A review by kierscrivener
The Other History of the DC Universe (2020-) #3 by John Ridley

adventurous emotional informative

3.25

The first two installments in the Other History were phenomenal, I felt this one faltered in character but stayed consistent with melding with historical events and the experience of Japanese Americans and anti Asian hate in the 80s and 90s with the narrative, but I felt that Tatsu could have really benefited from being written by a Japanese female author as her story is very tied to womanhood and her Asian identity and it felt very distance, or telling instead of the very evocative/visceral way he was able to depict his own experience through Jefferson and Mal, and I did notice that there felt more space to Karen and her emotions but that came off as more her personality, but Tatsu and how she interacts with people really didn't come across. Even with her relationship with Gabby, I just didn't feel like I could gauge it when I really felt every interaction in the first two. 

Throughout this volume and last, the way that people who use substances was pretty degrading 'waste of space' rhetoric that was never addressed and didn't come off as commentary but bias. 


CW: rape, pedophilia, child death, drug use, racism, xenophobia,
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