In the cataclysmic second volume, the human rebel forces led by Deathstroke have begun their assault on Baron Cinder’s fortress. Will their mission bring sunlight back to the world? Or is humanity doomed to die in the solemn darkness?! Collecting DC vs. All-Out War #4-6 and DC vs. Killers.
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"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.
I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."
2.5 stars. I enjoyed the Killers storyline the most in this collection, followed by the back-up stories at the ends of the original issues, and then lastly the actual All-Out-War story. The Harley stuff was fun in a Deadpool-esque way and I really, really dug that issue. The back-ups were interesting in focusing on a specific character’s story during this vampire apocalypse. The main story felt very busy and hard to follow. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the art, which took a lot out right away.
Interesting read with some of the untold stories from the DC VS Vampires series. While I liked the majority of the stories I did not like the black, white and red artwork.
This book wraps up the action in the DC vs. Vampires: All-Out War series, bringing it to a conclusion (albeit slightly open-ended). This one is filled with action from one end to the other, and maintains the same high-stakes as the first 3 issues. Wrapping up this hardcover, we have 3 standalone backup stories, each featuring different characters, as well as a one-shot starring Harley Quinn and Catwoman.
What I liked: Deathstroke is great, and I also liked Midnighter and Mary Marvel's roles. The backup story with Poison Ivy is excellent - written and drawn by Mirka Andolfo whose art I usually dig.
What I didn't like: Same as with the first volume of All-Out War, the art is not the easiest to follow, especially with all the action that's going on. With the exception of the Poison Ivy one, the backups didn't do anything for me, and neither did the Killers #1 one-shot.