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Earth 2
Earth 2 Vol. 6: Collision
Cataclysm has come to Earth-2. The forces of Darkseid, which were thought to have been repelled years ago, have struck back with a vengeance. Apokolips itself is attacking the Earth, with Darkseid's Furies leading the charge of destruction. This may be humanity's final hour.
But Earth-2 is not without its defenders. There are the heroes, like Huntress, Power Girl and Batman. There are the soldiers of the World Army. There's Green Lantern and his fellow Avatars of the Earth, wielding the power of the planet's plant life, animal life and even the air and water.
But it's Doctor Fate, the powerful but inexperienced sorcerer, who alone may have the ability to repel Apokolips and save the planet. Empowered by the Helm of the ancient wizard Nabu, Doctor Fate could turn the tide against Apokolips...or, if the Helm were to fall into the hands of Darkseid's servants, Fate could be handing absolute power and total victory to Earth's enemies!
World's End has come to Earth-2, from writers Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse), Marguerite Bennett (DC COMICS: BOMBSHELLS), Tom Taylor (INJUSTICE YEAR THREE) and Mike Johnson (SUPERGIRL) and artist Andy Smith (TEEN TITANS: FUTURE'S END). EARTH 2 VOL. 6: COLLISION collects issues #27-32.
But Earth-2 is not without its defenders. There are the heroes, like Huntress, Power Girl and Batman. There are the soldiers of the World Army. There's Green Lantern and his fellow Avatars of the Earth, wielding the power of the planet's plant life, animal life and even the air and water.
But it's Doctor Fate, the powerful but inexperienced sorcerer, who alone may have the ability to repel Apokolips and save the planet. Empowered by the Helm of the ancient wizard Nabu, Doctor Fate could turn the tide against Apokolips...or, if the Helm were to fall into the hands of Darkseid's servants, Fate could be handing absolute power and total victory to Earth's enemies!
World's End has come to Earth-2, from writers Daniel H. Wilson (Robopocalypse), Marguerite Bennett (DC COMICS: BOMBSHELLS), Tom Taylor (INJUSTICE YEAR THREE) and Mike Johnson (SUPERGIRL) and artist Andy Smith (TEEN TITANS: FUTURE'S END). EARTH 2 VOL. 6: COLLISION collects issues #27-32.
168 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2015
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May 3, 2022
Suffers some from having multiple writers and artists not just in the book but with each issue. Way too big of a cast to keep track of what's going on and they keep just adding more characters.
November 15, 2022
This is it! The end is here. Great ending to this series of an alternate DC world. Nice reimagining of the heroes you know from the main DC universe. Good art and plat. Recommended
November 25, 2020
End of the series. Artistically well executed, plot-wise, not so much.
December 5, 2025
Confusing
March 24, 2018
So, yeah, this doesn't make any sense because it's just a sidebar to the Earth 2: World's End series. And DC doesn't know how to collect that sort of thing rationally, nor are they able to include interstitial notes about crossover events (let alone a note anywhere in the collection to warn you what's going).
But that doesn't mean the volumes all bad.
About half these stories are origins: for some of the Earth heroes, for Darkseid's horsemen, and for the Earth's avatars. And, they're all quite good. Well written, interesting and insightful. They don't quite stand on their own, because they're just origins, but they nonetheless feel complete.
The other half of these stories expand action from the miniseries, and they pretty much don't make sense, nor are they that interesting. They're moments in time, that usually don't go much of anywhere.
But that doesn't mean the volumes all bad.
About half these stories are origins: for some of the Earth heroes, for Darkseid's horsemen, and for the Earth's avatars. And, they're all quite good. Well written, interesting and insightful. They don't quite stand on their own, because they're just origins, but they nonetheless feel complete.
The other half of these stories expand action from the miniseries, and they pretty much don't make sense, nor are they that interesting. They're moments in time, that usually don't go much of anywhere.
