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Convergence #1.4
Convergence: Crisis, Book Two
A CONVERGENCE tie-in graphic novel!
Once, there were infinite Earths. Then there came a Crisis…a Zero Hour…a Flashpoint. Worlds lived. Worlds died. But some worlds must now fight for their future—in the Convergence!
The evil alien intelligence known as Brainiac has stolen 50 doomed cities from places throughout time and space and sealed them behind impenetrable domes. Now, after a year, the domes will come down—and the heroes and villains of 50 dead worlds must battle to be the last one standing!
In this
WONDER Diana Prince must defend Gotham City against vampire versions of Batman’s arch-enemies Poison Ivy, Catwoman and the Joker himself, from the world of Red Rain!
SWAMP Sealed away from the power of the Green for a year, Alec Holland must regain his strength and defeat the Darkest Knight of all, vampire Batman!
THE Barry Allen, the key to the Crisis itself, must race to defeat the godlike tyrant of the Tangent Universe—Superman!
NEW TEEN The greatest Titans team in the history of the Multiverse squares off against the Tangent Universe’s deadly Doom Patrol!
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF It’s up to the Elongated Man to lead the second-string heroes of the Detroit Justice League and repel the invasion of the Tangent Universe’s Secret Six!
The most iconic heroes of the CRISIS era fight the twisted heroes of two of the most popular Elseworlds universes in CRISIS VOL. 2!
Once, there were infinite Earths. Then there came a Crisis…a Zero Hour…a Flashpoint. Worlds lived. Worlds died. But some worlds must now fight for their future—in the Convergence!
The evil alien intelligence known as Brainiac has stolen 50 doomed cities from places throughout time and space and sealed them behind impenetrable domes. Now, after a year, the domes will come down—and the heroes and villains of 50 dead worlds must battle to be the last one standing!
In this
WONDER Diana Prince must defend Gotham City against vampire versions of Batman’s arch-enemies Poison Ivy, Catwoman and the Joker himself, from the world of Red Rain!
SWAMP Sealed away from the power of the Green for a year, Alec Holland must regain his strength and defeat the Darkest Knight of all, vampire Batman!
THE Barry Allen, the key to the Crisis itself, must race to defeat the godlike tyrant of the Tangent Universe—Superman!
NEW TEEN The greatest Titans team in the history of the Multiverse squares off against the Tangent Universe’s deadly Doom Patrol!
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF It’s up to the Elongated Man to lead the second-string heroes of the Detroit Justice League and repel the invasion of the Tangent Universe’s Secret Six!
The most iconic heroes of the CRISIS era fight the twisted heroes of two of the most popular Elseworlds universes in CRISIS VOL. 2!
272 pages, Paperback
First published October 20, 2015
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Larry Hama
1,955 books152 followersLarry Hama is an American writer, artist, actor and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
During the 1970s, he was seen in minor roles on the TV shows M*A*S*H and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on Broadway in two roles in the original 1976 production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures.
He is best known to American comic book readers as a writer and editor for Marvel Comics, where he wrote the licensed comic book series G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero, based on the Hasbro action figures. He has also written for the series Wolverine, Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, and Elektra. He created the character Bucky O'Hare, which was developed into a comic book, a toy line and television cartoon.
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April 12, 2022
(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: All Gotham City tales, though, Batman, not so much; for whatever reason, tourist season: local heroes gone and such.
Notes: All Gotham City tales, though, Batman, not so much; for whatever reason, tourist season: local heroes gone and such.
August 29, 2016
IT'S THE SAME OUTCOME OVER AND OVER AND OVER!!! You only need to read one or two of the instalments to understand how this whole event plays out. So much effort and resources poured in to this event, yet it's just the same story over and over again with different characters from different timelines by different artist and writers. Cookie cutter!!!!
So boring. So repetitive. Such a waste of time.
Conceptually, it may have seemed like a cool idea, but the execution of these "world vs world" stories falls miles short of its target.
Skip the Convergence tie-in issues and only read the main Convergence storyline.
2/5
So boring. So repetitive. Such a waste of time.
Conceptually, it may have seemed like a cool idea, but the execution of these "world vs world" stories falls miles short of its target.
Skip the Convergence tie-in issues and only read the main Convergence storyline.
2/5
November 17, 2016
Wait a minute - a Convergence story where one side actually prevails over the other? I'm shocked!
