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rakoerose's review against another edition
3.0
After being so used to the high school Terry from the animated Beyond series, it’s interesting to see him older here! Plus there’s a lot of unsaid past to explore, including a devastating war.
That being said, not super fond of the writing for this series. The art is the typical stand-up comic style I really like, but it doesn’t cover how this plot made me oscillate wildly from thinking “uh, ok” to “yeah I guess that can happen.” I just feel there was one-too-many reveals shoehorned into this, like the pacing is off. Hoping it evens itself out in the next volume, or else this may be one I drop from my reading focus list.
If you love Terry and his storylines, you’ll probably like this more than I did!
That being said, not super fond of the writing for this series. The art is the typical stand-up comic style I really like, but it doesn’t cover how this plot made me oscillate wildly from thinking “uh, ok” to “yeah I guess that can happen.” I just feel there was one-too-many reveals shoehorned into this, like the pacing is off. Hoping it evens itself out in the next volume, or else this may be one I drop from my reading focus list.
If you love Terry and his storylines, you’ll probably like this more than I did!
dantastic's review against another edition
3.0
Pretty good. I'll buy subsequent volumes if I can find them cheap.
helpfulsnowman's review against another edition
3.0
Apparently there was a huge war against robots sometime before this book. Which I HOPE was never actually in the comics. I kinda think it was, but I like the idea of having this gigantic robotic cataclysm, and the whole thing happens between books. So everyone's just like, "That was pretty fucked up with those robots, eh?" But we never see that battle at all. Half the people are dead, apparently, parts of town are all screwed up, but we mostly just hear people being all, "Goddamn robots..." There's something hilarious to me about that, this thing that's referenced all the time, and because it's a robot uprising we pretty much get it automatically, and nobody ever really goes into detail. Because why would you!? That'd be like me referencing the Holocaust and then turning to my left and saying, "The Holocaust was a WWII-era German..." Nobody would do that. Or, like, "Geez, it was like 9/11 down there." [turns to left] "9/11 is the common term to describe the attacks on..."
jgwhatever's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
dynamogk's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
georgezakka's review against another edition
4.0
3.7
I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did since recently I haven’t been liking dan jurgens’ work but this was pretty good.
Now terminal was an ok villain mostly because he’s always around the jokerz gang but never acts crazy or like the joker and you get a lot of Lex Luthor vibes but not In the good way, I also thought some dialogue with Dana was annoying.
But I love the brother relationship between Matt and terry because you can tell they’re bros, I find that pretty shcway and I liked the futuristic art especially the vibrantness of the jokerz suits.
Overall good book.
I wasn’t expecting to like this as much as I did since recently I haven’t been liking dan jurgens’ work but this was pretty good.
Now terminal was an ok villain mostly because he’s always around the jokerz gang but never acts crazy or like the joker and you get a lot of Lex Luthor vibes but not In the good way, I also thought some dialogue with Dana was annoying.
But I love the brother relationship between Matt and terry because you can tell they’re bros, I find that pretty shcway and I liked the futuristic art especially the vibrantness of the jokerz suits.
Overall good book.
nolo42's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
themtj's review against another edition
3.0
I actually got pretty bored with this and was ready to give it two stars until the twist at the end. A good twist, but too little too late.
eden_ainsley's review against another edition
2.0
3 people died and come back to life all in one comic book.... very lazy writing and story telling.
kavinay's review against another edition
3.0
Not bad as a jumping on point for new readers. Nothing in the story is particularly novel or even surprising. But it moves the ball along and sets the stage for what is hopefully a great and solid continuation of the excellent earlier Batman Beyond cartoon and comic universe.