. Now if Superman ever cursed I would call it out in any medium comic or movie. Superman unlike Batman is not a human being, he is a Kryptonian with super god like powers. And retaining his "boy scout" image everyone these days scolds him for is not Superman being a hypocrite. I don;t even believe it takes much for him not to curse, in fact I believe the urge to curse never even occurs to him even under his worst moments. He's just so above that, that's like Wonder Woman cursing like a sailor too, a goddess formed by clay or in ther renditions the daughter of friggin' Zeus. So actually Mr. King, holding our darling Kara Supergirl to the same standard as our boy Kal and wanting her to avoid cursing is more of an equal progressive attitude than what you are lowering Kara too in these sh*te comics sir. Your basically saying Kara is so much lower than Kal, weaker mentally, that she resorts too cursing constantly under duress. She just can't handle the pressure, and even says "I get why people f*cking hate Kal". Even in some of the worst action comic runs during the Phillip Kennedy Johnson times, Supergirl was positive, as mentally strong and compassionate as Kal. The artist even give her this constant b*tch face through most of the panels. If she is going by Supergirl act like it. But no we can't do that, the former CIA ghoul has to deconstruct some of the most iconic women in comic book history. So yeah this ish was just waiting until the green sun set, and boring Ruthy holding up her sword and killing a dino 10 times her size in one shot. And King trivializing Kara to a petty jealous piece of trash.

Wow I can't imagine what everyone was smoking to give this such praise. It must just be the colorful art because otherwise the story is still really bad and the pacing a slog. And again the cursing is so redundant and off putting because the artstyle feels like it is aimed at 5 year olds. So one can't help but feel like they are reading a well drawn, colored book that was written, edited and approved by monkeys, but frankly I think monkeys would do a much better job. If the art style is childish and colorful, where does saying fuck every other panel match? Am I reading Supergirl or MAX Punisher By Garth Ennis which I would rather be doing but I need to finish this to have a full opinion. Good try about Kara's experience wth her father surviving the aftermath of Krypton suviving in the floating asteroid city. But honestly even the goofy Supergirl 1984 movie did a way better job than this lmfao. yeah I brought that movie back from the grave. Atleast Supergirl 1984 was funny and even had Faye Dunaway. This isn;t fun, funny, or the least bit intriguing. CIA Ghoul continues to prove to me tha the comic industry deserves to collapse f it continues to put phonies and pseudo-intellects like King up on a pedestal.

This is by far the best ish in the series, the art is magnificent here. However it still suffers from Tom King-Itis and it really shows here. Tom really tries to impress the reader here with some of his greatest hits on "wisdom". Clearly after reading and being pleased by "The Analects of Confucius", King miracuosly summoned the very soul of Confucius and imparted this ancient piece of knowledge; "This is the question of a fool who has never hit a man in the face knowing that one hit won't do it and the next thing that's going to happen is that man is going to hit you right back as hard as he damn can. And you will taste your own blood before this day is ended." From that another Tom King characteristic that shows up, rather mildly compared to Wonder Woman for example. Is how frenetic and unfocused the pacing of the story is. For example in WW around ish #18, or the one with Detective Chimp I think, the narration goes from Day 1, to Day 21, to day 12, etc. It is a mind numbing and pointless experience. Well it is not that extreme in Supergirl, but it doesn;t allow you to develop any connection to anybody at all. Comet comes in the comic too fast, Krpyto has been barely mentioned at all still and I still feel was totally treated like shit. Krem's capture was anti-climactic, Ruthy's arc has been not only predictable but too easy as well. Supergirl is just a pissed off walking tank that adds nothing interesting to the story dialogue-wise oher than the fact that she is Supergirl. I have seen mini-series do a better job with getting the reader to buy the world and setting, this fools most readers because of the colorful fun art. DC's tired strategy of putting make-up on a pig can't last forever. Or can it, are most people okay with the pig? Lastly here is why I gave this a 4 instead of a 2 or 1 like the last issues. Solely for the art. Clearly the artist here really went all out, from the Supergirl fighting the Brigands on their D&D Spelljammer cosplay session Space Pirate ship, too the boring uninteresting Ruthy on the beautiful blue utopian planet. The setting, Comet, lines, design, and the beautiful color is truly perfection here. If anything, it would be improved if you just took out all of King's narration bubbles and just showcased the art this Deluxe Edition would be a 9 out of 10.

Okay so this ish really throws a ton of bullshit at your face and then it drops a piano on your head. We go from this entire bs scene where Ruthy who is not a warrior or has not shown any prowess besides lucking out and killing a giant dinosaur with one blow has an equal fight with the genocidal maniac Krem who has killed god knows how many people. All she does is kick him a few times in the face and bites his arm. The depravity of Krem should have been on full display here and the reader should have been put on edge that Ruthy might get killed becaue of her arrogance to fight a genocidal monster on her own. But no we need to Girl Boss this. It made no sense at all. Tom King do you like Last of Us? Because I felt like I was reading TLOU II when Abby and Ellie were having their bloody cat fight on the shoreline. And just like Abby and Ellie, Ruthy doesn't cut off Krem's head. Then to teach Ruthy a lesson Supergirl attempts to cut off his head only to be stopped by Ruthy because she learned her lesson that killing is bad or something. Okay it gets more contrived and stupid. So they put Krem in the phantom Zone and he serves 200 years and is rehabilitated. Supergirl with Krpyto who by the way, Supergirl lied about having to find the antidote on Krem just to have an excuse to go with Ruthy on her chase for vengeance. Krypto was fine the whole time, Kara lied. This is not Supergirl, toying with us on Krypto is disgusting, Superman would throw Kara into a tub of kryptonite for being so douchey. So Supergirl visits th boring and lame Ruthy who is now an old woman, Supergirl is still young with a short haircut okay. She releases Krem unto Ruthy, Krem is an old man begging Ruthy for her forgiveness. Ruthy kills him. So what was the point of that over-bloated moralizing throughout the entire issue Mr. Kingfucius? Supergirl didn't even stop her she just stood there. So if Ruthy was goingto kill him then why didn;t they kill him on the beach when he was evil? Killing him when he did 200 years begging for forgiveness (while he is still a douche) still makes Supergirl and Ruthy look like unhinged psychopathic murderers. This is not Supergirl, this is Tom King placing his psychosis on her. You guys giving this a high rating are taking some kind of DMT, bath salts, or bio-engineered weed.

What a disappointment... I was really looking forward to this, but wow I couldn't believe how poor the writing was and how jumbled and stupid the whole plot comes off. The art is not enough either to keep my attention. There are some good panels but most of this feels rushed. I liked how it was showing how she was figuring out how to survive but it lost focus at some point I think when those creatures disturbed her in the cave she was sleeping in. Coming from a Super Rogue fan, like I have all of her comics, love them all even the not so popular ones. But this is awful. If I was writing this I would have really emphasized the savage land and bare basic survival. Really play on that more than this. What really pisses me off is they made sure to make a great looking cover including the variants which are superb pieces. But that's it, inside is an empty shell like your average materialistic American female who only cares about money and status. Do not buy, stay away, I was only fooled by dat Savage Rogue look baby lol.

Okay so I'm reading the Absolute Power event because it annoyingly intervenes on my favorite solo runs I'm currently reading (Wonder Woman, and Superman). A bit of a pain in the ass because it takes over I think 3 issues of Wonder woman and same with Superman. It's not too much of an undertaking but it's still annoying but I'm up for the challenge. Anyway on to this Dream team ish. Not bad not great, art sucks which is surprising because its Eddy Barrows story so far is okay. Imo The new character Dreamer is DC version of America Chavez but instead of her multi-versal powers and stuff this one has the ability to go through every living things dreams. Her costume design is pretty close to Chavez oh and yeah apparently she is trans. Which makes no sense because they show her as a girl when her mother died and she still looks like a woman. Okay I did some research and found that Nicole Maine's was born a male and transitioned to female in teenage years so I guess Dreamer is the author who was created in the Supergirl show which I never watched. I don't know if it's necessary to self insert but whatever it's not that bad here. Anyway Amanda Waller sends this dream team to do something I don't know what yet but Dreamer envisions Waller being the bringer of much death.

I'm sorry but this is bad. The only good thing out of this ish was the conversation between Dreamer and Amanda but otherwise Eddy Barrows seemed to be out of the game here with his art. His heart was not in this one, the way he draws Dreamer she looks ugly and terrifying, but he does draw Amanda well imo. I know it's not because he's a bad artist, some of the best artwork of his was in his Action comics issues so for some reason he didn't seem to be into this, maybe he isnt into the subject? Nonetheless the writing is mostly horrible and I find myself really forcing my eyes to go panel to panel here...

This is utter trash my God can't wait to finish this, please tell me this author doesn't write most of the absolute power event I might just stop reading altogether if that's the case... I swear most of the dialogue feels like it was written by a spoiled 5 year old and this Dreamer is just as annoying as Marvels Chavez. Both have the exact same motives, "hates evil racist, xenophobia and loves refugees". Jesus do these people have any more to their identity than the average checklist Leftist handbook? Doesn't anyone get bored of these tropes after a while? For God sakes the only interesting thing out of this is Waller at this point but you even somehow turn Harley Quinn into a "Yes make your so moral so good I'm just here against my will" bullshit. Even DeadEye is somewhat more interesting but that's because he is Waller's nephew so that's the most interesting drama you can draw from this but even that is not playing up enough. I saw one critic saying this was the best iteration of the squad what are you smoking?!!!

Trash without a doubt. Again the writing feels like a 5 year old having a temper tantrum about nothing being fair and people are mean. Reducing Waller's motivations to simple "this is a man's world and I did this because I'ma woman and everything is against me". That's funny coming from a writer who is a trans, if life was so hard for women and so toxic, sexist and oppressive than who the hell would want to transition to a woman? Hell it is possible that some men transition because they think they will get more opportunities as a women in today's modern times. So please spare me the lecture of a man's world that's outdated and doesn't make sense anymore in today's times, maybe in the 50s you could use that trope but now it just comes off as fake and gay. Fake activism, fake virtue signals, fake fake fake.....

I'm only giving it a 5 for the art but the story is atrocious my God.

The whole time I'm reading this I'm saying to the blue dialogue box "ShUT THE F**K UP!!" Like OMG Tom King is really full of himself... Im only going to keep going because I like the art and I want to read more about Trinity because I was impressed with Wonder Woman #800 when they showed her and Batman/Supermans sons together. But I'm sorry this is horrible, Tom King is a try hard power who thinks his writing is some kind of epic never before told story. His tropes are predictable, his villains are two dimensional and even the other background characters are really full. And this is all because of a bar room fight from ish #1?! BS. I've never read any Tom King stuff and heard some bad things about it but wanting to see for myself going in with an open mind I can say so far I am not impressed with this at all... I've read Gail Simone run last year from 2006 and loved it. This does not even compare to that almost 20 year old run, the first issues of that I was immediately hooked and finished it so fast. Why didn't you guys hire Gail or a writer like that? Why Tom King? He is clearly a pseudo-intellectual... Hopefully I soften up next issue but if it continues to be this condescending bull I'm going to be rough on this series....

An improvement from #2 but still garbage writing with a little febreeze sprayed over it. I can't stand this Sovereign dialogue. It is so wordy and overdone the meaning of the sovereign is going over my head throughout. I can tell you the villain already is failing in my eyes because his argument for being evil is extremely stupid. Obviously KING is making modern day political connections in his writing that just doesn't make sense in Wonder Woman's world imo. Blaming the Amazons for the destruction of American culture, how the Amazons want to kill all men, and how the Sovereign uses the lasoo of lies to make a soldier commit suicide leaving a note that he blames Wonder Woman. This is retarded because this is the same world where Superman, Batman and many other male heroes dwell. There is no way the Sovereign even has a "well you know maybe the guy has a point but he's still wrong..." kind of vibe. Like some well written villains have an understandable goal and reason to hate their heroes. But so far I have no idea why this old dude who cosplays as a king has a bug up his a** for the venerable Amazons? Is he immortal, is that why he refers to the American history bits and refers to himself as "we"? The only saving grace that kept me interested was when we found out the Amazon who killed the men in the bar is pregnant and then the panel shows Trinity behind bars being asked if she wants to hear more about the story. My God never before would I have thought Wonder Woman in her own story would feel like a fill in like this. This should really be called "Tom Kings Delusions: We are annoyingly Sovereign and stuff..."

Wow this was one hell of a comeback for me. Going in with low expectations because frankly so far this run has been horrible issues #4 really turned it around, and I hope this stays as the definitive turning point. Please keep up these vibes. The dialogue wasn't as bloated and there was more intimate character moments that helped this setting grow more familiar to me. I was really happy to see Amanda Waller show up talking to Sgt. Steel, should be great to see how she f**KS with Diana. Steve getting into a brawl with his fellow soldiers calling him a cuc* and put**y whipped for not talking bad about WW. The Sovereign is still kind of dumb for me at the moment but what is good is he was presented better in here making it easier to understand what he might be. When he made the POtUs kiss his ring and talk about the mother and the king, and how they breed him and his family, shows that he's not immortal probably this is some secret society like the masons or illuminati I mean just short hand something like that. This book gave more time to Diana too with her visiting a boy dying of cancer and she brings him to Themyscira for a day. Rendering some beautiful sad moments between her and him. I hope this continues in this direction and not the over bloated writing of previous issues, oh and of course the art in this was perfect!

While not as perfect as #4 this was still a page turner and had some great dialogue between Diana and Cassie and Yara. As the Sovereign was building up a small army of Diana's Rogues gallery, Diana was one by one challenging her Wonder Girls and forcing them through oaths not to assist her in the upcoming battles she will face. Each challenge was unique and I enjoyed watching Diana stick an arrow in Yaras belly, have an emotional conversation with Cassie while they were arm wrestling to the death and my favorite was Diana beating Donna at Injustice 2, this was a lot of fun this issue and King slightly fell back into over bloated writing in some panels but he seems to be getting more focused here. Obviously by the end all three showed up at Diana's apartment to say they weren't following the paths. This was a great ish to get the reader to form a subtle bond with these characters and what they are about to do.

Damn this was as epic as watching a movie. Some of the most intense battle panels I've seen, Wonder Woman facing off Giganta, Circe, Silver Swan, Psycho and Angle all together beating the hell out of her. Giganta throwing the Washington monument full force into Wonder Woman. And with all of that Wonder Woman still stood weakened, and the last piece of the chess board was Darkseid's daughter Grail fresh and ready to kill. Grail and WW fight each other like a DBZ episode to the death with both of them falling unconscious. Clearly the sovereign plans to do some kind games with the now vulnerable WW. This was really good stuff, the action and art alone makes this issue truly a masterpiece worth trudging through some of the wordy over bloated writing of King.

This was a nice break from the main story to lighten things up for now. Watching Superman and WW shop in the biggest mall in the universe was actually more fun and familiar than I originally would have thought. It was a nice way to humanize our heroes and made me feel closer to them as characters. The art changed for this issue to be more fun and tooney but it worked for what this issue was doing.

Ooffph, this was really silly and cringe this ish. I ma very consistent when I say I hate when a story goes back in time to make a dull point that could have been done in a better way. I'm still unsure what this Sovereign douch* is trying to do to Diana. Is he trying to turn her into an obedient 1950s housewife? I don't get it? Why? And he says to her that she can't be a savior because she is a women but Diana has never claimed to be a savior or Messiah? She's a hero... I'm saying I don't understand the Sovereigns motive at all and it just seems like Tom King has this obsession with always drawing up the same 1950s cliche tropes that bore the hell out of me. Like okay it worked pretty good with Wandavision which was loosely based off of Kings Vision run but that has more depth to it than this. I still can't see the goal of the Sovereign, why does he hate Diana so much? Is it really the boring answer of "Well he's a bigot and a sexist and a phobe." I mean c'mon this is a comic this has to be something bigger than that, Diana has fought gods and monsters, this has to be more than just a few sexist perverts in Washington taking down our girl WW. A little more imagination please? Not a terrible issue however the art still holds up and oddly I am interested because I want more answers to what the hell this is all about?!!

Okay now this is more like it, firstly the art is majestic and really sucked me into Diana's world and mind. How she is talking to Steve while trying to retain her sanity against the Sovereign's solitary confinement torture of her. Which one thing I don't understand how is the Sovereign able to keep Diana in a dark cell for so long? There hasn't been a physical explanation for this because can't she just bust her way out with her super strength? And secondly Sovereign isn't controlling her mind so she is just being mentally deprived of her loved ones. Her moments with Steve are really good here and again the art does such a good job keeping me in the moments with them both. I don't know how I feel about her having to eat a rat and then befriending the rats female counterpart out of guilt, that's nasty but I guess King has to really show the inhuman depravity of the whole situation which again why cant wonder woman just punch her way out if this one? Are the walls Amazon proof? Need some more explaining but otherwise this ish was SOLID

Best part about this ish hands down is Cheetah and WW fighting out and eventually befriending at the end. This series when it does the action scenes really stands out for me. The only reason why I took off .5 points was I disagree with what King says about Batman and Superman being reduced to one thing and the simplicity of their goals and that Wonder Woman and all of the girls are more complex and can't be so easily defined. I mean this was nice and cool but I don't see why you have to tear down Supes and Bats to put up WW. Might just be me but I love WW and never had the feeling to tear other characters down to put her up, she's great in her own way. But why I rated this high and let that one peeve barely effect the score was I have to give King credit in how he wrote Cheetah and Diana's dynamics, it was excellent and epic. I'm one of those guys that loved Cheetah in 1984 so I love when they do opa good job with her in the comics like this 👏 👍

I don't care giving it a 1 because it's Absolute Power and that event is TRASH. WTF DID YOU INTERRUPT THIS MAIN WW STORY FOR THIS GARBAGE

Absolute Power = Trash

Thank God the tie in gets out of this run at this ish. What a horror show and waste of issues....

I hate to give this such a low score because Sampere's art is truly beautiful but I have to do it because this story in this ish was all over the place. I was left totally confused and frustrated and again telling the narrator blue box (the sovereign) to shut the f**k up constantly. Blah blah blah blah blah, meaningless exposition. Steve is killed just because, and again none of this consistently flows from one ish to the other. The storyline and pacing feels ADD and unorganized. The only satisfaction is you see she makes Elizabeth out of clay with her hair and a piece of Steven. That was nice, but frankly I think this ish would have been better if it had a good writer and less dialogue boxes taking up so much space and unnecessary attention. I thought King was improving but this ish proves otherwise. And don't get me started on the disjointed Day 5, then Day 50, then Day 42, then Day 1 drove me f***ing crazy...

This is just headache inducing, garbage. The SOVEREIGN IS THE WORST THING EVER , HE NEVER SHUTS UP. Tom King is a** people weren't joking when they told me this but seeing it for myself he is worse than I thought. Absolutely unbearable writing... And the art is too good for such crap writing... I would give this a higher score just for the art but that would be lying to myself. The writing alone ruins any good aspect of this series so far...

Not horrible like before, writing was at least bearable and digestible this time around. King is not consistent at all with his themes. Going from WW being tortured in solitary confinement, to being in a jungle to find Cheetah, to creating a baby, to now having a chimp investigating Sovereign and helping Clark expose to the world who Sovereign is. Talk about all over the place thematically speaking. The only cool part is how the chimp is really The Spectre but we only see the Spectre pop his face out in one panel, that's it... I was unfortunately correct in my prediction early on that the Sovereign's motivation is lame and as simple as "he's a sexist mean white guy" because his father who was king before wanted Sovereign's sister to become next heir, and Sovereign murdered his father to prevent "a woman from taking his rightful place." That's the big deal. Not the fact that America has been under the secret control of some secret society using a black lasso of lies going all the way back to our founding fathers which in itself is stupid. Like wouldn't you need to have someone tied to the lasso the whole time to be under control like how the lasso of truth works? Anyone who has some knowledge of American history will laugh at this premise because Tom King at one point puts it as "The Sovereign had the Founding Fathers believe they were running a democracy." This is retarded because the Founding Fathers ended up pretty fractured on what their vision for America was. Hello, Federalist and Anti Federalist? Jefferson vision against Hamilton vision. Jefferson and Adams going head to head over the Alien and Sedition act. John Adams being fervently against any idea of democracy because of what was unfolding in France (the revolution) viewing democracy as "mob rule". You can find this in his letters or also in his biography by David McCullough. There are so many examples of this from James Madison too and many other founding fathers. To just generally paint all of the founders as if they believed in a democracy is treating your viewers like historical illiterates or maybe Tom King is historically illiterate? Democratic Republic, Representative Republic, etc. Democracy was not the accepted word barely used. The art is still great, King just sucks...

I can't believe how soft everyone is in rating these issues. This should be considered false advertising because not counting the horrid Absolute Power Tie in issues, most of this series has been narrated through the perspective of the worst villain ever conjured The Sovereign. Wonder Woman is just an after thought in her own solo series it's really disgraceful. I tried being patient through issues 1-11 but since 14 it just keeps dragging on and on, I hope they finally end it or something with Sovereign next ish. Rarely do we get anything from Diana except some blurbs and obvious things nothing to really make you feel like your a long side WW. I hate that I have to experience this through the Sovereign. I was happy to see Diana talk a little bit in this to her baby and make a sculpt of Steve but jeez that's all we get! Pathetic!!

Diana has been reduced to a female Arnold Swartzenegger action hero who just blurbs meaningless phrases that might sound okay. All this work and dialogue for the Sovereign and no detail given to the main attraction WW. Total yawnfest this ish, and frankly it just dawned on me. Why the hell would Darkseid's daughter be helping the Sovereign? Let alone take orders from him? There has been no good explanation that I'm aware of on why the daughter of Darkseid would be a bodyguard to any mortal? This low rating I have to keep saying for the record is not about the art the art is phenomenal but I just can't let go how King has dropped the ball so hard on Diana...

All I have to say is... Is the Sovereign exposition finally over?? Oh and what am I suppose to be excited that apparently Wonder Woman was killed by Lyssa during Trinity's time? A Wonder War? Oh wow so interesting... Not... God...

