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diewachen's review
2.0
Alright, this story should have been told earlier. It was a bit rushed, and felt a little like a deus ex machina, but the characters that are more interesting than Plutonian or Survivor finally got more face time.
I would have given this story 3 stars, possibly even 4, save for the final two pages. (Spoilers) This story has been bad pastiche and the stunted growing pains of a story that could have been its own. To then hint at that pastiche being the inspiration for the story it is stealing from was just offensive.
I would have given this story 3 stars, possibly even 4, save for the final two pages. (Spoilers) This story has been bad pastiche and the stunted growing pains of a story that could have been its own. To then hint at that pastiche being the inspiration for the story it is stealing from was just offensive.
helpfulsnowman's review
4.0
This is the end of the Irredeemable series.
There's always a lot of pressure on an ending to a long series. There's almost no way to make it work. People always cart out that old line about pleasing all the people all the time, but I honestly think that in ending a series it's pretty hard to really please ANYONE.
I've enjoyed the hell out of this series. It had its ups and downs, but ultimately I liked a good deal of the characters, felt like it went interesting and different places, and that it really did a nice job with the premise, which was that of a Superman-esque character who flips out emotionally and decides to basically destroy everything.
In the last 2 volumes we really get some great resolution with most of the main characters. There are very few who will go on unchanged, if at all, which to me signals that we just read a good story. We also get just enough of the back story near the end that we've been waiting for. So the ending also delivers in terms of letting us see the solving of most of the mysteries.
All-in-all, I have no real complaints about the ending, which sounds like small praise but is actually pretty big. These things are really easy to pick apart, and I don't really have much that I could see being different.
Also, I can see myself in the future using this series of a good example of why a limited series works. You can do whatever you want with it. People can die. The whole world can change, in fact, because you don't have to be constantly worrying about how you're going to return everything to status quo. If you write a story about the Joker, you always have to keep his inevitable return in the back of your mind. If you kill Superman, you have to do it in such a way that allows for his return and for him to overcome whatever killed him in the first place.
A limited series feels more like real life. Where things change for better or worse and we're left to deal with the actual consequences.
There's always a lot of pressure on an ending to a long series. There's almost no way to make it work. People always cart out that old line about pleasing all the people all the time, but I honestly think that in ending a series it's pretty hard to really please ANYONE.
I've enjoyed the hell out of this series. It had its ups and downs, but ultimately I liked a good deal of the characters, felt like it went interesting and different places, and that it really did a nice job with the premise, which was that of a Superman-esque character who flips out emotionally and decides to basically destroy everything.
In the last 2 volumes we really get some great resolution with most of the main characters. There are very few who will go on unchanged, if at all, which to me signals that we just read a good story. We also get just enough of the back story near the end that we've been waiting for. So the ending also delivers in terms of letting us see the solving of most of the mysteries.
All-in-all, I have no real complaints about the ending, which sounds like small praise but is actually pretty big. These things are really easy to pick apart, and I don't really have much that I could see being different.
Also, I can see myself in the future using this series of a good example of why a limited series works. You can do whatever you want with it. People can die. The whole world can change, in fact, because you don't have to be constantly worrying about how you're going to return everything to status quo. If you write a story about the Joker, you always have to keep his inevitable return in the back of your mind. If you kill Superman, you have to do it in such a way that allows for his return and for him to overcome whatever killed him in the first place.
A limited series feels more like real life. Where things change for better or worse and we're left to deal with the actual consequences.
mnakka9's review
5.0
What a wonderful ending, this was by far the awesome anti-hero comics series I have read.
andrewgraphics's review
2.0
ugh, this comic is why I don't by comics any more...
It took 37 issues to tell a story that could have been fit into something *much shorter; maybe not 6 issues, but maybe ten..? Lots of tricks, and feints, and double-crosses...
Buying these comics off the rack, it would have been close to $200 for this long, drawn out tale, which is ultimately unsatisfying.
I just waited to get the whole thing thru the library.
It took 37 issues to tell a story that could have been fit into something *much shorter; maybe not 6 issues, but maybe ten..? Lots of tricks, and feints, and double-crosses...
Buying these comics off the rack, it would have been close to $200 for this long, drawn out tale, which is ultimately unsatisfying.
I just waited to get the whole thing thru the library.
theartolater's review
2.0
I was hoping for a pretty great ending, but the whole thing for me just kind of flops. The way it ended, being semi-ambiguous in some respects, just felt like a bit of a betrayal of what made the initial volumes so great.
Endings are hard in comics. I get that. I just really, really wanted to be wowed here and it didn't come close. There's the expectations vs. reality aspect, but I think this is more a situation where it feels like Waid was written into a corner a bit and needed to find a way out.
Just frustrating and disappointing.
Endings are hard in comics. I get that. I just really, really wanted to be wowed here and it didn't come close. There's the expectations vs. reality aspect, but I think this is more a situation where it feels like Waid was written into a corner a bit and needed to find a way out.
Just frustrating and disappointing.
bosbie's review
3.0
doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, and no small amount of plotholes saturates the entire series.. but a fun reading experience overall. and the meta ending, while a bit corny, deserves some praise at least.
jokoloyo's review
3.0
Despite the tricks and seemingly complicated plots, you can guess who will win the final battle since the first volume.
The last epilogue could be a hit or miss. I let each reader to decide whether the epilogue is good or not.
The last epilogue could be a hit or miss. I let each reader to decide whether the epilogue is good or not.
sardonic_writer's review
4.0
Overall I think this series should have been 2-3 volumes shorter. If you trim out some of the stuff that happens later in the series *cough* alien insane asylum* cough, I think it'd be a more streamlined story. It's still a worthwhile story, and the ending is clever enough without getting caught up trying to trick or surprise you.