I shouldn't be - the Red Rain iteration of the characters is prime for villainy, so seeing Wonder Woman take them on was moderately entertaining. The Swamp Thing story was stranger but less clear about its winner, what with Vampire Batman joining the fray.
The one thing I really appreciate about this volume is that it's fairly clear what source material the various groups are from. The Tangent characters are especially distinct, with the Barry Allen vs Tangent Superman being the highlight of the three in the collection. Teen Titans vs the Tangent Doom Patrol was the worst of the collection, with lots of fighting and way more 'introspection' and arguing that served as plot poorly. And the Justice League (Detroit era) vs Tangent Secret Six approached the story interestingly (through the eyes of Elongated Man's wife), but that was the only part of the story that was actually interesting. The Tangent Secret Six characters were utterly undeveloped.
So a couple hits, and a couple misses. Slightly better than the overall Convergence average, but still completely inaccessible to all but the most ardent DC fans.
I shouldn't be - the Red Rain iteration of the characters is prime for villainy, so seeing Wonder Woman take them on was moderately entertaining. The Swamp Thing story was stranger but less clear about its winner, what with Vampire Batman joining the fray.
The one thing I really appreciate about this volume is that it's fairly clear what source material the various groups are from. The Tangent characters are especially distinct, with the Barry Allen vs Tangent Superman being the highlight of the three in the collection. Teen Titans vs the Tangent Doom Patrol was the worst of the collection, with lots of fighting and way more 'introspection' and arguing that served as plot poorly. And the Justice League (Detroit era) vs Tangent Secret Six approached the story interestingly (through the eyes of Elongated Man's wife), but that was the only part of the story that was actually interesting. The Tangent Secret Six characters were utterly undeveloped.
So a couple hits, and a couple misses. Slightly better than the overall Convergence average, but still completely inaccessible to all but the most ardent DC fans.
April 9, 2016
More crap.
April 24, 2022
This book is underrated. I actually thought it was decent, and was glad they tied in "Swamp Thing".
May 15, 2018
Convergence is a two-month weekly comic book event that cumulates the weekly series Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End maxi-series. This trade paperback pits Crisis characters against the Red Rain and Tangent Universes and collects five of the forty tie-in issues: Convergence: Wonder Woman #1–2, Convergence: Swamp Thing #1–2, Convergence: The Flash #1–2, Convergence: The New Teen Titans #1–2, and Convergence: Justice League of America #1–2.
Convergence: Wonder Woman is a two-part tie-in written by Larry Hama and penciled by Josh Middleton. This issue opens with Steve Trevor and Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) waking up to start their lives under the dome in Gotham City. Trevor works with the military and Prince helps out with her friend Etta Candy, who has joined a cult believing that angels would bring the dome down soon. As Diana Prince takes an elderly parishioner to the cult's church in Slum Alley, the dome goes down, the challenge is issued by Telos and power returns to Prince making her an Amazon again. Believing that they were angels, the cult invited the vampiric forms of Batman Rouges – The Joker, Catwoman (lycanthrope), and Poison Ivy from the Red Rain universe.
Trapped underneath the citadel and without any traditional tools to kill vampires and werewolves, Wonder Woman needs all the cunning and strength she could muster to defeat these Red Rain villains. While Wonder Woman found instruments to kill them in the underground cemetery, Etta Candy and Steve Trevor had been captured and turned by the Joker. Thanks to the earthquake, which allowed sunlight to enter the catacombs beneath, Wonder Woman was able to defeat the supernatural force. While she saved Gotham City, her victory was Pyrrhic one, because she lost her love and best friend.
Convergence: Swamp Thing is a two-part tie-in written by Len Wein and penciled by Kelley Jones. The issue opens up with a quick origin story of Alec Holland who became the Swamp Thing and how he and Abby Arcane came to Gotham City when the dome went up. While his connection to the Green was severed, Holland stayed as Swamp Thing. The rest of issue has Arcane taking care of Swamp Thing to keep him alive. Until one day the dome went down and the challenge was issued by Telos did Holland's connection to the Green was reconnected just in time for a supernatural army of vampires and werewolves attacking him from the Red Rain universe.
