Andy MacDonald

DNF 50% into the book.

This book had great potential. I found myself liking the book in the beginning with the characters, the world, and the story development. What I found that I didn't like was that after a while the characters because disassociated with themselves (total out of character quirks), cheesy style high schoolish relationships, and huge gaps in character plots/development. I could understand if it would be explained further in the book but honestly from about 1/4 thru the book I wanted to put it down because there were too many unknowns and it was moving way too slowly, but I kept up until halfway thru to ensure that I was in fact disappointed not disillusioned with false expectations on the book.

There is a series of books, just one that I can't get behind really. I gave 2 stars mostly because I feel that the book had a decent story in the beginning. I just wish the beginning storytelling would have kept up thru the book.… (meer)

I dropped out of the Wonder Woman series a few volumes back out of boredom and have skipped ahead to see if Becky Cloonan can bring some new energy to the title.

Soooooo . . . Wonder Woman has gotten herself dead or she's ascending to godhood or something at the end of Dark Knights: Dark Metal (not to be confused with her subsequent death for Dark Crisis mind you) -- and now finds herself in the afterlife. But not the afterlife of Greek mythology; no, no, she's in Valhalla. Turns out some rogue god is causing problems across the pantheons, so Wonder Woman has to set aside the rest and relaxation of death and get back to work tracking this big bad villain across the multiverse, with stops in Tartarus, Earth-11, the Phantom Zone, the Fifth Dimension, Gemworld, and a limbo called the In-Between. Fortunately she's helped by a cute squirrel (!).

It's a kinda cheesy, kinda fun road trip, and it all becomes a metaphor for healing the rift between the extremism of MAGA blindered nostalgia and Antifa anarchist revolution. Y'know, the kind of big, hopeful gesture WW is known for.

It's good enough, I'm going to keep on and check out some of the spin-off titles with Nubia and the new Wonder Girl.… (meer)