By: Keith Champagne, John Ostrander Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 128 Publication Date: November 21, 2007 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: December 05, 2007
All Fizzle, No Sizzle While I love Black Adam and his dark side, this story focused more on the bang and left very little to the character. The story does do a good job of filling in missing pieces of the 52 saga and the outlying stories, but it comes across as rushed and left me dissatisfied. Is it me, or does it seem during the battle in China that it takes two days for a character attacking Black Adam to get there?
There are continuity errors during the final battles, and it seemed like there were two separate endings to Black Adam. He's getting attacked by Captain Marvel one day only to disappear, and then getting attacked again a couple of days later to disappear again. Maybe I didn't read it right the first five times, or maybe the continuity didn't add up.
If you like to see Black Adam throw his power around and take down heroes, this is the book for you. If you like your stories to make sense, you might want to borrow this from a friend. Or I can mail you mine.
Black Adam vs the World From the pages of 52 and backup stories of JSA, the story of Black Adam reaches its climax when he once again faces a gigantic loss, and loses his own mind in desperation. The "third-person" perspective from Martian Manhunter, and the parallel stories from 52, makes this story immersive and completely different from other linear comic stories.
A "must have" for any comic-book fan.
Three Stars For Martian Manhunter Martian Manhunter is among my favorite characters and for that reason alone this story gets three stars. After the tragic events that unfolded in the pages of 52, Vol. 4. The story is very up and down with many storylines that are hard to keep straight in I can't honestly recomand this story unless you just want the complete collection of 52.
Something of a Letdown I have been reading about the contents of this comic book for some time now, and I was eagerly anticipating its release. However, after finishing it, I was severely disappointed. The narration by the Martian Manhunter was heavily cliched and far too verbose. At times, the converging story lines made little sense, and they seemed inappropriate/unnecessary.
I felt that this story had a great deal of potential, but it was too convoluted in the end.
A Dumping Ground of Ideas With all the wonderful ideas and themes springing out of 52, there had to be a place to dump all the ideas not good enough for 52. This seems to be the designated compost heap. Some fair art, large fight scenes but no cogent plot to be followed. Definitely not worth the money.
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