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booknooknoggin's review against another edition
3.0
An okay story. I'm not really a big DC fan, but I enjoyed seeing the multiverse Supermen.
ipacho's review against another edition
3.0
A very tough read for a superhero tale, incredibly grandiose in scale snd full of gnostic symbolism. Incredibly, it's even harder to read than Morrison's Doom Patrol or The Invisibles. Nevertheless, it contains amazong plotlines and concepts.
saphirablue's review against another edition
2.0
Well, that was confusing.
I got the general gist of it but sometimes. Sometimes you turn the page and suddenly have different characters in a different setting/arc doing something even though on "action" from the previous page with different characters/setting hasn't finished yet. o.O That made some things very difficult to understand.
Also, where are all the "sidekicks"? For example, Robin/Nightwing? Batgirl. Wondergirl. Superboy. We get to see Roy in one or two scenes, but the others?
I mean, I know that I'm missing some things because I don't know everything leading up to this and some background on the various characters and that that doesn't help, but, still. o.O
I realy, really like the art however. It's great.
I got the general gist of it but sometimes. Sometimes you turn the page and suddenly have different characters in a different setting/arc doing something even though on "action" from the previous page with different characters/setting hasn't finished yet. o.O That made some things very difficult to understand.
Also, where are all the "sidekicks"? For example, Robin/Nightwing? Batgirl. Wondergirl. Superboy. We get to see Roy in one or two scenes, but the others?
I mean, I know that I'm missing some things because I don't know everything leading up to this and some background on the various characters and that that doesn't help, but, still. o.O
I realy, really like the art however. It's great.
inlibrisveritas's review
3.0
know this is not a traditional book but I felt that it is worth reviewing since it's so big, both in size for a graphic novel and in the DC universe.
This is an epic and chaotic DC crossover graphic novel dealing with the rise of an evil power by the name of Darksied. The superheros are, of course, trying to stop him but some of them succumb to his Anti-Life germ which in turn makes them turn into the bad guys. (While others are simply killed off for the time being). I thought the use of a germ to take control of the heroes was a pretty cool touch, but it's not totally originally when it comes to superheros. Someone is always getting mindjacked and having to fight their friends or lovers. You would think they'd get use to it, then again maybe they are with the amount of speeches they have to try and bring the person around. That aside, it is visually pleasing, fast past and long.
However...being fast paced it also brings in a sort of chaos that makes it somewhat hard to follow at times. While I enjoyed it, it confused the hell out of me at times to the point where the internet was needed for explanations and timelines. In truth I only wanted to know what happened to Batman...but I ended up with much more. There are a tremendous amount of characters brought in and maintained in sections, and while it's one main overall storyline there are smaller story lines within that must be remembered. DC chooses to crossover multiple character stories and universes, so you get everything from 6 different Superman types to a rabbit hero (at the end). The list of heroes is vast and you can easily keep up with the main ones but all of the smaller ones will become sort of confusing until about halfway through. The chaos of the story was almost overwhelming until about halfway through as well and then it finally becomes a manageable sort of chaos.I did get to find out what happened to Batman, and I do finally feel set up enough to move and start Return of Bruce Wayne and the Blackest Night arc...but boy was it somewhat of an ordeal to get to that part.
Overall it's good for any DC universe fan who's familiar with a vast amount of heroes and possibly stories...however I wouldn't recommend it to those who know little of either and just want to read it for fun.
This is an epic and chaotic DC crossover graphic novel dealing with the rise of an evil power by the name of Darksied. The superheros are, of course, trying to stop him but some of them succumb to his Anti-Life germ which in turn makes them turn into the bad guys. (While others are simply killed off for the time being). I thought the use of a germ to take control of the heroes was a pretty cool touch, but it's not totally originally when it comes to superheros. Someone is always getting mindjacked and having to fight their friends or lovers. You would think they'd get use to it, then again maybe they are with the amount of speeches they have to try and bring the person around. That aside, it is visually pleasing, fast past and long.
However...being fast paced it also brings in a sort of chaos that makes it somewhat hard to follow at times. While I enjoyed it, it confused the hell out of me at times to the point where the internet was needed for explanations and timelines. In truth I only wanted to know what happened to Batman...but I ended up with much more. There are a tremendous amount of characters brought in and maintained in sections, and while it's one main overall storyline there are smaller story lines within that must be remembered. DC chooses to crossover multiple character stories and universes, so you get everything from 6 different Superman types to a rabbit hero (at the end). The list of heroes is vast and you can easily keep up with the main ones but all of the smaller ones will become sort of confusing until about halfway through. The chaos of the story was almost overwhelming until about halfway through as well and then it finally becomes a manageable sort of chaos.I did get to find out what happened to Batman, and I do finally feel set up enough to move and start Return of Bruce Wayne and the Blackest Night arc...but boy was it somewhat of an ordeal to get to that part.
Overall it's good for any DC universe fan who's familiar with a vast amount of heroes and possibly stories...however I wouldn't recommend it to those who know little of either and just want to read it for fun.
nigellicus's review
5.0
Am I required to attempt to break down the plot of this? This doesn't have plot this has, I dunno, multiplots, living sentient narratives slugging it out on the pages and between the pages, it has a black hole hiding under the text distorting structure, it has secret chapters lying adjacent to the other chapters in meta-symbiotic relationships which basically means they're collected elsewhere and you're outta luck if they aren't handy. It's honestly hard to tell if bits of this are disjointed because of the mad flood of ideas from Morrison's brain or because of those missing chapters, probably both. I don't think this was designed to be a self-contained story with a beginning middle and end but that Morrison went with the fundamentally fragmented and incomplete nature of big mega-crossovers and wrote it as a river of stories in a moment of flash flood rushing past furiously, clogged with flotsam and jetsam and to read it is to swim or drown. Any other writer and this would be fanciful apologism, but with Morrison, you never know.
