Danger Street (2022-) Vol. 2

Danger Street #7-12

by Tom King, Jorge Fornés (Illustrator), Dave Stewart (cover_art)

The plot thickens! As the Green Team is revealed to be behind the horrible fate bestowed upon our heroes, they rally against it and recruit the once-hated Outsiders. Is there a deeper connection between the two groups and what does the Helmet of Fate and the sky falling have to do with it? All of this and more as Lady Cop closes the case on the murders of Danger Street. You’ll have to read it to believe it as our tale of knights, ogres, monsters, princesses, and magicians comes to its epic conclusion!This volume collects Danger Street #7-12.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Comic Book, Fantasy, Comix

183 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 28, 2024

Reviews

[Sean Gibson]

I'm not sure I understood all of this, mind you, but I dug it.

[Valéria.]

#9 is the reason why I love Tom King’s stuff.
Just two guys talking to each other.

[Bill Riggs]

A great ending for the series. Probably could have been shorter overall but it was a fun way to revisit some of the more obscure DC characters.

[Rod Brown]

The novelty of Tom King trying to retell a failed 1970s comic book anthology as a superhero epic has worn off. As is often the case with King's books, the captioned narration is the first and worst knock against the series as Doctor Fate's helmet will just not shut up with his silly fairy tale overlay.

It doesn't help that these characters all failed to take off for a reason. With the exception of Liza "Lady Cop" Warner, they are all losers and all their decisions go awry. It's boring watching them screw up over and over again -- or carry on an issue long philosophical discussion while dueling to the death with swords.

And don't get me started on the deus ex machina ending. Ugh.




FOR REFERENCE:

Contents: Book Seven. The Creeper -- Book Eight. Warlord -- Book Nine. Doctor Fate -- Book Ten. The Outsiders -- Book Eleven. Codename: Assassin -- Book Twelve. Starman

So back in 1975 1st Issue Special debuted as a showcase to ostensibly introduce new characters or relaunch old characters. It ran for thirteen issues but most of the concepts were dead on arrival with only The Warlord and Return of the New Gods going to full series afterward (well, maybe not "full" as the The New Gods relaunch only lasted eight issues compared to The Warlord's 133). The issues:

#1: Atlas by Jack Kirby
#2: The Green Team by Joe Simon and Jerry Grandenetti
#3: Metamorpho The Element Man by Bob Haney and Ramona Fradon
#4: Lady Cop by Robert Kanigher and John Rosenberger
#5: Manhunter by Jack Kirby
#6: The Dingbats of Danger Street by Jack Kirby
#7: The Creeper by Michael Fleisher and Steve Ditko
#8: The Warlord by Mike Grell
#9: Dr. Fate by Martin Pasko and Walt Simonson
#10: The Outsiders by Joe Simon and Jerry Grandenetti
#11: Code Name: Assassin by Gerry Conway and Nestor Redondo
#12: Starman by Gerry Conway and Mike Vosburg
#13: Return of the New Gods by Gerry Conway and Mike Vosburg

[Chris]

Repetitive and ridiculously decompressed, 12 issues that should have been 3, promising start that dribbles over the line

[Rory Wilding]

Six months have passed since the release of the first volume, but if you’re jumping into the second and final volume of Danger Street, you are not going to get a recap of the initial six issues. When it comes to Tom King, who likes to write limited series that are twelve issues long, it makes more sense for the whole series to come out as one trade, as opposed to separate volumes. Ok, that tangent is now over, so what did I think of the conclusion of Tom King and Jorge Fornés’ series.

Continuing this crime saga that uses obscure DC characters, it is revealed that the Green Team is behind the horrible fate bestowed upon our heroes and rally against them as they recruit the once-hated Outsiders, who were introduced at the end of the previous volume. With these additions to an already expanded cast, King and Fornés are juggling these many chess pieces in a narrative that is too much to handle.

Although this is a case where Tom King’s decision to do twelve issues isn’t really justified here, as some of the issues are deliberately slow, there is some great characterization throughout. With none of DC’s A-list superheroes, no matter how much Superman is referenced, the day has to be saved by these characters ranging from the ordinary folk with no powers to C-list heroes whose plans to join the Justice League have majorly backfired. By this point, Lady Cop is somewhat the main protagonist due to her pursuit of the truth, which leads to the likes of Jack Ryder/The Creeper who has allied himself with Commodore Murphy of the Green Team, despite Jack being a violent vigilante.

