tmarso's review
adventurous
dark
hopeful
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Really, really fun! Wanna read more Dr Fate
subhamroxx's review
3.0
This was quite cool and long and starts with a story about Obsidian coming back and attacking the JLA and darkness and all and is a great Alan story and then Wildcat vs Injustice Society and then the big stuff with King Kobra and the craziness he unleashes and a save the universe from time travelling villain here Extant and it was fun even though it ended hastily. I liked the volume and it just does a great job of doing so many stories and wrapping up plot holes well and serves to usher in the Johns era of JSA and members quitting, setting future villains and great focus on some characters! The artwork is not my favorite but its decent enough!
carmine_b's review
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
2.0
Johns's dialogue and plot structure is not doing it for me.
gengelcox's review
1.0
Had I read the previous JSA volume, [b:JSA Vol. 1: Justice Be Done|808964|JSA Vol. 1 Justice Be Done |James Robinson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178578597s/808964.jpg|1833247], before buying this one, I probably would have passed it by. As it was, I picked them both up from Half-Price Books, which should have given me something of a clue as to how much their previous owner enjoyed them. In my review of Justice Be Done, I laid the blame mostly on James Robinson, whose name is conspicuously absent from this volume, so I have to revise myself and look to David Goyer as the writer who created this mess.
And a right mess it is. Having just saved the universe from one of Dr. Fate's enemies, this time the big baddie is an Hourman arch-nemesis called Kobra who can be anywhere at anytime, and is looking to add omniscience and omnipotence to his omnipresence. In a way, the previous volume led to this, because with comics, as with soap operas, the next thing has to be bigger and badder than the last. All the same problems that existed in that volume are here in spades: characters that walk-on and -off with alacrity, instant accomodation to psyche-splitting events, references to characters and events that only the most scholarly of super-junkies could be assumed to remember.
The only redeeming value to this is the ending, where Goyer lets slip a little bit of revenge fantasy that is less typical of superhero stories. As one character says to the revenge-meister, "You may live to regret that," and that promise is the only reason why I'd be interested in the slightest in continuing to follow this series.
And a right mess it is. Having just saved the universe from one of Dr. Fate's enemies, this time the big baddie is an Hourman arch-nemesis called Kobra who can be anywhere at anytime, and is looking to add omniscience and omnipotence to his omnipresence. In a way, the previous volume led to this, because with comics, as with soap operas, the next thing has to be bigger and badder than the last. All the same problems that existed in that volume are here in spades: characters that walk-on and -off with alacrity, instant accomodation to psyche-splitting events, references to characters and events that only the most scholarly of super-junkies could be assumed to remember.
The only redeeming value to this is the ending, where Goyer lets slip a little bit of revenge fantasy that is less typical of superhero stories. As one character says to the revenge-meister, "You may live to regret that," and that promise is the only reason why I'd be interested in the slightest in continuing to follow this series.
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