As far as I can tell, there's a plot by evil gods to take over the Earth by infecting and inhabiting human bodies, thereby concealing themselves from superhuman detection until it's too late. There's a murdered god and celestial Monitors watching over an orrery of creation being infected with the stories they're observing and a monster emerging and superhumans turned evil and Superman on a mission to Limbo and more superhumans from all over being collected to resist, prefiguring The Multiverse and trying to make coherent sense of it all is exhausting, it seems to consciously defy coherence, running on comic book physics and comic book narrative rules and comic book logic, distilled to their essence. Go with the flow, or find something a bit calmer to read. There is nothing remotely calm about any of this.
As far as I can tell, there's a plot by evil gods to take over the Earth by infecting and inhabiting human bodies, thereby concealing themselves from superhuman detection until it's too late. There's a murdered god and celestial Monitors watching over an orrery of creation being infected with the stories they're observing and a monster emerging and superhumans turned evil and Superman on a mission to Limbo and more superhumans from all over being collected to resist, prefiguring The Multiverse and trying to make coherent sense of it all is exhausting, it seems to consciously defy coherence, running on comic book physics and comic book narrative rules and comic book logic, distilled to their essence. Go with the flow, or find something a bit calmer to read. There is nothing remotely calm about any of this.
tearainread's review
1.0
What a convoluted mess of a storyline. Morrison must have been tripping on some magic mushrooms to come up with this event. Not impressed at all, and the "intermission" of the crisis to go into two Superman tie-ins to the Final Crisis was worse than the major plotline.
I need science fiction to make sense if I am willing to suspend my disbelief; the science fiction in this book (issues #1-7, plus Final Crisis: Submit issue 1) is just random buzz words from tech bros combined with philosophical bullshit. It was headache inducing.
This wasn't just about saving humans/Earth, but all peoples and all planets in the 52 universes that make up DC. So a lot of minor characters show up without context or the need to have them there. Major characters are given the short stick in terms of page counts and panels. There are also so many plotlines; the JLA are all separate and just doing their own thing and yet the reader has to read about all their separate outings. It was a constant channel surf without a focus. Wonder Woman, Batwoman, and Catwoman go evil and become Darkseid's Furies yet we only get a glimpse of how WW went evil. Batman gets put in a jail cell early in the story and then disappears for 200 pages, just to show up again to die. There are three The Flash (Adam, Barry, and Wally), four Green Lanterns (Hal, Jon, Guy, and Alpha), and Too. Damn. Many. Alternate. Supermans (all from parallel universes). I don't think I even knew the real enemy - Monitor? Dark Seid? That stupid otherworldly vampire whose name I already forgot?
The Superman tie-ins were all about Superman and his parallel selves fighting Monitors to get an antidote to save Lois Lane. Not a fan of LL, so I didn't care about these issues at all.
The artwork was okay, but so many fights and explosions was draining on my eyes. The minor characters' costumes seemed to blur into a sea of blue and yellow after a while. A confusing, headache is what this event was. I can't recommend.
I need science fiction to make sense if I am willing to suspend my disbelief; the science fiction in this book (issues #1-7, plus Final Crisis: Submit issue 1) is just random buzz words from tech bros combined with philosophical bullshit. It was headache inducing.
This wasn't just about saving humans/Earth, but all peoples and all planets in the 52 universes that make up DC. So a lot of minor characters show up without context or the need to have them there. Major characters are given the short stick in terms of page counts and panels. There are also so many plotlines; the JLA are all separate and just doing their own thing and yet the reader has to read about all their separate outings. It was a constant channel surf without a focus. Wonder Woman, Batwoman, and Catwoman go evil and become Darkseid's Furies yet we only get a glimpse of how WW went evil. Batman gets put in a jail cell early in the story and then disappears for 200 pages, just to show up again to die. There are three The Flash (Adam, Barry, and Wally), four Green Lanterns (Hal, Jon, Guy, and Alpha), and Too. Damn. Many. Alternate. Supermans (all from parallel universes). I don't think I even knew the real enemy - Monitor? Dark Seid? That stupid otherworldly vampire whose name I already forgot?
The Superman tie-ins were all about Superman and his parallel selves fighting Monitors to get an antidote to save Lois Lane. Not a fan of LL, so I didn't care about these issues at all.
The artwork was okay, but so many fights and explosions was draining on my eyes. The minor characters' costumes seemed to blur into a sea of blue and yellow after a while. A confusing, headache is what this event was. I can't recommend.
stevethomas's review
1.0
Other reviewers have gone into plenty of detail, but this book was an incomprehensible mess. It gave me the impression that I was only reading every other issue in the story, and what was there didn't even make sense on its own.
messywitch's review
I am... *so confused* but I'm also very tired - story was fun, really convoluted though but it made sense eventually.
I think.
I think.
angek22's review
At first I thought it was just because I haven't been that well-versed in the DC Comics universe that this seemed so confusing, but now I've looked at other people's reviews and so many other people feel the same. So. Yeah.
I might come back to this another time. But not right now.
I might come back to this another time. But not right now.
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