February 4, 2017
[Read as single issues]
The final volume of Earth 2 consists of six one-shot issues that tie into the weekly Earth 2: World's End series, expanding on some of the stuff that goes on there, and gives you some more background on some of the less-explored characters. Unfortunately, Earth 2: World's End is a bit of a mess, so most of these issues don't have a lot to work with.
The issue that expands on the four furies of Apokolips is pretty awesome though, as well as the issue that focuses on Alan Scott. The rest range from forgettable to poor, and it's a shame because World's End is a really good premise and has some really good ideas, but it doesn't pull them off very well there, which translates to these not being very good either.
The final volume of Earth 2 consists of six one-shot issues that tie into the weekly Earth 2: World's End series, expanding on some of the stuff that goes on there, and gives you some more background on some of the less-explored characters. Unfortunately, Earth 2: World's End is a bit of a mess, so most of these issues don't have a lot to work with.
The issue that expands on the four furies of Apokolips is pretty awesome though, as well as the issue that focuses on Alan Scott. The rest range from forgettable to poor, and it's a shame because World's End is a really good premise and has some really good ideas, but it doesn't pull them off very well there, which translates to these not being very good either.
November 28, 2018
The struggle to preserve Earth 2 continues. Good artwork with a hit or miss narrative flow.
OVERALL GRADE: C plus to B minus.
OVERALL GRADE: C plus to B minus.
November 15, 2025
Recap
This book is more recap but I enjoyed it. Especially the "family" story.
Huntress and Powergirl are back on Earth 2 and back at war. How will they react to the new Batman and Superman of Earth 2.
The recap of the champions Avatars of Earth 2. The Green, Red, White, Black and Blue.
Pride comes before a fall, but what if it comes before Fate. The battle between world is coming to an end. However is this time it is the end of Earth 2?
The book finishes with a variant cover gallery and a sketchbook.
This book is more recap but I enjoyed it. Especially the "family" story.
Huntress and Powergirl are back on Earth 2 and back at war. How will they react to the new Batman and Superman of Earth 2.
The recap of the champions Avatars of Earth 2. The Green, Red, White, Black and Blue.
Pride comes before a fall, but what if it comes before Fate. The battle between world is coming to an end. However is this time it is the end of Earth 2?
The book finishes with a variant cover gallery and a sketchbook.
December 30, 2023
I think I like Earth 2 better than Earth 1. The situation is just so desperate and people are dying and things are happening in space and all over the world with different heroes. My only problem with this is that it came out at the same time Earth 2 World's End was coming out so I was worried about reading one before the other because I thought it would spoil something or not make sense. It didn't really, but I started reading some of one and then some of the other.
You definitely need to have Earth 2 World's End to finish this story and I would suggest reading them in the order they came out because there is overlap and the story finishes in World's End.
You definitely need to have Earth 2 World's End to finish this story and I would suggest reading them in the order they came out because there is overlap and the story finishes in World's End.
July 31, 2017
Despite being a wrap up of the whole series, this has almost nothing to do with the actual end of the series. It's a collection of tie in stories for the World's End arc, which was a mess on its own. This was absolutely something to skip and not very high quality on its own merits. More of the same falling quality in art, story, and character development. If I hadn't already jumped the gun and bought the first collected edition of the next series, I would have jumped ship. Hoping that starts as strong as this one did.
January 2, 2023
The New 52 volumes of Earth-2 started out pretty damn great and stayed relatively strong for five whole collections (although the dangling plot thread about Sam’s murder still niggles, and seems to be an abandoned storyline thanks to the change in writers…at least for now). Frankly, it should have ended with Book 5, as this sixth entry is an incoherent mess that shits the bed damn near right off the bat from page one.
