I am so sad this is over! It's not very often you get a superhero book that is unapologetically made with women readers in mind as the primary demographic. What do we have to do to get a sequel with Barbara Gordon in with this group?
Kinda feeling mixed about this one. As usual, the art is fantastic and I do appreciate the message of womanhood and women supporting women. In the society we live in, it’s most likely that the only person a woman can rely on is another woman. The Sirens really stuck out for each other and did their best to stop a villain preying on women when the cops could barely do shit.
I’m not sure if I liked the villain, a woman claiming the innocent women she’s killing are toxic ? And poisoning Gotham? Girl idk.. kind of a lame villain with a lame motivation. The message is women supporting women but then the villain was a woman killing women. That just fell flat for me idk. Should’ve just made it a man and made it like a metaphor for the patriarchy or something idk lol. Anything like that might’ve just been better.
Still don’t really like Dinah and Ollie’s wedding storyline. She said they can’t cancel or postpone the wedding bc of stuff like “it’s Ollie’s dream wedding” and his “family’s dream wedding”. She makes it sound like she’s getting married more for Ollie’s sake and for his family, like she’s getting married bc that’s what he wants and he and his family are expecting. She was always overwhelmed with wedding planning she just let everybody else handle her shit for her while she went off to go after Horoscope. I do believe she loves Ollie but I really felt like she just dgaf about the wedding like idk….
The plots with Harley/Ivy and Catwoman/Batman were also just so??? The fight between Harley/Ivy was off screen, we see them fight in the beginning and then at the end communicate their issues but it’s like ? How am I supposed to know what’s going on between them if we didn’t get any context like it makes their resolution and admittance of love feel so bleh. And then Catwoman not knowing Batman and Bruce Wayne were the same guy…. now Bruce being a dumbass and assuming I can believe, but Selina not figuring it out sooner ? Or catching his hints? Idk that just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, she’s a smart woman and spent so much damn time with Bruce/Batman I would’ve assumed she knew as well.
Overall, this was just kind of a mess and I wish it was better. I wasn’t really a fan of the way the relationships were handled and the villain was lame and one dimensional. Womp.
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Amazingly, the italian is immediately more stileted in the first word of this issue. "Mi amore" is not italian, it should be mio because Gotham is masculine and I would personally still use the article the or il, or even better "Amore mio" which is the actual local way to say my love. And god this is isn't even google translated because that one does it correctly. Not even google translating each word makes that mistake. The word Mi is not a adjective meaning mine, it is a direct object preposition used before verbs, indirect object meaning "to me" or the reflexive pronoun myself. None of those apply. I should not have to explain this to a multi million dollar comany in fucking google reviews.
Why is Dinah firing all the bridsmaids and replancing them with sirens on HER FUCKING WEDDING? They're barely your friends. Barbara seems to barely react to this widly out of character behavior. Why is everyone ok with just letting the villain do their plan at an actual wedding with real civilizians? Why are wonder woman, green lantern and a fuck ton of other heros just standing back while the sirens do their thing? Guy pls stop the supervillain oh my god.
What a finale! I laughed. I cried. I got goose bumps. Everything you want in a great story ending. All wrapped up in a bow, all threads tied up. Loved every page of all four-issues! Well done ladies.