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A review by kevinowenkelly
Doomsday Clock #11: A Lifelong Mistake by Gary Frank, Geoff Johns, Brad Anderson
2.0
A series that has (charitably) taken its (literal and figurative) time laying out its grand plot suddenly finds itself leaping ahead into a swirl of activity they skipped the actual introduction of.
That's OK, it's clear enough how they jumped a few steps ahead to get to the world siddenly being on the brink of nuclear war, but then you have the rest of the issue largely taken up by the Evil Villain Master Plan Monologue, and suddenly a very slow series finds itself feeling cramped for time in its penultimate issue.
It ends on a high note, with the final two pages finding a spectacular rhythym to drum up the hype for the final issue, but it's not really enough to redeem this issue as a whole, which seems to largely expose the plotting and pacing failures of the rest of the series.
That's OK, it's clear enough how they jumped a few steps ahead to get to the world siddenly being on the brink of nuclear war, but then you have the rest of the issue largely taken up by the Evil Villain Master Plan Monologue, and suddenly a very slow series finds itself feeling cramped for time in its penultimate issue.
It ends on a high note, with the final two pages finding a spectacular rhythym to drum up the hype for the final issue, but it's not really enough to redeem this issue as a whole, which seems to largely expose the plotting and pacing failures of the rest of the series.