Characters who were previously MIA and presumed dead are suddenly back in action and right in the thick of things without any explanation whatsoever. In fact, the phrase “without any explanation whatsoever” pretty much summarizes this entire book. There is not one single shred of logical continuation or continuity to what preceded this book in the prior five volumes let alone from one issue to the next within this single trade collection, and I suspect these issues were maybe a tie-in to some other event. There’s absolutely no mention or indication of what that event may have been, though, and I’m not really in the mood to do the now-apparently necessary amount of research to put this book in context of whatever the hell else was going on in this period of DC’s publishing efforts. And since such research would apparently be more work than the graphic novel collection’s department was willing to do, why even bother?
All I can hope for is that the next batch of books under the Earth-2 banner are more in line with Volumes 1-5 and a hell of a lot less of this nonsensical drivel. My advice — read the first five trades and skip this one entirely, as it serves no point other than to confound and confuse.
Characters who were previously MIA and presumed dead are suddenly back in action and right in the thick of things without any explanation whatsoever. In fact, the phrase “without any explanation whatsoever” pretty much summarizes this entire book. There is not one single shred of logical continuation or continuity to what preceded this book in the prior five volumes let alone from one issue to the next within this single trade collection, and I suspect these issues were maybe a tie-in to some other event. There’s absolutely no mention or indication of what that event may have been, though, and I’m not really in the mood to do the now-apparently necessary amount of research to put this book in context of whatever the hell else was going on in this period of DC’s publishing efforts. And since such research would apparently be more work than the graphic novel collection’s department was willing to do, why even bother?
All I can hope for is that the next batch of books under the Earth-2 banner are more in line with Volumes 1-5 and a hell of a lot less of this nonsensical drivel. My advice — read the first five trades and skip this one entirely, as it serves no point other than to confound and confuse.
May 16, 2020
This volume doesn't seem to be required reading, but it's fun nonetheless and looks just as gorgeous as previous volumes. Just as a sidenote the first two issues are co-written by Tom Taylor.
Superhero comics rarely have functional emergency services, so the good guys have to handle the relatively mundane tasks following a planetary cataclysm. The heroes scramble to save the humans stuck inside the Hadron Collider.
Darkseid's offer to join him is either too good to pass or the last chance for his strongest lieutenants called Furies. Two of them are lost causes and the other two join Darkseid after a tragedy befalls them.
The apparent end of the world is welcomed by some of the lunatics who were waiting for a reason to unleash their anarchistic views on the world.
The guardians of the planet each choose an avatar to help defend the planet from Darkseid's invasion. It's a pretty cool team, but definitely not a united one.
Marella, initially determined to only fight for her underwater kingdom, changes her mind and joins the forces on land. Meanwhile Dr. Fate's helmet is tricked into choosing a corrupted host from Apokolips.
Superhero comics rarely have functional emergency services, so the good guys have to handle the relatively mundane tasks following a planetary cataclysm. The heroes scramble to save the humans stuck inside the Hadron Collider.
Darkseid's offer to join him is either too good to pass or the last chance for his strongest lieutenants called Furies. Two of them are lost causes and the other two join Darkseid after a tragedy befalls them.
The apparent end of the world is welcomed by some of the lunatics who were waiting for a reason to unleash their anarchistic views on the world.
The guardians of the planet each choose an avatar to help defend the planet from Darkseid's invasion. It's a pretty cool team, but definitely not a united one.
Marella, initially determined to only fight for her underwater kingdom, changes her mind and joins the forces on land. Meanwhile Dr. Fate's helmet is tricked into choosing a corrupted host from Apokolips.
July 7, 2021
It's not a continuation of the series - that's in Earth 2: World's End. This is pretty much a companion to World's End. Most of it is a bunch of one-shots giving some inessential and dull backstory, but the last two chapters seem to be a two-parter, and fits in somewhere in Earth 2: World's End Vol. 2 - but figuring out exactly where is beyond me. I really wish they had some clue on the back or in the book itself; it's highly annoying.
March 3, 2017
The main story line has moved over to the Earth 2 Worlds end so this is more like a Earth 2 secret origins. A lot of one off comics giving a little more background on the origin of the furies or helping to tie Kara and Helena to Earth 2.
