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averylwc's review against another edition
2.0
I’m all for heroes going to therapy... that being said I only read this to understand the Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Miniseries which is apparently a spin off.
Ummm, okay mystery is fine, feels like a big lack of consequences and booster gold and blue beetles’ whole schtick always confuses/bores me.
I like the format with the 3x3 confessionals a lot and I don’t mind that the trinity sort of took a back seat
Ummm, okay mystery is fine, feels like a big lack of consequences and booster gold and blue beetles’ whole schtick always confuses/bores me.
I like the format with the 3x3 confessionals a lot and I don’t mind that the trinity sort of took a back seat
njdarkish's review against another edition
2.0
So people are going to think it's a bad thing that their heroes are going through therapy to deal with the things they endure? Really?
The story got very convoluted and hard to follow as the series progressed, and it started from a pretty confusing point to begin with.
And the art is so, so horny. Seriously, the artists really needed a long, cold shower before drawing any female DC character.
The story got very convoluted and hard to follow as the series progressed, and it started from a pretty confusing point to begin with.
And the art is so, so horny. Seriously, the artists really needed a long, cold shower before drawing any female DC character.
raaachoo's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
kind of convoluted but honestly interesting and the art was really nice!! i do wish this was not canon tho because i am sad
vulco1's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Definitely interesting and a worthy read... I'm not exactly sure what the point was or how I'm supposed to feel afterwards. Or even how this impacts everything going forward. It was good though.
justinlikescomicbooks's review against another edition
1.5
Wow--this was terrible! The closest thing I've ever read to trash TV, just pure hatewatch energy. I couldn't look away, but I found very little of the entire exercise worthwhile.
A mental health center for superheroes...I'm not even going to say it's a good idea, but it could've been something. Instead, this has to tie into some large, overarching "DC Rebirth" narrative (one that, we should not forget, somehow involves the WATCHMEN), so you've gotta have all the heroes solving the problem like it's an alien invasion. It's really, really, really dumb. (I can't believe this guy wrote 100+ issues of Batman--when you have such a singular voice, how could you deal with publisher demands over that long a period. That's a big undertaking but I do want to read it some day, even just out of morbid curiosity).
This just made me want to watch M. Night Shyamalan's Glass, which actually makes something of the idea. There's a whole page of Batman being silent and then crying about all the Robins that have died--again, I understand the idea, but divorced from the narrative, what the hell does it add up to? Just a bunch of spaghetti thrown at the wall, playing around with the idea of a real-life issue, but only seldom taking it seriously.
Adding on top of this, the only moments that work are the momentary jokes! Divorced from context, each Robin saying that all the other Robins have their own unique features but they feel like they're the odd man out is hilarious and revealing. There are also other moments where it's like Tom King is given leeway to have the characters say out loud what he actually thinks about the character--it's pretty cool, and pretty fun. And then you remember this is a story about murder/suicide.
The fun adventure, and the little quips, only detract from the main story. And the main story sucks.
I think that, deep down, Tom King is trying to grapple with his own inner demons in this story, and in some ways when you see flashes of that, it's quite moving. I think a lot of people misread his career as leveraging his CIA background for personal gain, when it's often quite deeper--an immense, overwhelming sense of guilt, and a need to make something of his past that doesn't just hurt people.
A huge swing, a huge miss, but an interesting one nevertheless.
A mental health center for superheroes...I'm not even going to say it's a good idea, but it could've been something. Instead, this has to tie into some large, overarching "DC Rebirth" narrative (one that, we should not forget, somehow involves the WATCHMEN), so you've gotta have all the heroes solving the problem like it's an alien invasion. It's really, really, really dumb. (I can't believe this guy wrote 100+ issues of Batman--when you have such a singular voice, how could you deal with publisher demands over that long a period. That's a big undertaking but I do want to read it some day, even just out of morbid curiosity).
This just made me want to watch M. Night Shyamalan's Glass, which actually makes something of the idea. There's a whole page of Batman being silent and then crying about all the Robins that have died--again, I understand the idea, but divorced from the narrative, what the hell does it add up to? Just a bunch of spaghetti thrown at the wall, playing around with the idea of a real-life issue, but only seldom taking it seriously.
Adding on top of this, the only moments that work are the momentary jokes! Divorced from context, each Robin saying that all the other Robins have their own unique features but they feel like they're the odd man out is hilarious and revealing. There are also other moments where it's like Tom King is given leeway to have the characters say out loud what he actually thinks about the character--it's pretty cool, and pretty fun. And then you remember this is a story about murder/suicide.
The fun adventure, and the little quips, only detract from the main story. And the main story sucks.
I think that, deep down, Tom King is trying to grapple with his own inner demons in this story, and in some ways when you see flashes of that, it's quite moving. I think a lot of people misread his career as leveraging his CIA background for personal gain, when it's often quite deeper--an immense, overwhelming sense of guilt, and a need to make something of his past that doesn't just hurt people.
A huge swing, a huge miss, but an interesting one nevertheless.
dimitrat's review against another edition
1.0
This book had the means to be- astonishing.. but unfortunately it wasn't. Tom King is really good and he can thrive in these kind of stories but this was a bad turn out. He started well and it had so much potential to be one of the best and biggest mysteries, beautiful and human too... But it was not. I can't pretend to know his process but it felt like he only had the idea and never sat to develop the whole story, he passed the opposite message of the one he advertised, he took it way too slow, the characters were very poorly written and the overall mystery turned out bad and predictable.. deeming this "event" completely unnecessary.
albertico66's review against another edition
1.0
DC tries so hard to shit on Wally West --- why did they even bring this character back?!?! Ugh.. .bringing back Barry Allen as the main Flash was the worst idea.
wwwgretareads's review against another edition
1.0
you may not read it you may only skim for through the art (which is gorgeous)