However, the hoard is not Swamp Things challenger – it was Batman from the Red Rain universe. Instead of fighting Swamp Thing this Batman teams up with him to eliminate the supernatural army. Alone, Batman confesses that Swamp Thing's Gotham City deserves to win, because his Gotham City is overrun by vampire and he's fighting a losing battle. Batman would surrender himself if Swamp Thing would help Batman eliminate the vampire infestation in his Gotham City so he can die in peace. Swamp Thing agrees and eventually mange to find the Queen Vampire and kill her – restoring everyone, but Batman to human. Since Batman was turned by Dracula, he remains a vampire. Together, Swamp Thing, Batman, and Abby Arcane watches a sunrise together as Batman turns to dust.
Convergence: The Flash is a two-part tie-in written by Dan Abnett and penciled by Federico Dallocchio. The issue opens up with a depowered Flash waking up in Gotham City, missing his wife – Iris. He spends his days working as a Forensic Scientist for the Gotham City Police Department. It was an ordinary day until it wasn't – the dome came down, the challenge was issued by Telos, and Barry Allen was about to connect with the Speed Force again. As he runs, he meets Superman from the Tangent Universe.
At first the two parley, but that goes nowhere rather quickly and they skirmish for a while. Being out-classed by Superman, he eventually won the combat, but he wouldn't let Flash surrender. While Superman didn't want his city to disappear, he knows that Barry Allen is the key to the Crisis – so one city versus the multiverse is nothing – noting that for the multiverse to survive, Barry Allen must live to die. So he acquiesce the competition.
Convergence: The New Teen Titans is a two-part tie-in written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Nicola Scott and Marc Deering. This story opens with Dick Grayson as Nightwing and Starfire patrolling and putting out a skirmish. While the Doom Patrol of the Tangent Universe is trying for the umpteenth time to break the dome. When the dome comes down, the challenged is issued by Telos, and powered restored to those that lost them. Immediately, the Doom Patrol attacks Cyborg, because they need Promethium within Cyborg to create a portal to get home.
Firehawk from the Doom Patrol contacts Nightwing to discuss a truce. However, while they were talking, the Doom Patrol attacks the Teen Titans and managed to kidnap Cyborg. While Firehawk feigned innocence – the damage has been done, her word is meaningless. The Teen Titans managed to find Cyborg and free him and a second encounter with the Doom Patrol seemed inevitable. Until Cyborg comes out with a dead switch – he knows that the Doom Patrol isn't evil, because all they want to do is save their world, just like them. So he gives them two options they form a truce and team-up or he blows up their lab and everything in it – making their portal home useless. A truce was formed.
Convergence: Justice League of America is a two-part tie-in written by Fabian Nicieza and penciled by Chriscross. The issue opens up with the dome already down, which is rather refreshing at this point. The Justice League of America (Aquaman, Elongated Man, Gypsy, Martian Manhunter, Steel, Vibe, Vixen, and Zatanna) explores their surroundings trying to find their challengers, when their base explodes. Rushing towards the rubble they found a small candy-striped box with a button with a warning not to touch. However, Zantanna does and the Secret Six (The Atom, The Flash, The Joker, Manhunter, Plastic Man, and Spectre) of the Tangent Universe appears.
The battle between the Justice League of America and the Secret Six begins in earnest. However by pressing the button, Zantanna and those nearest her Aquaman and Martian Manhunter were trapped in a spatial field. Unfortunately, the three trapped happened to be the strongest members of the League, leaving the weaker members of the team to fight. Elongated Man ordered a strategic retreat to a warehouse that once belonged to Mr. Freeze. Sue Dibny realizing her husband's plan headed toward the warehouse with Renee Montoya to get a cryogenic gun and headed back to the trapped trio while the rest of the League battles the Secret Six again. The Justice League of America held out for two hours before reinforcement arrives in the trapped trio and eventually win the battle.
For the most part, I rather liked most of the tie-ins thematic wise with Convergence: The New Teen Titans being the outlier of the five. While the issues follow the same formulaic pattern with most tie-ins in this event – it felt slightly different. However sadly, the execution of said themes seems to be problematic with this series. The penciling is rather inconsistent as well, but that's par for the course for having so many different pencilers in one trade paperback, so the quality and consistency of the penciling would vary. Ironically my favorite penciler is Nicola Scott from Convergence: The New Teen Titans and another is Federico Dallocchio who penciled Convergence: The Flash.
All in all, Convergence: Crisis, Book Two is a somewhat adequate collection of tie-ins for the Convergence event. The writing and penciling varies, but that's par for the course for multiple writers and pencilers.