August 1, 2020
This is a disjointed mess, in all honesty. How did Powergirl and Huntress get back to Earth 2? Where was the battle of the guardians and Darkseid's forces? Mostly one shot glimpses into a ravaged earth. The art was still good, and the story was ok, but could have been so much more.
January 22, 2016
Having been led off on many tangents in the last few volumes things started coming together in this one. It all begins to make a bit more sense!
October 10, 2018
It seems like I've missed some stuff. Like how we went from Bizarro and his cronies fighting, to Apoklips surrounding the Earth?
May 11, 2023
"YOLANDA. MONTEZ. THAT'S MY NAME. IT DOESNT START WITH B, OR S, OR C, YOU SNOTSUCKING WASTE OF VIABLE HUMAN ORGANS. AND DON'T YOU COME NEAR MY BROTHER AGAIN."
- Yolanda Montez, in case you missed it, defending her brother from, well... see above.
Well, it took the five previous volumes for me to figure out that this title isn't about the characters so much as it is about the Earth (2) itself. The planet is a character that is slowly, painfully losing a war against Apokolips.
We get introduced to the five avatars of Earth. Interesting backstory for each character.
The ten remaining heroes struggle to see as many people as possible before the world is consumed.
This was okay. Two and a half stars.
- Yolanda Montez, in case you missed it, defending her brother from, well... see above.
Well, it took the five previous volumes for me to figure out that this title isn't about the characters so much as it is about the Earth (2) itself. The planet is a character that is slowly, painfully losing a war against Apokolips.
We get introduced to the five avatars of Earth. Interesting backstory for each character.
The ten remaining heroes struggle to see as many people as possible before the world is consumed.
This was okay. Two and a half stars.
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January 11, 2022This particular collection is disjointed, works like a series of fever-dreams by the characters involved, and advances the story-line only peripherally. On the bright side, Dick Grayson finally makes an appearance, as does Barbara Gordon as his wife. Pathetic overall, with NO indication of how Apokolips, which had been on the edge of defeat at the end of the previous volume, came to menace Earth-2 directly as of page ONE of this volume.
Seriously, I would give this negative stars if I could. Bennett CLEARLY spent too much time around Keith Giffen, and may have dropped acid AND smoked meth prior to trying to write this muck. Pitiful.
Seriously, I would give this negative stars if I could. Bennett CLEARLY spent too much time around Keith Giffen, and may have dropped acid AND smoked meth prior to trying to write this muck. Pitiful.
August 31, 2020
Zaskakujące jak można schrzanić całkiem dobrze rozwijającą się serię... Tym bardziej, że tak naprawdę nie mamy do czynienia z produktem, który ma jakąkolwiek spójną fabułę. To bardziej zbiór krótkich historyjek uzupełniający luki w historii jaką zaprezentowano w dylogii Earth 2: World's End, ale robiący to w najnudniejszy możliwy sposób. I nie mający dla mnie absolutnie żadnego znaczenia...
Bo i z racji tego, iż autor nawrzucał sporo nowych postaci, w tym niejakie Furie, to i wartowałoby je jakoś przedstawić. Zrobiono to zatem tutaj i są naprawdę krótki, choć mocno nijakie wątki. Oczy zabłysnęły mi jak zobaczyłem młodego Lobo, ale to wątek badajże na stronę lub dwie. Poza tym mamy wizytę w CERN-ie i prawie natychmiastowe nawiązanie sercowej relacji pomiędzy Karą a Val-Zodem, co było tak naiwne, jakby wątek toczył się w przedszkolu.
Gorzej było chyba tylko z przygodami Barbary i Dicka, którzy wraz z dzieckiem lądują spod deszczu pod rynnę, co też miało swoje własne absurdy, choć przynajmniej było krwawo. Najbardziej przystępna okazała się dla mnie historia wyboru nowych awatarów sił ziemskich (tych od Swamp Thinga), co wreszcie tłumaczy mi skąd Green Lantern miał taką siłę...