Much better than what was going on previously but this is probably a break and thats it. It was a nice moment between Diana and Bruce I thought when he was injured from Zeus' bolt. King is still horrible overbloated writer but the change of story, setting and art made it a bit more bearable for me to get through. Finally too Diana speaks plenty in this even if it feels like she's got a chip on her shoulder through a good amount. Better than the blurbs and grunts of previous arc...

The only parts I like are the conversations between Bruce and Diana, otherwise this was a forgettable cereal mystery.

Are you kidding me?! SERIOUSLY?! Your going back in time to have more Sovereign? I thought we were done with that?? And having a nice insurrection at the White House haha so funny...

Oh my is King having a mental breakdown or something here? Thankfully most of this comic the dialogue consist of MOUS MAN KNOWS MOUSE MAN KNOWS. So I was able to finish this comic in less than a fraggin minute... Retarded. Garbage.

TOM KING DOESNT KNOW, TOM KING DOESNT KNOW... HOW TO WRITE A GOOD STORY... Yet another piece of trash to add to this series run. And you know what, I know Diana is Wonder Woman but there's something ridiculous about her carrying a baby while fighting and getting shot at. I don't even picture her mother doing this kind of nonsense. I'm done giving thoughtful explanations for this series clearly DC does not take WW seriously. My God why is Tom King on this for so long...

Better than mouse man non-sense but not only a filler comic, a really goofy one at best...

Still goofy filler...

Okay hesitant to give a 10 because King has trouble keeping a good consistent story for WW thus far but this is more like it!

I enjoy this because how horrible Mouse Man arc was frankly Mouse man arc should never have been so long and those issues should have been used to show more of the Matriarch actually taking over the world then us being told about it. I dont feel like Matriarch is all impressive because its like everything is already there for her rather than seeing the process of her domination...

Forgettable

The only good part is it finishes Mary's story from New Champion of Shazam

Just atrocious...

Flatline Great, rest is bad.

My god I guess Huntress story was okay?

Confused why this ish got hit with low scores besides the art being phenomenal I enjoyed the chaos and the conclusion big time!

I will be honest I am having trouble remembering anything about this ish.And I have a Super memory when it comes to comics, so thats not good...

This was an forgettable generic story. Art is really nothing to brag about and this doesn't make me more interested in the Ultimate world.

I only gave this run a shot because on the later issues I really liked the new designs for Carol, but going in with low expectations since this is written by Alyssa Wong. I read her Deadpool issues for a bit and fell off because her writing style just doesn't do it for me. I have to say she still is unimpressive in this but I'm going to finish this it's only 10 issues. The art in the interiors here are okay but feel like unfinished rough drafts more than completed works. The story is basic and not sure if Yuna is interesting or just another self-insert of Wong which she seems to do sometimes. This is during the Jed MacKay run of the Avengers but not much connecting to that so far.

Just like her Deadpool run Wongs writing is atrocious. Hopefully she gets more into the swing of Captain Marvel as I go on and hopefully this Yuna arc isn't for the full 10 issues. Yuna is kind of lame. The art improved slightly but still nothing great. Jed MacKay writes Carol better in his Avengers run even though that's not perfect but way more interesting than this... And Omen is pretty lackluster villain just chasing Carol and Yuna around for the Negative bands Yuna stole from Genis-Vell the former Captain Marvel. Kind of cheap how she killed him so quick and is using his dead body to chase after them.

Slightly improved from last two issues but mostly because the artist seems to be getting more into it and really does a great job in many of these panels, plus the use of color pops out nice. The low score however remains because the writing is still bad and there's very little room given to develop the characters. There has been very little reason to like Yuna other than she has to be there for the plot, and Carol is just being used to progress Yuna story. SO this feels more like a Yuna comic than Captain Marvel so far

This is a clear improvement, the art just keeps getting better with each issue, the writing is still staying the same and has no feeling of evolution at all. It's still hard to like any of the characters the way Wong writes their dialogue. Thankfully the artist is really good and makes for some great panels to admire. I especially love the Black Cat drawings well done. Even though I still do not like Yuna, the artist draws her well. My biggest complaint still is how Captain Marvel feels like a second banana in her own comic...

Art is still great writing is a slog. The only interesting thing in this ish is how it ends. Next ish should be talking about Carol's family I think which I would like to see. I don't care about Yuna please Yuna go away.

So the Undone is basically Galactus but after eating a world he then would eat his Herald. Only thing going for this is the art but frankly losing patience with this borefest.

This series just gets worse somehow as you go, it's a shame because the artist is putting up a good job here but again the writing is so bad. So discombobulated I feel like I'm reading random nonsense that has no coherent building blocks to make me give a shit about any of these characters. This would be a good series if you had better writers maybe writers from the good Superman run from DC?

Literally felt like throwing up while reading this trash.

Believe it or not but this ish was actually pretty good unlike the previous shit ones. Better pacing, less exposition and the art was allowed to breathe. I enjoyed reading through this, why couldn't the previous ones be as good as this? Secondly I am only deducting two points from this for one reason. I wish the interiors of this ish looked like the cover shown. Not dissing the interior art it looks fantastic still like I said for most of the issues. But this cover issue art is really cool and wish the rest of the story was drawn in that kind of manga anime way it looks unique and more stylized.

Thank God it's over but jokes aside this ish and #9 were actually readable and enjoyable. These two utilized Carol more as should be and gave less time to boring Yuna. However if Marvel is going to reboot this again or continue this at the end of 2025 or next year of 2026 please find a new writer. Keep the artist or maybe even go for the style that you have shown on the covers of #9 and #10 I think that manga anime style would fit Carol's world beautifully and you can make some epic action panels with that style. Im going to give the Thompson run a read now and it looks like it'll be more quality than this. One other thing, keep her new design I love this look, and put her through more trials and tribulations. And no you don't have to go back to the 90s and make her an alcoholic like Tony during those 1998 Iron Man runs although it might make things interesting if she has some more human frailties like that that she would have to overcome.

I just started reading the new Ultimate stuff starting with Spidey and loved it so I wanted to try this. I must say this is excellent and has some really interesting concepts and characters. I actually find Iron Lad' anger toward his father to be a good hook and how they are trying to bring the 616 back. Marvel is not perfect but certainly between this and Ultimate Spider and Black Panther there is a lot more going on here than at DC unfortunately. Can't wait to read next issues when I have more time.

TOO MUCH INFORMATION (TMI BRO) I haven't reviewed previous issues but I would say I enjoyed issues #1-7 and didn't feel like I had anything to add to the conversation because most people liked them too. But this was just bad. Like I can tell the writer has a lot of big ideas and some of them sound really epic but so many crammed in one comic felt kind of lame and rushed and honestly incomprehensible. Like retaining it is not really possible because there is nothing to relate to in order to remember some of the large amounts of information thrown at you so fast. Captain Marvel is like that NPC that just has so much dialogue about lame quest you could care less about. Then when she demands an emotional response there is nothing there because it is so routine. This issue is information overload or simply TMI. Honestly America Chavez taking up this much space is stupid, you should have a separate comic or miniseries if you wanted to cover more of her and her unknown history with these new Guardians of the Galaxy. Because I am more attached to the Ultimates you started us off with. Like their back stories didn't feel this convoluted and as bloated as your dead fat Galactus is floating in space lol. I am still looking forward though to seeing how Iron Lad fairs, and of course I want to see more of this Doom even though I know people who say that its been done before. I hope attention is kept on the others as well and that balance returns, but if the format is going to be like this on the next issue that will be a bad sign.

I wanted to like this as a fan of Loki but the art is really bad. Feels kiddish, and the whole spider-gwen being a character is kind of lame. Would have been fine with just the cast from the show. Sylvi doesn't even show at all even though she is on the cover, and Captain Britain comes off so generic and lack of any personality. Mobius and B-15 are great in the show and the writing fits their characters in this comic but it doesn't feel right, something is off? This had a lot of great potential and really could have taken advantage of some of the Orwellian themes of the TVA and expand more Loki lore but no it felt like a cash grab. I will read the next issues and stick with it until #5 but not impressed...

SYLVIE! Alright so this was a big improvement from issue #1. Nothing huge happens in terms of action, comic is mostly dialogue but feels like it is getting back to its Loki roots. Was a faster read than the previous ish but that might be because it was more to the point. Highlight of the comic is Sylvie shows up so I'm happy about that and clearly a good build up to a Loki reveal hopefully but it will most likely happen by ish #5. Nonetheless my only criticism is that the characters going to hell or specifically Hellstroms city where people can right wrongs,was like no big deal. Then when Sylvie shows up she applauds spider-gwen and Gambit for their gusto walking into hell. Like what? Why do I have issue with this little comment? Well this is Sylvie, who lived her entire life hiding from the TVA by living in moments in time where apocalypse would begin to avoid detection. So she never lived in a stable world until Loki controlled the multiverse. Most importantly she was one of the main forces through sheer vengeance to find and kill Kang being the one responsible for the collapse of the almost invincible tyrannical TVA and also the multi verse going awry in the first place. So a couple of characters walking in the safest version of hell is peanuts when compared to what Sylvie went through. That's bad writing and I have to call that out. Please next ish do not diminish Sylvie to raise up the lesser characters, she needs to stand out more, including the original cast like Mobius, B-15 and OB. They are integral and honestly spider-gwen and Gambit should be side characters to the Loki' cast journey. Still this comic I would only recommend to fans of the Loki show, it is a hard sell to a broader general audience of readers.

So going back to Action Comics, kind of a weird start here or me but not bad. I would say if anything Metallo saved my interest and kept me reading on. The book says it is good for new readers and this is somewhat true, however where this fails is the comic does not really introduce the new characters or who is who. It took me a bit to figure out who Iron's daughter was, which character was Superboy or Superman's son Jon (which btw what do we call his son, Superson?!) And we have these two kids that Superman adopted who are "refugees" from war world. One thing I notice in modern media and comics you see the word refugees thrown around a lot I wonder why... Besides that boring modern day political trite, you also have the other re-used political modern day trite of a movement of people who "hate aliens". Fake and g*y. In this comic they call these people the "Blue Earthers", and the Blue Earthers are protesting Super aliens from taking over the world and hate Superman and ilk. This is one theme I wish to be eradicated for a while in comics, who the f*ck wants to see protesting in our comics, too much of this in comic movies too. Like yes people protest but honestly is it the majority of people? I've only been to one and found it to be a complete waste of time and I think most people do also, so this brings the question here who are the writers appeasing to with this repeated nonsense? Anyway the story shows more of the Super family, for me I know who Supergirl is, Superboy, Jon, but didn't know who Kenan was, and I didn't realize the metal girl was Steel's daughter. At first when I saw her in her metal form I was like who is this robot chick? And Kenan is literally called the "Superman of China". Like I said I was out of the loop of comics for a while and found this too be the goofiest thing I've ever heard of. I mean you same writers who removed the classic "Truth, Justice and the American way" for your "there is no Nation or borders bull", you let the Chinese Superman keep his nation's name? Double standard much?! Besides that however it is goofy because you never call our boy Supes, "Superman of America". I don't care if you have a superpowered Chinese guy, but you could have come up with a better name, and the Yin-yang design as his logo? Man you guys are fu**king shallow, I guess you think everyone in China is some kind of Xiolin Showdown cartoon character? So in the story you got this building by Steelworks being erected and Lex Luthor sends Metallo to blow it up during the celebration. The Super family was there as guards I guess, and I won't lie when you go to the panel where the Super family is flying over the protestors during the celebration, the Super family looks ominous, they look like villains lording over the peasant humans. It's not just because of the angle the artist chose, but I think the design choices and color of their costumes does the Super family a disservice. I mean Superboy, Jon and Kenan are mostly covered in black and red secondary. Kara is mostly red, black and jut has blue pants. The new twins have blue on one's chest and the other on the arms, but the rest is red and black. Why is are they wearing jet black colors at all, this doesn't give me good guy vibes, this is more like I don;t know The Boys or some kind of Garth Ennis wet dream. So not a great start but the only hook was Metallo showing up at the end ready to fight Superman,and thank god Superman still looks like Superman.

First, the art is 100 times better than last ish here. There's this subtle grit and heavy pounding violence that seeps through he panels and I love that. We start right away with Superman and Metallo beating he sh*t out of each other, and Sups freezes and sends Metallo out to space to get a breather. After that we get some boring stuff about the refugees living with the Super family and they do "cute" things ad are suppose to be funny for you to like them. They're okay nothing to write home about. Metallo floats in space and is talkingto his sister Tracy who is in trouble and is telling him to save her. Clearly this is not Tracy and some other villain controlling Metallo. This is foreshadowed obvously when Clark as talking about the War world refugees use of the word "unmade", and that Metallo's body looked like the "unmade" they encountered in war world. The unmade are warriors who die, brought back to life with new parts to fight again and so on, D & D necromancy stuff. Metallo kidnaps some Blue Earther protestors and turns them into robots to help him fight the SUperfamily. Nothing special here, kind of going with the motion.

You see the cover for this ish? Man would I love a series of Superman in that kind of style. Still the art in the issue itself is still good like #2, gritty, inky, etc. There's less talky talk which is good for me and more action, and I have no problem with large amounts of dialogue if it's interesting and progresses the story but the last couple issues just felt like exposition. We find out here that Lex has nothing to do wit Metallo's new freakish body transformation. We see Metallo getting more freakish and resembling a Strogg from the Quake videogames which I really dig. I say Metallo continues to steal the show of this story. My biggest gripe wit this issue has to be with what the writers do with Jon (Superman's son). Clark and Louis are leaving the Super family apartment and as Clark is changing into his Daily Plnet attire at super sped Jon ask his father "I've been thinking about the old house, when things calm down a little bit... Would you want to play coneyball sometime?" Superman responds "Aw pal, I would love that! I was afraid you'dgotten too big for it! Let's take a weekend at the farm soon! We can show Otho and Osul How to play too." Jon is shown to be sad, and clearly feels like he is being forgotten in place of the two "refugee" kids. Even one of the kids later on ask Jon "Do you hate us?" And he says no of course.The panels go on and show Jon get over it and realize he shouldn't feel that way but the writing gets real hokey on this problem next issue. I felt this too be really odd, Jon here looks like he is close to 18 atleast. Getting jealous over a couple of kids seemed like a cheap subplot and frankly we could have done without this.

Art improved and I really have noting bad to say here. This has some great violence and really sows off Metallo and Superman going at it again. We come to find out here who is manipulating Metallo and it turns out to be Cyborg Superman. I personally don't know the history of this character but he seems pretty badass.

The only interesting tidbit we get from this ish is how Metallo as a child murdered his abusive father who was about to beat up his sister little sister Tracy. Nothing great happens though here.

Glad that this story is over and there's a new one to read next. This was subpar, mediocre slittle saga at best. I don't recommend reading these.

Now this was f***ing awesome, Doomsday really is legendary and not even hell can quell his ridiculous power levels. Supergirl and Martian Man Hunter make a deal with the devil to help defeat Doomsday in front of every one in hell so Lucifer doesn't lose his place as well the devil. He gives Supergirl a fiendish warrior armor that was made to help the devil one day fight against God and heaven. Of course Supergirl dumps the armor as soon as her objective in defeating Doomsday with Martian Man Hunter works, because the goal was really just to keep Doomsday from escaping from hell and coming back to earth. This of course is kicking down the can because Doomsday will just keep getting stronger in hell and eventually be a bigger problem in the far future. Great art, great action.

Finally back at the main story here (not that the fillers and anthologies were terrible) but this was a strong start and a good little intro of Norah Stone and who she is. I have a feeling she is on a crusade against meta-humana because a meta-human killed someone she loved or family. She has a reason and this issue got me more curious just like how I felt when they first revealed her iat the end of ish #1056. I like how she tells Clark at the end of their tense interview that "this is my world too", many of her counter points to Clark in the interview were actually logical and she made a lot of sense. I'm sure she is going to be a full on villain because you know the modern progressive narratives of "hate speech" and being "xenophobic" to "refugees". But I hope as this story goes Norah Stone is not so one dimensional and has more depth than what I'm expecting. Otherwise great ish

I want to like these Action comics but it's difficult. The Superfamily doesn't have anything here that really stands out and I find myself having a hard time reading through the dialogue here. I can handle comics with multiple characters like Avengers but this isn't doing so well in my book. This story still is too scattered and seems to have trouble saying focused.

OMG. JUST. YES!!! Now this is what I'm talking about! Right away this art looks phenomenal, and the dialogue is coherent and well placed unlike previous issues. I read this like a slow build up of great anticipation. What really got me into this was when Supes figured out that Norah Stone is really an Al-Ghul from the Dark Multiverse. So that's why they put The Authority Special #1 in the TPB. I'm so happy theyre doing more with the Al-Ghul dark universe. Oh man I'm telling you when this reveal happened I was literally giddy, it was worth reading through mostly shitty Action Comics just for this moment and again I hope the art says like this for this part of the story. I knew this new character Norah was more than it looked. Only beef is when she brought Ortho into her dark universe I'm a bit sad the artist didn't choose to depict it in the weird abstract way it was shown in the Special that was really unique for me, but I'm not deducting any points for that because this artist is amazing....

This is so good thank God this got better. This art by Eddy Barrows and the others is perfection. I really took my time to enjoy and breath it all in. Each character looks distinct and unique compared to the crappy art of the issues I've been criticizing. Bruce's evil daughter is so damn cool, some of the coolest stuff where she is talking to Otho about her plan to take over Earth 0. I love the evil Batman armies behind her it looks so sick. And when Supes asked Constantine for help in the back of my mind I was hoping Etrigan would show up and guess what my wish was granted and I was so happy to see Etrigan. So happy to read this now because before Everytime I had to force myself to keep reading Action Comics but now I can't wait to jump to the next one as soon as I press enter to submit this review...

Wow all that build up on who was Norah Stone and that amazing reveal that connects it all back to the phenomenal Authority Special #1, and you guys end it all in this shit annual? This should have never happened like this. the Al-Ghul concept should have lasted way longer through more issues, I think Sister Shadow has way more potential than what this annual delivered pathetically. This was so bad and there I was for a second falling in love with this mediocre series making a big turn around... What a shame, Sister Shadow deserved more and could have been the coolest villain. I mean I'm glad when she is defeated she says "I'm not done yet" so hopefully if she returns in the future someone will do something better with her than this...

Nice, so I guess everything from the previous ish has been scrapped and this is starting fresh? While I was getting use to so many of the different characters I don't mind that this is going back to basics after reading that horrid annual.

While I'm a little sad to lose the Super family I was just starting to get into this is undeniably really good stuff here. First each page the line work and color is meticulous and frankly iconic. Superman looks good in every panel. The story feels tight and more focused than previous run now that it's just about the world under Bizarro and it's literally witnessing the end of civilization by willing suicide with a smile. Best part is who Supes teams up with at the end, Bizarro had reverse effect on the Joker making him the most sane man. This is brilliant and can't wait to read on...

This three issues of Bizarro take over was pretty good and way more digestible than most of the previous action comics. Nothing to groundbreaking or original but it worked well here and was a smooth read.

Artist Sandoval really upped his game by a thousand in this issue! I'm so happy to see the Superfamily back in action and that Brainiac is out unleashing chaos with Lobos people of Czarina. Brainiac manages to capture every super powered person except Superman thanks to Les jumping in the way. Not sure what Brainiac new plan is but I'm looking forward to reading next ish.

Still solid run here, this is really building up to what is going on with Brainiac. Lobo and Superman are going to face off next ish because General Chacal challenged Lobo to be the "the boss". Supergirl and Conner are off after escaping their pods and tr ying to figure out what's going on, Kara ends up caught and takes Lex down with her to find out what he knows. Art is really good here.

Where to begin? So Brainiac has a 12th level intelligence body that can only house so much knowledge and information. He's been creating a House of Brainiac to store this information into multiple bodies. It's not only storing this information that proved to be a problem for him. He needed something with unlimited brain power to process the information, this being why he needed Lex's daughter Lena for this. Lobo survived the mass murder of his people from the Queen Brainiac and managed to free the Superfamily and start an all-out battle against the Brainiac family. While this was going on Brainiac hooks Lena up to his system and is ready to use her up till she dies. Supergirl shows up with Lex and he explains that he's been working with Brainiac to protect Lena. But while he was with Brainiac he made a back program to defeat Brainiac. He has this sick helmet that he puts on to connect his brain to the hive mind. After the main issue ends we get a bonus story showing Lena and Lex in the hive mind working together. We also get some tidbits on their father and daughter history, how Lex became a better man, but sent her off to live with her grandmother because he felt he didn't deserve her. The bonus ends beautifully with a panel of both Lena and Lex hooked up to the machines holding hands ready to destroy the hive mind.

A 10 for Simone and Barrow's main, a 0 for the disgusting feminist bonus story. I enjoyed this, Simone's writing and Barrow's artwork is a great combination that makes this ish feel like an older comic. I like how the setting seems to be set in the 70s roughly with the clothing styles, hair styles etc. The story is nothing special but the simplicity of this is refreshing after reading the latest lackluster DBZ-esque Superman comics. The bonus story is garbage, Lois being editor in chief ends up treating Clark like shit. Giving an intern a scoop before him and calling him a conflict of interest just for being himself pretty much. Honestly if anyone should have become an editor should be Clark it makes more sense. He would be less bound to chasing stories, can edit super speed and focus more of his time as Superman. But you know girl boss and putting men down in their place and all that mean shit. What do you expect from a writer who goes by Rainbow Rowell 🌈 Eat shit

Same as before 7.5 for main story by Simone and Barrow, 0 for the bonus story by Rainbow Turd ðŸ'© Simone lost a little steam in this ish but Barrow's really pumped out plenty of great panels as usual. I like his classic style. I would say the worst moment was when Superman had to face his last 3 second challenge that put 15+ million people at risk of annihilation, Lois gave him a speech on why she became a reporter and it was so basic and lame. "It's not for fame. I know people think that. It was because everywhere I looked there was a problem I couldn't do anything about. Crime, malfeasance, hunger, disease, war, inequality." And that was enough to inspire Superman.Idk seemed like a very by the book kind of answer and took me out of the moment. Lastly the bonus story continues Lois's campaign to emasculate her husband Clark and sending him to do obituaries and dumb stories wasting his talent for some fat intern and of course to girl boss. He clearly seems to be pissed off justifiably so but I still don't like this unnecessary divide between Lois and Clark. It feels like she is treating him like a bitch and putting him in his place. If Clark was editor I don't picture him treating Lois is such a disrespectful manner like this. Disgusting.