Convergence: Wonder Woman is a two-part tie-in written by Larry Hama and penciled by Josh Middleton. This issue opens with Steve Trevor and Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) waking up to start their lives under the dome in Gotham City. Trevor works with the military and Prince helps out with her friend Etta Candy, who has joined a cult believing that angels would bring the dome down soon. As Diana Prince takes an elderly parishioner to the cult's church in Slum Alley, the dome goes down, the challenge is issued by Telos and power returns to Prince making her an Amazon again. Believing that they were angels, the cult invited the vampiric forms of Batman Rouges – The Joker, Catwoman (lycanthrope), and Poison Ivy from the Red Rain universe.
Trapped underneath the citadel and without any traditional tools to kill vampires and werewolves, Wonder Woman needs all the cunning and strength she could muster to defeat these Red Rain villains. While Wonder Woman found instruments to kill them in the underground cemetery, Etta Candy and Steve Trevor had been captured and turned by the Joker. Thanks to the earthquake, which allowed sunlight to enter the catacombs beneath, Wonder Woman was able to defeat the supernatural force. While she saved Gotham City, her victory was Pyrrhic one, because she lost her love and best friend.
Convergence: Swamp Thing is a two-part tie-in written by Len Wein and penciled by Kelley Jones. The issue opens up with a quick origin story of Alec Holland who became the Swamp Thing and how he and Abby Arcane came to Gotham City when the dome went up. While his connection to the Green was severed, Holland stayed as Swamp Thing. The rest of issue has Arcane taking care of Swamp Thing to keep him alive. Until one day the dome went down and the challenge was issued by Telos did Holland's connection to the Green was reconnected just in time for a supernatural army of vampires and werewolves attacking him from the Red Rain universe.
However, the hoard is not Swamp Things challenger – it was Batman from the Red Rain universe. Instead of fighting Swamp Thing this Batman teams up with him to eliminate the supernatural army. Alone, Batman confesses that Swamp Thing's Gotham City deserves to win, because his Gotham City is overrun by vampire and he's fighting a losing battle. Batman would surrender himself if Swamp Thing would help Batman eliminate the vampire infestation in his Gotham City so he can die in peace. Swamp Thing agrees and eventually mange to find the Queen Vampire and kill her – restoring everyone, but Batman to human. Since Batman was turned by Dracula, he remains a vampire. Together, Swamp Thing, Batman, and Abby Arcane watches a sunrise together as Batman turns to dust.
Convergence: The Flash is a two-part tie-in written by Dan Abnett and penciled by Federico Dallocchio. The issue opens up with a depowered Flash waking up in Gotham City, missing his wife – Iris. He spends his days working as a Forensic Scientist for the Gotham City Police Department. It was an ordinary day until it wasn't – the dome came down, the challenge was issued by Telos, and Barry Allen was about to connect with the Speed Force again. As he runs, he meets Superman from the Tangent Universe.
At first the two parley, but that goes nowhere rather quickly and they skirmish for a while. Being out-classed by Superman, he eventually won the combat, but he wouldn't let Flash surrender. While Superman didn't want his city to disappear, he knows that Barry Allen is the key to the Crisis – so one city versus the multiverse is nothing – noting that for the multiverse to survive, Barry Allen must live to die. So he acquiesce the competition.
Convergence: The New Teen Titans is a two-part tie-in written by Marv Wolfman and penciled by Nicola Scott and Marc Deering. This story opens with Dick Grayson as Nightwing and Starfire patrolling and putting out a skirmish. While the Doom Patrol of the Tangent Universe is trying for the umpteenth time to break the dome. When the dome comes down, the challenged is issued by Telos, and powered restored to those that lost them. Immediately, the Doom Patrol attacks Cyborg, because they need Promethium within Cyborg to create a portal to get home.
Firehawk from the Doom Patrol contacts Nightwing to discuss a truce. However, while they were talking, the Doom Patrol attacks the Teen Titans and managed to kidnap Cyborg. While Firehawk feigned innocence – the damage has been done, her word is meaningless. The Teen Titans managed to find Cyborg and free him and a second encounter with the Doom Patrol seemed inevitable. Until Cyborg comes out with a dead switch – he knows that the Doom Patrol isn't evil, because all they want to do is save their world, just like them. So he gives them two options they form a truce and team-up or he blows up their lab and everything in it – making their portal home useless. A truce was formed.