Końcówka należy już do Doktor Fate'a i małego zamieszania z jego hełmem, co było dla mnie tak głupie... A mogło mieć naprawdę poważne konsekwencje. Jakbyście pytali skąd na niebie wzięło się Apokalips, to tutaj nie znajdziecie wyjaśnienia. Zresztą na wiele pytań nie ma tutaj objaśnienia i szósty tom sam nie jest w stanie się bronić. Co prawda całość wygląda w sumie nawet nieźle, tyle że nie jestem w stanie polecić nikomu ostatni tom Earth-2 w tym wydaniu.
A szkoda, bo seria miała w sobie potencjał i naprawdę potrafiła bawić, jak chociażby poprzedni tomik, który dał mi czystą, niezmąconą radość. Tutaj nagle bach. Zmiana autora. Dziwne posunięcie, aczkolwiek niektórych posunięć włodarzy DC nie jestem w stanie zrozumieć.
Bo i z racji tego, iż autor nawrzucał sporo nowych postaci, w tym niejakie Furie, to i wartowałoby je jakoś przedstawić. Zrobiono to zatem tutaj i są naprawdę krótki, choć mocno nijakie wątki. Oczy zabłysnęły mi jak zobaczyłem młodego Lobo, ale to wątek badajże na stronę lub dwie. Poza tym mamy wizytę w CERN-ie i prawie natychmiastowe nawiązanie sercowej relacji pomiędzy Karą a Val-Zodem, co było tak naiwne, jakby wątek toczył się w przedszkolu.
Gorzej było chyba tylko z przygodami Barbary i Dicka, którzy wraz z dzieckiem lądują spod deszczu pod rynnę, co też miało swoje własne absurdy, choć przynajmniej było krwawo. Najbardziej przystępna okazała się dla mnie historia wyboru nowych awatarów sił ziemskich (tych od Swamp Thinga), co wreszcie tłumaczy mi skąd Green Lantern miał taką siłę...
Końcówka należy już do Doktor Fate'a i małego zamieszania z jego hełmem, co było dla mnie tak głupie... A mogło mieć naprawdę poważne konsekwencje. Jakbyście pytali skąd na niebie wzięło się Apokalips, to tutaj nie znajdziecie wyjaśnienia. Zresztą na wiele pytań nie ma tutaj objaśnienia i szósty tom sam nie jest w stanie się bronić. Co prawda całość wygląda w sumie nawet nieźle, tyle że nie jestem w stanie polecić nikomu ostatni tom Earth-2 w tym wydaniu.
A szkoda, bo seria miała w sobie potencjał i naprawdę potrafiła bawić, jak chociażby poprzedni tomik, który dał mi czystą, niezmąconą radość. Tutaj nagle bach. Zmiana autora. Dziwne posunięcie, aczkolwiek niektórych posunięć włodarzy DC nie jestem w stanie zrozumieć.
January 9, 2026
A bit of a jumbled mess, with stories half-told.
It has been a while since I read volume 5, but these were characters that I enjoyed and I wanted to see more of them. Instead, we end up with separate scenes, dramatic visual moments without any full narrative.
I understand that this was meant to be something of a companion to Earth 2: World's End, but the reality is that World's End spins out of this more than anything else. As such, this should be a complete narrative. Instead, we feel that there is something else going on off-panel, that we're missing the rest of the story, maybe it's in another book... but it isn't. Reading the rest of the books, the story isn't fully there, either.
For having a team of writers working together, it feels like each just wrote separate scenes, and no one made an actual connective narrative between them. It reads more like a movie trailer meant to sell a movie than the movie itself.
If you got to volume 6, you might as well complete the run, but I suspect you'll be left wanting and disappointed. I wanted more of the characters that the first few volumes led me to care about.