8.5 for Simone and Barrow, 0 for Bonus Story The conclusion was good but a bit predictable and hokey. I really just enjoyed the art and the story got kind of meh after a while so glad it ended here. Nothing to memorable. Bonus story Lois apologized but still ends up being right about "ethics" and this suddenly is suppose to make you forgive girl boss. No.

This was mediocre new start. Weird monster comes out of the phantom zone that Superman and Kara fight and take down with gold kryptonite with Jimmy Olsen. Superman is now going into the Phantom Zone to see what is going on inside. Was yawning throughout.

I don't know if it's the bland art or the uninspired writing but either way if your an insomniac this new run by Mark Waid just might put you to sleep.

Not much to say here. Going to sleep ðŸ'¤ðŸ˜´

Not bad, the most interesting part of this ish was how Aethyr threw Superman down some time hole thing and Superman managed to climb out of it. He ended up in a different time in Krypton, and the end of it says the secret of Jor-El. So this now peaked my interest. Still not crazy about the art style.

Improved, more interesting story now that it's in Krypton and Clark is trying to figure out how to escape with the help of his dad. It's not easy though some jerk from the council barges in and messes everything up. Would have been a 10 this ish if not for the cringe Keenan and Superboy side story about "Looting treasures, and parallels to the 20th century and learn to do reservations." Blah gross

I must be stupid because I was left scratching my head at the end of this ish. Yeah the Keenan segment is retarded and unnecessary. Aethyr is pretty cool, I was enjoying the Krypton sequence the most and loved the part where Jor El and Lara talked shit to Rozan. I liked seeing Supergirl show up as a kid acting bratty and Clark laughing about it to himself. But I got ripped from any immersion when the comic went from that to showing Lois and Jimmy in the Daily Planet office talking about "climate change reversing". Lois dramatically looks out and the comic showed the sun being sucked up or something I have no idea how we jumped from Krypton to that it makes no sense at all what is going on?

Not as bad but I guess the only big thing we learned from Supermans visit to past Krypton was the the Phantom Zone being used as a prison wasn't his father's idea. And also Zor is a huge d*ck fink, glad he didn't survive Krypton's destruction lmao. That's already the end of the Krypton story and the Keenan side story is gay. Keenan and Superboy should just get a room and f**k already, and Superboy didn't beat the Admiral Khund to command his Khund army, he probably blew him or something to get to wear his coat.

So Aethyr dies from an over inflated ego and getting to many likes on his Instagram and also gaining a huge fan base on his Aethyr OnlyFans account. Jokes aside literally he keeps growing in mass and just blows up and literally is becoming to fat (gaining to much mass) that he is creating his own gravity that will threaten everyone else. So Aethyr becomes a Peter Griffin joke. This whole Mark Waid Action comics run should just be a Family Guy Cutaway Gag, that would make more sense than having to take any of this seriously....

The art improved marginally, story is still dumb.

Reluctant to give this a better score than 2 that I've given previous issues but this was less frustrating and annoying to read through. Maybe it's the art it's too simple and too cartoon but I like the simplicity. The colors pop out real nice and the simple line work makes reading the rather horrible story more bearable. But this whole Phantom Zone breakout feels unoriginal, rushed, and with so many heroes in this comic showing up it falls flat. I mean Dr. Light shows up which is pretty cool idea but it's only like one or two pages. Superman getting almost killed by a gang of Phantom Zoners in the heart of the zone only to be saved by Mon on time was pretty nice. But Waid is not living up to his rep in this Superman run I've seen better from him.

And now it's back to total garbage. The only purpose this ish served was having Xa-Du return from the pit Aethyr threw him into. Otherwise it was a compilation of meaningless hunting and capturing of generic uninteresting Zoners. This is really creatively bankrupt to say the least...

Is it finally over this arc? So rushed and lackluster all around. Oh wow Xaa-Du was really Martian Manhunter fooling the Zoners in the end. What is this Scooby-Doo?

Wow an Action Comic that was actually pretty solid, not perfect but you know after those last 10 or so trash issues this deserves a 9 just for changing the direction. What I really appreciate about this issue was it's focus on Clark Kent this time around. We've had a lot of Superman the last few arcs so it's refreshing to see Clark going around doing some old fashioned journalism. The beautiful inky and heavy art of Inaki Miranada doesn't hurt this ish either! So this ish goes back and refers to an issue all the way back to the late 700'snwhen Superman made Major Disaster turn good... But here he's caught trying to rob a bank and accidentally murders someone in the process, as soon as Superman shows up though Paul (Disaster) surrender no fight. As Clark he goes to other villains turned good like Mighty Bruce and Aubrey Sparks (Scorch). Both have similar explanations that most metas still have to live regular lives and some just can't stay on the straight and narrow facing normal problems your average Joe faces with the addition and extra temptation of having super powers in the first place. Clark wants this answer to be beyond a "it's society's fault" kind of answer to Paul falling back on crime, but is finding no other conclusive answers to this betrayal of his trust as Superman. The dialogue is meaty and feels like a good old fashioned talkey comic which I like when done right like this. It ends with Clark getting attacked and somehow actually getting cut and KO'd by a mysterious figure. Whoever did this has to know Clark is Superman and used a weapon capable of doing damage.

I enjoyed this ish as much as 1082. I like the dialogue and feel like the panels flow nice. It's not a complicated story but it's good and I like the side characters like Scorch too. And Manheim being the culprit behind all of this buying off Paul and others to steal there "telemeres" which are used to make others stay young and live longer. The only catch is those who lose these telemeres lose their life time and feel there time shortened, getting side effects of hopelessness and emptinnesss.

I would give this a higher score but the Forevers was a joke like the ish could have gone without them and just have Manheim selling telemeres to random rich people seeking mortality because the whole Forevers fight and panels were just gid awful and silly. But I'm keeping a decently high score because otherwise the rest of the story was really good for me. We find out that Paul was innocent and didn't kill Bokyn, it was his daughter Penny who killed the man. Paul took the hit for her to make up for all the bad he did as her father. I liked how this even refers back to Harley Quinn (2018) #54, pretty sure that was the Sam Humprhies run? I enjoyed the dialogue and the little twist nothing ground breaking or epic but a damn fine read. Superman is conflicted about this but he leaves Paul in jail and lets things flow. He talks to Lois about it and they have a nice tit for tat. I like how Lois in these issues boost her man up and tries to keep him grounded instead of trying to tear him down like in those horrible bonus stories by Rainbow Rowell during the Gail Simone runs.

This was terrible, a big fat nothing burger here. Global warming yawn. Besides that writing is practically non-existent

Waste of space.

It was okay, kind of was more excited to finish it just to be done. Art is lame, feels like a corporate safe direction, I'm not into Waids style really, and after his horrible Phantom Zoners run and Xa-Du I'm not particularly excited about this. I mean the only nice part was when Pa Kent helped Superboy focus in on the fight but otherwise the plot is pretty stupid and again the art sucks. Feels like a baby 🍼 Disney cartoon.

If your looking for something fresh, different or interesting don't look here. This is a coming of age story done a million times over. Unless you have absolutely no background in reading literature or comics than maybe you will enjoy this otherwise it's a walking cliche as predictable as the cycle of the day. And why the hell didn't he use his freeze breath on the fire in the school? Instead he took a water tower that he even says "a farm town like this needs" and waste it all on the school. When all the kids escaped all he had to do was ice breath or anything else but that. Waids writing feels like he's under a gun and is unable to come up with anything really solid or genuinely enticing that one can add to the Superman mythos.

I just have no patience at this point for Waids writing. His last arc really gave me a bad impression and this isn't doing any better here. The art is nothing to write home about and feels mostly devoid of any soul. I don't even care about anyone in here. Let alone Clark himself here, he comes off as generic and has nothing interesting going for him except the overly done "struggling teenager" persona we've seen countless times at this point in comics but not even done well here... And Captain Comet? Dial the 🌽 cornball writing by a 1000x, what a dumb character to put into the development of Supermans youth. Oh and also in this ish a horde of locust show up and Clark uses his freeze breath in one panel so like I said in previous ish why didn't he just use his freeze breath on the fire? Emphasis on the emptiness of soul, every character just says the most uninteresting sh*t and it comes off like a corporate pamphlet about how "were all one big happy family". Congrats 🎉 if you enjoyed this but you would have to deprive me of any good comics for a millennia to ever get me to say any of this was worth my time.

This was great, no complaints here!

Okay so getting the negative out of the way this TPB is misleading and does not have any of the main Action Comics issues, just short back stories. Not that there's anything wrong with little stories like these but looking through Amazon and the DC website this TPB is still described as containing full main issues. Guess at the time DC was trying to double dip Idk what they gained from lying? Maybe they didn't think people would buy it if they st Right up said it was an anthologies book with stories set around the time of the current run? Best part of this is Doomsday Special hands down. I deducted five points for the deception on DCs part but kept 5 because I actually liked some of the light hearted stories. The stories got me to like Ortho and Orsul however you say their names the Warworld orphans. I also don't mind the Chinese Superman Kenan he's kind of funny in this especially that he's friend with a fat Chinese Batman. I liked how Conner is romantically involved with Me'ghan Martian Manhunter's niece if I recall? I remember liking this relationship dynamic in the Young Justice series I watched a while back. Although I hope to God Conner gets rid of his dyed red hair, please have mercy that stays contained in this shit little anthology book please. The worst of this was Superman's son Jon Kent. This should have been the best but it was f***ing fake and g*y. It was so f*they and cringey I barely made it past two pages when "Jay" first showed his stupid face and disgusting punk hair. I forgot they did this to Jon and found myself disgusted and some of my enthusiasm sucked away pun intended. And no I don't care if a character is g*y, but frankly why Superman's son? Besides that point, the way it was done was so girly and fruity, it was hard to watch. Read Brett Easton Ellis, he will explain why this accepted Hollywood g*y type just doesn't work and comes off fake. Why do the guys have to act like girls? Aren't there guys who are gay and still Idk, manly? So if it's going to be a Supermans son who has the potential strength of his father, acting like a fruitcake to fit the mainstream media accepted version of homosexuality just doesn't fit in this world here. Lastly I stopped reading at Knight Terrors that was just bland stupid horror crap I didn't want to waste my time on, finally onto the actual Action comics thank you...

I dont want to give this a low score because I want to see what it develops into but honestly Im underwhelmed. The art is generic, the writing makes sense in some areas but others I'm totally confused. Like are there other Clayfaces out there that fell off the main Clayface and are living lives or theese other people take "remu" that give them the same effects as Clayface?!!! Like HUH??!!

Started off a little slow but picks up!

Great art, taking a bit to get to the point, but some of the dialogue is excellent! Really feels like the Joker at times!

Ooooff! This issue jumped the shark! I enjoyed issue #1 and #2, but this issue turned me off completely. The Joker getting a bullet in the head, shot multiple times in the chest area (as he shows to the doctor he holds hostage to help him), falls in cold ocean water, then he gets the bullet removed from his head with no anesthesia. What is this Saw IV? I forgot which movie it was but I'm pretty sure Jigsaw had brain surgery the same way. I thought it was stupid then, the concept is still stupid now. I don't care if it's the Joker getting his head open, okay sure, he tore his face off once but it's just kind of redundant, it's just purely for shock value or absurdity. (Oh but it's the Joker it should be absurd), too a point. The only difference, Saw is just stupid. But your playing with "The Joker". Feel like he is being thrown around like a rag doll and treated like shit without any good purpose or narrative that is remotely satisfying. That's if this Joker is even the real Joker. Done with this comic, and after that lame WildC.A.T.s comic, I'm not going to be looking for any Matt Rosenburg comics for a long time or maybe ever again. Lastly, the art on these comics are okay at best nothing great. You would think for the Joker you would really try to do something great, but I'm not feelin' it Mr. Crabs.

This was where ASM started losing me. Judgement Day Axe, totally lame, especially after the Tombstone arc which was really good. Even the issue that had the throwback to the robot from the old ASM issues was really good, alo the Vulture issue was cool!. The next few issues on ASM after this one were good, not great. Then I threw in the towel after issue #14 with the Dark Web crap. But this is where ASM 2022 started to decline for me.....

HOT GARBAGE! GOOD-BYE SPIDEY IT WAS NICE KNOWIN' YA! I think I'll check out Spider-man once they drop this Dark Web trash. As of now, I'm done with ASM. Collected up to this issue and I'm just sick of it, lackluster, no story at all. Sorry, it sucks. Better comics are out there that actually still have talented writers and care about story, so I'll put my hard earned money toward that. Total let down especially with the first 5 issues being much better (Though that is not saying much). This pile of dog poop is unreadable, forgettable gibberish, I did not even finish reading it. BORING. DULL. LAME. UNIMAGINATIVE. It all went down hill since the Axe Judgement day stuck it's nose in ASM and ruined the pace. Dark web not only ruins the pace, it pisses all over any enthusiasm one may have over Spider-man right now. Bye bye for now Spidey, but for now if I get a Spidey itch, I'll fare better reading the old ASM issues I have. This new rendition does Spider-man no justice at all!!!

Really, are we really salivating out the mouth for this? I understand why people are excited for this new run. No more Zeb Wells, now we can start fresh. Well not exactly. Starting this issue the first panel was striking and really popped out but the dialogue in the action panel was so disjointed and lame I had to look it over a couple times to really find the flow. Which there wasn't any flow at all no matter how hard one tries. Going on, it seems like a step up that we are now reading from Peter's perspective but it feels to fast paced and rushed and when the moment Doctor Doom comes in the impact is not what it should be. It all just comes off kind of schizophrenic. SPOILER When Peter becomes like Doctor Strange or whatever Doctor Doom turned him into so Spider-Man can fight the forgettable generic demon thing, Peter has to die each time and when he dies for the first time being sucked into the black hole of the demons mouth it was just. Dumb. Even explaining this moment for this poor humble reviewer here has deduced some IQ points. Like it was something you would come up with when talking to your goofy friends when you use to be in middle school. When your a middle schooler at that time maybe that idea sounded really epic bruh, but on paper its just stupid. Maybe the lack of build up toward Peter's horrifying black hole death is what ruins the moment maybe? After finishing this the same feeling came over me like when I finished #6 of the Zeb Wells run. But at least I enjoyed the first 5 issues, until it quickly got scrapped and it went downhill from there as we all know. Yet here we are a new start and already I am so underwhelmed and feel like there is no thought to this. It just feels like pulling out so many tricks at once you see through the illusion right away. I don't care if people don't like what this review says who will actually read it? But if you even go far back too those old comics even to the very beginning of Spidey's existence, even with some of the silliness it all made sense to a degree. This is just bad. Only giving it a 5.5 because I don't want to be to harsh for the new start but not liking its direction.... Screw you I could give it a 2 but at least the art is nice...

Just no. I did a pretty good write up on the previous issue giving it a 5.5. This issue doesn't even deserve an explanation on why it is receiving a low score from me. The reveal of the last demon just turned me off so much I am not looking forward to what these "writers" have in store for #63. Please God make them stop give Spidey a good long break... Lame, corny, bad.

Amazing Spider-Man is dead. This was nothing but the Demon Cyrios dragging Peter through all of his tragic 'member moments throughout his life. The dialogue was even worse than the previous issue, no improvement at all. Was willing to give it another chance but I'm dropping ASM for good. I lasted 14 issues with Zeb Wells, this lasted me by issue #3. And I mean for good... Not a single line of dialogue stuck with me, it all went out one ear and out the other, not a single panel had a decent action drawing or just good drawing at all. The best part about this comic was page 12 or 13 where Peter fools Cyrios punches her down the floor, and she is shown laying down in a sexy position wearing lingerie with her ass pointing right at the reader, no joke. Amazing Spider-Man is dead, your all just fondling it's corpse at this point and I refuse to support this trash.

First thing I have to say about this ish is the art is BEAUTIFUL, the colors, the line work, really pops! Secondly the writing is on par, Williamson knows his Superman characters and I really feel like I'm jumping right into the world of Superman I'm familiar with. I hear each distinct character's voice perfectly! Luthor throughout is talking to Superman through his super hearing trying to convince him that he needs Luthor. Luthor goes so far to persuade Superman that he gives him his entire corporation now named "Supercorp". Allowing Superman to have access to his resources. At first Supes does not trust this. Obviously greater villains of Luthor's past re the reason why heis trying to get on Superman's good side.

In this ish Parasite has multiplied into millions of parasites destroying Metropolis, this ish allows for some great panels and action. This is the doing of the new villains Dr. Pharm and Grft, two men who seem capable of experimenting on super villains and turning them into something worse. You see them operating on Bizarro in some panels leaving the reader to wonder what the hell do they have planned for Bizarro to do? But that won;t be a thing for awhile. Graft and Pharm's designs are odd, strange and weirdly fit the story. Graft is like a shirtless mix of Ozzy Ozborne if he was to wear to much make up like Marilyn Manson. Pharm is like that villain from Mad Max 2014 if he didn;t have access to all the water and food. So Superman fgures out how to use Livewire and her powers to get all of Parasites in one place especially because Parasie is even multiplying by the cellular level inside everyone. The only thing that bored me a bit was Marilyn Moonlight. Here's why. A couple years ago I started reading some New 52 comics, I forgot which one it was but there was a part where one of the characters was visited by a ghost from the old west and they had to go back in time or something. That story trope bores the hell out of me everyime I can't believe they're still doing this trope... And didn't the lame mini-series based off the Gotham Knights game do this very same trope? Like when DC gets these weird story fetishes they never go away *cough* throwing around babies in the FLash and new Superman movies. But thankfully it was like only one panel of the boring Western trope so thats not enough for me to deduct any points from this perfect ish.

They defeat Parasite in this one, and Supes is till debating whether or not to trust Luthor. Good ish, it's not as action packed but a good calm transition to further progress the story.

Funniest part of this comic is Lex Luthor flicking an almond into a prisoner's mouth because he's talking shit about how Superman is lame and has nothing on Batman. I liked this little detail because even though this is Lex Luthor and Superman has been his enemy forever, hearing Superman being called nothing is also a hit on Lex's ego. If Superman is lame what would that make his enemy? Besides that the story progresses more, Supes and Lex catch up and we learn that once Lex tried to do some good things on the streets of Metropolis when he was young. This is how he ran into the new villains of this series Graft and Pharm, but we don't really learn yet on why these guys got a bone to pick with Lex. I mean yeah he interrupted their operations in what he is telling Superman but can we really believe everything he says? Good ish. Oh yeah and we learn that Jimmy is bangin' Banshee.

Another solid read,only deducting points for the boring Moonlight character but again only one page. Everything else around that, the social aspect of the characters, and Lex getting stabbed to bloody hell and almost dying. Superman didn;t save him because in his last fight with Banshee he temporarily lost his super hearing, when he does find out Lex almost died Superman is really hard on himself for not being there to save him. Again emphasis on the art, it is phenomenal.

Well the art changed here but it's still really good in it's own way, but I do miss the use of colors previously and how things felt like they had a bit more depth to them. Nonetheless this is good. Lex is in the hospital recovering, Superman is learning more about Lex's secrets and finds a chained psych named Sammy deep underground. Superman feeling that Lex is not "judge, jury, executioner, decided that Sammy should be freed not knowing what he is. Obviously Sammy is dangerous and volatile, and chains up Suprman and gets away. Some god close up panels here of characters.

Good fighting scenes against Sammy but I found the Lex Luthor family reunion part to be more interesting and funny. Oh and I like the Braniac reveal at the end. Feels like some steam is being lost though here.

Good but not gonna lie I'm happy the Sammy fight is over already. The whole psych character o whatever I've seen a million times already.

Sorry but the Western stuff bores the hell out of me, had to force myself to read through this garbage.

Oh my god c'mon two issues of this western crap? Thank god that ends here and ish#11 goes back to basics. I want to read Superman, I don;t want to watch a milk toast version of Rawhide. Still going take a little break, these last two issues really turned me off.

This was a big issue, and I'm really happy we finally got away from the Western time travel bull*sh*t. At first this ish started off kind of slow ad wordy, and wordy in terms of okay I get it lets get on with the story. The biggest turn thing that almost turned me off to this was the art style somehow the art style got worse than before. It's so Disney-fied, so cartoony and some of the characters so exaggerated where it looks like they are holding in a huge amount of piss and shit and are ready to blow up any second. Besides the garbage art style, the story here is what saved this ish for me. After you get through the bland talk of the first few pages, the action really starts when Lex's mother shows her true part in the play of Graft's plan. Dressed in Lex's armor, and pissed off for basically giving birth to the man who "stole" her corporation she goes out into Metropolis to spread an aerosolized form of Kryptonite that can now also kill humans. This gas was created by Lex during his youth "the good guy years" when he teamed up with Graft and Dr. Pharm because he was amazed at how they amassed a giant source of Kryptonite. So I was previously come what correct on how Lex was lying about his past being a full fledged hero. My only gripe with this concept is when he decided to create this weaponized version of Kryptonite why did he do it? No where in the story does it tell you if Lex even knew of Superman yet at this time, so what would he have gained from this without any knowledge of his eternal foe Superman yet? Plenty of holes in the story with that. Overall good ish, but issue 12 is where things really shine.

While the art in this is still not my taste, the armor designs of everyone in here really work well, and the action scenes are cut and direct. We get more information on Lex's past with Graft and Pharm but honestly it still doesn't fill out any of the plot holes I pointed out from the previous issue. It was fun watching Lex get in his special armor and fight his mother over the skies of Metropolis, clearly Lex ends up saving the day with Supes direction, new villains defeated, plot foiled. Pretty simple stuff here, nothing to complex. Instead of going onto the next issue right away I'm going to go back to Action Comics that I've missed to get more information on the backstory. Specifically after finishing this 12th issu, it ends with saying the nextepic "House of Brainiac Part One begins in Action comics #1064 and then come back here at issue #13." So Im going back to a collected TPB of Action comics to catch up.

