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dantastic's review against another edition
3.0
Black Hammer: Streets of Spiral collects Black Hammer Giant-Sized Annual, Cthu-Louise, World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia, and the Horrors to Come Free Comic Book Day special.
Streets of Spiral collects a few miscellaneous Black Hammer tie-ins. The Giant Sized Annual features a Colonel Weird adventure, drawn by many guest artists. Cthu-Lousie tells of the titular character and her troubled relationships with her family and classmates. World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia is a Who's Who type of feature and Horrors to Come is a preview type feature from Free Comic Book Day.
None of this stuff is essential but it's all entertaining if you're a Black Hammer fan. It doesn't advance the main plot of the book at all but fleshes out the background quite a bit. So Doctor Star is apparently called Doctor Andromeda now and the Doctor Star trade has been reprinted as Doctor Andromeda. I'm wondering if someone at DC took offense.
Black Hammer continues to be Jeff Lemire's love letter to the DC universe. While not essential, it expands the Black Hammer universe. 3 out of 5 stars.
Streets of Spiral collects a few miscellaneous Black Hammer tie-ins. The Giant Sized Annual features a Colonel Weird adventure, drawn by many guest artists. Cthu-Lousie tells of the titular character and her troubled relationships with her family and classmates. World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia is a Who's Who type of feature and Horrors to Come is a preview type feature from Free Comic Book Day.
None of this stuff is essential but it's all entertaining if you're a Black Hammer fan. It doesn't advance the main plot of the book at all but fleshes out the background quite a bit. So Doctor Star is apparently called Doctor Andromeda now and the Doctor Star trade has been reprinted as Doctor Andromeda. I'm wondering if someone at DC took offense.
Black Hammer continues to be Jeff Lemire's love letter to the DC universe. While not essential, it expands the Black Hammer universe. 3 out of 5 stars.
joshgauthier's review against another edition
3.0
There's nothing wrong with this volume beside the fact that it's largely filler and transitional material within the larger ongoing stories. The range of artists contributing to the Annual is impressive. The Cthu-Louise story is both shocking and an example of Lemire's ability to tell an emotional story. The rest of the volume offers promise of more good things to come from this world, but doesn't do a whole lot to excite on its own.
For Black Hammer fans, it's worth the read, but I'm looking forward to further installments of the core stories Lemire is developing here.
For Black Hammer fans, it's worth the read, but I'm looking forward to further installments of the core stories Lemire is developing here.
katepowellshine's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not a big enough fan to fully appreciate these odds and ends. I was annoyed by the space taken up with the encyclopedia. It didn't even have new information.
kryten4k's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
trike's review against another edition
2.0
Meh. Starro knockoffs are pretty boring, especially when you just do a Starro story.
I did like the Marvel Handbook stuff of the various characters, an encyclopedia type of thing I enjoy in comics and RPG manuals. Other than that, there’s not much of interest in this book. Man, are the character names dumb or what?
I did like the Marvel Handbook stuff of the various characters, an encyclopedia type of thing I enjoy in comics and RPG manuals. Other than that, there’s not much of interest in this book. Man, are the character names dumb or what?
renee_pompeii's review against another edition
2.0
Meh, the writing on this one didn't change my life. The guest work by Dustin Nguyen was gorgeous, as usual... but it just didn't feel right here, in what I had enjoyed specifically for its old school comic feel. The only part I truly enjoyed was the Cthu-Louise story, which was really satisfying.
hmh's review against another edition
3.0
Mainly just supplementary stories with an “encyclopedia” section. Nothing earth-shattering. Cthu-Louise is still one of my favorite one-shots though.
bent's review against another edition
2.0
The main story was just like that, nothing special. I didn't really like the artwork in the Barbalien story. Didn't read the once pagers on all the characters and the rest of the stories didn't do much for me. OK, not essential. Felt like opening a pack of hockey cards and getting a checklist.
jenn_the_unicorn's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes