Reviews
Outsiders, Vol. 4: Crisis Intervention by Jen Van Meter, Matthew Clark, Dietrich Smith, Judd Winick
ladydewinter's review
2.0
No Nightwing. :( This also was a bit of a mish-mash, and I never felt really invested or even interested in the story. Which could be due to the lack of Nightwing, I admit. *g*
captwinghead's review
3.0
I didn't enjoy this volume as much as volume 3. It just didn't grab me.
To be honest, it seemed as though this was made of some tie ins to Donna Troy's story in another tie in. It probably is and I'm just missing it. Anyway, I don't know much about Captain Marvel Jr or Mary Marvel and I never really wanted to. Those are characters I'm just not that invested in.
I didn't mind Katana showing up here. I was interested in her thinking the others hadn't earned the name. I did like the little interlude of her, Grace, Anissa and Roy taking on bad guys together. I enjoyed Grace talking to Roy about him being a superhero and too heroic to truly be an Outsider. I don't know his exact timeline but I know he ends up on the JL at one point and good for him!
I was confused about Sabbac's reign of terror in that it didn't last very long. I expected some True Blood level esque Bacchus plot where he stuck around for a while infecting everyone. I'm honestly a little bummed. I kinda dig plots where the world is cursed to sort of implode and everyone attacks each other. It's hard to fight when you don't want to hurt the aggressors.
But anywho, this was a thing volume and I'm hoping the next one has more for me to latch on to.
To be honest, it seemed as though this was made of some tie ins to Donna Troy's story in another tie in. It probably is and I'm just missing it. Anyway, I don't know much about Captain Marvel Jr or Mary Marvel and I never really wanted to. Those are characters I'm just not that invested in.
I didn't mind Katana showing up here. I was interested in her thinking the others hadn't earned the name. I did like the little interlude of her, Grace, Anissa and Roy taking on bad guys together. I enjoyed Grace talking to Roy about him being a superhero and too heroic to truly be an Outsider. I don't know his exact timeline but I know he ends up on the JL at one point and good for him!
I was confused about Sabbac's reign of terror in that it didn't last very long. I expected some True Blood level esque Bacchus plot where he stuck around for a while infecting everyone. I'm honestly a little bummed. I kinda dig plots where the world is cursed to sort of implode and everyone attacks each other. It's hard to fight when you don't want to hurt the aggressors.
But anywho, this was a thing volume and I'm hoping the next one has more for me to latch on to.
chrisvigilante's review
2.0
These tie-ins man. It was all over the place with the team split up for different tasks. Was kinda a mess.
Liked Katana being around for this one, though.
Roy is trying to figure out who he is. That's cool. We will see where that goes.
Sabbac was over too fast. I feel like they could have done more with him coming back into play here.
Liked Katana being around for this one, though.
Roy is trying to figure out who he is. That's cool. We will see where that goes.
Sabbac was over too fast. I feel like they could have done more with him coming back into play here.
nickpalmieri's review
3.0
The stories weren't bad, but they weren't too memorable. A major step down for the series, mainly because it had to tie into all of the series going on around Infinite Crisis. The first two issues were a fun little story that featured the return of Sabbac and the Fearsome Five, in spite of the fact that the central plot device relied on something from a different title (Day of Vengeance). Then we get the completely-out-of-place Firestorm issue, which isn't terrible but doesn't belong here. Then there's one more Winick Outsiders issue, which is good, if a little unfocused... and then Jen Van Meter takes on the final two issues, wrapping up what Winick started. The final three issues are one complete story with a few different elements, but none are particularly interesting and all are tied up with events in other series. There's a nice acknowledgment of the significance of a plot twist from volume 3, but there's no real elaboration on its significance. Van Meter is stuck in a fairly problematic situation here, and with the weak stories without the clever dialogue like Winick uses, it's not too interesting. The art splits based on the two story threads, one artist of which is great but the other of which is not very good. The stories in this book are solid enough, but they aren't quite at the level of previous Outsiders books.
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