Make no mistake, this is quite the dark read, especially when there is harm towards young children, no matter how nasty the Green Team is, which includes keeping a child as a hostage so their mother will work as their receptionist. However, this strong content is there for shock value as it plays into the main narrative, with the Helmet of Fate serving as the main catalyst with a shocking flashback featuring children in a playground, revealing the origin of both the Green Team and the Outsiders. Although the book would have benefitted with more time spent with the Outsiders, they leave enough of an impression.

With this kind of narrative that King has done a number of times, where he explores the flawed psychology of these costumed characters, don’t expect a great deal of action. With Danger Street defined by character interactions with a heavy dose of speech bubbles, at least Fornés’ art really stands from the expressive characters to his use with panel layouts, including the traditional nine-panel grid. The high point of the whole series from both a writing and artistic standpoint, is the ninth issue, which serves as an interlude where Manhunter and Codename: Assassin fight to death on the roof of Commodore Murphy’s headquarters. With every page told in eight panels, you have two men who are professionals in the art of killing, battle each other with swords and words, where there is a mutual respect.

Ending on a surprisingly hopeful note than what you usually expect from King, and whilst many will question the book’s narrative decisions, Danger Street is held together by interesting ideas and a batch of compelling characters that show a unique side of the DC universe.

[Gary Sassaman]

I had pretty much given up on Tom King after the whole Batman/Catwoman fiasco. I didn’t like Mister Miracle or Strange Adventures, but I did like Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, so I thought I’d take a tumble on Danger Street (and Human Target, for that matter). I loved the idea of taking all the characters from the 1970s 1st Issue Special books and weaving them together into one long story. That all-but-forgotten series had some of Jack Kirby’s final work for DC in it, and King made good use of his characters, Atlas and the Dingbats of Danger Street, alongside Joe Simon’s The Green Team, plus the Creeper, Lady Cop, Doctor Fate, and the first non-Kirby version of New Gods.. Jorge Fornés art reminds me of Curt Swan here, for some reason, and Dave Stewart’s coloring is excellent as always. One tip to the reader: DS Vol. 1 came out months ago, and I had to reread it to get back up to speed. Same deal with Human Target, whose second volume comes out soon. I’ll be rereading Vol. 1 before I tackle the second one.

[Justin Partridge]

“You want a #=$%@%^ SAVED day you call @!?$+*# Superman!”

“Non-Fat…you don’t think I…

…of ALL people- -

Superman’s NOT coming.”

“The Female Constable is correct.”

“It’s just US.”

“No, it’s ONLY you.”

King for a May comes to a pretty sweet ;(if a bit overdo) conclusion! Much less a mystery and much more a celebration and exploration of what makes these wild and wooly and wonderful characters keep our hearts and minds so engaged.

TBH I’m always gonna be a sucker for “the real stories are the friends we make along the way” but yall knew that and this is a pretty fantastic example of that. I’m happy I liked it as well as I did.

And I’m doubly happy it was was weird and as quiet as it was. The first volume certainly has all the bombast and this one kinda takes its time getting to a pretty fun and rewarding feeling finish.

I love the Dingbats. I love Codename: Assassin. I love the artwork throughout. Yeah, fun time. Sometimes that’s enough!

[A Serious Firefighter]

The trolls continued 🫡 3.5

[Alana]

A good beginning and good ending doesn't make a good book.

[Lucas]

Finally got around to finishing this series (I was dreading picking up this volume after the last one). Same as Vol. 1, it's all of King's most annoying tropes put together. It's a slog to get through, and some issues feel like a parody. This would be a good story if it were three issues (tops), but 12? That's too decompressed. Skip it.

[James DeSantis]

I liked the first half more than the second. I think the build up just had a lot of mystery. And in the fallout here, everyone basically just...dies...but not? It's very much a weird sense of "Fixing things" all neatly wrapped up that I didn't love. I loved everything basically up to issue 10. Overall still worth reading.

[Matty Dub]

King doesn’t quite stick the landing but it’s still a serviceable ending and the only part of this whole run that isn’t amazing.

[Jefferson]

Once you get past the fact that what little actual story there is makes no sense at all, there are a few great moments in this that make it worth reading.