More interesting sub plots coming out of this. Brainiac seems to be dying of having too much knowledge. Lex is offering to help him and give him Superman. Clearly Lex is up to something but I have a feeling he is only playing a role and is still going to benefit Superman in the end somehow. Lobo and Supes team up and fight the Czarnians. Kara and Superboy escape the pods of Brainiac but have no powers still. Art is still looking good here

So many epic things happening here in one issues. Superman and Lobo have a short fight but has some great action panels between the two of them. General Chacal captures Superman with chains forged from Apokolips and delivers him to Brainiac. Supergirl and Lex are rescued by Brainiac son and his mother forming a team to stop Brainiac. And finally we learn what Brainiac has been doing, he has amassed and created some abomination of cybernetics and organic material he called his queen. Needing the power of the Superfamily to come to life and needing to eat the Czarnians for fuel she is a hideous monster. Her purpose and reason for creation by Brainiac is still unclear hopefully next issue we will find out why he did this. I'm not sure what the Queen has to do with the fact that Brainiac has close to every piece of knowledge imaginable except for a few holes that is driving him mad.

This was one hell of a send off to end Brainiac! Luthor managed to hack the core and delete Brianiac's entire system. The art through this and the whole Brainiac event has been epic. The best part is at the end we find out Luthor lost his mind in the process when Superman tells Lex that he's proud of how Lex did all of this for his daughter. Lex responds with "Whose Lex Luthor?" And lastly the final page teases Doomsday punching the doors of hell referring back to the Doomsday Special.

Sorry but giving it a 1 because Absolute Power sucks

Absolute Power was bad

No.

This doesn't even deserve a full effort by me so I will refer to the other 1.0 rating on here, RKS said exactly my thoughts...

This series really took a step backwards. Doomsday was a joke in this too and I didn't take anything that happened in this ish seriously at all. The only thing that was serious was when Rudy died but it just felt like nothing. I mean this is Doomsday and they subdue him all in one ish?! What was all that build up from Doomsday Special for?

I'm not feeling this at all so far, the writing style has lost any sense of seriousness or foreboding, the art style sucks compared to how this run started. Frankly all of the characters now are just annoying and add nothing good to the story except that they are there. What happened I was expecting better especially after the epic House of Brainiac event? This Doomsday and now the Aftermath people really bore the hell out of me.

Okay sorry not sorry but this ish is just silly. Feels like the writer ran out of ideas and is just coming up with the most ridiculous concepts to really wow you. I mean the Aftermath turns out to be Radiant Man seeking vengeance to kill Doomsday is all revealed in this ish. There's absolutely no room for any mystery to develop feels so rushed. And honestly Lois only being Superwoman for a few weeks and commanding her powers equally to Superman with the exception of using heat vision according to #19 is really dumb. Like it's enough that we have the Superfamily but Lois just feels off to me... This would have worked a little better if Superwoman was another character altogether but making her Superwoman makes this story hard to go with... And btw what happened to the Superfamily like we still see Kara but where are the Super twins and others? Not that I'm complaining but it feels like a lot of missing pieces here. Ending the comic off with Superman and Doomsday teaming up was the dumbest thing I've probably ever seen...

Besides being a sucker for Barrow's artwork Lex Luthor is the stand out in this entire series for me. I went out of order on accident and should have read this after I finished the House of Brainiac but no big deal it just filled in a few tiny gaps about Luthor. Some great panels here and feels like solid classic 80s with more concise dialogue. I just don't understand why everyone is head over heels over Moras anime style for Superman, I dont see anyone make a peep for Barrow's strange. I don't hate anime/manga style but I think that would actually fit better with Captain Marvel over at Marvel. But Superman DC should retain a classic American style imo

The stakes went up a bit when Jimmy almost got killed and I like how it rattled Lois. Otherwise I wasn't to interested in what was going on but the reason why I gave it a 3 instead of a 1 was because my interest peaked when it revealed General Zod returning. This should get interesting because honestly Doomsday was over hyped imo so maybe Zod will ground this story back like its earlier issues. Art still sucks though...

Okay so this ish was a huge improvement. Oh I wonder why?! Eddy Barrows is back and with a vengeance. The art in this ish is phenomenal. Yes this art saves the series for me and frankly glad the Doomsday stuff is over. Still not a fan of Superwoman but at least Barrows draws her well. There are some really good twist here and I feel like we are back to Joshua Williams best vision of where he wanted to go with his story. The best twist is how it turns out Mercy has been working a betrayal and in the process has created a new Super Lex Luthor. The real Lex was sent back to jail by Superman because Supes was worried the old Lex was coming back but he didn't see the real issue growing was Mercy. We learn this when Superwoman goes on a mission with the current Justice League and find the Kunds have weapons they bought from Super Corp. Some beautiful ¤ï¸ artwork throughout and hope Barrows stays on.

Barrows strikes again, well until they give Mora the last few pages for the X-El fight but thats not a good reason to deduct any points because that's like 5% of the ish. This was great stuff and delivered another great twist accidental or planned is for you to decide. But after X-El gets lamely girl bossed by Superwoman for threatening her family the best part happens with the real Lex. When X-El was weak and on the ground he was yelling at the real Lex for being weak. And like a badass the real Lex blows X-els head off and ends it all right there. Superman freaks out about of course and so does every one else except Mercy. Mercy says to herself "Welcome back Lex" ¤ï¸ Lex and Mercy really stole the show last ish and this ish bravo!! 👏

Hmmm this one was okay, the best part of it I guess was how Lena responded to Mercy's betrayal had some good emotional moments with her but this want a great ish.

This was okay end to the mediocre arc, the highlights have been Lex Luthor honestly Im more interested in what Joshua Williams has planned for his development. Otherwise I'm not that excited for the coming Legion and it feels like I'm having a hard time caring about most of the characters now. Hopefully next ish will regain some focus on Superman and bring some kind of meaningful stakes. If not than it's most likely Luthor taking the spotlight again. The other good thing is Superwoman is done that was cringe.

This was okay not the perfection everyone seems to be beefing it up to be. I'm probably the only one not impressed with Moras style either. The story is much improved and it did bring focus back to Superman at least. The Darkseid Legion seems good but Idk it's not really drawing me in, it just feels like a predictable DBZ episode in the making honestly.

So I guess Superboy Prime is Super Deadpool? And secondly these latest issues really feel like cheap DBZ episodes. I've seen better build up with Darkseid than this, I can go back to even John Byrne's Man of Steel and how he handled similar stories much more interesting than this. I get why people like it good for you but it feels kind of predictable. I liked most of this series except for the Absolute Power Tie ins and the early 20s. I get Williams is going for that Silver age feel which I respect especially when Superboy Prime jokingly says "c'mon get silver age with me." But even so it feels like there's still no stakes. Yeah we find out that the future IS Darkseid and everything the good guys did was meaningless. But with all the multi-versal, time changing, yadda yadda it's hard to take any of this seriously. Especially in these modern runs that seem to conclude things pretty fast. I like how they show the Legion mostly decimated but again it doesn't feel like it means anything. I think what would have saved this ish for me is if in the beginning when Cosmic Boy killed the JL in space by crushing them all to death and Clarks mother getting zapped it should have actually happened. Like this ish should have illustrated that this Legion is the final front, it's now or never. And they should have killed everything Clark loves. (Obviously he would fix that but I would come up with a reason to prevent that fix for a good 10 issues) Instead nothing real happens it's all in Supermans head and the worst we see is some iteration of the future Legion is dead. Hopefully I soften up next ish and it gets better for me otherwise I'm really more curious about Lex Luthor and what he's up to.

Maybe I needed a break but coming back to this series again I really enjoyed this ish!

Love this, great fresh start after the KO DUH-Fest.

Where do I begin, it's been a few months since I read Superman so catching up on my backlog I read this today and loved it too death. I did not want this comic too end at all, Prime is the coolest and imo DC's answer to having their own Deadpool but even better and more interesting. Witchfire reveals herself and even though she has been in it a couple issues she shines here with Prime and I have to say I think they make a great couple. She looks like a better (Saddie Sink Jean Gray) but better costume, better hairstyle, better face and a lot more fun when she is with Prime. I need more Prime and Witchfire PLEASE. Williamson in my eyes is Champion of Writing at DC still, Dan Mora remains champion artist of DC and brings these stories (Worlds Finest, JLU) to life like no other. Mora fits best when it comes to Superman's world Ive come to feel this way more and more with time. I love how Prime was taken out of the comic literally like in Doom Patrol, I'm enjoying Williamson taking some notes from Morrison but at the same time injecting his own light-hearted style to it as he has Prime say in one panel "why are we dressed like we are in Vertigo comics". There's an ad in this comic for Superman Father of Tomorrow but they had Prime come out of the actual ad for that funny 4th wall break. I hope Prime stays and eventually has his very own solo series rather than being a sub for Superman until he returns from the Omega thing lol

This was just more of what I wanted, and Prime literally runs away before Tom King can write his comic so that in itself deserves a 10 for dunking on King. This comic is legendary...

The way Prime defeats Manchester Black was hilarious, they kind of ended this short for Zod event but Im hoping Prime's tease at the end of this comic means we will get a solo series of him next year, that #1 that he wants I want to.

There was a lot to take in here wow!

Great issue here!

Not bad pretty good issue!

I liked it but pacing definitely slowed down here. And Nightcrawler being called a furry and liking it was peak stupid. Like he's religious, kind of hard to believe Nightcrawler would ever say something like that? I guess Gail Simone is into that furry crap? Not bad though, not as good as #1-2 or even #4.

I love the cover, also I really just enjoy the Rogue dialogue and seeing her in action. The art for me is great and really matches with Rogue. Not that crazy about the whole Sarah Gaunt villain, comes off way too cliche and shallow to me. So I really just like this Uncanny series for the dynamics between Gambit and Rogue though the comic has not made clear why she is able to be with a man without accidentally killing him? I'm sure this was on another run but for someone just jumping in familiar with Rogue this will break the moment without explanation.

Loved this issue, and the part about Harvey helping Rogue against Gaunt was really good. This is Rogue, very compassionate and loving. Well done!

Trash Issue. Previous issues were ranging from good to excellent, what happened with this issue?! Art was horrible and the writing was just corny and atrocious? Hopefully #7 fixes itself...

Nice! Okay so thank God that whatever happened with issue #6 being such trash didn't happen on this issue. The art is not as good as the first 5 issues but thankfully the style is consistent with those issues unlike #6. I like this style alot but would like it to be a bit more detailed even with those far away shots of the characters. Nonetheless everyone looks great and Rogue is really shining here design wise and character development. I will forget about how bad issue #6 was because obviously something or someone else got in the way there from what I can tell but at least its back to the premise. Plus Gail Simone I know will continue to write a solid enough story here. I did like her Wonder Woman run from 2006 I think. Mostly good stuff from that and I'm getting the same vibes from this. I hope she continues to have Rogue as the lead and figures out more character building situations for Rogue she deserves a good lead role! I am giving this a solid 10 just out of relief that it got back on track with the style I was really liking, please avoid mistakes like #6. Otherwise art is great just needs more detail but it fits!

Forget anything Uncanny or X-Men at least for me... I really was hoping this would be a long series that would last for me but no I think this issue turned me off for good. My biggest beef is the art changing so much, the artist in the beginning was superb I thought but now they keep changing too where it has no consistency at all. Modern comics really are garbage and to the ones that aren't as bad they are still a chore to read when you want to stick with them. For example, I started reading the 1998 Iron Man run written by Kurt Busiek and drawn by Chen. Now I won't claim it too be the best comic EVAH! However it is in a masterclass in itself. In two days I read 25 issues and an annual without getting tired of it. Getting ready eventually to read 64 more issues of it. Iron Man 1998 unlike this crap called Uncanny X-Men is consistent throughout those 25 issues I've read, even the worst issues were still entertaining. The romance and flings Tony has feel real and gives you a glimpse into him as a man. Whereas in Gail Simone's romance between Rogue and Gambit it feels like a cheap attempt at fanfiction or at best cliche fans service (is there a difference Idk?).I am not learning anything new about Rogue or Gambit through there love in this series, nothing significant that effects the story dramatically at all. This whole issue especially was so drab and stupid and you know what I'm sick of every woman character having a beef with some male lead for reasons that is not explained. I get it everyone hates Scott now but honestly I think its stupid. I like Scott Summers, I think he's a good character that deserves respect but no he is getting the Captain America treatment in current comics. Cap is also being treated like used toilet paper in comics that should "know his place" when "DA STRONG WAHMEN COMEZ IN DA PANEL DUH!!" I gave this garbage another chance even after that horrendous abomination called issue #6 but that's it!

Harley Quinn is going in a whole new direction and I am very happy with this issue! I caught up on my reading with this series, I took a little time off because I was underwhelmed with the previous issues of Harley. The previous issues aren't as bad as many make it out to be, I got some genuine laughs from them, but I was left with feeling that Harley deserves more and she can be better. And this is certainly a good step forward for one of my favorite characters. I must add that the new art is spot-on, beautiful, and lovely! The art on the previous issues were nice, mediocre at best, fit for a child's graphic novel. Harley should be grittier, with some light moments... The new look by Matteo Lolli is simply great and I pray that DC comics KEEPS MATTEO LOLLI FOR A LONG TIME ON HARLEY QUINN, this will be good for the series. So for those of you who are not sure about giving this series a shot, this is now the time to jump in. I believe it's about to really pick up now. And the next issue proved my instinct as issue #23 was even better than this! Can't wait to read issue #24!!!! I would like to say more but I will reserve those thoughts for my review on issue #23, and the big one I am looking forward to picking up #24 (with the cool 90's variant cover). I am not a critic, nor being payed for this review, or getting any freebies to write this. I am genuinely a Harley fan who has been sticking with Harley even in some rough cycles.

Sorry but I am enjoying this! As the last two issues really started picking up, issue #24 continues the rhythm and is really fun to read for me. I found the dialogue between Harley and Zsasz to work well, and was very funny when Harley forced him to help find out who her murderer was by dressing up as detectives. The comic is not the best comic ever, but it is still a good time in a quirky way. The reveal at the end is pretty cool and I hope issue #25 has a good fight sequence between Harley and her killer. Again the Art by Lolli fits this story, love the style now, and the pacing of the panels are a good beat.

I don't know.. Not bad, but not good either... Okay so coming from someone who did read the whole Stephanie Phillips run and one of the minority that enjoyed a good amount of it I must say this is not a good start to a new Harley Quinn run. Tini Howard turned me off completely so I've been out of the Harley comics since issue #30 I think? I was pissed then because I thought Phillips was really getting a good beat on Harley and just when it was really getting good (for me personally) they took her off in place of Howard, like why? So I heard recently that they started a new run with this writer and honestly there is good potential here in the writing style. Elliot certainly has a good grasp of Harley's ebb and flow and how she perceives the world around her but what is really dragging it down is this art style. I am so sick of this Disney cartoon style for Harley Quinn, the anarchist, the "villain" and I guess sometimes anti-hero to but I prefer when she is full evil. Phillips played around with this good guy bad guy side of Harley but I thought it worked giving the context of each scenario. This comic has no hook at all that makes me look forward to reading the next issue which I am about to do. Of course none of these writers hold a candle to Paul Dini' previous works but we have to work with what we have right now. Writing is good could use a little less pop culture to it, and a little more grit, art style needs to change asap, this art is crap and totally water down the badass Harley really could be. Harley can still be goofy (I guess) but she needs a badass look or something more that pops. I like the hairstyle she has, but nothing stands out about the costume at all. Begrudgingly going to read #45 but not enthusiastic to do so...

Slightly improved from issue #44 I guess... ...That's not saying much though. While there was more action in this issue the action was predictable, lame and poorly drawn. There's one panel where Harley goes for the final blow with her bat against this generic henchman and it is so bad. The proportion makes no sense and it has no impact at all. That action panel was the perfect opportunity to do a bloody crazy drawing of Harley smashing the dudes face in but no this is Harley for kids I guess. Which is absurd because Harley is constantly letting us know what a horny lesbian she is, because you know tumblr and shipping is just dandy when writing comics. As I stated previously, this Disnification of Harley is still a mistake that needs to stop, and they need to bring grit and roughness to Harley comics. The writing is slightly cute and the whole sympathy for the Chicken Fingers character is touching but really it all feels like nothing. Like there's no meaning at all to anything I'm reading here. I get what the author's beef and message is throughout the comic but honestly it is really not a good motivation for Harley. It just feels like reaching for ideas here that aren't really there. Last issue I gave a 4 and only made this a five because it was a little better in terms of pacing. Still crap though, not diarrhea, its that kind of crap that no matter how hard you try to squeeze it out it just sticks there ya know? Poor Harley, she deserves better...

DC sucks. Stop making comics and spare us from this garbage. Please people stop giving your hard earned cash to DC they have completely ruined every character. Better comics from Marvel, and if that doesn't do it go back to the oldies. Do not support this, Harley deserves better.

Supergirl Team Luthor Special #1 (7.5) Can't find the special on here so will write thoughts on here. So the Team Luthor special came out in 1993 before this volume of 4 issues. So from someone who just jumped into this part of the 90's Superman universe I must say it is certainly a trip. From some of the context provided, this is after "A Death in the Family" or after Doomsday killed Superman. Lois, Lex, Supergirl are the only ones who know he is dead apparently and most people think he is coming back? There was no explanation as to what Supergirl is at this point, I guess she was a Lex Luthor protoplasm experiment either in Action Comics or Superman. But in here there is still not much explanation on it. Luthor died but managed to get his brain in a younger genetically modified cloned version of himself. And this time he had plenty of Rogaine so he has an entire main of red hair. Lex and Supergirl have a whole romantic relationship, but it seems like SUpergirl is just his love toy at this point so it's kind of weird. So with Superman dead, Lex is trying to create a team led by Supergirl to "fill the void" of Superman. This is very 90s and this time I mean this in a negative way. Too edgy, too on the nose. The positive is the art for sure, it's nice and poppy. But whatever was going on at the time they definitely over-complicated Supergirl during this period of Superman's history. Supergirl #1 So while this is still a trip and I am having a hard time wrapping my head around how they have pretty much handled Supergirl after they killed her off in the 1985 Crisis on Infinite Earths which I love. But frankly this whole protoplasm concept really muddies Supergirl's legacy and I would honestly just prefer a resurrection of the actual Kara. While I am a critic of resurrection themes being overused in this case there should have been an exception. There is just something totally wrong and vile that the beautiful Supergirl who is now called Matrix or better called as "Mae" by Ma and Pa Kent, is now underneath nothing but a protoplasmic purply sludge thing that can change it's matter into any form, shape, etc. Now as much as I am not looking forward to the Gunn movie since it is based off of King, at least they are using Kara not Matrix but even if. The Kara in the movie will be another imposter of a different sort. I suppose the TV CW show is going to be the only decent live-0action version of Kara available. So this ish ends with revealing Lex II's true plan, he has tubes of Matrix clones waiting to be released for his use. As Science fiction and weird as this is, it just feels wrong. I really think DC made a mistake doing this to Supergirl after her death it feels like a mockery. Peter David had a hell of a task somewhat fixing this mistake or at least making it more digestible and tolerable compared to what they produced in this part of her saga. I am curious enough to dive back into some old action comics, maybe go as far back to #659, and Superman vol. 2 #40 up just to get more on Proto Supergirl Mae. I will refer to her as Mae from now on because I liek that nickname.

This was a good read compared to ish #1. Luthor's colors are finally showing here and Supergirl is catching on that she is being used for nefarious purposes but she doesn't find out about the clones in this ish yet. While visiting Asia Mae is horded by fans asking for autographs and the market is selling Supergirl dolls that are licensed by Lexcorp. The dolls were already a sign of exploitation but it wasn't enough to convince Mae. Luthor is sick as he only is showing himself through video to his workers. The comic hasn't said what his condition is, but if I had to guess, the genetic cloned body he put his brain in has some kind of defect or maybe it ages faster than an average natural human body. Mae gets pulled over by one of Lex's ex-wives who warns Mae. Mae gets angry at her but she starts to grow suspicion and begins eavesdropping on Lexcorp employees. There was one particular part of the comic that was strangely disturbing. Before her suspicion one of the scientist wanted to put her through a shapeshift test. Mae could shapeshift into any gender, any species, the kick is when she adds mass to her form that she actually doesn't ave it causes tremendous pain for her. There's a part where she shapeshifts into a man, then adds extreme muscle mass. This is really intriguing science fiction that adds a whole demented almost perverse underlying tone to the DC universe but I don't like how this concept had to be thrown onto Supergirl. I would be against this if it happened to Superman as well. Atleast the comic maes it clear this is not Supergirl. This is another creature, they call it Protoplasm. I was reading an old blog from a Supergirl Fan archive, and the blogger brilliantly went back to older comics like AC #292 I believe where the og Lex was working with living Protoplasm all the way back then, and the blogger says it's possible John Byrne took inspiratin from that when doing the SUpergirl Saga. So my question is, is protoplasm just that, a material concocted from a chemistry set? It's not some species from another planet, so it just happens to have a mind? I am so confused as to what this protoplasm is and again this only adds salt to th wound because Supergirl to me is not just some lab accident goo that could recite it's ABCs. While this comic was good, the concept still kills it for me.

My god the 90s really hit Supergirl hard here, almost a disaster. If not for the interesting dialogue by Stern to keep it going this would be a total mess. The art here is awful, the fight with the Supergirl clones was just bad, and how they turn to white goop when she throws them into the gestation chambers is an extremely questionable aesthetic. Lastly her horrifying transformation in the end, my God who greenlit this back in the day?!

Better than ish 3, here Mae almost kills the dying Lex Luthor II but is stopped by Superman who saves him from her wrath. Superman convinces her that despite all the deceptions, plots and lies Lex has committed against Mae to use her, Lex really was dying in this case. If anything the best part was what Superman said to Lex. How he lost a true love like Mae from all the lies when she would have done anything for him if he just told her the truth. This was a strange experience to say the least, I can't imagine what people were feeling at the time when they were reading this.

