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shane_tiernan's review against another edition
4.0
Still totally digging this. It's deep, but also "superheroy". Love the art too.
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
2.0
While the Unity team does appear in this comic, this is less a Valiant Universe adventure story, more a Matt Kindt wants you to know why time travel stories shouldn't work. Much of the "action" is two god-level Russians fighting while also discussing how you can't change time.
It reminded me of the Alpha Flight issue where Northstar has a fistfight with someone while both coming out as queer, and informing the readers that AIDS isn't a disease restricted to homosexuals. It just seems like you should pause the fight for a few seconds to deliver your revelations.
I just don't care about any of the characters in this series. Their backgrounds Should connect with me, but Kindt's writing tends to have better conceits than characters. I found this to be a fairly skippable part of the Valiant line.
It reminded me of the Alpha Flight issue where Northstar has a fistfight with someone while both coming out as queer, and informing the readers that AIDS isn't a disease restricted to homosexuals. It just seems like you should pause the fight for a few seconds to deliver your revelations.
I just don't care about any of the characters in this series. Their backgrounds Should connect with me, but Kindt's writing tends to have better conceits than characters. I found this to be a fairly skippable part of the Valiant line.
julianship's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
As with the previous volume, an interesting premise is undercut by mostly workmanlike art, and, this time, incoherent politics. There are pages that really shine - one sequence, involving flipping pages in a series of fight panels, is particularly memorable- but it mostly made me wish the volume had had a more powerful artist. The book also feels like it's telling me that capitalism is good, actually, despite the first issue setting up our Soviet-era cosmonaut as the good guy. This feels like it's trying to give me "complicated morality" but instead feels somewhat incoherent, especially as I'm not familiar with the rest of the Valiant universe.
trike's review against another edition
3.0
Solid time travel story as two former cosmonauts with godlike powers vie for control of history and the world. In the end love conquers all, just as it did in [b:Divinity|25415799|Divinity|Matt Kindt|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1429828244l/25415799._SY75_.jpg|44562908]. It’s kind of Dr. Manhattan versus Dr. Manhattan in this go-round, which is interesting. The ending felt a bit rushed to me, but at least it doesn’t overstay its welcome as many stories are prone to do these days.
apersonfromflorida's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Minor: Vomit, Child abuse, and Blood
villyidol's review against another edition
4.0
And it does take off with this second volume.
One of Divinity’s comrades finds her way back from outer space. After her encounter with The Unknown she possesses the same god-like powers that he does. But she has completely different plans of how to use them.
She’s not exactly happy with what happened to the Soviet Union and since she’s able to travel back and forth in time she figures she should have a little talk with some people.
All of them pretty well known.
So the MI-6, after capturing Divinity in the last book, decides to bring him in for peace talks. Though they might have slightly overestimated their control over him anyway.
Divinity is following his former colleague and tries to talk sense into her while she clearly prefers to kick his ass.
It was great fun. And with the political and historical bits there‘s also a second layer to this. I really like the direction this took after the first volume. I was a little concerned about that, considering how the first book ended. But this turned out to be unjustified.
Looking forward to the third one now.
One of Divinity’s comrades finds her way back from outer space. After her encounter with The Unknown she possesses the same god-like powers that he does. But she has completely different plans of how to use them.
She’s not exactly happy with what happened to the Soviet Union and since she’s able to travel back and forth in time she figures she should have a little talk with some people.
All of them pretty well known.
So the MI-6, after capturing Divinity in the last book, decides to bring him in for peace talks. Though they might have slightly overestimated their control over him anyway.
Divinity is following his former colleague and tries to talk sense into her while she clearly prefers to kick his ass.
It was great fun. And with the political and historical bits there‘s also a second layer to this. I really like the direction this took after the first volume. I was a little concerned about that, considering how the first book ended. But this turned out to be unjustified.
Looking forward to the third one now.
globosdepensamiento's review against another edition
4.0
Un cosmonauta soviético abandonó en los años 60 a su equipo de astronautas en el cosmos tras adquirir poderes divinos. Su compañera, la única fiel al sueño comunista, acaba de adquirirlos también y ha regresado a la Tierra para contemplar con horror que la URSS ha caído. Lo único que creía poseer, lo único a lo que creía pertenecer, era el ideal de la Unión Soviética, por lo que empleará su omnipotencia para alterar el mundo y hasta la Historia pasada. Un relato sobre humanidad, el destino (auto)impuesto, la manipulación y... el godsplaining.
marisacarpico's review against another edition
3.0
Wow, really was not into this as much as I expected. This series might work better as a trade. Going to have to really think on whether to continue or not.
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