Convergence: Justice League of America is a two-part tie-in written by Fabian Nicieza and penciled by Chriscross. The issue opens up with the dome already down, which is rather refreshing at this point. The Justice League of America (Aquaman, Elongated Man, Gypsy, Martian Manhunter, Steel, Vibe, Vixen, and Zatanna) explores their surroundings trying to find their challengers, when their base explodes. Rushing towards the rubble they found a small candy-striped box with a button with a warning not to touch. However, Zantanna does and the Secret Six (The Atom, The Flash, The Joker, Manhunter, Plastic Man, and Spectre) of the Tangent Universe appears.
The battle between the Justice League of America and the Secret Six begins in earnest. However by pressing the button, Zantanna and those nearest her Aquaman and Martian Manhunter were trapped in a spatial field. Unfortunately, the three trapped happened to be the strongest members of the League, leaving the weaker members of the team to fight. Elongated Man ordered a strategic retreat to a warehouse that once belonged to Mr. Freeze. Sue Dibny realizing her husband's plan headed toward the warehouse with Renee Montoya to get a cryogenic gun and headed back to the trapped trio while the rest of the League battles the Secret Six again. The Justice League of America held out for two hours before reinforcement arrives in the trapped trio and eventually win the battle.
For the most part, I rather liked most of the tie-ins thematic wise with Convergence: The New Teen Titans being the outlier of the five. While the issues follow the same formulaic pattern with most tie-ins in this event – it felt slightly different. However sadly, the execution of said themes seems to be problematic with this series. The penciling is rather inconsistent as well, but that's par for the course for having so many different pencilers in one trade paperback, so the quality and consistency of the penciling would vary. Ironically my favorite penciler is Nicola Scott from Convergence: The New Teen Titans and another is Federico Dallocchio who penciled Convergence: The Flash.
All in all, Convergence: Crisis, Book Two is a somewhat adequate collection of tie-ins for the Convergence event. The writing and penciling varies, but that's par for the course for multiple writers and pencilers.
October 25, 2015
I thought the whole point of the "New 52" was because the writers felt their creativity was stifled by so much backstory. Yet, those creative juices were flowing so much that they've now rehashed "Countdown: Arena".
September 3, 2020
Nierówno i niespójnie. Zakończone historie są wyciągnięte z kontekstu w losowym momencie, co totalnie psuje ich wydźwięk. Zamiast dodać konkretne opowiadanie o wampirze Batmanie, tutaj dostajemy kikuty pourywanych wątków. I to jeszcze z serii, która miała ostateczne zakończenie!
May 18, 2024
Convergence: Crisis: Book Two
A year without powers has left the superheroes in despair and the Titans struggle with feeling trapped. Swamp Thing fights to survive in a world that is not his own and the Flash yearns to return to Iris while the Justice League of America must reevaluate their priorities when the world is trapped.
This prelude to 'Convergence' is excellent, with a sense of doom and foreboding as the year slowly trickles away.
A year without powers has left the superheroes in despair and the Titans struggle with feeling trapped. Swamp Thing fights to survive in a world that is not his own and the Flash yearns to return to Iris while the Justice League of America must reevaluate their priorities when the world is trapped.
This prelude to 'Convergence' is excellent, with a sense of doom and foreboding as the year slowly trickles away.
October 24, 2021
Cities from throughout time, space and the multiverse have been gathered together to make their heroes battle for survival. This book features the Crisis on Infinite Earths-era DC heroes versus the vampires of Red Rain and the sideways heroes of the Tangent universe. Some fun bits. My highlights were the Swamp Thing story by Len Wein, and seeing the New Teen Titans written by Marv Wolfman in their pomp again. (Though for me it was weird to see them speaking English – I read all those stories in French as a student, after buying a huge pile of Les Jeunes T in the French equivalent of Poundstretcher!) I did wonder, reading this book, how come, after a year under the dome, cars were still running, and there seemed to be no problems with food or medical supplies or anything like that. Maybe it was explained in the main book and I just forgot.
April 15, 2020
Lots of potential, poor execution.
Vampire Joker, Poison Ivy and Catwoman? Where's the personality?
The reject justice league? If you call them losers then why should I care?
Teen titans relationship drama? In a crisis? Focus people!
The Flash, this story isn't as important as the next. No need to read on. Thanks.