[Nate]

I'm embarrassed to say that when I read the first volume, I didn't know this series was an homage/deconstruction of the characters from 1st Issue Special. I requested the book from my library simply because King wrote it, and didn't read the description before diving in. I assumed he picked random C- and D-list characters for the story, instead of using the exact ones who appeared in 1st Issue Special, which I never read let alone heard of (though I was familiar with most of the characters from other books). The series makes a little more sense now. Mea culpa.

So I had problems with the first volume but wanted to at least see how the second half played out. And it's safe to say this won't go down as one of my favorite King comics. The narration by Doctor Fate's helmet, which pervades every issue*, is annoying and unnecessary. The story is very slow moving and often boring. I'm also getting tired of King's Alan Moore-aping dark deconstruction schtick. With all those characters, this book should be fun! And it's not really. There’s meta commentary on low tier heroes, and Lady Cop emerges as likable, but I’m not sure what the point of Danger Street is other than a modern synthesis of characters who happened to appear in the same anthology title fifty years ago.

*Except for the baffling issue 9, where Manhunter and Codename: Assassin participate in the chattiest and friendliest fight I’ve ever seen.

[Dakota Morgan]

Tom King's brilliantly weird Danger Street miniseries concludes in a satisfying, surprising manner. All the various parties are drawn together into a scenario straight out of a Coen brothers movie. The banter and character work continue to be superb, if definitively outside the norm for typical superheroes. I mean, you don't see Superman jonesing after grapes so much.

As is so often the case with these miniseries, the mysterious build-up (in the first volume) is better and more engaging than the slow burn payoff. Especially out of place is the single issue entirely devoted to a battle (of wits and swords) between the two assassin characters. Danger Street is weird, sure, but that single issue was perhaps too weird. The series ground to halt for a philosophy lesson.

Overall, very much worth a read though! Tom King fans will be pleased.

[tony dillard jr]

It probably wasn't that brilliant an idea to go a year before I read the second, and final, volume of the Tom King Black Label maxi-series Danger Street. This tribute to the DC First Issue Specials of the 1970s, is complex; with dozens of plots all merging together into a potential universe shattering event. Add Darkseid and the New Gods into the mix and you can be sure that the conclusion will be anything but simple.

In my defense, waiting this long was entirely all my fault. Volume 2 wasn't available at the time I checked out the first from my local library. Sure, I could have gone and bought the companion piece on Amazon. And I enjoyed the opener. But this wasn't something I wanted to spend my hard-earned cash on. Going into the summer and forgetting about this book didn't help either.

When we last left our players, several characters had died. Metamorpho, a member of the Dingbats of Danger Street, several members of the Green Team and the demigod Atlas had all gone on to their eternal reward. It was Atlas's death that triggered the end of all things. It's a situation so desperate that even Darkseid is working with Highfather to stop the eclipse of the Fourth World.

Before his demise, Atlas bestowed his powers to Good Looks. That event should prevent the end of the universe. It just happens to be that Good Looks is the Dingbat killed accidentally by Warlord and Starman. In other words, we're $(π€#€∆!

Now the Dingbats, Lady Cop and Warlord among others are rushing to obtain the sole object that could save everything: the helmet of Fate. But on the flip side, the Green Team's surviving leader, the Commodore, is using his nearly endless resources to make sure that the apocalypse comes by sending the Creeper and a nearly unbeatable assassin after those seeking the magical relic. As the scale looks perfectly balanced between good and evil, what will be the ultimate outcome when you add in the unknown factors of the ever determined Manhunter and the freakish Outsiders!

I like Tom King. He has a devotion for DC nostalgia and a real love for the publisher's B and C level characters. But as much as I love his work, Tom King manages to anger me because it seems like he takes delight in killing off all of the oddball characters I adored as a kid. But this time around, King manages to end the story on a somewhat positive note. There's a body count. But I was okay with who lived and who did not.

I really think if I had read volumes 1 and 2 back-to-back or within maybe a month of each other, I would have enjoyed it more. The New Gods were tied into the main plot which brings all of these eclectic characters together. But they play such a diminished role in regards to the ending. It almost felt like they were unnecessary. But you can't have a story combining all of the players from the First Issue Specials without including Darkseid, Orion and Mantis- even if this was a neutered version (at best) of the ruthless leader of Apokolips. Plus, there are so many philosophical diatribes, especially in issue #7, that I found myself wondering what the hell everyone was talking about. Thus weighing in all these factors, I hereby stand with the rating I give without feeling like I was biased.

