52 Vol 4
Overview: DC’s groundbreaking weekly comic 52 – telling the story of a “missing” year in the DC Universe in real time – continues with Volume Three. With the world’s three biggest icons – Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman – the rest of the world’s heroes must prevail in a world that has seemingly given up hope. And the final fates of some of them will shock you!
Collecting 52 #40-52
Pages: 328
Writers: Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid.
Artist: Keith Giffen
Pencils: Eddy Barrows, Chris Batista, Joe Bennett, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jamal Igle, Dan Jurgens, Justiniano, Mike McKone, Patrick Olliffe, Darick Robertson.
Inks: Eddy Barrows, Belardino Brabo, Drew Geraci, Dan Green, Jack Jadson, Andy Lanning, Patrick Olliffe, Rodney Ramos, Norm Rapmund, Darick Robertson, Lorenzo Ruggiero, Walden Wang.
Colors: David Baron, Hi-Fi, Pete Pantazis, Alex Sinclair.
Letters: Jared K. Flethcer, Rob Leigh, Ken Lopez.
Recommendations:
There are parts of this book that I really like and parts that I don’t like at all. There are some time travel elements that I just don’t care for. Especially when it leads back to infinite crisis, which is a story I did not like at all. This is the final weeks before the big three come back from sabbatical. The final weeks when others are running the show of hero work and villain work. The things I did like is that the story lines did come to a close. Though there were a few that even when the story came to an end, it didn’t seem like it really needed to be in this series. I do like that Booster Gold throughout the series was a main player, and even more so in this final series.
Overall, there were segments of this book that I could not stop readying and other parts that I had to force myself through just to get to more good stuff. Sure, this happens a lot in a story, so I let some of it be. Still, there are places that make you wonder why that even had to be in there. I do like that this book has commentary between each collected issue, that helps fill in the thought process, that also helps me to forgive some of the writing issues that I had with this final volume. If you have made it this far, you will want to see how all the stories come to a close and how they open it for more stories in the future. Kind of what the whole purpose of this was anyway.