This is a book that collects so many interesting concepts and then squanders them. Its not bad, per se, but it could have been so much more.
Vampire Joker, Poison Ivy and Catwoman? Where's the personality?
The reject justice league? If you call them losers then why should I care?
Teen titans relationship drama? In a crisis? Focus people!
The Flash, this story isn't as important as the next. No need to read on. Thanks.
This is a book that collects so many interesting concepts and then squanders them. Its not bad, per se, but it could have been so much more.
April 23, 2025
My biases entering this are Red Rain is a bad writing vampire universe, and Tangent is dumb but neat
Wonder Woman - vs red rain Joker, poison Ivy, and WereCatwoman
Some cool parts, mostly goes on too long and the dialogue is sometimes insufferable
Swamp Thing - vs red rain Batman
Starts off great with Len Wein writing for us and then the red rain of it all makes it fall flat, just my opinion
The Flash - vs Tangent Superman
Now not all of tangent was good but it is a fun world, and Tangent Superman was so good it made me create a “Sleeper Hits” list. Dan Abnett writes a great story here that’s mostly Barry and Tangent Supes discussing what to do. Loved it!
New Teen Titans - vs Tangent Doom Patrol
Tangent Doom Patrol was pretty insufferable, this is definitely my favorite appearance of theirs because they’re written in to a good story!!!
Justice League of America - JLA Detroit vs Tangent Secret Six
The Tangent secret six do not shine here like they do in their own universe, Joker’s boring, Spectre’s boring, Plastic Man is boring,
Ralph and Sue are our big heroes here and they’re boring too
Wonder Woman - vs red rain Joker, poison Ivy, and WereCatwoman
Some cool parts, mostly goes on too long and the dialogue is sometimes insufferable
Swamp Thing - vs red rain Batman
Starts off great with Len Wein writing for us and then the red rain of it all makes it fall flat, just my opinion
The Flash - vs Tangent Superman
Now not all of tangent was good but it is a fun world, and Tangent Superman was so good it made me create a “Sleeper Hits” list. Dan Abnett writes a great story here that’s mostly Barry and Tangent Supes discussing what to do. Loved it!
New Teen Titans - vs Tangent Doom Patrol
Tangent Doom Patrol was pretty insufferable, this is definitely my favorite appearance of theirs because they’re written in to a good story!!!
Justice League of America - JLA Detroit vs Tangent Secret Six
The Tangent secret six do not shine here like they do in their own universe, Joker’s boring, Spectre’s boring, Plastic Man is boring,
Ralph and Sue are our big heroes here and they’re boring too
June 13, 2023
"YOU WEREN'T VERY FUNNY WHEN YOU WERE ALIVE. UNDEAD, YOUR HUMOR WOULDN'T PASS MUSTER ON OPEN MIC NIGHT AT A THIRD RATE COMEDY CLUB. SO, I'M GONNA DO THE WORLD A FAVOR , AND GO THAT EXTRA MILE BATMAN NEGLECTED TO TRAVEL..."
- Wonder Woman to vampire Joker before abruptly giving his head a 180° massage.
Stories include:
- Wonder Woman against the criminals of a vampire world. Eww!
- Swamp Thing and Vampire Batman vs. a vampire infested Gotham. Two vampire stories. Less eww!
- Ralph and Sue Dibny, without most of the other Lustice Leaguers, have to take on a different version of the Secret Six.
- Teen Titans fend off an assault by the futuristic Doom Patrol. Starfire goes psycho.
- A Barry Allen (from the future?) who got trapped in present day Gotham must battle The Superman of Earth-9. Great original ending.
So far, these Convergence side stories are a lot better and make more sense than Marvel's Secret Wars (2015) stuff.
Decent. Two-and-a-half stars.
- Wonder Woman to vampire Joker before abruptly giving his head a 180° massage.
Stories include:
- Wonder Woman against the criminals of a vampire world. Eww!
- Swamp Thing and Vampire Batman vs. a vampire infested Gotham. Two vampire stories. Less eww!
- Ralph and Sue Dibny, without most of the other Lustice Leaguers, have to take on a different version of the Secret Six.
- Teen Titans fend off an assault by the futuristic Doom Patrol. Starfire goes psycho.
- A Barry Allen (from the future?) who got trapped in present day Gotham must battle The Superman of Earth-9. Great original ending.
