Ethan Van Sciver

I expected to HATE this, as I'm a firm believer in keeping Barry Allen dead since Crisis. Still, the book pulled me in and had some great ideas that added, rather than detracted, to the Flash mythos. Better than expected, but I still would have preferred if they'd kept Barry dead and done this same plot with Wally (or Max Mercury or Jay Garrick).

Did not realize, and ended up loving, that this was an anthology, each comic produced by a different team.

Only one was terrible: No Chains Can Hold Her, in which Supergirl and Mary Marvel feature, which is cool, but (1) I truly hate the Golden Age illustration style, (2) holy over-the-top sexist villains never appropriately comeuppanced, and (3) why did Supergirl's skirt keep changing from red to blue??

We see Wonder Woman subbing for Batman in Gotham, commanding Catwoman and Harley Quinn show more as honorary Amazons, and as an actual rock star, taking two awed teenage girls under her wing. My favorite couple pages are from a story that's otherwise only okay, in which she steps in to support a boy whose friends are mocking him for liking a girl superhero. Not as good as the New 52, but a fun read nonetheless. show less

Once again, my enjoyment was dampened because a publishing house that damn well could afford it, didn´t hire a proper translator.
While I applaud the fact that they wanted to implement a foreign language (german, in this case), it is offensive that the writers or whoever the heck was responisble, thought they could use Google Translate.
Most of the Gremlins hacked up German, I could let slide. "er wird die meiste wertsache zu thanagar sein.", I could not. Simple things like this mess just show more piss me off. HIRE SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY SPEAKS/WRITES THE LANGUAGE!
Storywise, it was interesting and exciting. show less

It's too bad. Though I hadn't really warmed to Volume 1, this book really sold me on the new take. So I was all the more disappointed when the story abruptly jumped ship, leaving some threads stillborn and many others abandoned entirely! And the the zero issue return to status quo was the last straw. It's as if the series was tanking so badly that the editors panicked and wiped the slate entirely, so at least the character could be used elsewhere without baggage.