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daybreak's review
4.0
A great improvement from the first volume. I found the story more interesting and the flow also improved.
The characters were fleshed out here. Especially the villains from Acte 1. I very much enjoyed the fact that they let go of said villains and made them heroes instead : the story only got better from this choice. Didn't particularly like them in the first volume.
I enjoyed the plot twist.
One of the things I liked the most was how real the reactions of humans were to different events : humanity depicted very realistically in all it's ugliness.
Although I have no criticism to make against this particular volume, I can't really give it 5 stars. I don't know why except it didn't really feel like a 5 star read I guess. But still nice. Very interested in knowing how this will finish.
The characters were fleshed out here. Especially the villains from Acte 1. I very much enjoyed the fact that they let go of said villains and made them heroes instead : the story only got better from this choice. Didn't particularly like them in the first volume.
I enjoyed the plot twist.
One of the things I liked the most was how real the reactions of humans were to different events : humanity depicted very realistically in all it's ugliness.
Although I have no criticism to make against this particular volume, I can't really give it 5 stars. I don't know why except it didn't really feel like a 5 star read I guess. But still nice. Very interested in knowing how this will finish.
kavinay's review
3.0
Ironically the art gets better once Lashley and Immonen take over, but the whole concept of Critical Maas as the big bad feels like a letdown compared to the promise of the first book.
wanderlustlover's review
3.0
Not read in the Graphic Novel Book Club, but read inspired by it
I went on into this one after we read Vol 1, since it was the perfect time to pick up the rest and read to the ending JMS/Top Cow were not giving the world in their long, once upon a time, war. This book was baffling in a lot of ways. There is a sudden 15 year gap, and the conversations take place that have no purpose to be being had now when they would have a decade and more ago.
Chicago makes me think a lot. The reveal of Joshua made me think a lot. The last 2-3 issues each pretty much tried to make me tear between opening and closing a cover for brand new reasons, as the clarification for the reason of it all became more and more clear to people..
I went on into this one after we read Vol 1, since it was the perfect time to pick up the rest and read to the ending JMS/Top Cow were not giving the world in their long, once upon a time, war. This book was baffling in a lot of ways. There is a sudden 15 year gap, and the conversations take place that have no purpose to be being had now when they would have a decade and more ago.
Chicago makes me think a lot. The reveal of Joshua made me think a lot. The last 2-3 issues each pretty much tried to make me tear between opening and closing a cover for brand new reasons, as the clarification for the reason of it all became more and more clear to people..
roklobster's review
4.0
I love this one. The story at the end, about the middle east, is simplistic in its view on how to solve the middle east conflicts but... wouldn't it be lovely to try? The idea is delicious.
The art is bugging me. The strong men have more muscles than are physically possible on a human being. The women are all svelt and boobalicious or else ugly and dumpy - no in between. I know, I know, it's a comic book about people with super powers. Guess I just wish it wasn't so over the top.
But the stories. Mm! Good stuff.
The art is bugging me. The strong men have more muscles than are physically possible on a human being. The women are all svelt and boobalicious or else ugly and dumpy - no in between. I know, I know, it's a comic book about people with super powers. Guess I just wish it wasn't so over the top.
But the stories. Mm! Good stuff.
lomahongva's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
meepelous's review
3.0
Not a bad comic certainly. Straczynski has managed to twist a fairly recurrent idea (group of people with superpowers) enough to avoid total cliche. Unfortunately beyond that this series has few redeeming qualities, and suffers from a lack of nuance and subtly.
randommichelle's review
5.0
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