elturko64's review against another edition
4.0
A fantastic conclusion to the wild storm series. Ellis has done it again mixing various genres in a blender and somehow making something awesome out of it. But the story isn't perfect. Not everything get's resolved and I'm still a little confused from certain moments in the story. Now the art though...omg the art incredible too. There were numerous pages where I was in awe at the illustrations. Wild Storm Vol. 4 isn't perfect but it's still a damn good read. Definitely recommend.
mspris's review against another edition
4.0
A very good conclusion of the series. I wish there was more!
lobodepapel's review against another edition
4.0
La re-imaginación de todo este universo estuvo bien padre, algo lento a ratos pero eso no le quita lo padre.
Me gustó el cierre :)
Me gustó el cierre :)
nerdinthelibrary's review against another edition
5.0
1) The Wild Storm, Vol. 1 ★★★★
2) The Wild Storm, Vol. 2 ★★★★
3) The Wild Storm, Vol. 3 ★★★★★
I don't say this very often (or ever, really) but I think this might be a perfect series. Each issue and volume on their own might not be perfect, but when looked at as a whole it comes pretty damn close. This entire volume is just about catharsis. We're finally getting the climactic battle between Skywatch and IO with our heroes caught up in the chaos, and it's just as amazing as you would think.
Something that made this volume especially cathartic for me is that we finally have our new, fully formed Authority! They're all pretty different from our old team, both in terms of how they look and their personalities, but there are still shades of those old characters in these versions. I also love that Warren Ellis pulled a Young Avengers and made all but one member of his team queer. Everyone else is too much of a coward to have four of their characters straight-up have an orgy and the other two be a dorky married couple, and that's why we stan a legend.
I know that I've waxed poetic about the art in every review for this series, but guys, the way that the sky is drawn in this is fucking magnificent. Read it just for that because I want to wallpaper my room with the pages of this series.
This series has been everything I've ever wanted and so much more. I'm so glad that DC let Warren Ellis go back to his old sandbox, and I'm also glad that he let himself play around with the characters and update them for the 2010s. Practically no one has read this series and that's a real shame because I think it's become my favourite comic book series.
2) The Wild Storm, Vol. 2 ★★★★
3) The Wild Storm, Vol. 3 ★★★★★
I don't say this very often (or ever, really) but I think this might be a perfect series. Each issue and volume on their own might not be perfect, but when looked at as a whole it comes pretty damn close. This entire volume is just about catharsis. We're finally getting the climactic battle between Skywatch and IO with our heroes caught up in the chaos, and it's just as amazing as you would think.
Something that made this volume especially cathartic for me is that we finally have our new, fully formed Authority! They're all pretty different from our old team, both in terms of how they look and their personalities, but there are still shades of those old characters in these versions. I also love that Warren Ellis pulled a Young Avengers and made all but one member of his team queer. Everyone else is too much of a coward to have four of their characters straight-up have an orgy and the other two be a dorky married couple, and that's why we stan a legend.
I know that I've waxed poetic about the art in every review for this series, but guys, the way that the sky is drawn in this is fucking magnificent. Read it just for that because I want to wallpaper my room with the pages of this series.
This series has been everything I've ever wanted and so much more. I'm so glad that DC let Warren Ellis go back to his old sandbox, and I'm also glad that he let himself play around with the characters and update them for the 2010s. Practically no one has read this series and that's a real shame because I think it's become my favourite comic book series.
marksutherland's review against another edition
4.0
Well that was intense. Everything kicks off, lots of explosions and then it's suddenly done. Not every thread is tied off and I'm not sure how well this series stands by itself, but it's an entertaining remix of the original books.
The art is solid and delivers the scale of action well.
Obligatory sour more about the writer's behaviour. At least it doesn't obviously leak into the text for this series.
The art is solid and delivers the scale of action well.
Obligatory sour more about the writer's behaviour. At least it doesn't obviously leak into the text for this series.
marksutherland's review
4.0
Well that was intense. Everything kicks off, lots of explosions and then it's suddenly done. Not every thread is tied off and I'm not sure how well this series stands by itself, but it's an entertaining remix of the original books.
The art is solid and delivers the scale of action well.
Obligatory sour more about the writer's behaviour. At least it doesn't obviously leak into the text for this series.
The art is solid and delivers the scale of action well.
Obligatory sour more about the writer's behaviour. At least it doesn't obviously leak into the text for this series.
zachb's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
hypops's review
2.0
For a book that began so powerfully (in volumes 1 and 2), it all wraps up very limply. Ellis has now completely ditched his non-superhero superhero plot in favor of something much more like a traditional super-team book (Justice League, The Avengers, X-Men, etc.). And as a conventional superhero book, The Wild Storm isn’t so... wild.
The cast of characters continues to expand, even as the plot draws to a close. While it was a book that began as a tightly-wound espionage thriller, it ends as every mainstream superhero yarn does: with lots of explosions, superpowers, fast cuts, and loose plot threads.
Davis-Hunt’s art also isn’t playing to its typical strengths here. It all looks very rushed (and perhaps it was, since DC is scheduled to start a follow-up book this August), and his action sequences look like sub-par retreads of Frank Quitely’s stellar work in We3.
Neither Ellis nor Davis-Hunt show any of the creative, clever spark they had in the first two volumes, and it all ends in a way that can only feel like a cynical corporate ploy to get folks reading what comes next. Volume 4 is dull and soulless, a genuine shame for a book that began with so much promise.
[I read this final arc in single issues.]
The cast of characters continues to expand, even as the plot draws to a close. While it was a book that began as a tightly-wound espionage thriller, it ends as every mainstream superhero yarn does: with lots of explosions, superpowers, fast cuts, and loose plot threads.
Davis-Hunt’s art also isn’t playing to its typical strengths here. It all looks very rushed (and perhaps it was, since DC is scheduled to start a follow-up book this August), and his action sequences look like sub-par retreads of Frank Quitely’s stellar work in We3.
Neither Ellis nor Davis-Hunt show any of the creative, clever spark they had in the first two volumes, and it all ends in a way that can only feel like a cynical corporate ploy to get folks reading what comes next. Volume 4 is dull and soulless, a genuine shame for a book that began with so much promise.
[I read this final arc in single issues.]
squidbag's review
5.0
Jon Davis-Hunt's art in this continues to be devastatingly pretty, and of course, this ends with a bloody giant (and sometimes horrible) bang of satisfying consequences and comeuppances because this is Warren Ellis, and as much fun as his quasi-elitist, establishment characters have being evil and twisted, his reluctant blue collar heroes are always there to kick the requisite ass. Everything about this is classic Ellis and also classic Wildstorm, but dumped into a blender and filtered through Warren's torrid affair with hard science fiction. You might need a tinfoil hat. Loved this, read all four volumes in a row - in a sitting - if you can.
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