[Aaron]

Those four idiot kids? Destined for heroism. That female officer with a keen eye? The accidental locus of everyone's hope. That crass superhero who manufactures his politics? Even in failure, he succeeds in doing good. Those petty assassins? They dabble in philosophy, and go nowhere. Those interstellar adventurers in search of a new home? Still homeless.

DANGER STREET v2 hauls from the muddy banks of the previous volume's eroded shores a clever and entertaining but not wholly convincing conclusion. The interminable obsessiveness and the fragrant duplicitousness that defined so many reviled character personalities feels only mostly ameliorated. And the brash and sympathetic beneficence and the charismatic loyalty that defined the remaining cast only barely surfaces in time to save the fate of the world. Perhaps it was too much to hope for a perfect conclusion to a perfect start.

Perhaps, also, one did not anticipate alliances to switch, camaraderie to emerge in the shadow of animosity, and a very earnest competition between ego and good faith. For example, the previous volume's laudable framing, of how manufactured villainy in the sociocultural milieu breeds ignorance and contempt, expands in the current volume, only to be exposed later as (literal) childish frenzy. The reveal is painfully dull; and yet, isn't that what all American, culture-warmongering is? A ploy? A child's game? This comic book makes its point very clear.

What about the reverse? Issue #9 is composed of one scene: a rooftop fight between two lifelong assassins whose chatty jibes slowly transition toward an exhausting rhetorical schema on the nature of action, inaction, presumptions of equality, and underestimating the self. DANGER STREET v2 and its creative team put a lot of effort into pushing this individual issue as being one to be remembered for ages to come, but it doesn't quite achieve its desired effect. At least, not in any obvious way. To wit, the value of a Socratic/Platonic dialogue is not lost, merely slightly out of place. Neither of the assassins' claims of higher skill, of logical privilege, of a private definition of victory are correct. Neither of the assassins' modest faith in their cause proves their correctness. And neither of the assassins' ability to emerge successful validates either individual's delineation of the other's failure; after all, one cannot claim success if one cannot prove the other has failed.

DANGER STREET v2 is kind to its characters. Too much, one might surmise, considering the narrator's characterizations and ruminations. But one finds comfort in seeing Police Chief Warner ("lady cop") taking her time to wrap her head around all of this world-saving, superhero business. One finds comfort in seeing those dumb Danger Street kids claim, without hesitation, the meaning of mortal sacrifice. And one finds comfort in seeing Jack Ryder, The Creeper, get cold-cocked in the middle of the street and left to snooze the night away.

[Tony Laplume]

About twenty years back we stopped counting up the classics in this genre. I suspect this, anyway, because for me, unquestionably, 52 is a classic and nobody but DC itself seems to think so. And anyway, I’m thinking about it again, at the moment, because Danger Street, as I just finished rereading the last half of issues in this collection, is as close to 52 as anything I’ve read. It’s its own thing, too, sure, but the comparison surely works in its favor.

52 wasn’t just the ambitious weekly series written by DC’s all-stars, it was sold as what it would look like if you subtracted the Big Three (and basically every other name superhero), and followed the results for a year. It was a lot of third-stringers at best, however you count Booster Gold, I guess. Batwoman was the biggest thing to come out of it, by the way. And it was just pure, great storytelling. It just dispensed with the standards of the genre and told great stories.

So Danger Street is like that. The showcase episode is certainly the duel between Manhunter and Codename: Assassin. But everything happening around that? None of these characters were ever going to approach anything this great without Danger Street. I mean, most of them were plucked straight out of limbo. Lady Cop?!? But anyone reading this can’t help but developing a real affection for her.

Tom King, folks. This one was like a dare. He just plucked characters who’d been featured in a ‘70s anthology title, and crafted another epic out of it. Probably more than a few observers scratched their heads over this one. The narration makes no sense except as juxtaposition: If you can view these bozos as epic material, the way King writes them, they’re larger than life. No one else was ever going to even consider something like this for any of them!

And Tom King does it so often he gets taken for granted. People scoff. Me, I want an omnibus that also collects vintage appearances. I’m a fan of Lady Cop!!!