Not really knowing much about this character I gave this a try and enjoyed it. Like other reviewers on here I feel the same that her design in this ish is bland. But the design on ish 2 looks phenomenal so hopefully it changes. Story was nothing amazing but kind of cookie-cutter anime vibes,for me it specifically took inspiration from Bleach. Her Darkchilde trying to take over is very much like Ichigo Kurosaki' Hollow that is always trying to take him over. Her sword and fighting demons make me think of this sorry can't help it!

I liked it, its okay. For me the beginning was bad, the art looked incomplete and totally rushed just to get the action out of the way. The action looked better on the Uncanny X-Men than on this one. It was so bad the beginning I almost lost interest but than halfway through the art changed for the better and so did the dialogue. Nothing huge in the plot but I am digging the friction between Rogue and Scott about Charles being free or not. The whole comic took me 5 minutes to read though probably less. Like it just went too fast and it felt like nothing really happened. Out of this run and the Uncanny run I prefer the Uncanny art style and writing. Gail Simone is doing a good job capturing some of the characters diatribe (with the night crawler furry comment being the horrid exception and screw #6). Jed McKay did good through most of the X-Men issues but on this one it felt like the attention to detail and build up was thrown aside I guess for the crossover? Still looking forward to #11 just hope it feels a bit more in-depth than this.

Really enjoyed the writing and the art is chef's kiss! A great start!

This was a lot of fun!

Great but the character reveal at the end left me feeling meh.

The worst Ish by far! This has been a stellar run so far and I have been loving most of the issues which I have yet to review. With a couple issues lacking in good art, most have been fantastic with just the right amount of action and story. The character development has been golden with Ororo and T'Challa being my favorites. This issue feels like a filler and the only good part about it is T'Challa trying to go out of Wakanda to extend his reach and defeat Moonknight's ideological grasp on the people. Otherwise a big step downward for a great Ultimate series and hope it picks up again on issue #12.

2 Minute Read... Okay so a solid 5/5 for the art I'm loving most of the panel work. But the writing continues to fall apart at least in terms of pacing. I finished this comic in at least 2 minutes or at most 3 minutes. Starting off with a great scene where Tchalla goes out of character to behead his defeated foe Moon knight it only turns out to be a dream. I get it, but honestly would have been cool to commit to this especially that this is an Ultimate universe created by the Maker that will eventually be fixed by The Ultimates eventually? From there he finally has his fight and easily defeats Moonknight with a swift upper kick to the face sending him flying. Seriously. That's it. Kind of anti-climactic after all that build up unless there will be a second phase of fighting in issue 13 but that would be silly. Then he sees these four giant dark figures trying to influence him to end Moon Knight only to be stopped by that chick I already forgot her name but she is Sorcerer Supreme in this ultimate universe or something. Sorry to make it sound so bare minimum but that's how it felt for me. After the many great issues of nice lengthy dialogue and world building it seems the writer is losing steam. Issue 11 was not terrible but not good either. Well this one was bad. I don't want to give a super low devastating score because I don't think it would be fair to totally give up. The artist is still doing a tops job and most of this run in this reviewer's opinion has been solid so it is okay to have a few bummers. But not giving a high score either because if the story continues to intellectually weaken like this it should not be rewarded.

Just wow! From the simple back to basics Wolverine story to the amazing artwork what more is there to say?! I'm loving this!

The story is good but what really stands out is this art! It looks fantastic, there's one panel where Wolverine is describing the sunset of Canada during certain times of the year. The panels is of him sitting on a high cliff sitting by the fire and a tent overlooking the amazing scenery drawn. I know it sounds simple but the art is golden.

Solid issue, I did like the whole hunt with Cyber in issue #1 and think he is a really badass character. Just wish we would have more of Cyber instead of him being possessed by this gold adamantium. And as one reviewer pointed out, how fast Cyber ended up in Japan (5000 miles away) to infect Lady Death strike with the golden adamntium was goofy. My personal complaint would be I think the whole Wendigo thing could have been solved on issue #2 and this issue could have had a new plot or get right into Cyber and Lady D. Nothing would beat the brilliant back and forth between Cyber and Wolverine from issue #1 that was great.

We are Venom... I mean we are Adamantum... The writing is lacking in this issue and it just feels like one Macguffin after the next just to forward the story. The artist is still doing good but must be getting tired of the story as well because some panels are just not doing it here, not like the details and beautiful work of issue #1 and #2. This whole Adamantum thing or whatever is a common theme in Venom and now even Ultimate Black Panther with it's "anti-vibranium" concept. And you can see advertised on issue #5 Wolverine and the others possessed by the Adamantum. It should have said on the advertisement. We are Adamamntum... Oh shit here we go again...

Improved from last ish, still good art but honestly the story is just not doing it for me here...

This image comics version of Thor here was frozen from WWII and made some deal with Hitler unaware that the war has been over for 40 years. Read this a few years ago now.

It's okay, feels a bit water-down. Cool that you get the code at the end of the comic to apply toward the game.

Improvement from the first issue. Story is starting to connect with the game world. *SPOILER* Court of Owls in the 1800s show up in this issue. Pretty cool so far, not anything mind blowing but consistent story.

The comic starts off with Lois having an interview with "Glorious Godfrey" who tells her why he hates Superheroes and plans to eradicate them. According to Godfrey Superheroes have taken humanity's independent spirit away to do for themselves, that the worship of heroes has bred a culture of complacency. Lois finds the man's philosophy to be somewhat convincing but manages to shake herself to disagree and do her journalistic job. Meanwhile Clark is running all around Metropolis from Darkseid's Omega rays. Unable to change to Superman to protect his identity he attempts to maneuver the rays through the sewage only to get hit. Not being death rays but teleportation rays to be summoned by the one and only Darkseid. Darkseid disappointed and confused that he has Clark Kent instead of Superman not knowing that they are the same. Accompanying him at his side is the Phantom Stranger. Darkseid gets annoyed at the Stranger and his remarks, though he is just an observer, Darkseid throws Clark out of his tower. Clark tells us the Phantom Stranger let Darkseid do this because he knows he is Clark. Something tells me at the same time Darkseid is playing both Clark and Phantom Stranger. From his long fall Clark gets up and is greeted by the nasty residents of Armagetto. Escaping he decided to rap himself in dirty rags to blend in better. He finds a woman being persecuted and ready to be executed. Sentenced to death for attempting to rally a revolution against the tyrant Darkseid, Superman decides to screw the disguise and save the woman from execution. He gets into a fight with a huge armored monster that turns out underneath to be an ugly ass reptile thing the residents call a "Glommer". The Glommer puts its whole mouth over Supermans head using its ability to try and control his nervous system like a headcrab from Half-Life except the size of an overgrown human. The Glommer makes Supes flying go haywire forcing them both to fall into the extreme fiery furnace pit. Clearly this is all part of Darkseid's plan as the last panel shows him laughing as he observed. Really great ish that shows you so many interesting angles of Superman's lore.

This was an interesting start to the new Superman after the events of Infinite Crisis. Clark is just discovering that he came from Krypton but for years as Superman has been unaware of this fact. Metallo is created by a mad scientist who for years has been studying and researching Clark since the day he landed as a baby. Knowing Clark came from space, the scientist was paranoic that more Kryptonians would come. Somehow he got a hold of Kryptonite and uses it as Metallos ultimate source of power in his heart. Some really good fight scenes here and it shows just how deadly Metallo is to Superman. Metallo was just about to kill Superman only to be thwarted by Lex Luthor. Lex promises that Superman will die by Lex Luthor alone and no one else. I read this ish the first time through the Man of Steel Hardcover deluxe edition last year. Reread this ish now to write my thoughts on it here.

I wasn't too excited to reread this for my review because I thought I remembered it well but I was wrong. This was excellent 👌. Idris Elba got nothing on this Bloodsport, this Bloodsport is insane! The comic literally starts off with him committing a horrible mass shooting at a diner Jimmy and Lucy Lane were hanging out in. 25 people men, woman and children slaughtered in the blink of an eye by Bloodsport. Rambling off about Vietnam as he ran off. Superman surprisingly comes in after the fact and gets on Bloodsports trail. Blood gets the better of Supes with a Kryptonite loaded gun that puts Supes out for a bit. Knowing Lex is the only guy who has Kryptonite, Superman figures out that Bloodsport was unleashed on the public by Lex to get Superman. The action in this comic was balls deep and didn't hold back at all. It gets so tense where Superman almost gets killed but luckily Jimmy courageously picks up a dropped weapon to stop Bloodsport. Superman finally learns how Bloodsport literally materializes any weapon from thin air. He uses some kind of transporter so Superman overheats the area to mess with the transporter causing the teleported weapons to melt in Bloodsport's hands. Jimmy in the meantime did some digging on Bloodsport whose real name is Bobby DuBois. He brings with him Bobby's brother Michael who has no legs and arms from Vietnam. Bobby never was in Vietnam, he was a draft dodger who fled to Canada and his brother took his place. This made Bobby go insane from guilt. I liked also how Superman clearly says it was a useless war. The comic was nice enough to dedicate to the dead soldiers of Vietnam.

The best part of this is just the art and Superman has a dream where him and Wonder Woman are fighting giant robo wolves and then they get hot for each other. Otherwise this and next ish was really bad.

I remember being happy to finish this ish. Actually this is where I got bored of reading the Man of Steel HC book and took a long hiatus unfortunately.

Rampage makes her first appearance in this series and Superman stops her by absorbing all of her energy and releasing it through a thunderbolt.

Lot of exposition explaining the contrived plot of why the Legion of Superheroes are running from Superboy from the parallel world that was destroyed in Infinite Crisis. But I can't rank it too low because there's a lot of story I'm missing on the Legion so it wouldn't be fair! I do love the chill hang out Clark has with Lana in this ish in the beginning after his fight with rampage.

Wow this was a hell of an issue!! The Joker doesn't mess around when he plays in Superman's backyard. The comic starts off with Joker in Metropolis sending a Superman android to steal a high risk jewel. Superman comes to stop it and the android opens it's chest to reveal an atomic bomb capable of blowing up all of Metropolis. Superman without hesitation flies out into space with the android as fast as he can and the atom bomb detonates with him. I loved this because the next page Supes crashes back to earth and isn't terribly hurt he's just Shakey and loopy. He struggles for a bit and shakes it off to fly back to Metropolis. Joker threatens Superman by telling him Lois, Jimmy and Perry are trapped in led coffins with only 30 minutes of air. Superman flies off. Joker lied and still has all three hostages with him in a mobile gas tank truck. Superman shows up almost immediatly sending the clown prince of crime to strikers island in a hilarious fashion. Lifting the mobile gas tank flying it to the prison. When Superman drops it he drops it over himself to tell off the Joker inside I thought that was a badass and hilarious little detail that made this really memorable. Also this comic will be a reference point from now on for me that will cause me to look at Snyder's BVS with more skepticism. Why? Remember that part of BvS where Superman willingly came to Washington DC to talk to Congress, only to be set up by Luthor putting a led bomb in that wheelchair guy? Well this comic makes Henry Cavill's Superman look like a complete moron. Superman here explains how he was able to figure out so fast that the Joker was lying about Lois, Jimmy and Perry being trapped in led coffins. When he used his super telescopic vision to and X-ray vision to look around the city led objects show up in his vision more pronounced because he can't see through them! In other words if everything is see through except the coffins than in his sight he will spot 3 floating led coffins!! So this comic logic would have helped Cavill spot a suspicious floating led box in that guy's fancy wheelchair sitting right next to Luthors minion Mercy. Snyder cmon bro. Lastly Lex Luthor had a nice little private moment of sadism. Eating at a small town restaurant 900 miles from Metropolis he picks out the hottest waitress and offers her a million dollars to live with him for one month. She puts up a moral fight not giving in. He tells her he'll wait in the car giving her 10 minutes to decide. She ponders it and eventually gives in to temptation when she calls her drunk husband over the phone. When she comes out Lex left. He enjoys dangling wealth in such a sadistic mean manner to people in the dumps. This little bit shows how low and vile Lex is and I love the detail.

Another home run here, Lex figures out how to modify the suns rays on Superman and over amplify it to cause Superman's powers to go haywire and turn him into a danger for everyone. He sends an android named Klaash to fight Superman and have him aim his uncontrolled powers at the city. Lex modified Klaash' infrared to make him invisible to the human eye and only Superman could see him because Lex turned on his infrared vision. So to the city it looked like Superman was aiming his powers and trying to destroy Metropolis of his own volition. They figure it out and Lex Luthor gets away with it with a really good lawyer.

Just for the record comicbookroundup has the incorrect issue and date for this one. This ish was 1986, and the cover is incorrect. Anyway Lex with all his resources and workers and computer data analysis finds out Clark is Superman. Hilariously though Lex does not believe the conclusion of the computer. He cannot for the life of him believe that someone with the powers of Superman would live a double life as just Clark Kent. Lex believes that any one with such power would exploit it for selfish gain and domination. This reaction of Lex is actually realistic since he is so impressed with himself he can't believe that someone like Superman with real values beyond the materialistic could actually exist.

After watching the horrendous new Fantastic Four movie I decided to come back to comics and check out some of the most recent version of Fantastic Four, and I ave to say this ish is a great start. It's not too involved and is friendly enough for new readers not requiring too much past knowledge of previous sagas if like me you haven't read them. Starting off with the Ting and his wife Alicia finding themselves stuck in a town that is in a weird time loop from the 1950's. And no this isn;t one of those overdone tropes you see in modern day media about "o no the 1950's how horrible thank god it's not the 1950s". No this is just some good old fashioned science fiction "how do we figure out how to stop the time loop". There isn;t much action in this besides some really good panels of the Thing doing his thing and unlike the crap movie he is not wearing a sweater, he is wearing normal casual clothes and looks like himself imo.The Thing certainly acts like himself in this, Ryan North does a fine job capturing the Thing's way of speaking and his relationship with Alicia works really well. Without saying to much the end is predictable but a nice transition into making you question okay where are the rest of the team?

Ish #2 takes a similar formula from #1 using a mystery science fiction element that I enjoyed. Sue and Reed find themselves in a town full of people who are really all Doombots. The Doombots attack them but go back to their human disguises when a state trooper comes in and interrupts. This strange behavior leads Reed and Sue to further investigate why this town is full of Doombots. They find this old lady in a wheelchair who turns out to be the key to the mystery. She was someone that Dr. Doom cared about when he was young and promised to take care of her. His solution was to giver her a Doombot to medically watch over her. It gets kind of dark when you find out she died a while ago and being that Doom only programmed the bot to keep her alive, the bot "became" the old woman and tried to keep her going by meshing with her bioloically. This only ended up in it replicating and copying her personality instead of actually staying alive. This was a great twist, and this concept of Doombots just existing on the side makes this world of the Fantastic Four feel rich and complex.That these characters effect the world around them in ways that even stay hidden.

In ish #3 we get to catch up with Johnny Storm and what he has been doing. He's been living a double life as a sales person. This issue was okay, honestly nothing to write home about it kind of was goofy.

This is where we start cooking, ish #4 starts out with why the Fantastic Four has been split up in the first place. Going back to a battle they had against aliens from the "negative zone" Reed comes up with a plan to send the Baxter building and the entire block into a space time dimension thing. He had to make this decision on the spot and had no time to avoid the catastrophic effects of doing this. All of Reed and Sue's, the Thing's and Alicia's children were in the building and a bunch of civilians on the block were sent along nto the space dimension. Ofcourse this is not fatal becase it has something to do with time, and all of this will pop right back in a year precisely. In that year none of those people would feel a thing. Nonetheless this pissed everyone off because they lost their children, or kids became orphaned because they lost their parents, making everyone hate the FF over this. My only beef with this ish is how after that reveal, the comic cuts to The Thing and Alicia being trapped by this ancient alien "parasite" that is I guess trying to suck up their intellect I don;t know. Obviously Reed,Sue and Johnny free them but frankly this was kind of weird. Like the last time we saw the Thing and Alicia they were leaving the time looped city. So how the hell did they get munched up by this alien but okay I guess this is not important, just messed up the pacing for me a bit.

This ish wasn't really anything important and didn't progress the base story much further. Not that this was a bad ish but it very surface level filler stuff. Had some cool art though on one page where Reed figures out how to re-reverse his and the team's molecules so they can exist again in the living universe. What I like about these weird concepts is I think the FF would make a really good TV show instead of a movie. FF should be Marvel's version of Star Trek there are so many weird things the FF does and figures out.

Improvement from last ish but still a filler episode. What I did like here is it shows what Sue was capable of doing with her powers, she was able to block out the sun over a particular state to help stop the spread of other dimensional cells that were a threat to our universe's equation of life. Other than that it was okay.

There's a lot going on in this ish, Dr. Doom created a holograhpic ghost capable of removing letters from your language making you forget how to speak slowly. To Dr. Doom traveling back in time to the Baxter Building teleport crisis because he wanted to get Reed Richard's daughter out of it, he has some plan to mentor her I guess? To then Doom finding out through traveling every moment of time that maybe no matter how hard he tries maybe all of the timelines he has set up the best possible way and there is no way for him to get true perfection or rule. This was a crazy ish I liked it very much.

This was boring, not even going to go over this.

Same issue as #8, just dull.

Way better than the last two issues,this was kind of strange. A rat alien race is stuck in the void of space and somehow thir trajectory threatens the teleported Baxter building, so the team has to intercede and prevent this from turning into a disaster. But this comic is really more focused on the weird rat aliens POV because throughout 500 years they are witnessing the Fantastic four in a kind of time glitch. Making the rat aliens think they are hostile one alien goes crazy and dies at a time. It is hard to explain, but not a bad issue, but like the previous two this feels like just another filler.

This was another filler but a really good filler and not just because there's a dog in it. Throughout a good mount of this The Thing is in his Aunt's house falling down what seems like a never ending hole down into the earth. I enjoyed this ish because the art was good and I found it funny seeing the thing in freefall navigating his way through the house with his dog and trying to figure out if what was happening was real or not.

I would like to know what they were smoking when making this is, this was pretty damn goofy but I'm a fun kind of way. I mean dino avengers? The Iron Man long-neck was funny as hell.

This was another funny ish, I never thought seeing Dr. Doom standing on a T-Rex version of himself would be so amusing but it works here. Leave it to the Thing to outsmart the two Dooms lmao

Well this comic gives you an idea on how the Fantastic Four would react to the likes of Sam Altman, Zuckerberg and that whole AI overlord crowd. Makes me wish the FF was here to save us!

Another banger here, "The China Brain" is a great and weirdly terrifying concept that seems close to reality. Starting off with a flashback of the 60s The comic shows two unnamed men most likely US government agents describing a China Brain consisted of humans being the living neurons of it. Clearly this historical call back makes on think did the Nixon administration enrich China just to use them as guinea pigs for the "China Brain" project. Then back to the FF's timeline clearly the brain has evolved from China to a world brain made of every human being. This was well written and creative, read through this like a knife cutting butter, smooth fast read.

Not as good as last two issues, just a corny and light-hearted way of getting use to the FFs children that are now back.

I really love these weird sci-fi stories especially when done right like this. Pretty cool to how this issue literally references an old story all the way back to 1963 when Sue and Reed were facing off Rama-tut in the pre-historic past. He goes back to kill off the first European nomads to kill off the future so the F F wouldn't exist at all. Obviously Reed and Sue trick him in a really ingenious way. You can even thank Alicia because they used braille to avoid Rama-tut from figuring out their plan to stop him. I must say too the art really juiced up for the better in this ish, absolutely beautiful work here.

Really enjoyed this and now I understand why the FF movie had a weird cosmic baby. That is their son Franklin but at this point in the comic he is a teen who only uses his cosmic powers once a year secretly. The difference between this Franklin and the movie is no one knows of his cosmic powers this whole time yet. I prefer this over how the movie handled it. Apparently his future self came to him one time but that must have been in previous saga I didn't read but luckily this ish kind of filled in some gaps.

This was a slog to get through had to force myself to finish this ish. I know the noir 1950s setting was because the Trapster used a cosmic cube to create this false reality but God I can't stand when comics go back in time in this fashion. I hate it when they go to the old West, or this. Bores me, if I want to read stuff like that I'll find a cosmic that focuses on that but I don't like it when it infects a cosmic like FF.

Love this one, funny, sweet and a good way to show the dynamic I thought was missing in the new movie between the Thing and Johnny. Working as cashier's because the money of the FF has been frozen in NY and the whole family has to live out in Arizona (Aunt Petunias) house Ben and Johnny both work at Foodtopia. I liked this a lot because they were competing with each other and being like petty children. What brought them back to their senses was some tabloid punk journalist ragging on Johnny and saying how he has fallen from fame to minimum wage. This pissed off Ben and made him go off on a great rant defending Johnny and making the tabloid journalist look like a total ass. Ben did this in his classic rough verbal fashion, and didn't act like a total wussy like he does in the new movie. These are two bros through and through love this ish.

I would give it a lower score because the whole vampire invasion put of nowhere is a bit contrived. But I enjoyed the beginning the most where Reed and Alicia were in the museum having a heart to heart about art, and how it doesn't effect Reed emotionally because of his genius way of looking at the world. The dialogue they had in these pages really made them feel like real people.

I'm glad the vampire part is over not really my cup of tea, the only vampire themed stories I can tolerate are the Vampire the Masquerade games and books. Anything outside of that universe vampires are pretty cliche and just smarter zombies in most modern media. Nonetheless happy to see Doom come back and take credit for saving the world from them, so should be interesting to see what he has planned.

This was great this ish, going from unknown microscopic quarks penetrating the atmosphere and smacking everyone on earth like a baseball, to it being tiny ships filled with thousands of dead aliens. Only one alien survived and we don't find out why until next ish. Johnny was really funny here translating for us what Reed was saying in his own smart ass way. Art was great and read has me interested to find out the mystery next ish.

