Comic Review- Heroes in Crisis #1

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Heroes in Crisis (2018-) #1 by Tom King

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Bit of a backlog going along, so let me pick up something and read it.

I have enjoyed King's run on Batman a lot. Despite it being heavily scrutinized (and in the era of social media, everything sucks), I really think it's been a great run.

I haven't read his other non- Batman stuff (and to be honest, it doesn't really interest to me).

I am a bit nervous about this. For one, with the word "Crisis", it hearkens to other DC big events, which I generally don't enjoy. Also, the lede on this one is that it is a story about PTSD. Nothing wrong with that, but comics historically fumbles with socially relevant material more often than not.

Indeed, a recent Astro City thread was about the damage superheroes have done. It's not that comics can't be deep, but Busiek has probably done it and better.

In any case, how can I refuse, Clay Mann's art is incredible.

You know the good thing about DC comics signing Bendis is that he can't sue you for copyright infringement,

Ok, so Bendis doesn't own the rights to nine-panel pages, but this issue certainly follows the Bendis model of being dialogue driven.

Indeed, there is action and a plot, but it is all in the background, and there's not a lot of you know... exposition. Indeed, the PTSD stuff, "event" stuff, the plot itself are all pretty secondary. It will be interesting to see where it goes. I wonder who is the brain at DC that apparently wants to push Booster Gold in 2018 (King?), but the interactions of Harley and Booster are fun so far. We will see, but I am enjoying seeing where this might go.





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