[Daniel Freer]

Wow, loved all the characters, way story was told. Another knockout for Tom King

I personally have REALLY REALLY enjoyed ALOT, if not most of, Tom Kings work. So much so I even read VISION. Who I HATE as a character, as a NON-FAN of Marvel comics and movies(2 or 3 I like a little but) and it was absolutely amazing. But more about volume 2 of this. Loved from volume 1 the way it was told like it was old times, with knights and dragons when they are talking about Manhunter(one of the "knights") and dragons( New Gods). Just great story telling, writing, I love the characters. The groups of them are probably my favorite part of these comics and the fact it's not the usual DC stable, you have Metamorpho, The Creeper, Starman and more. Also the parallels between the green team and kids from Danger Street and all the rest, I'm just PERSONALLY, MY OWN OPINION IS ALL I EVER GIVE. ILL NEVER TELL SOMEONE TO LIKE SOMETHING. WHAT I WRITE IS MY HONEST OPINION and I give it because I would love the same. I will say I am surprised that people didn't like this and had some complaints which is fine. I think alot stems from Tom Kings success and also the writing style. Sometimes his comics are hard to follow if your pulling from the rack every week as they come out,(other then his batman run which you can follow), I can see how they could be hard to follow and keep alot of things in your head, week to week. I think they're great when you can read them like this but again just my opinion.

[Alan]

A brief history lesson, please bear with me.

When the U.S. comics Silver Age began it was with a DC Comics title called Showcase. It became, until its cancellation, a try out title for characters some of whom became the beginning of this new era. Examples would be The Flash, Challengers of the Unknown, and others not as well known (ex: the second version of the Doom Patrol).

Years later DC revived the concept, after another failure trying to revive Showcase, with First Issue Special. Pretty much every one of these characters faded into obscurity. Until Tom King, he of the ability to take minor irrelevant characters relevant and interesting dug up every one who appeared in the short lived series (including more successful creations such as Warlord and Dr. Fate).

In doing this he uses Dr. Fate's helmet, which does house a Lord of Order, as narrator for a mythic/fairy tale quest story that is grounded in reality. Yes, I know that sounds like a contradiction, but trust me on this.

The fairytale/mythic descriptions of characters is used as a metaphor. The Creeper is a ogre as an example.

And, a lousy concept, if anyone besides me ever read the Lady Cop First Issue Special, as a metaphor she is a princess but she is written as a well worn, not quite beaten down, small town police chief.

This is literally for me, a case where the journey far out weighs what happens at the end, or good vs. evil.

Go enjoy this.

[Norman Cook]

This series is quite the writing exercise. Tom King takes the character's from 1975's 1st Issue Special 12-issue run and weaves them into a convoluted story that ultimately doesn't really mean much. But there's much fun to be had along the way, so it's certainly not a waste of time. And, perhaps DC will revive some of these characters for future ongoing or guest appearances. Some of them, such as Atlas and the New Gods, the Creeper, the Warlord, Metamorpho, and Doctor Fate are fixtures in the DC universe, but others, such as the Dingbats of Danger Street, the Green Team, Lady Cop, Manhunter, the Assassin, and Starman could become better known. It's unfortunate that this series was published in two volumes months apart, but luckily I waited long enough so that I could read the two books back to back and not lose the continuity. Let's hope that DC publishes this as one omnibus volume in the future. I think I was a little hard on Jorge Fornés's artwork for Volume 1. He actually does a great job with a wide variety of character designs and locations, and the layouts are effective. He has a style that is realistic but with a bit of cartooniness that something fantastical like this needs. It's journeyman work that's not necessarily flashy, but it gets the job done.

[Evie M]

4.5*

It's a wonderful series that uses the ideas of a few older or more obscure characters to tell an interesting tale. No it's not faithful to the OGs but it's not meant to be. It's literally all told through the lens of a bar story from a known unreliable narrator in fairytale prose. Getting all tilted because it's not a faithful adaptation of Lady Cop is really missing the point.

It's not getting a 5 because it probably could have been a bit tighter, and certain characters have rather inflated roles that didn't need to be while others have pretty small roles that probably should have been bigger. But it's still a cracking series.

If you don't like Tom King, you won't like this. If you like Tom King, or you like Doom Patrol, or you like modern fairy tales, or you like long winded metaphors, or you like strange cosmic events being dealt with by mundane characters, or you simply enjoy grapes; you'll dig this run.

Also I loved the art. It's not the best most interesting art ever but it's crisp, clean, and creative, within the bounds of the simple homage it's paying.

[Chris Lemmerman]

Reviewing the series as a whole, since it's only really divided into two trades for collection's sake and not for any real story reason.

