Reviews

Seven Soldiers of Victory, Volume 1 by Frazer Irving, Simone Bianchi, Mick Gray, Grant Morrison, J.H. Williams III, Ryan Sook, Cameron Stewart

zeekaygee's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

4.0

insane and dense 

tabman678's review

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

qdawg's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

4.5

nglofile's review against another edition

2.0

I can appreciate this more than I can enjoy it. The slight overlap of the stories adds a richness to the narrative, and the variation in panel structure is especially interesting. The Guardian was my favorite thread, and Zatanna had her moments. The others, not so much.

wlphifer's review against another edition

4.0

I find Zatanna is the most amusing. The art work for Klarion the Witchboy is perfectly spooky.

crowyhead's review against another edition

4.0

Morrison selects a number of lesser-known DC characters, people with superpowers who are not necessarily superheroes, and reinvents them. The only character I was familiar with prior to reading this was Zatanna, who's shown up in supporting roles in some of my other favorite DC comics. This first volume collects the beginning of several miniseries. The stories are mostly self-contained at first, with hints that they will become progressively more interlinked as things progress. The result is that the book requires a lot of "heavy lifting" on the part of the reader -- it feels rather like you've been thrown into a morass and just have to trust that things will come clear. Morrison delights in doing this -- heck, most of The Invisibles was like this -- but this is not as deftly handled as much of his other work. I plan on reading the other volumes, because I want to see how it all comes out. Until I've read the other ones, I can't really recommend this one, because I'm not sure if it comes clear eventually or not!

adrianasturalvarez's review against another edition

4.0

The concept behind this four volume series is fun: Grant Morrison reboots seven very minor DC characters separately while unifying them under a major global threat. In this volume, four of the seven new heroes are introduced. The stories and artwork are interesting and intelligent (particularly the prologue) and I'm definitely going to keep reading.

rebus's review

3.75

I loved these obscure DC offshoots in the 60s and 70s as a kid, and Grant Morrison never fails to delight!

the_graylien's review

2.0

In this series, comics great Grant Morrison takes on some of DC's C-List superheroes.

While some of narratives in the prologue (Seven Soldiers of Victory #0) and in Zatanna's story rather reminded me of Chuck Palahniuk (which is always good), I think this book pales in comparison to some of Mr. Morrison's other legendary tales.

While wowed by some early goings of the characters featured here, some really stunning artwork and the infusion of themes of magic (something very interesting to me and featured in almost all of Morrison's work), I wasn't really blown away by anything between the cover of this book.

Bottome line: This one's great to read if you're going on your own personal quest to read all of Grant Morrison's work but not one of his best or something I'd recommend starting with.

skolastic's review

5.0

I've been neglectful of my comics reviews because I've read so damn many (goodbye money, thanks comixology). I've got some time to kill though so I'm catching up now. This is a pure Morrison joy, even if the art sometimes leaves something to be desired (I actually like Frazer Irving on Klarion a lot even though I didn't care for him on Batman, whoever said doing the Manhattan Guardian is great). It kills me that this didn't produce ongoing titles as planned because I'd love to see more of these characters.