It has been a while since I read volume 5, but these were characters that I enjoyed and I wanted to see more of them. Instead, we end up with separate scenes, dramatic visual moments without any full narrative.
I understand that this was meant to be something of a companion to Earth 2: World's End, but the reality is that World's End spins out of this more than anything else. As such, this should be a complete narrative. Instead, we feel that there is something else going on off-panel, that we're missing the rest of the story, maybe it's in another book... but it isn't. Reading the rest of the books, the story isn't fully there, either.
For having a team of writers working together, it feels like each just wrote separate scenes, and no one made an actual connective narrative between them. It reads more like a movie trailer meant to sell a movie than the movie itself.
If you got to volume 6, you might as well complete the run, but I suspect you'll be left wanting and disappointed. I wanted more of the characters that the first few volumes led me to care about.
July 11, 2021
This was so choppy it was nearly incomprehensible. No flow at all and it feels like every three pages was done by a different team. Plus none of the vignettes have proper endings. I don’t even really know how it relates to what had gone before. And then it all comes to an ending in just a few pages, but we never get to see what happened to characters just a couple pages earlier. Nor is there any appearance by the big bands. Truly bizarre.
December 25, 2023
This really fell flat. Too many new characters introduced right at the end, and then a whole lot of nothing really happened considering the stakes the whole series has been about. Even the characters that have been a while, so little has been built up to make it seem like most of them even cared about each other, with the exception of Val, Kara, and Helena. I'll push through to the next series for Dick and Babs, but I sure hope it gets better.
October 11, 2025
This was ass. Its not that the stories told her were bad, per se, although some of them were; it's that they didn't make any sense at all as a narrative. It's just a bunch of shit happening at random. It's like watching bonus scenes for the DVD extras of World's End without having read any of it first. The book should have been cancelled with Taylor's last issue, and the stuff seen here should have been folded into World's End.
June 30, 2018
This is the worst volume so far, despite being the final volume for the series, it was filled with tie in stories for the next volume... The creation of the 4 furies was interesting albeit short, the 5 elements of Earth was rather stupid considering Solomon Grundy was destroying Earth 2. Not even sure what was with Barbara and Dick's storyline. It was simply all over the place and dreadful.
February 26, 2022
What happened with this series? I imagine there was another series that borrowed characters and later they didn't incorporate those pages or issues into this. I don't know what issues or other series had the different stories but we just get a last issue saying, "everyone lost and everything is f****d." I have no idea what happened here.
January 15, 2023
An ignominous end
A comic that began quite promisingly ends in a complete mess. The last book in the series spends half its time introducing new characters who are then dispatched in a single panel! The red archer is now Oliver Queen, with no explanation. It feels like all the writers involved had no idea what any of the others were writing.
A comic that began quite promisingly ends in a complete mess. The last book in the series spends half its time introducing new characters who are then dispatched in a single panel! The red archer is now Oliver Queen, with no explanation. It feels like all the writers involved had no idea what any of the others were writing.
August 11, 2023
This volume is a little confusing maybe because it has different writers and artists. Maybe its also tied-in with Worlds End thats why it has continuity errors.
This is the last volume of this series and the story has evolved a lot. I wonder if this is the vision or how James Robinson want this to end if he never left.
This is the last volume of this series and the story has evolved a lot. I wonder if this is the vision or how James Robinson want this to end if he never left.
June 24, 2018
Un tomo final bastante flojo, el peor de la serie sin duda. Los cambios de guionista y dibujante no ayudan, y tampoco el hecho de que la colección principal sea un tie in de Earth 2 World's End. Tengo que conseguir esos dos tomos para ver como termina la historia realmente.
October 18, 2020
Reading this was so utterly confusing I had to keep checking the volume number as I was convinced I had missed something. Only after reading other GR reviews have I worked out what the deal is here!
A super disappointing volume after what was cranking up to be a really excellent story.
A super disappointing volume after what was cranking up to be a really excellent story.
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