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Kingdom Come

Mark Waid

4.12 AVERAGE

ana486's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective

josephvwalker's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

inkluminary's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A unique, reflective take on superheroes with some incredible artwork to boot.

opentlen's review against another edition

3.75

Wasn't a fan of the art style.

bwky85's review against another edition

5.0

Never thought I’d say this, but here goes:

The only graphic novel that can stand up next to Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. They can truly create something spiritual and philosophical with the comic book medium Bravo!

calews5's review against another edition

5.0

I read this more then once a year. This is the book that got me back into comics. If you are just going to read one superhero comic it should be this.

alex247's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is one of the most relevant books to our modern crisis I can imagine, and that does NOT reassure me.

goodguyeli's review against another edition

5.0

I just had to throw this picture in here because wow. This was awesome and I could stare at this image for hours.

It took a little while to get started and it was difficult to get used to how many characters there are in this. There's a key in the back to identify almost all the characters, but it's almost no use because of just how many there are and how small many of their roles are. But still, I'm glad they threw that in.

The plot was also a little tricky at first but turned out to be very compelling, so I'm glad I stuck it through to the end. Basically Superman retired and that resulted in many other heroes retiring or working underground, giving rise to a younger generation of heroes with less regard for human life. In response to Magog destroying the entire state of Kansas, Superman allows himself to be talking into returning to the mantle of Superman by Wonder Woman. With his reappearance, other heroes anxiously rejoin his Justice League while many others are not so anxious and continue to fight on their own or join ranks with Batman's crew.

Spoiler

After Superman and Wonder Woman build a gulag for non-complying metahumans, they start a riot inside the prison, resulting in Superman and Batman's forces showing up to quell the resistance. Long story short, the U.S. government nukes them and a ton of the heroes die. Superman reacts angrily but the surviving heroes calm him down and resolve their differences. Superman and Wonder Woman get together and get pregnant and live happily ever after.

One of the most interesting things about this is the competing viewpoints of the three top heroes: Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman. I love seeing that they have to compromise their perspectives because of how different they are.

Perhaps the most interesting part of this is that it's kind of narrated by some random pastor who has been enlisted by the Spectre to reveal to him how Armageddon (the giant hero war at the gulag) will happen. This man who has lost faith in everything that he has seen in the world is now seeing possibly it's final events play out. The emphasis that this comic places on humanity and mortality is intriguing, and it really made this comic stand out more than your average insanely-well-illustrated superhero comic.

Dialogue: A+
Artwork: A+
Plot: A+