Millennium

DC Comics: Millennium #Complete

by Steve Englehart, Joe Staton (Illustrator)

The Guardians of the Universe are small in stature but mighty in power - and they're in charge of the Green Lantern Corps. But unbeknownst to all, the Manhunters - the Guardian's robotic servants thousands of years ago, turned to evil - have chosen this as their moment to strike.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Batman

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1988

About the author

See also John Harkness.

Steve Englehart went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, and a dozen other titles. Midway through that period he moved to California (where he remains), and met and married his wife Terry.

He was finally hired away from Marvel by DC Comics, to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but he also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the "definitive" version) that later became Warner Brothers' first Batman film (the good one).

After that he left comics for a time, traveled in Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man™), and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). But he still liked comics, so he created Coyote™, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series. Other projects he owned (Scorpio Rose™, The Djinn™) were mixed with company series (Green Lantern [with Joe Staton], Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four). Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Brøderbund.

And once he and Terry had their two sons, Alex and Eric, he naturally told them stories. Rustle's Christmas Adventure was first devised for them. He went on to add a run of mid-grade books to his bibliography, including the DNAgers™ adventure series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school curriculum on the invention of the airplane.

In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse. One of his contributions, The Night Man, became not only a successful comics series, but also a television show. That led to more Hollywood work, including animated series such as Street Fighter, GI Joe, and Team Atlantis for Disney.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm giving this a two because I didn't read it closely enough to fairly give it a one. 95% of the action occurs in the tie-in books that are not part of this trade paperback. This book is 95% talking about what's going on with the Manhunters and the Millennium Project in the other books. Joe Staton's art is cool, at least.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of those rare comics so bad I couldn't make myself read the whole thing.

[Will Cooper · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is garbage. The story reads like a Battlestar Galactica or Secret Invasion where there have been sleeper agents, known as Manhunters posing as heroes' friends until it's time to strike! But they never say what they want to do. Do they want to kill the heroes? Do they want to destroy the world? Are they looking for the 11 secret herbs and spices? Their is no suspense or ANY stakes.

On top of that, a Guardian and a Zamaron come to Earth to imbue 10 people with VERY special powers to help fight against the Manhunter threat. What powers? Who knows! They don't even get their powers until the last issue AFTER the Manhunters have been defeated. And one of them dies on the way but it's ok because they "planned for some casualties." What? Then you don't need 10, you need less. What is your plan, you have no plan!

And the collection itself infuriates me. It collects Millenium 1-8. Well, guess what? Other things happen between these issues in other DC titles.
"Oh, like interesting spinoffs of how different characters deal with their private battles?"
"No, actually, very important plot points in the main story."
"Hmm, it seems like those issues should be included in the collection. Doesn't omitting these issues make the story confusing?"
"Actually, it makes it very confusing. I'm not sure I even understood what happened most of the time."
"Ugh, sounds unreadable. Want to go get some chicken?"
"Sure."
Don't read unless you like stories that go nowhere and have no impact on future comics ever.

[Richard Gray · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, this was something. Following Crisis on Infinite Earths and Legends, Steve Englehart, Joe Staton and Ian Gibson’s MILLENNIUM was the 1988 event that spanned 8 weeks and around 50 issues. It’s also a mess.

The core series is the backbone to a storyline that takes place while the Guardians of the Universe are in another dimension with their lady friends the Zamarons. They arrive on Earth to announce that they will be choosing 10 people to become the New Guardians. Cue a really long pilot episode to a short-lived series.

While I didn’t read all of the connecting issues on this run-through, the core eight issues are all over the place. As far as I can tell, the robotic Manhunters found something Harbinger left behind post-Crisis, and learns the identities of everyone. Which is really an excuse to throw every active hero - who included the weird-ass Justice League International at the time - at the page. The result is as cohesive as you’d imagine.

Sidebar: my boy Green Arrow turns up in about three panels, at one point just to comment on how silly all these heroes are. His own series had just launched under Mike Grell, but was being consciously kept away from the other costumes.

The characters that emerged from this - the likes of Gloss, Jet, the Floronic Man and Ram - have all but been forgotten in the annals of DC history. Some of them turned up later, but it’s also curious to note that no less than two of the New Guardians - Extraño and Jet - would be outed as HIV positive in subsequent series. The sour note is that it was largely due to AIDS vampire, The Hemogoblin, rather than directly acknowledging Extraño’s homosexuality in any way. (Extraño, by the way, is a shameless Dr. Strange clone - his name even means Strange in Spanish).

The other character of note for Australians is Betty Clawman, an Australian aboriginal woman from Uluru. One of the most obscure characters in the DC canon, she predates Tom Taylor’s Thylacine, an Indigenous Australian from the Pilbara, by 32 years. Here’s hoping the latter enjoys a better fate, and maybe even some Indigenous creators.

The next major DC event would be Invasion!, a far more successful event that was later adapted in both Young Justice and the CW Arrowverse shows.

