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A review by tabman678
Forever Evil by Rob Liegh, Sonia Oback, Carlos M. Mangual, Geoff Johns, Richard Friend, David Finch
4.0
Forever Evil is a hell of a time. It’s one of the best event comics I’ve ever read. One of the reasons is it’s self contained enough to read without having read a bunch of other titles you don’t want to. Though I kind of want to.
Basically the Justice League lost a fight and were manipulated by the crime syndicate of earth 3 and the majority of them were trapped in Firestorm. And now the crime syndicate has invaded earth prime with intentions of taking it over because they lost their earth. The motivation never moves past that and at times evil for evils sake is shallow. But there’s so much good character moments, as well as an intriguing plot that kept me reading, so it works.
The rub here is Lex Luthor takes the situation into his hands when the Crime Syndicate impowers the worlds super villains. And he acquires a few that agree with him.
The highlights of this book for me were Batman being a much more emotional sort here that many writers ignore because of the Frank Miller archetype that’s grim. Luthor and Bizzaro echoing the father son themes throughout the book. And the Sinestro Black Adam friendship.
The art is largely great though the faces sometimes throw me off with the eyes. And everyone seems to have massive muscles but David Finch is a talented artist and it’s good to look at and uses shadows and space really well for its action.
Overall great event comic.
4 stars.
Basically the Justice League lost a fight and were manipulated by the crime syndicate of earth 3 and the majority of them were trapped in Firestorm. And now the crime syndicate has invaded earth prime with intentions of taking it over because they lost their earth. The motivation never moves past that and at times evil for evils sake is shallow. But there’s so much good character moments, as well as an intriguing plot that kept me reading, so it works.
The rub here is Lex Luthor takes the situation into his hands when the Crime Syndicate impowers the worlds super villains. And he acquires a few that agree with him.
The highlights of this book for me were Batman being a much more emotional sort here that many writers ignore because of the Frank Miller archetype that’s grim. Luthor and Bizzaro echoing the father son themes throughout the book. And the Sinestro Black Adam friendship.
The art is largely great though the faces sometimes throw me off with the eyes. And everyone seems to have massive muscles but David Finch is a talented artist and it’s good to look at and uses shadows and space really well for its action.
Overall great event comic.
4 stars.