Wow, just wow. This was epic on so many levels and did a good job showing just why Reed Richards is badass. So they find out this alien they found in the proton shop was named Zrixa. She tells them half truths and it turns out she came from a planet billions of light years away from us where the sun was dimming. The species figured a way to travel at light speeds that cost no fuel by extracting particles from their sun that would shrink their ships through light travel. Zrixa turned out to be the wealthy owner and creator of the ,ining operation of the sun and she horded all the particles being the sole cause of the dimming. She squandered any hope from her people and ran away, the people sent proton nuclear bombs after her out of vengeance for taking away their future. When Sue and the others decrypted the messages from their planet, the planet was already dead and frozen. Zrixa was defeated and the last proton shop they find at the end held a baby alien showing that not all the aliens fell into vengeance that there were some who still had love and hope despite the inevitable dimming of their sun.

I swear FF should be a TV show in the same format as Star Trek, this ish only reinforces this feeling of mine. The sci-fi insanity, incredible multi-versal comic science, and the no bars no fear ability to do things that might make some feel strange at the end. So in this ish the team finds some kind of pod that Dr. Doom sealed himself off in, but the crux is anyone who interferes with it gets sent to an unknown time and place. The FF ends up in this weird world with a smaller circumference and less density according to Reed. The team is quickly embraced by these friendly tentacles alien things who aren't in an advance stage, most likely they are in their version of ancient Greece maybe I guess? Well as the team communicated with these aliens Johnny falls in love with one named Angelica of the Shore. Some may find this disgusting and weird since these aliens have no human anatomy and are not your typical greys. Not that I'm into the idea and thought it strange, it was kind of funny and cute in its own way. The alien was clearly in awe of these advanced aliens the FF but even with all the differences Johnny is still a babe magnet, I think this is hilarious. Doing more digging Reed discovers that this alien planet is Earth but somehow something interrupted the natural evolution of earth by stopping a planet the size of Mars named Thea from crashing into earth which gave our planet the density and circumference we have now. It turns out this interference was on accident on Dooms part, he unknowingly did this whole testing his new powers as Sorcerer Supreme, because this act would eliminate us every being a thing and so these new species of aliens were the new citizens of this earth. They come to the conclusion that if they reverse this it will end the new species of aliens and Johnny and the team butt heads over this. As I was reading this I was saying there has to be a way to solve this without killing this species, maybe doing something with the multiverse? Well guess what, Reed came up with just the solution to create another timeline. We wouldn't be able to visit this one again because it would cause catastrophic consequences but it would work for both. I loved the out of this world stuff, can we please get a Star Trek esque TV show of the FF please?

This was really funny this ish. Johnny and Reed getting into some weird paranormal trouble and having to explain the house being wrecked was classic.

This was another good light-hearted funny ish like #26. For me it was a better way of bringing the FF kids in and making them more likeable which the last issue that attempted this failed for me (with the homework crap). This ish was more about Ben and Alicia's kid Nikki being a skrull and realizing how to best use her powers. At first she was using it to get her brother and Valeria and Franklin out of the principals office and imitating the FF. Some really funny dialogue here, this is how you do light comics without being overly stupid or treating your readers like idiots, well done.

Now we're back to what Doom is up to. He tricks Reed and Sue to find the Doom sword, the only sword that can destroy him, and he eliminates it. He tries to kill Reed and Sue by crushing them to death in the Astral Plane but luckily Reed figures out the illogical equation Dane gave him early on was really a magical word that helps Sue and Reed escape. My only dislike is different art now, I was really enjoying the style throughout the series now it's good but not as good as it was.

This is a good ish about fighting complacency and overcoming the current matrix of imposed normalcy in this case by the new Emperor Doom. She-Hulk makes an appearance here and helps the team save two vampire children from an angry mob. She-Hulk looks good here and makes me curious to check out her current run. Only if it seems anywhere close to respecting the John Byrne Sensational She-Hulk otherwise not interested. Good ish here that shows you how Sue and Ben are handling the new status quo of Doom.

Really on a roll here, got a nice ish here on Ben's psyche and how he's handling being turned back into a normal human because of Emperor Doom trying to show how good and benevolent he now is. Feeling weak and less of a man he goes to his wife Alicia's father whose in jail a former villain "The Puppet Master". Asking the Puppet Master to create a clay figure of Ben that will give him a false sense of confidence, another level of liquid luck one would say. Alicia figures this out pretty quick at the dinner table and immediately goes to the puppet Master to end it. Her father didn't give her any trouble and explained how Ben wanted this, and used it as an opportunity to convince his daughter that he's full of repent for all the wrong of the past. Even going so far as to say Alicia didn't have to hypnotize him to give her his blessing to marry Ben in a marriage issue I didn't read. The best part that really hit was when Alicia and Ben were talking about this and she told him how this was just a shortcut and he needed to heal naturally. Great artwork of them embracing and getting all emotional, really good stuff here love it!

So here the team finds out that they are losing their powers because Ben is no longer the Thing. Traveling different multiverse versions of the FF origins to let Ben take in the cosmic rays that turned him in the first place, it all fails each time. After many attempts, their last attempt is in their universe, this turns out to work and Ben becomes the Thing again. But their past selves didn't get hit by the cosmic rays because he absorbed most of it, altering the past and erasing the FF from the main timeline accidentally. This in turn erased all of their children from existence... Yikes... I don't think there's a quick Ctrl Z fix to this guys?

This was good but honestly I'm totally lost on how Val figured out how to defeat Franklin in this alternate timeline. It made no sense or maybe it was poorly explained or it just went in one ear and out the other. Not saying this was bad we get too see the extent of Franklins powers if he became a villain.

So they get Ben's powers back by going back in time to the big bang. Upgrading Herbie to be able to compute the pico and nano seconds of time they would need to be exposed to the cosmic rays, Her own sacrifices himself for the FF. Didn't feel it in this one honestly and every time Val has a dialogue it's really annoying. All I hear is blah blah blah blah blah.

I'm not going to crap on this ish to hard because it's a new #1 but I'm not saying this is a strong start either. Right away there is a decay in the art style, not looking as good as previous run even at that one's worst. Doom has trapped each member of the FF in totally different time periods of earth. He put insane time gaps between each member and the only plan they have for situations like this is using a forever stone to find each other. Johnny is in the earliest stages of Earth's formation no life, he writes it down on the forever stone and I guess leaves some kind of signal that would last long enough for the next. Thing is in the dino period, Reed in 1226, and so Sue being the last one is the only key for the team to get back to their time together. She's in a far off future where the sun is dying and all the oceans and life are gone. The sun ready to eat the earth and eventually die. They never calculated being sent so far into the future and the ish ends with the mystery will Sue find the forever stone or is this the end? I like the idea and Im interested but one of the things bothering me is why is the FF attacking Doom in the beginning of the ish? Didn't he just save everyone from Dormammu and didn't One World Under Doom end with Maria Hill having dirt? So how do we cut to this so fast without proper build?

This was a huge improvement from #1! The art looks good, it's the same style but improved. more precise and good deliberate line work. The colors really pop out and the artist really does the simple cartoon faces perfectly. Sue does end up finding her way to the forever stone, Reed stretches himself into the earth and arranged every single diamond into arrows to help her in the future. When Sue gathers the team back they return to the point where they were fighting Doom and like a moron Reed tells Doom how they figured it all out. I knew as I was reading Reed say all of that I was like "No moron shut up! He's just going to do it again with the knowledge of your forever stone!" And what do you know Doom sent them right back but in those moments they try to use the car time thing to undue their idiotic mistakes. Really good ish, only beef is this still doesn't line up to well with One World Under Doom. Are they fighting Doom after they had the debate in ish #6 and this has been the fight after Widow and crew exposed what was happening to Latveria? Something seems to be missing between this and One World Doom...

Huh. I'm not going to lie, I actually really enjoyed this. At first I went in not expecting much but I actually like the characters in this. I didn't read the Steve Fox Spider-woman run yet I'm still finishing the previous Pachinko run first so I don't know the whole backstory for these characters but Steve does a good job giving you some insight on what you might have missed. This is a new kind of era where a comic cover sucks but the actual material inside is good. Like that cover is so bad but luckily some reviews even reviews that did not like this issue peaked my interest to check it out. I like the personalities for me they are not too much, or overbearing/annoying for how young the characters are suppose to be. I'm adding this to my pull list.

Oh my god what did they do to the Joker this was creepy and amazing at the same time....

This was pretty mid writing imo especially compared to previous issues. The art is still the best part of this run, honestly the Barbara Gordon Breaks Out story is stupid and ruins it a bit. Having to hear "trust the plan" millions of times throughout the character dialogue is both cringe and annoying as it makes me think of the Q-Tards "trust the plan" lmao. The whole Vandal Savage thing is not as good as I thought it would play out so far, best part of this issue was seeing Batman do his thing when he came out to show Gotham he was back.

The story has only gotten worse and it seems the peak for me was the last conversation we had with Joker. Otherwise this Ojo character really ruins the book and takes me out of this feeling uniquely Batman. Ojo is like that lame Marilyn Moonlight character who occasionally comes in and ruins Superman's latest run. Anime, weaboo, Naruto nonsense does not fit in Batman's world, if I want to read a good samurai manga I will read my old Rurouni Kenshin books that do the Samurai theme actual justice unlike this Ojo Geek bull****! And Verity Pennysworth?! Really? We need to establish the idea that in modern times we have generational butlers that run down Alfred's family? Kind of anti-thetical to the idea of mobility and seems kind of cheap. Well see though how it plays out. Please keep anime manga out of comics thanks.

Great Start! After reading Timeless #1 I wasn't sure where it was fitting into this issue but it all makes sense by the end and I loved it. Jed Mackay knocked it out of the park with this ish. How he went back and forth showing the present battle the Avengers were having to 7 days ago Captain Marvel persuading this avenger, present day battle, 6 days ago etc. At first it was a little jarring but once I got into the rhythm of the story I couldn't drop the ish. I love the "Were called the Avengers as a warning to ourselves of what we can lose." Each small introduction to each Avenger was a nice slice of what they will be like during this run and I really like what is on offer here. I don't feel the need to read anything previous except for Timeless which I already did, and am happy to just stick with reading this run without crossing over to anything else.

Excellent flow, really feels like Mackay knows his stuff and how to handle different characters.

Love it!

I am just really enjoying these no-brainer pure Avengers comics.

Out of all the weird Halo 4 like villains (I mean Diadem makes me think of the forerunner aliens from Halo lol) the best one I liked was between Captain Marvel and Lord Ennui. The idea of Lord Ennui going to the busiest most populated place and basically bringing stillness to it slowly is a great idea.

So basically the Avengers get their version of the Justice League's watchtower. Very neat, I love how simple this series is, feels very much like the classics.

Eh, I took a two month hiatus on reading new comics and coming back I have to say I did not miss much. The last good issue for this series was #20 when Black Panther was in that pocket dimension helping some resistance group, I loved that concept. But it really has been just going through the motion since that ish. This should be great, Kang hiring Black Cat to help steal (well honestly I forgot what it was called), Black Cat getting her father in on it. But it sucks. I don't know, the writing, the pacing, the dynamics between each member. Just sucks... Gonna go back to staying away from this. Will probably check it out when Black Panther comes back.

I really liked the choice of characters for this series. Deathstroke, Midnighter, Azrael, and so many unique DC characters!

This is just really nice, it's the characters that make this so interesting, and how they adapt to the situations.

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.

Very dark, gritty, and fast-paced comic. Wanted more after I finished it so quickly! Can't wait to see where this mini goes!

The art is phenomenal. This second issue though lacks the intrigue I felt from the first issue. Nonetheless enjoying it very much and can't wait for #3!

Okay the writers definitely have been reading Do A Powerbomb and want to have some wrestling with the Flash. Does it work? YES! This issue was a lot of fun to read!!

The last part of it the Trinity reveal I thought wasn't that bad. The art was excellent and the colors were vivid. It was good enough to make me curious and try the newest WW run which has been a bumpy ride to say the least...

This annuals best short story is the one written by Chuck Dixon hands down. While it has nothing to do with what is going on with Supergirl's main story by Peter David, it offers a horrifying glimpse into the hell of some random character being used by some evil planetary corporation mining for rare minerals on a hot planet. The character as an adult speaks no words at all, we just see her being forced against her will to be strapped to a machine and transfer her mind to an autonomous android "tooljerk" on the hot planet to mine resources. The only context we get from her is memories from her childhood. How her father would retell childlike stories of Supergirl to put her to sleep. The horror of this was that was all the memories the tragic character had left that gave her any happiness at all. So a malfunction happens where her consciousness leaves her mortal body completely and permanently attaches itself to the tooljerk which has a God Like form that can change into anything. From the memories of Supergirl's tales, she transforms herself into Supergirl and destroys her corporate slaver's. While I simplify the message, the experience while short was very emotional and sad. As for the next short stories after this one, eh, nothing to write about.

So I will go back in read the last short volume of 4 issues to understand this whole notion of Supergirl becoming some kind of protoplasm experiment of Lex Luthor. It sounds really 90s but I am curious now. Nonetheless Peter David was given a difficult task to correct a strange choice in Supergirl's character and I have to say this was the best solution for the time. While it may have been better off just to ignore that chapter of her being protoplasm and start over completely you have to give David credit for sticking with the universe's story at that time. It is an interesting way of giving Kara actual human traits with a twisted evil person like Linda who murdered and did all sorts of dark things, as were shown she literally was laying naked in a pit of snakes. This is very biblical so far this story with it's symbology and themes and not in that ham-fisted way. I never pictured a Supergirl comic feeling like an addition to the lore of Vampire the Masquerade but here we are. It was the mid late 90s after all. The art by Gary Frank is good but again not to be mean but it is very 90s. Dark, grungy, a bit on the teen angst side. It works but is not the preferred style for a Supergirl but this was endemic of the period. So the question is from the Supergirl protoplasm saga, is this the real Kara? And also does this connect to the Crisis on Infinite Earths when the real Kara died? Is that why Lex Luthor created another Kara? I read Crisis on Infinite Earths Deluxe Edition but never read anything else after that at least in the Superman Universe so far so I'm out of the loop with that. So lacking any soul according to this comic, Linda Danvers provides Kara with that actual human soul to replace the emptiness she feels in the beginning of the comic. This is certainly strange and weird but honestly it is interesting. And with all of this dark stuff, from Cultist, sacrifice, summoning giant cat monsters like Chakat from another realm, I am enjoying this strange mixture of the superhero genre with VtMB lmfao. With all of this darkness not a single curse word comes out of Kara's mouth throughout all of this. *This is a dig at Tom King*.

This is where we find out that the soul Kara now shares her life with was a twisted and evil soul who murdered did strange sexual things with the cult that attempted to sacrifice her for Chakat. Sharing a soul means she shares all the memories as well, and she now has to live a double life. As Linda Danvers she has Linda's mom and dad while also as Kara she has Jonathan and Martha Kent who raised her in this series. This would make a difficult and weird experience to attempt to write in any form of media, but Peter David manages to keep the pacing good, and the story makes sense as you go on.

This has a special guest appearance of Gorilla Grodd! Using the heart of Darkness Grodd turns the little town of Leesburg into a primordial soup of insanity. Chakat was defeated last issue epically by SUpergirl when she fought him in his own realm. My favorite part was when she figured out how to get rid of him. She tore off his nail and used it to cut him and threw it across the demonic realm. The blood scent attracted the giant Dog demons that have been hunting Chakat in that realm to finally find him and get him away from entering Earth's realm. So Buzz, the mysterious character who seems to be the main villain behind the scenes creating all of these obstacles for Kara somehow summons Grodd to cause havoc in Leesburg. Every human in the town devolves into apelike violent creatures killing one another, screwing each other literally, and all the base animalistic things you can think of. Grodd manages to turn Kara into an ape only because she is now mixed with a human.

Gorilla Grodd uses Supergirl for a short period to do his bidding. She breaks out of it when he tries to make her throw Linda's mother into a pit of fire. When she breaks out of it she has an intense fight with Grodd, strangely an icicle kills Grodd by piercing him into his head. This is not Kara's doing but most likely Buzz or someone higher working the chess board.

The story now is a bit less dark than the last three issues and is going back to a more science fiction theme now bringing back Chemo! It was nice to have Kara visit Jonathan and Martha Kent back in Kansas. She didn't tell them what happened to her mixing it up with Linda Danver's soul. This makes me wonder at what point will she talk to Superman about what happened? Chemo started to grow in a lab randomly again and the lab owners didn't tell anyone because they said he was growing on their private property thus making Chemo their property. Well he keeps growing so eventually he breaks out on his own. Supergirl doesn't defeat Chemo in any physical way here, she gets caught inside of him like the blob, but once she is inside she can hear his conscious. He is struggling with what he is, and Supergirl lies to him that he is not a living being and can't live any kind of life. This makes him go super-nihilistic and I guess he self-detonates. But I'm sure he will randomly show up in the future. BONUS In the TPB edition after this issue there are two bonus stories. Perceptions is a really good short that is unafraid to delve into the idea of false accusations based on perception. Mary from Captain Marvel visits Supergirl's town after having a fight with her mother and father for disappearing all the time. Hanging out with Linda Mary in her child form wonders off and gets taken by a Police officer who recognizes her as the missing runaway child. The officer is a good friend of Linda's father who saved his life on multiple occasions. When the officer took in Mary. Mary freaked out because she thought he was trying to molest her. Losing her cool she transformed to Captain Marvel but was stopped from doing any damage by Supergirl. Supergirl insist on the process of justice to Mary and they listen to the officer's side of the story. The comic does a great job of not being bias toward any side and lets you be the judge at least until the last panel of the comic. The officer didn't try to do what Mary said, and no charges were made. If this was made in our time now, Supergirl would immediately believe Mary's accusations and beat the hell out of the cop or whatever. Instead Peter David holds Supergirl's principles to the fire in this bonus story and she proves she is not all talk and truly stands behind "Truth, Justice ands the American Way." Supergirl felt extremely guilty about lying to a creature that needed to hear some kind of solace or affirmation of what it's existence meant. But to save the lives of the town of Leesburg again she had to make the hard choice in this case. Otherwise the town would be absorbed like the Blob.

Not the best in the line-up so far, basic story of how Rampage gets betrayed in her human life to be set up in some financial fraud scheme. Superman intervenes since Rampage is his friend Kitty Faulkner.

Wow Peter David's writing style and Gary Frank's 90's-esque art really combine here to create an almost perfect comic in so many ways. From learning more about Linda's past and how Supergirl handles it, to the seamless flow panel by panel that made this read nothing but pure bliss for me. The colors really popped as well in here. We really dive into Linda's psyche to understand why she fell into the dark side before merging with Kara's blank protoplasm soul. Linda's father and mother visit her and look through her old sculptures and art, her father takes and angel statue out that brings back memories of Linda when she was going to church to listen to Reverend Meeke. Meeke's wife was sweet and gave Linda the statue as a gift. Linda went to visit Meeke and his wife one day and she caught the reverend beating the wife to a bloody pulp. She came to visit again after that and saw a bunch of professional men hauling a rolled up carpet into a van. Her eyes caught the cloth and slight blood dripping from the inside of the carpet. This experience forever changed Linda from the naïve little girl, to a skeptic on the bible, to a full blown rebel thanks to meeting Buzz. Buzz of course is supernatural and waited to speak to Linda by a tree after she witnessed the horrific murder of Meeke's sweet wife. Whether this was pre-ordained by Buzz to form Linda to his molding is yet to be seen, but this moment where Buzz and Linda first meet is obviously a reference to Genesis. As Buzz jumps down from the tree to tempt Linda into seeing the "Truth" of the Church and the Bible. Buzz is the Snake (and quite possibly I suspect is actually Lucifer himself) and Linda Eve. Peter David's biblical themes from my description may sound on the nose, but on paper and through the experience of the comic it is a smooth and very sinister atmosphere he creates. While Buzz imparts many truths to Linda to feed her justifiable questioning of the church, his goals are evil. Pointing out how the church was created by the Romans to control the masses is in fact a very accurate way to view it. If you listen to either Jordan Maxwell (who is now deceased) or the current Professor Jiang on Youtube (Predictive History), both talk about how the Romans manipulated Christ' teachings to control the masses through Catholism etc. Professor Jiang specifically talks about how Paul was the true deceiver and a sort of double agent for the Romans and the Pharisees to spread his false system of beliefs. Only to convert the roman slave system into the roman faith system. Buzz is clearly Lucifer in the actual Luciferian Helena Blavatsky sense, where he is "The light". In this belief, Lucifer was actually telling Adam and Eve the truth, that God was keeping them chained through ignorance, and through the apple, Lucifer would impart knowledge to help them break free from God's oppression. However through the art and symbolism in this comic, Buzz lead Linda through Anti-Christ principles. Murdering the Priest Meekes and his mistress, being apart of orgies, etc. We are shown this through ish #7 where she first enters Buzz home where there is an orgy going on, with illuminati symbols adorned on the walls. From the triangle, to the head of Baphomet. This comic unlike many modern iterations of today, does not treat the reader like an invalid snowflake that can't handle anything. Like many mediums of the time it reaches toward the darkest parts of humanity but unlike the many overly-done pieces of the time, this piece stays grounded and feels very real at the same time.

We find out more about Buzz in this ish, I was close but he's not Lucifer. Buzz is a demon that was exiled from hell, all the demons exiled ran to space, other worlds or earth like him. But Buzz in his time away from hell turned himself into some kind of cosmic business man and made a mysterious deal with an unnamed force to turn Supergirl into their personal weapon. Buzz is still evil, but he does seem to have an understanding with Supergirl which shows more in the next ish. Most of this comic was Linda having Dinner with her mom and dad who set up the "blind date" with Buzz. Believe it or not but this was really well written, an entire comic devoted to a slowly intensifying dinner table conversation works beautifully here. You learn so much about Buzz in this and the reactions of Linda and her parents only add to the believability of the situation. Linda not wanting to expose her identity as Supergirl hesitates to do anything until Buzz surprise attacks the family with Tempus Fugit showing up.