Tom King takes lesser known characters like the Creeper, Warlord, Starman (the blue one), the Green Team, Lady Cop, and more, and plunges them into a murder mystery story that may or may not have universe-ending consequences, and relies on the tenacity of teenagers to make sure everything doesn't actually explode. Yeah, it's about as insane as it sounds. But it kept my interest for all twelve issues, and made me give a crap about these characters that I'd barely even thought about before, even with some of the overwrought descriptions and incessant monologuing from Doctor Fate's helmet.

Lovely artwork from Jorge Fornes as well, intricate and yet timeless.

Another one of Tom King's 12 issue masterpieces, though I feel like this one flew under the radar a little.

[Marcus Heneghan]

I struggle a bit with Tom King. I think he's a great writer and I pick up most of his collected editions. But... I'm not sold on his Batman and still slowly working my way through it. His Wonder Woman is excellent, as was Supergirl. Human Target was great and an interesting look at my favourite version of the JLI. Rorschach was another struggle. It seemed too long and the strength of the ideas couldn't support the story that was told. Danger Street is very similar. There were some excellent parts (Lady Cop was the standout character; the scene with the secretary that showed the true darkness of the Green Team, etc ) but too much of it felt like filling, or worse, pretentiousness masquerading as literature. Worth a read if you're a DC Comics nerd, but skip it if the words Warlord, New Gods and Creeper mean nothing to you.

[Luke]

King throws EVERYTHING at the wall to see if it will stick. This is a fairy tale, morality play, golden age comic book yarn with modern sensibilities. Infinite Frontier and all that, right? It's irreverent AND earnest. Whether you think King gets it all to stick will determine whether you think it's overwrought or deftly written. He's channeling Grant Morrison levels of ambition here.

I loved it. LOVED it. Which I'm completely surprised by. I read the first volume and came away mostly confused. I thought it was fanboy-clever like Morrison's Final Crisis where a Ph.D. in funny books would be necessary to really understand, enjoy the arc. Wrong. King brings it together in the second volume. I think it sticks, sticks to the wall, the page, whatever. I think he stuck the thing that matters most, the ending.

[Alex A]

An okay but very anti-climactic end to the series. Fornes' art remains the strongest part of this series.

So many details and dialogue felt needlessly drawn out, which took away from threads and character arcs that were under-explored (Darkseid/High Father; The Outsiders).

I deducted one star for the nonsense full-issue philosophical 'battle' in issue #10. It halts the narrative, doesn't really add/explain anything (the 2000 year-old prophecy driving Manhunter's involvement is left unknown later on), and makes the combatants sound like shallow philosophy students with posh diction.

Perhaps Tom King also wanted to continue introspection on his CIA past, as in the 'Adam Strange' series, by including the somewhat meta line, "You're not a king! You're just a stupid monster!".

[Mitch Kukulka]

"So &%@ fate. The gods are real and they are us. And we shall be worthy of our worship."

Tom King & Co. take a grand tour of the DC Universe with some of its most unlikely characters.

King's more deliberate, methodical approach to story and dialogue is on full display here -- enough so that it might be off-putting to some people less familiar, or less favorable, to his work -- but those readers who can vibe with this more formalist style can find a bold comic that uses the broad canvas of the fictional universe it inhabits to tell a grand-yet-simple tale about purpose and fate.

[Jacob Shaffer]

Brought to us by the team that brought us Rorschach; author Tom King and penciler Jorge Fornés, Danger Street succeeds in every way that Rorschach didn’t for me.

I didn’t know, until reading after finishing volume 2, that this is King retelling DC’s 1st Issue Specials from 1975. All of the characters are there, and that’s where Doctor Fate I suppose first premiered and bless up I love Doctor Fate
-Also worth noting this is where Jack Kirby first premiered The New Gods, I believe
-I’m definitely interested in reading 1st Issue Specials and I might but sometimes 70’s comics are rough so we’ll see

Long live the dingbats of danger street

[Ross]

3 stars at best...and I want to give it less.

How much philosophical banter do I need to go through in a sword fight?
How many times (in a Black Label series, mind you) can you NOT swear...but swear? #@*$!
How many times do any of these kids cry about it all 'not being fair'?

This tries to hard to be an Alan Moore piece. It tries, tries, and tries to get you invested. Lord knows what reviews of this will be like in a few years.
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Bonus: Chaos vs Order as a lead-in might have hooked me harder