So far, these Convergence side stories are a lot better and make more sense than Marvel's Secret Wars (2015) stuff.
Decent. Two-and-a-half stars.
January 23, 2023
Either these are getting slightly better or I'm becoming numb to the same story repeated again and again. All of these stories take place in pre-Crisis Earth-1 Gotham even though most of the heroes don't live in Gotham. Most of the stories don't even bother to explain why they are there. Wonder Woman and Swamp Thing fight Doug Moench's and Kelley Jones's vampiric Gotham Elseworld. The Flash (Barry Allen), the Teen Titans and the Justice League of America from Detroit all fight characters from the Tangent universe. It's all fine, but none of it is great. Still only recommended for DC completists who know their full history of DC and all its alternate universes.
October 11, 2021
Overall a good read with some good art. I can’t say I am a fan of the arena battle of champions theme. It’s been done. Good to see some alternate universe characters. My fave part of this books was the Red Rain Batman characters showing up. Vampire Joker and his minions like Cat Woman and Poison Ivy show up to battle Wonder Woman. Vampire Bats himself shows up to ‘battle’ and proves he is still a hero despite his affliction.
April 25, 2022
A few issues drag but the final Flash issues are pretty strong and over all the book held my attention.
This probably isn't worth it for casual readers but completionists or big fans of Convergence should check this volume out if you can get it on sale.
This probably isn't worth it for casual readers but completionists or big fans of Convergence should check this volume out if you can get it on sale.
March 29, 2019
Still no actual resolution to the story line, but on the plus side, at least Wolfman didn't write this one.
April 11, 2019
See my review of Convergence: Flashpoint, Book One.
June 27, 2019
More interesting stories but no end in sight!
June 10, 2020
I've come into this at book 2, so confusing, but it's well drawn, and written - so a fun read.
November 27, 2015
Collects Convergence: Wonder Woman issues #1-2, Convergence: Swamp Thing issues #1-2, Convergence: The Flash issues #1-2, Convergence: New Teen Titans issues #1-2, and Convergence: Justice League International issues #1-2
"Convergence" was an event in which a powerful entity abducted people from various worlds in the Multiverse and held them prisoner for one year. These abductees are a combination of superheroes, super villains, and regular people. Each world's/time period's people are trapped underneath their own special dome. After one year, the domes were opened, and the 50 different worlds were told that they had to fight each other. Whichever worlds' champions won in combat against each of the other worlds would be allowed to live. Only one of these parallel universes will be allowed to survive at the conclusion of the great battle.
I'm not a long time DC Comics fan, so I don't know a lot of the history behind each character. I can imagine that if someone was a long-time fan, they would love this event, and the tie-in issues that came out to support the event.
This volume's tie-in issues features characters primarily from the 1980's, characters from the Red Rain (vampire) universe, and characters from the Tangent Universe.
"Convergence: Wonder Woman" features the 1980's Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor trying to battle three characters from the Red Rain universe: Poison Ivy (a vampire), Catwoman (a werewolf-like creature, but more of a were-cat), and Joker (also a vampire).
"Convergence: Swamp Thing" features the 1980's Swamp Thing teaming up with the vampiric Red Rain Batman.
"Convergence: The Flash" features the Barry Allen from right before "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Some of his future is revealed to him by the Tangent Universe Superman.
"Convergence: New Teen Titans" features the 1980's Teen Titans versus the Tangent Universe Doom Patrol.
"Convergence: Justice League International" features the 1980's Justice League Detroit versus the Tangent Universe's version of the Secret Six.
In my opinion, the "Wonder Woman" and "Flash" issues were the best.
"Convergence" was an event in which a powerful entity abducted people from various worlds in the Multiverse and held them prisoner for one year. These abductees are a combination of superheroes, super villains, and regular people. Each world's/time period's people are trapped underneath their own special dome. After one year, the domes were opened, and the 50 different worlds were told that they had to fight each other. Whichever worlds' champions won in combat against each of the other worlds would be allowed to live. Only one of these parallel universes will be allowed to survive at the conclusion of the great battle.
I'm not a long time DC Comics fan, so I don't know a lot of the history behind each character. I can imagine that if someone was a long-time fan, they would love this event, and the tie-in issues that came out to support the event.
This volume's tie-in issues features characters primarily from the 1980's, characters from the Red Rain (vampire) universe, and characters from the Tangent Universe.