Here Peter David again puts Supergirl to the fire literally (as seen on the cover of the ish) and most importantly metaphorically. Tempus blows up Linda's home and from what it looks like he murdered her parents before she could do anything about it. We discover further that Buzz has been laying the foundations of everything up to this moment. From corrupting the innocent Linda, to even using Chakal just to entrap Supergirl and Linda to mix their souls together. Buzz is not the mastermind totally, as he is doing this for some other force not yet revealed to us. He is stuck in some kind of hellish bargain. So many things a happen here and in Supergirl's moment of vulnerability, some really good emotional writing comes out of here. When Linda's parents die, Supergirl looses her mind. SUpergirl says to herself; "Yes... as his cloud surrounds me, I see the world as it truly is. SUpergirl died with Linda, instead of saving her. We're burning together." In the background you see distorted faces of her parents and ma and pa Kent, SUpergirl continues; "It's all been a joke. A sick cosmic joke. I understand the world now... It makes so much sense... It's all sickness and depravity wherever you look. That's the reality of it. All it takes is the guts to see it that way, and that's what Supergirl provided: The bravery to meet the world on it's own twisted level." "We look to the skies-- look to the super-beings to give us hope--but at the end of life, we sink beneath the earth, and God and his "heroes" laugh down at us all. Because God is insane, and he made us in his own image." Then the next page have these great intense panels of Linda trying to shake SUpergirl out of her nihilism. Linda tries to say to Supergirl; "No... You're wrong... I was wrong...I... I've seen the world through your eyes... Seen so much... Seen what you aspire to...What humanity aspires to...God Supergirl... You thought you weren't human... You're the most human creature I've Ever met. You've learned--" A panel of Supergirl screaming with blooddripping on her face interrupts, "I've learned it doesn;t mean anything! I sacrifice and people die! I show mercy and people die! Love begets hate, trust begets betrayal...No more! It ends here! It ends here! No Mercy! No Mercy! Because now they die for their sins! I'll leave their bodies in ruins and let God worry about their souls!" Now on just this write up you may say that's not anything special, but from the intensity of the panels, and the desperation of Supergirl I really felt each moment and heard their voices. Buzz shows some compassion, a panel shows a subtle glint in his eye of sorrow for what he had to do to Supergirl. As she is about to kill Tempus, Buzz interrupts her and tells her; " Is this what you want. Angel? When alls said and done? It's my way sure.. And it was Linda's way... Except maybe it's not anymore... Which makes you the swing vote. As in whether you swi9ng that fist or not. Do you make Linda's way yours? Or your way hers? Here and now Angel you'll finally truly become one. The only question is: One what?" This all shakes Supergirl to her core and she chooses the right way.

This was a more casual experience compared to the final end of the first 10 issues. With a new artist Kirk, the art has taken back a bit compared to Gary Frank who was really getting good. Peter David still has a charm that what would seem like boring outings or table talk to more interesting life-like moments. Mattie has an outburst during the trial of the store owner who murdered her brother PJ during Gorilla Grodds Primordial revolution of #3-4. Cutter stops her from being in contempt of court and invites her and Linda to the comedy club. The comedian is Cutter's ex, and we find out his real name is Wendell. He's lived a crazy life going from Hollywood, trying to make it but he clearly is having plenty of trouble. Dick is Linda's date and comes from a wealthy southern family but is living on his own to prove his worth. He has a rolls Royce though as a "gift". Alot of comic writers don't make such little characters like this stand out like David does. The big reveal as to the monster in the cave is Banshee! So can't wait to see what the hell Banshee is up to back in 1997 lmao!

Silver Banshee has lost her mind, trapped in a cave by the power of Satanus himself, Linda accidentally releases Silver Banshee from the confinement. Having no memory of who she is, Banshee runs wild throughout the town of Leesburg. Believing she is a beautiful blonde normal human, she terrifies everyone with her presence. After releasing Banshee Supergirl gets snatched up by a tentacle and dragged down through the River Styx and hell to the domain of Satanus. Satanus warns Supergirl tat Silver Banshee has been confined for a reason and must be stopped. Satanus says he can't fight or mess with Supergirl in any way since she is one of the three chosen ones, "The Blue Angel", he offers no explanation for this. Interestingly he does give the reader information on Linda and Matrix' souls. We now know that the existential Crisis Mae was going through in Showcase 96 wasn't just an emotional, physical reaction of questioning what the hell her existence means when she is just a protoplasm created in a lab. Mae was on the cusp of Spiritual annihilation, thus her merging with Linda not only helped Mae form an actual soul that is now legitimate in the eyes of God and Satanus, but also helped redeem Linda's corrupted Soul due to the goodness of Mae. Without this merging of fate, Linda would be doomed to the pits of hell for eternity, and Mae despite her natural goodness, would be destined for OBLIVION. No Afterlife, No purgatory, no hell. NOTHING. As to who saved both of these women from such horrible fates is yet to be seen. Banshee gets shot up by Police responding to everyone's panic. They really bloody her up so much her arm comes off, the pain wakes her up to use her screaming ability and murder all of the cops where they stood, no chance. Supergirl tries to calm her down, but Banshee sees Linda's friend Maitee who has an angry soul felt by Banshee, she takes over her body to regain her powers 100%.

Silver Banshee has lost her mind, trapped in a cave by the power of Satanus himself, Linda accidentally releases Silver Banshee from the confinement. Having no memory of who she is, Banshee runs wild throughout the town of Leesburg. Believing she is a beautiful blonde normal human, she terrifies everyone with her presence. After releasing Banshee Supergirl gets snatched up by a tentacle and dragged down through the River Styx and hell to the domain of Satanus. Satanus warns Supergirl tat Silver Banshee has been confined for a reason and must be stopped. Satanus says he can't fight or mess with Supergirl in any way since she is one of the three chosen ones, "The Blue Angel", he offers no explanation for this. Interestingly he does give the reader information on Linda and Matrix' souls. We now know that the existential Crisis Mae was going through in Showcase 96 wasn't just an emotional, physical reaction of questioning what the hell her existence means when she is just a protoplasm created in a lab. Mae was on the cusp of Spiritual annihilation, thus her merging with Linda not only helped Mae form an actual soul that is now legitimate in the eyes of God and Satanus, but also helped redeem Linda's corrupted Soul due to the goodness of Mae. Without this merging of fate, Linda would be doomed to the pits of hell for eternity, and Mae despite her natural goodness, would be destined for OBLIVION. No Afterlife, No purgatory, no hell. NOTHING. As to who saved both of these women from such horrible fates is yet to be seen. Banshee gets shot up by Police responding to everyone's panic. They really bloody her up so much her arm comes off, the pain wakes her up to use her screaming ability and murder all of the cops where they stood, no chance. Supergirl tries to calm her down, but Banshee sees Linda's friend Maitee who has an angry soul felt by Banshee, she takes over her body to regain her powers 100%

Sadly this comic doesn't really go out of it's way to help you understand Siobhan's (Banshee) struggle o why she is the way she is. The comic shows on the first page Siobhan being afraid as child in her room at night with her mother wooing her back to sleep. Besides that it just goes back to Supergirl figuring out since Banshee took over Matee , she is heading toward the mental facility where her brother's killer is. Silver Banshee gets a hit on Supergirl thinking she killed her, but since Supergirl is Linda and Banshee doesn't know her name, she can't end her life with her scream. Going back on her trail, the killer is no where to be found in the mental facility and the loonies. Supergirl and Banshee have a short fight, Supergirl holding Banshees mouth, Banshe choking Suppergirl. They come to a stalemate an Banshee let's Supergirl come with her to the prison. Trying to convince Supergirl that there is such thing as genuine evil, that Supergirl's refusal to see that and instead believe that everyone has a light, a chance for redemption is a foolish delusion. Walking through the dark, dingey prison, Banshee shows Supergirl each prisoner. From rapist to murderers asking her what light can she find in such filth. Appeasing to her friend Matee's side, Mae manages to split the two from eachother putting Siobhan back in her amnesia, child-like state. Sweetly Supergirl comforts and woos Banshee like the child on page 1. Siobhan shrinks until she is dust, returning to the spiritual realm I suppose? Not the best of the run so far, not enough context or development was given for Siobhan in this... Still good though!

Sadly this comic doesn't really go out of it's way to help you understand Siobhan's (Banshee) struggle o why she is the way she is. The comic shows on the first page Siobhan being afraid as child in her room at night with her mother wooing her back to sleep. Besides that it just goes back to Supergirl figuring out since Banshee took over Matee , she is heading toward the mental facility where her brother's killer is. Silver Banshee gets a hit on Supergirl thinking she killed her, but since Supergirl is Linda and Banshee doesn't know her name, she can't end her life with her scream. Going back on her trail, the killer is no where to be found in the mental facility and the loonies. Supergirl and Banshee have a short fight, Supergirl holding Banshees mouth, Banshe choking Suppergirl. They come to a stalemate an Banshee let's Supergirl come with her to the prison. Trying to convince Supergirl that there is such thing as genuine evil, that Supergirl's refusal to see that and instead believe that everyone has a light, a chance for redemption is a foolish delusion. Walking through the dark, dingey prison, Banshee shows Supergirl each prisoner. From rapist to murderers asking her what light can she find in such filth. Appeasing to her friend Matee's side, Mae manages to split the two from eachother putting Siobhan back in her amnesia, child-like state. Sweetly Supergirl comforts and woos Banshee like the child on page 1. Siobhan shrinks until she is dust, returning to the spiritual realm I suppose? Not the best of the run so far, not enough context or development was given for Siobhan in this... Still good though!

So we moved on from Banshee pretty quickly and we're back to normal somewhat on the main story. The comic starts off kids from the church talking to Linda's mother about being visited by a demon called Daemon. Linda tries to figure out how to expel him from the Leeseburg town by studying ancient books on demon visitation in the library. She figures out how to defeat him in her own dream against him. Kind of a small plot but it's good to get back on the main story now.

I wouldn't think I would enjoy anything that is making a tribute or a tipping of the hat to the romance magazines of the 1930s, but this annual was actually really good. It's nice break from the serious demonic atmosphere of David's setup with excellent art to boot. I especially liked how Brainy and Supergirl toy with eachother to get what they want. Supergirl needs Brainy's help, her town is going mad with some random chaotic magic messing things up. From cars shrinking, bloodbags being replaced with hummingbirds, patients being x-rayed becoming a living x-ray, all sorts of wild things. Brainy at first refuses to help because he does not like to mess with magic, but Kara sensing his sttraction to her, lightly seduces him with her charm to get him to help. From his perspective, Brainy refused on purpose to get Supergirl to need him. We have some nice tension between the other girls from the Legion being angry with Supergirl. How Brain was abandoned as a baby, his mother being a domineering blonde woman, and so he has a freudian obsession with strong blonde women. The chaotic magic at one point almost kills Supergirl and Brainy by crushing them to death in their own void bubble, needing to tell the truth to break the magic. This was very funny, light-hearted, and again the art was fantastic. The third part of the annual written by Chuck Dixon was also very good. Not about Supergirl directly but just a couple of teenagers who fall in love because of her. The art on this one really shined too. A pizza delivery boy who daydreams on the job about Supergirl doesn't notice the cute redhead girl who has a thing for him because he is so infatuated with Supergirl on the magazines he read. Supergirl saves a grain arm from an explosion, the boy runs over to see Supergirl in person. A ton of grain falls on him and none of the firefighters or Supergirl noticed while everything was going on. The red head girl followed him knowing his infatuation would get him in trouble, and luckily she saved him. After being in the hospital the boy learned about what she did and they finally go out on a date. This was really nice because honestly I miss the simple romance in stories to a degree. So much romance has been set aside or complicated to push the feminist agenda in general media, not only affecting modern day storytelling but also changing American life and culture for the worst due to the less innocent forms of romance that is written in today's film and books. Believe me I know relationships, romance today is not a comic book, not some fairy tale but god damn I wouldn't mind some simplicity mixed in once in a while... Annual number 2 kicked annual 1's ass big time with all parts being satisfying.

Finally this ish picks up real good, coming back from helping the Justice League fight off some invading alien force that is hanging outside Earth's orbit, Supergirl comes back feeling it's time to tell the Kents and the Danvers about how she is both Linda and Mae. We also get a tease of a "new superhero" but it has to be Comet. I really hope it's Comet because I would like to see Supergirl fight alongside Comet in this dark version of Supergirl. Linda's parents make up with each other after the husband was feeling left out of his wife's interest to become a minister. They screw, being in a great mood, Linda thought this would be the perfect opportunity to reveal to them her new identity as Supergirl. The twist is the Danvers don;t take Linda telling them the truth about her merging with Mae good at all. They scream in terror believing her to be a demon. Devastated Linda flies away. The art continues to be colorful and full of life. A true stand out from the generic 1990s art that infected most comics at the time.

Linda's mom and dad are still horrified at the idea that their daughter Linda has been absorbed by Supergirl. Linda's mother Sylvia is so distraught by this prospect that she quits her studies to become a minister shocking the Priest who encouraged her to do so in the first place. In her despair she says "either there is no God or God doesn't care about us so I don;t care about him." Only reason why I gave this a 9 instead of a 10 is because I was hoping Comet would make a full reveal but I guess that is being saved for a big moment hopefully. The Extremist villains were in a wax museum on display only to be revived by a mysterious villain named Twilight. Without explanation yet, Supergirl attempts to fight the extremist after they attack Rick's mother at her mansion. At first Supergirl was beating them, but suddenly her powers went haywire and she lost consciousness. This is most likely due to Twilight. A nice surprise at the last page is Power Girl shows up, and man, Power girl is thick as f**k omg.

HOLY HELL! Power Girl and Supergirl DESTROY the Extremist! From Supergirl using her psy powers just to make Lord Havok fall to pieces, Die Hard Man uses his telekenisis to hover a battleship over the town, Supergirl and Powergirl drop it over him completely decimating him. Supergirl tears Tracer apart limb by limb! Of course the no mercy to death battle is rationalized because the Extremist are not organic, living beings but deluded automatons (so dangerous it took the entire League including Power Girl to fight them a long time ago). We learn more about Twilight and her ability to bring people back to life from death. Her origins go back all the way back to the plague, black death, she originally used her divine gift to save as many people as she could. Years later she was drunk, desperetly searching for booze among the mass of death and decaying bodies. Twilight seemed to be in a phase of over-burdening herself with saving people that she overlooked her own life. Her sister was in the mass grave, Twilight attempts to revive her and fails to do so. Feeling the irony she lashes out at God and blames God for this misfortune. Swearing her eternal hate toward him. This is contrasted as well with Linda's mother Sylvia who is also now drinking herself away after quitting her studies to be a minister. An old lady walking with her husband who are raising the mysterious boy we have seen show up multiple times throughout this series named Wally, has a heart attack in front of the same bar Sylvia is at. The bar owner ask Sylvia if she knows CPR, and in her drunken apathy she responds "Who cares". Hopefully the next ish snaps her out of it and she saves the old lady, and Supergirl and Powergirl snap Twilight out of her centuries old vendetta against God. This was an amazing ish from beginning to end!

Another great ish by Peter David here. So Sylvia didn;t try to help Wally's grandmother but was sent to the hospitalto be treated for her heart attack. Sylva gets a bit of karma back at her for having this now careless nihilistic attitude when she is visited by L-Ron. Driving home at night from the bar L-Ron smashes her car and throws her off road seriously injuring her. Interestingly enough when the police and ambulance come they have trouble getting her out of the car. L-Ron seen sleeping in the woods, a bear attempts to sneak up on him and L-Ron puts his hand through the bear's chest killing it instantly. Waking up he sees the car crash and helps the emergency crew to save Sylvia. Realizing he did this, we find out L-Ron is an automaton that has once had the evil Despero control his huge purple body. Despero is trying to regain the body to rule over he world again. We also learn here a little more about the mysterious boy named Wally. Visiting his grandmother with his grandfather he talks to his grandpa that death is nothing to fear for it is as natural as birth. Having no control of your body at birth and at death, the perfect symmetry he calls it. Linda's father leaving Sylvia's room talk to Wally and his grandfather but Wally strangely introduces himself as God. While we have no proof of anything, from his many strange appearances throughout the series so far he has definetly been watching Supergirl. Linda while visiting her friend Dick's mother at the hospital runs into Lex Luthor's x-wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth does not know who Linda Danvers is but she knows Supergirl. I'm not sure why Supergirl does not even think about revealing herself to Elizabeth because this Peter David run is connected to the 1994 4 issue mini series and post crisis timeline. Elizabeth has proven to be Mae's friend especially in the 4 issue mini series helping her wake up to Lex's true intentions when Mae was dating him at the time. Despero fully takes over L-Ron and Supergirl fights him, he tries to mind control her but she burst out of his grip with fiery wings pertruding from her back like an angel. Love this.

Another Great Hit here! There's so much to cover in this one ish... So SUpergirl has no idea at first why she has suddenly developed these fiery wings that grew from her cape but she eventually realizes that it has to do with what Satanus said about her being one of the three chosen ones. Fred (Linda's father) talks with Noah and Wally, we learn how Wally lost his parents in a fire, and that for the past year he has claimed to his grandfather that he is God. The grandfather doesn't believe it but has played along out of compassion for Wally having a rough childhood. Spergil fights Despero with some great action scenes but the best part has to be when she exorcises Desperos spirit. Her fiery wings no longer attack when L-Ron returns and Despero leaves his possesed body. SO her fire only attacks malicious entities automatically. Still feeling despair from her parents negative reaction to her revealing, her father Fred shows up to the scene to cheer her victory. This gives her a boost in the battle. Despero tries to possess Supergirl here, she resist at first but again remembers what Satanus said to her. That any evil that attempts to posses her will be ejected and weakened, so she let's Despero in. It works, and she literally annihilates his spirit with her eye beams. The area has ashes falling from the sky creating some unique panels of the after battle. Fred and Supergirl hug eachother, showing that her father finally accepts her again.

Not only was this a fantastic issue art-wise still, but it was really funny too! Supergirl talking to Wally at his grandmother's funeral because she is trying to figure out if he is God or not. Wally has a sense of humor when Supergirl is asking him queestions. Asking for proof he goes on to rebut by saying what miracle can I show that will convince anyone when we live in a world with Martian Manhunter, Weather Wizard, Aquaman, Superman, etc. That believing in God requires faith and free will. Wally never proves that he is God to anyone in the comic but in this ish and last ish he proves it to us the reader. Wally also tells Supergirl that she is an Earthborn Angel, telling her to look it up at the library not telling us anymore about it. Last ish when his grandmother died in the hospital his grandfather grew angry with Wally claiming to be God and in his grief demanded Wally bring grandma back to life if he is God. He chased Wally to the baby nursery. Wally pointed toward a baby and said he did bring her back. Also while at the funeral Wally gave Noah his grandpa a vision dancing with his now deceased wife in the 20s when she was a flapper, thus again proving to us the reader that Wally is God showing himself in subtle ways like this. We also get a goofy guy by the name Seersucker who tries to get vengeance against his boss, the company he worked for has a statue of Atlas holding the world, a cool reference to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. When Seersucker puts on his suit powered by a white dwarf star it goes crazy, Supergirl having to try to save him. Not fast enough Comet comes back and reveals himself in human form to save Seer. He runs off though again. The panel work is really amazing, even from the first page that really pops out the mundane moment of Supergirl trying to be around people when there is time of peace so they don;t attribute her to only battles. Oh yeah Mattie and Cutter bang but don't remember how they ended up banging eachother so that was funny too...

2 points off for having no more Twilight and having her be gone for good without any satisfying conclusion, and having a random giant named Cerne walking through the ocean and Supergirl trying to stop him. Like what?? As for the rest, Comet talks to Supergirl in her mind when she is drowning after being hurled out from Cerne's mouth, telling her they are connected without explaining how or why. Peter David is really building up Comet and his place in the story here. The best part however is how Linda's father Frank tells her how her mother Sylvia was an alcoholic when they met. That Frank even broke up with Sylvia over it only to get back together when she found out she was pregnant with Linda not believing in abortion. This motivated Sylvia to cold turkey with the support of Frank, Linda being her literal "lifeline". This created a new devotion in the woman believing this was all God's purpose to give her a meaningful life. So when she found out Linda was merged with Mae, unlike Frank who has now accepted his daughter's new identity, Sylvia fell back to the bottle after all these years believing she lost Linda. Being in the hospital unconscious from L-Ron throwing her around while in her car, we are not sure if she will wake up yet. David's mastery on the human condition is unquestioning, I love how he is unafraid to touch religious, spiritual themes in the way he does. Many writers seem afraid to do this these days, so it is refreshing to read a comic that is unafraid to touch these spiritual themes.

Im proud to be the only Comic G-Man to be posting and rating on Supergirl. It looks like users gave up around ish #10 sadly! This ish was amazing! The action was really wacky and the interactions beautifully dynamic! This ish especially hits the spot because finally after much teasing Comet is now the focus. Being chased by a really cool character named "Fracture", a Native American superhero, I dont say villain for a reason. Comet apparently went by the name of " Zed One" and owes money to whoever Fracture is working for. Meanwhile Sylvia is still in the hospital, Martha visits to try to help Sylvia cope with her daughter being mixed with Mae. Martha's sweet way seemed unable to shake Sylvia out of her depression. The husband feeling a repeat of her past alcoholic behaviors feels discouraged enough thinking of filing a divorce. Seems a bit harsh but he did stick with Sylvia through her fighting alcoholism before she had Linda, but if she throws it all away its hard to blame him feeling that way. But hopefully he gives her a chance to work it out. Linda is in the library to read the Earth Angels book Wally told her to read. We learn that Earth Angels are created when someone sacrifices themselves to save someone who is beyond saving, hence angelic Mae saving the Satanic Linda in the beginning. While at the library Andy (Cutter's X-Wife comedian) has been stalking Linda to ask her to eat lunch. Having her eye on Linda for a few issues but getting foiled in her pursuit she finally gets her opportunity to tell Linda she digs her clams, and wants to vacuum her rug for her. Linda suprised by the notion rejects Andy saying shes not gay and doesn't enjoy shoveling pearls for kicks. Andy tries to convince her to embrace her hidden cave-diving skills but gets interrupted by Fracture who takes Linda as a hostage to get Comet's attention. Linda uses her psi power to slip up Fracture to let go while mid-air, Comet saves her before she could change to Supergirl. Eventually she switches as Supergirl to fight Fracture but he overcomes her everytime. He has a good soul so her angelic powers have no effect on Fracture or Comet, so Fracture is really after Comet for some money dispute. When Supergirl hears this and Fracture leaves with a 24 hoir warning, she tells Comet she can help him if its just about money. Only if Comet tells her who he is and what is going on. Last panel he stands over her, being a good foot 2 feet taller than her, makes out with her. Holy hell this is some LSD trip!!!!!!!!