"Convergence: Wonder Woman" features the 1980's Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor trying to battle three characters from the Red Rain universe: Poison Ivy (a vampire), Catwoman (a werewolf-like creature, but more of a were-cat), and Joker (also a vampire).
"Convergence: Swamp Thing" features the 1980's Swamp Thing teaming up with the vampiric Red Rain Batman.
"Convergence: The Flash" features the Barry Allen from right before "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Some of his future is revealed to him by the Tangent Universe Superman.
"Convergence: New Teen Titans" features the 1980's Teen Titans versus the Tangent Universe Doom Patrol.
"Convergence: Justice League International" features the 1980's Justice League Detroit versus the Tangent Universe's version of the Secret Six.
In my opinion, the "Wonder Woman" and "Flash" issues were the best.
September 15, 2021
This is the second Convergence volume that features characters from the Crisis period of DC Comics. It contains the Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing, Justice League of America, New Teen Titans and Flash mini-series. In the first two the title characters face off against characters from the Red Rains storyline that featured Batman (the one where he becomes a vampire). The other titles include characters from DC's Tangent line. I will admit to being unfamiliar with either of those two concepts. I do have a couple of Tangent titles in my library but none of the ones used here. That did not completely derail my enjoyment of this volume however. Of course if I had know that the Tangent versions of Secret Six, Doom Patrol and Superman were going to be used here I might have bought those issues as well, but hindsight as they say is 20/20. I will admit though that even though the Red Rains characters are interesting I am not inclined to read the original stories. All this having been said it was a treat for this long-time DC reader to see the characters from the early 80s was a treat. The stories were fun, though the first two stories were perhaps darker than the comics in that period were. This was for me a fun volume, one that I may just add to my bookshelf of comic collections. For any fan of DC Comics of the Crisis era I strongly suggest that you read this volume. For other DC fans this is one way to see some of these classic characters as they were back then.
November 29, 2015
Writers: Dan Abnett, Larry Hama, Fabian Nicieza, Len Wein, and Marv Wolfman.
Artists: Joshua Middleton, Chriscross, Kelley Jones, Nicola Scott, and others.
This Convergence collection includes the miniseries The Flash #1-2, Wonder Woman #1-2, Justice League of America #1-2, Swamp Thing #1-2, and The New Teen Titans #1-2.
The best story in this collection is Swamp Thing, with original Swamp Thing writer Len Wein and the amazing artist Kelley Jones.
The other stories range from decent to just ok.
I read the contents of this volume as individual comic books when they were published.
Artists: Joshua Middleton, Chriscross, Kelley Jones, Nicola Scott, and others.
This Convergence collection includes the miniseries The Flash #1-2, Wonder Woman #1-2, Justice League of America #1-2, Swamp Thing #1-2, and The New Teen Titans #1-2.
The best story in this collection is Swamp Thing, with original Swamp Thing writer Len Wein and the amazing artist Kelley Jones.
The other stories range from decent to just ok.
I read the contents of this volume as individual comic books when they were published.
March 18, 2016
As I stated in my review of Vol. 1 these stories are essentially superfluous, but I have more of an affinity for the Crisis version of these heroes than the Zero Hour and it's good to see some seasoned DC writers like Len Wein and Marv Wolfman working with characters they worked well with back in the pre-Crisis era. The Wonder Woman, Swamp Thing and Flash stories are stand outs here, and all of them are pretty decent.
June 16, 2016
The Wonder Woman story was based on the 70s version of her where she wore all white. The art and colouring are moody and reminiscent of those old covers. Aaron Lopresti's art on the Batman Red Rain story is awesome and Kelley Jones doing Swamp Thing again is pleasant to revisit! The Elongated Man story made me sad for the later events in his life, but wasn't very strong. Nice to see Wolfman Teen Titans again. Flash story did not excite me.
July 29, 2016
Wonder Woman - 3.5 stars
Swamp Thing - 3 stars
The Flash - 2 stars
New Teen Titans - 3.5 stars
Justice League of America - 2 stars
Overall -3 stars
Swamp Thing - 3 stars
The Flash - 2 stars
New Teen Titans - 3.5 stars
Justice League of America - 2 stars
Overall -3 stars
February 27, 2016
Overall, pretty boring. It's hard when they mix a popular, well-known universe with a one-note or completely unfamiliar universe.
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