Wow this was not one-sided partisan take at all, Supergirl ends up being the mediator between a protest group against a "racist" who is going to speak at a college. The protest group eventually led by Steel disregard the first amendment completely and block the man's way into the college. Cutter even calls out Steel about how he is disregarding the very amendment that allowed the civil rights to succeed in the first place. Steel doesn't listen and continues to block the door with the students. Supergirl while not agreeing with the speaker agrees with Cutter and fights Steel to let the speaker through. A bomb goes off and the front of the campus goes on fire. They witness the "racist" save a black officers life from the fire. Free speech wins at the end and a man comes into the African protest groups building to ask if they are having Muhammad forgot last name to come speak. The woman replied yes hes so intelligent! The man responds "hes an anti-semite, Im jewish, Im going to organize a prostest!" Last panel shows Cutter laughing his ass off over the irony of it all.

Also the next comic after this was Resurrection Man #17 which I cant find on here to review.. It was great though!

Wow Comet and Andy's story here was really top notch stuff here I was sucked in didn't want this ish to ever end!!!

Continuing off from #25 was happy to get more of the story making it a hard to put down read! The characters feel very real how David writes them and I feel like I am actually in the story!

Nice Granny's minions from Apokolips show up here!

At first I was not sure where this comic was going, but boy does it pick up!!

Not only is the story interesting, the art is very nice!

Fantastic, the writer really captures Posion Ivy. I like how the series illustrates how Ivy can justify her evil acts. Whether it's for mother nature, or what. But it never turns out the way she plans.

All in all, a very good series!

Boy Thunder is kind of boring however everything outside of him is still perfect.

I will be honest I thought the Key would be a lame villain but Waid made him extremely interesting. My take he is basically Bradley Cooper in the movie limitless but with a villain comic book twist! Love this

Series is still going good, loving it still!

I won't lie as a hardcore Supergirl fan having Dick and Kara fail at dating was great. I really love this idea of Supergirl and Robin!! Hope they have some better dates than how this one turned out!

I enjoyed the Metamorpho solo that came out in 2023 but wasn't too much of a fan. Waid makes Metamorpho a badass here and still retains his campy dialogue brilliantly!

These are the kind of comics that remind me why I don't watch tv as much and completely stopped playing videogames. This is a way more satisfying avenue for the brain!

Am I the only one who was amazed how Waid made the Metal Men make a special Bat armor for Batman?!

One of my favorites I love what this comic does with Bizarro world and how they interact with the versions.

Would give it a 10 if they played up the romance more because it feels like nothing is going to actually happen between Supergirl and Robin and it just teases the idea of it honestly.

This arc was some DBZ Fusion level anime boo-shtick

Love this evil version of everyone, and omg Owlman and Ultraman completely murder the Doom Patrol in 2 pages not even!!

Love it and reminds me of the DC animated movie where Batman was in Warlord's world. Just amazing comic here...

This series remains undisputed long running comic in modern times for superhero genre imo. Here we are at #53 and Waid gives us another amazing adventure, the man is a legend!

I loved this one I still remember how Vigilante learns here that he was spiritually chosen to avenge innocence like many before him. Im pretty sure this is the ish where he is stranded in the desert and sees the spiritual visions.

Revealing his identity leads his best friend to get killed later on I believe.

The art was so good in this series all around its sad it didnt get much attention.

If I remember this one correctly, this was really dark ish. The daughter was sexually abused being chased by the father in here and this story had so many screwed up themes in it. Moore was definitely unafraid to delve into the Heart of Darkness thats for sure...

I may be wrong but it might have been this ish where the Infinite Crisis was seen happening while Adrian was doing his thing here I remember liking this and how the world was being affected.

A very fun comic read, I really enjoyed some of the action sequences. Got a lot of 90's vibes from this issue which is a good thing for me.

SIMPLY EPIC I've been catching up on all the latest DC stuff including the whole KO event I missed and at first went in not expecting much but it all has been a surprise! This issue especially for me really hit home, at first I was like "Zatanna vs Harley that's ridiculous Zatanna would kill her with magic easy". This coming from a hardcore Harley Quinn fan but I'm very realistic with "comic science". Nonetheless Leah Williams did a superb job writing Harley Quinn and how she handled this whole fight with Zatanna. This one issue by Leah makes me wish a writer like her was on the ongoing HQ series right now instead of Elliot Kalan. Sure most people wouldn't appreciate this masterpiece, but for me this revitalized my love of HQ and reminded me of why I am such a hardcore Harley fan to begin with. Not that it would do any good but I put a request to DC on here to get Leah to do HQ. Also most importantly the art by Mirka Andolfo fit the writing perfectly, I see myself re-reading this ish again and again and found myself buying a variant just to have for memories sake. So frankly screw the low scores, if your a HQ fan, READ THIS, OWN IT, AND CHERISH IT, it's some of the best Harley we've gotten in a LONG TIME. Leah Williams FTW

I started reading this series as my first Iron Man comic maybe around March 2024. I wasn't really focused at the time because I was going back and forth with my grandfather for his eye surgery and helping him daily with his basic needs so really I kind of read these in a haze. I read up to number 24 and lost track because I got busy with life let's say. I want to revisit and start over and write down what I think because this Iron Man comic for me allowed me to start liking Iron Man beyond the MCU Robert Downey Jr. version. So this is after the Heroes Reborn event which I haven't read, where Franklin Richards (Reeds son) starts over the whole universe or something Idk, and the only characters who didn't get reset and are trapped in the previous one are Thor and Dr. Doom. Tony's origin story and all the things he did in the previous runs though haven't changed it seems so I don't really understand what the whole Heroes Reborn thing was about and I'm not really interested in reading that. The world now thought Tony has been dead, Fujikawa took over Stark industry, Pepper and Rhodey watched over his main assets, and Tony in this story is in a reflective stage and questioning what the purpose of his life really is. He's not acting so much likes playboy and seems very deep in this. And unlike the films he keeps himself separate from Iron Man to protect his secret identity. Having people believe Iron Man is a bodyguard for Stark. We have a lot of characters introduced for various reasons we don't know yet until future issues. Side characters show up at his comeback celebration from Foggy Nelson, Foggy mother, Pepper Potts who is married to Happy Hogan now, Rhodey. J.J Jameson, Norman Osborne and Starks cousin Morgan who he refers to as the family black sheep. Tony goes through the motions and gets annoyed how everyone "knows what he should be doing". He doesn't get an answer until he gets a run in by the Death Squad who was most likely hired by Fujikawa to get rid of Stark so they can keep the company. He gets away and fights them as Iron Man. Defeating them but in the process he accidentally helped destroyed a construction building that was being built for a desperate neighborhood that was affected by the "Onslaught". Feeling like his life is a joke of destruction and than rebuilding he decided to make Stark Solutions to purely rebuild and help government, private business and individuals who can pay. The money would all go toward projects of rebuilding for a better tomorrow. So Tony in this is very conscious and is trying to change things he might not be able to change. Real beefy comic with plenty of dialogue to keep you busy and become immersed in this world.

So this isn't as talky as the last issue but we have a nice little build up of mystery between Tony and Ms Spirosa who according to this ish she once tried to expose Tony's identity as Iron Man with the Mad Thinker back in Tales of Suspense #72. We find out in the beginning that Tony has no idea that Pepper and Happy Hogan are married to each other while he was thought dead. So invited by Ms Spirosa in Switzerland Tony is asked to check on her financial books of the company she is running and inherited from her third husband. He figures out pretty quickly that Spirosa has been forced to entrap Tony by a mysterious force seeking to destroy him most likely connected to Stark Fujikawa. Using his smarts he slips out from the goons and comes out as Iron Man only to be ambushed by Dreadnoughts. The art is really nice but the story pace is a little tough here but still solid all round.

This has a better pace than #2, the Dreadnoughts zap Tony with plasma beams with a temperature of 95,000 degrees. His suit takes the hit but he has to fall back and cool off the outer shell. In the meantime he saves Spirosa and her butler from the debris caused by the Dreadnoughts. We also find out in this ish that Pepper and Happy are actually on the outs for some reason. Happy is openly flirting with this blonde woman in front of Pepper and the tension between them is pretty clear. Spirosa tells Tony how an old friend of her dead husband named Kapelos has taken over the company to create weapons for the Arms Merchant. Kapelos claimed to cause her husband's death and threatened her life unless she gave him the company and allowed him to create high tech weapons. Tony sets up and interview on live TV and calls out the Arms Merchant and that he will find him and his entire client list. Putting a target on his back intentionally. Tony has to face the Dreadnoughts again, using a piece of long steel and threatening the egotistical Dreadnoughts of hitting them with hit like a bat, the Dreadnoughts fall for his smart ass remark and shoot their heat beams at the steel. The steel melts and Iron Man throws the melted steel onto each Dreadnought. The cold of the winter and snow contrasted by the extreme heat allow it to stick onto the surface of the nights. He then flies into Kapelos operation bringing the Dreadnoughts and uses them as a threat to make Kapelos spill the beans and give him the information he has on a disc. They make a deal and Iron Man then in return flies as high as he can into the sky making the noughts follow and the melted steel heat causes the noughts to blow up and almost kill Tony in the process. So he saved and freed Spirosa from the grip of Kapelos but Kapelos is just the tip. The girl Happy Hogan is flirting with and went out to eat with is really some secret agent trying to extract Stark secrets. Who exactly she is working for not sure, there are multiple villains with many different angles yet to be revealed.

So Tony finds out early on in the ish that Pepper and Happy went through a divorce and he feels extremely narcissistic for not seeing this. Even though he was out of the picture for a while, he still blames himself for not being able to read the situation so to speak. Hanging out in Isla Suerte "The shining jewel of the Caribbean" with hotels, resorts and casinos or as the villain Firebrand would later call it the soft play thing of the rich. Honestly my favorite part of this ish is the introduction of Rumiko. Shes a sexy 27 year old women who is Fujikawa's daughter.From a rich line but not allowed to actually work in the business for being female. Rumiko rebels in her own ways and mixes great with Tony Stark when they are together. She comes off as your cliche rich spoiled brat but you find out she's much more interesting than that and when the island gets attacked by Firebrand Iron Man sees her aiding the civilians and saving lives in the best way she can, fearless girl she is. In this Firebrand sticks out because he shows his distaste for the rich throughout his moments and some of whatt he says is not wrong at all. "You live off the sweat and toil of others -- live like kings by standing on their backs-- and then fritter away your workers lifeblood in plush, useless places like this! I did read the first 24 issues back in March of 2024 but honestly I don't remember what happens after this ish, like why does Firebrand have such a hatred toward the rich, does that get explained later on o is it nothing special? It was funny when Firebrand asked Iron man "Your an employee Iron Man -- a worker! You should be siding with the cause, not protecting the parasites!" Iron man resonds "This isn't exactly the place for a political discussion but business doesn't merely exploit -- it provides people a means to make a living." The ish ends with Firebrand activating a dormant volcano on hte island.

Tony handles Firebrand like Superman pretty much, hacking his less complex suit that contains his energy and using it against him and turning him into a huge laser to cut a new land path for the lava to flow in and save the people. Firebrand is insane and was created to be even worse by the terrorist organization Flaming Sword. Using his insanity to have him believe he is fighting for a cause against the rich when actuality he is just their tank to make pillaging and robbery easier. Iron Man gets pulverized a bit here and puts up a good fight with Firebrand. Im glad this part of the story is over and look forward to see what Natasha is up to on the next ish. Otherwise this just seals off Tony's new relationship with Rumiko, and ends up with him wanting Happy and Pepper to work things out. I really enjoyed the art but some of the pages blend too much into each other at times. This series will stand out more if it had som more divisions or separations more often.

I enjoyed seeing Black Widow and Iron Man team up together in tis issue. Some beautiful old school artwork in this ish, from the character designs to the simple but sweet environmental backdrops or social settings. Tony and Widow make a good match but to be honest TOny seems to fit well with any woman, I would even go as far to say that he is the Clark Gable of comic books. Devilish, classy, cool and rogue at the same time. And having a set of armor in a suitcase helps this persona immensely. Anyway, Tony makes a deal with Natasha to help her find out more bout brilliant scientist nd technicians who are disappearing systematically. Tony and Natasha go all over extravagant places with important officials and the like to use him as bait. Obviously Widow gets distracted by a assassin ad Tony gets kidnapped while she is busy. These scenes here I really liked specifically one page where they are dancing together in a ballroom with jazz musicians playing. These couple pages are really nice to look at and feels very classy. So Tony ends up at some Technician facility that is forcing all these brilliant minds to create an unknown technology. Tere not told what it is. Unlike all the other hostages Tony eluding the guards creates a beacon that contacts Natasha so she can find him. They end up fighting Tuatara who has some giant lizard bitch monster form. This is real 90s stuff here.

One thing you have to admit about these old comics even these 90s one, you were getting your monies worth in terms of length,size and dialogue. these comics take me a bit longer to read through than most of the modern comics I go through like water no joke. But these issues feel like really good animated episodes you would watch on TV except you would have to imagine the animation in your head. And the amount of detail in the dialogue boxes are really good and allows you as the reader to really get lost in the characters' thoughts and ways. I remember liking this particular ish when I first read it last year because of he interesting dynamic of Carol and Tony in here. This was the first time I learned that Carol had alcohol problems like Tony too and this made Ms. Marvel more interesting to me to eventually read her comics overtime. The bad guys in this are okay, the big bad really is the return of the Supreme Intelligence who apparently according to this ish was killed by the Avengers #347. A bunch of douche Kree revived him and need a power plant for some reason. But what makes this ish great is how Carol gets angry at Tony for calling out her using alcohol to get through her problems. This is also where he first reveals his identity to her for the first time. When Tony and Pepper go to Power Source Plant where the Kree are secretly based, Ms. Marvel causes a reaction wen she comes crashing at Tony and yelling at him for appearing to judge her even though he wasn't and he completely understands everything she s going through. He smells the alcohol on her breath and it literally makes his"mouth water". These small vulnerable details of both f these heroes for me adds so much depth to them and is why I didn;t mind doing a second reading of this comic series.

Another solid issue here, it immediatly starts off with Tony being chased by Whiplash. WHiplash is jacked, donned in S&M gear and proves to be pretty deadly for Iron Man.His whips are so fast even against Iron Man's speed and technological advantages that he overcomes Iron Man multiple times. Tony blieves the whips must work at a "molecular level", since he can feel his armor becoming brittle with each hit. Whiplash' motive is really unknown and apparently he use to go by the name Blacklash, and he eventually ent straight for his family and kid. But during the Elektra run of this time around issue #6 or #7, he was deemed unfit and is going berserk over this. Now one might argue that Whiplash' design up against Iron Man is ridiculous but it makes sense in it's simplicity. Mark Scarlotti is ripped to an extreme degree and simply relies on his natural acrobatics and ability with the only technological instruments he uses are external like his glider and his molecular whips. With the mobility of the glider, Scarlottis natural talent, and his ferocious whips he can end Iron Man pretty fast if Tony let's his guard down. Whiplsh gets away and knocks Tony out of the game. While Tony is on his search for Scarlotti and also looking for some mysterious recording's origin he enjoys his time in France with a woman named Yvette. Every issue does not shy away from Tony being a smooth guy with the ladies, I would be disappointed if these comics decided to stop this. After that while searching for the mystery man, Pepper and Happy have an argument, Happy falls on the floor from Pepper's dog treat and finds a bug under her desk. They figured out that chick Happy was going out with bugged the room and that means whoever was listening knows every location TOny has been at and that he is Iron Man. Tony freaks out and immediately leaves the building only to be welcomed by a group of 5 mercenaries who beat the shit out of him to a bloody pulp. One of the mercenearies took his briefcase and threw it in a river, that's why he couldn't become Iron Man and save himself. Whoever hired the mercs didn't tell them he's Iron Man and kept it to themselves. While Tony is getting beaten he sees a man up watching named "The Spymaster". Who is he and what is his role in this? Tony would have been dead if not for Natasha (Black Widow) coming in to save him on time. This must of been the handiwork of the Mandarin which should be next ish. Great stuff here!

So Tony literally dies for a moment, and Natasha uses her electric bracelets to bring him back to life. Grasping for life, pulverized, bruised, bloodied internally and out, Tony ask Black Widow to get his suitcase and she reluctantly does this worried for his life. Putting on the Iron Man suit in half a daze Tony tells her to call the Aveners and meet him where e ends up. A cool detail is while Tony travels the skies in his Iron Man suit how he drinks water is by pressing a button with his chin and it automatically delivers water. Being almost dead the water makes him vomit almost. Feeling tired he sets coordinates aand activates auto-pilot to fall asleep in his suit. Little details like this really give life to Iron Man and makes me imagine being in the same scenario. Ending up in Russia some kind of skirmish is happening with the Red Guardian and his crew (Darkstar, Vanguard etc), he tries to convince them the attack on their soil is being led by Mandarin. Without any evidence they stay on the frontlines to deal with the attack while Tony goes to the Mandarin up in the sky. So the Mandarin was behind everything in previous issues, the Death Squad, Stark Fujikawa, the Arms Merchant, the forced technological enslavery. It was all to hep the Mandarin create a huge Dragon ship. The Robo Dragon swallows Iron Man and as he follows the vast empty tunnel of its inner body, the Mandarin traps Iron Man. The entire ship is empty of soliders and only the Mandarin is in it. With the power of his rings he controls every facet of the Dragon and torments Tony by crushing him, tying him up with metallic wires and has Tony near death.

Just EPIC and totally underappreciated series... There are some amazing two page splashes of the robo dragon that look stunning. The highlights of this ish however is the conversations between the Mandarin and Tony. Plus all of this insanity and the creation of the monster turns out to all be a test he Madarin made for Tony Stark. For what ends we don;t really know but can only guess at. Anyway Tony is tied up and the Mandarin and him have a heart-to-heart, mono e mono, and these moments produce beautiful dark dialogue between them. You see the ish references how Iron Man defeated Mandarin in Iron Man Vol. 1 #312, and the Mandarin (Mandy for short) reincarnated as a janitor who worked in Stark Towers. This new life from this perspectvie gave Mandy a new evil plan. No longer did he want to destroy all the worlds technology to bring us back to feudalism and make China the world conquerors. Dont take my word for it here is Mandy and Tony: Mandy says, "My mind clouded -- my true memories only surfacing in dreams -- I endured unspeakable humiliation for one such as I. But I must thank you -- and the heart -- for such a valuable lesson." Tony confused, "A lesson --? Mandy goes on, " I'd thought to destroy technology -- to erase two thousand years of progress and restore feudalism. But I discovered -- That feudalism was not dead, merely transformed as I. Coolies, masters, magistrates, mandarins -- the manual labor of peasants generated power, which flowed ever upward -- growing greater at each level, until it rested in the hands of the truly deserving -- the noble classes. And nothing was changed -- My coolie labor enriched those above me, and above them -- until it reached yu. Anthony Stark. Feudal Lord of a modern age." TOny disgusted, "Not lord..." Mandy continues, "How foolish to reject what I should have sought to understand. And more foolish still, to rage at the idea of Iron Man, a vassal, as my greatest foe -- rther than see beyond him, to my true enemy." Tony also finds out here that the Mandarin wasn't behind everything, just the death squad in the beginning, so there still remains many unanswered questions as to who else is after Ton. We are then shown something about Madame Masque in her secret HQ getting murdered by an unknown killer. Not sure I remember what that has to do wit anything. While this is going on the Guardians and the Avengers are trying every trick in the book to take out the giant Dragon ship with no success. The epic conversation continues: Mandy "But ahh -- then my dreaming ind awakened -- and I returned to myself! It is a thrill few people in the world can share, I know -- But surely Anthony, you are among them! To know you are superior --- in mind, in body, in spirit. EVERYTHING! To know that power is your birthright -- to know that untold thousands exist on thisworld for no reason but to serve you-- To channel their power through your empire, be it of land or of business -- channeling it upward to fuel you, to fuel your glory!" Iron Man repulsed goes back at Mandy with "It doesn't -- power doesn't work that way Mandy. Or it shouldn't... The people who worked for me -- wrked at Stark Enterpises -- Werent slaves! They didn;t work because they were property -- They worked there by choice, to better their lives, provide for their families! Employees not vassals -- Give their employers their best because they hope and trust that employers will do the same. And they'll be rewarded in kind, paidfairly for their efforts. Too often employees are disappointed -- Disappointed by people like you, who see loyalty as a one way street -- who think they have a right to power. Instead of earning it by winning their employees loyalty fairly! Mandy saddened by this explanation, "You disappoint me, Anthony -- mouthing such populist cant, as if you've been brainwashed by the world's ignorant rabble. BUT by all means, go on -- And convince me if you can -- How there can possibly be any sort of parity between those who sweat and toil in the fields -- and men such as ourselves..." We never really here a verbal counter argument by Tony because as they were conversing he was figuring out ow to slowly regain control of his suit and break free from Mandy's hold. Iron Man flies around to find the very core of the roo beast and with all the taunting and talk of Mandy Tony stayed focus and aimed at the core. Mandy was overjoyed that Tony ignored the all the emotional obstacles and mental games andproved to Mandy that Tony is the one and only TRUE ENEMY. As the beast is falling apart Iron Man attempts to save Mandy but Mandy throws himself itno the fire. This was epic beyond words, as good as any movie you can watch...Great end to this little arc!

Definitely makes DBZ look like kindergarten.

This was funny this one.

The Sequids are evil but that name Sequid is funny as hell for some reason to me. Is this Invincible's version of Starro?

Anything with Allen the Alien is an automatic 10 for me.

Mark's Dad has some bug issues.

Really some of the best parts in these issues. Action is perfect.