NB: Read as part of my DC Crisis and Beyond Journey: #8

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

When I started to read comics at around 7 years old, my Mom had bought me a grab bag of comics from our local comic book store. Inside were the first 3 issues of the Millennium series. I must have read them 100 times not fully understanding what was going on or what Millennium even was. This past Friday I was looking for some other trades and came across this. I figured it was time to relive the series and finish out the story line.

Initially the story started off pretty strong but really falls apart around the 4th issue all the way through the end. Its obvious they merely created this "event" to introduce new "The New Guardians" series which only lasted a year after Millennium. Sadly this entire run lacks any of the suspense or drama that I come to expect from well written DC Comics.

It was nice to finally be able to put Millennium to rest after over 20 years of questions. But sadly, I can see why no one ever mentions Millennium as a well remembered DC Comics event.

[Little Timmy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not one of my favorite Mini series. Ok concept but it never seemed to go anywhere. Not recommended

[John Yelverton · Rating 1 out of 5]

I realize that DC Comics was trying to repeat the success of "Crisis on Infinite Earths", but this not only did not measure up, but in my opinion was a complete and utter failure.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Millennium is a fine example of DC's crossovers of the late '80s at their best. Following in the footsteps of Crisis and Legends, Millennium tells an epic story that manages to involve the whole DC universe, and which still holds up well to more modern crossovers. The writing is sharp, and Engelhart always does a great job of bringing the spotlight to the individual characters and their interactions. (It's also a joy seeing all of these characters from the late '80s, as Engelhart really gives a strong impression of who they are; it's especially nice to see Harbinger used well, for about the only time post-Crisis.)

The crossover is also designed quite well, with individual comic plots constantly branching off of the main story line, giving individual characters ways to advance the plotline in meaningful, yet self-contained ways. It gives closure to crossover issues while still allowing them to be important. Unfortunately, this points out a flaw of this particular collection of Millennium. Without all of those crossovers, the story is definitely fragmentary. Engelhart does his best to tell you what went on, but sometimes there's just not enough room for everything. At its worst, Millennium feels like its all setup for those crossovers, rather than the meat of the story (though this isn't always the case).

The other weakness of Millennium is the New Guardians that are being created. The characters themselves are OK, if sometimes painted with too broad a brush. However, the superheroes that they become are ridiculous. They don't feel like the next step in human evolution, and even as superheroes they're silly. Jet? Gloss? Extrano? C'mon. So, count Millennium as seven strong issues, let down by a bad eighth one (and then horribly, horribly let down by the later use of the New Guardians in the DC universe).

This should have been an omnibus of all ~50 issues. If DC ever comes out with that, I'll gladly repurchase, and it'll probably earn 4 stars instead of 3.

[Tom Ewing · Rating 3 out of 5]

As crossover events go, Millennium is mostly ignored, and that seems to be how DC want it. This collection is itself now ancient, with no easily available digital edition. The characters it introduced are footnotes at best, bad jokes at worst, and when its villains showed up again in Brian Bendis' recent Event Leviathan it was to widespread disappointment and bafflement. Hardly surprising that a 1987 comic is little-referenced in 2023, you might say (particularly when the DCU has shed its skin a couple of times since). But it was pretty much forgotten by 1988.

So why did a then-groundbreaking weekly event series, which launched to thunderous hype and strong sales, fail to make any impact? There's an obvious answer: it's rubbish. And, yes, in many ways Millennium is a dismal failure as a comic, and certainly as a crossover event. But those ways are almost all to do with how it was done, not what it was trying to do.

At its heart Millennium is attempting three things, all ambitious and all potentially good. First, on a technical level, it's pioneering the crossover as line-wide takeover: everything stops for a month or two to tell one over-arching story. It's an approach DC used to great effect in the 90s with things like One Million and The Final Night, and still tries now. Second, its hook is a strong one that beckons other titles into the event - someone in every DC supporting cast is a traitor, whether replaced or brainwashed. And third, Millennium has the noble goal of putting a new, ultra-diverse DC team into the marketplace - an idea which feels like it's come around again in the last 10-15 years.

But the execution - ooof. Steve Englehart plotted the event as, he claimed, a 45-part story, crossovers included - doling out important events to all the supporting books to render as they saw fit. I can believe it, since the actual Millennium series is 8 issues in which the heroes are regularly alerted to a terrible threat, rush off to battle it... and then convene the next week with the job done.

I don't think there's ever been a crossover in which so much of the action happens outside the main book, an inversion of the usual problem with tie-ins. For instance, the climactic battle in the Louisiana swamps that ends the first half is split across four titles, none of which make sense on their own even though they sync perfectly, and none of which are Millennium itself. The editorial co-ordination in Millennium is virtuosic, but in the same way a 6-minute drum solo in the middle of a pop song might be. Impressive, but you do wish they hadn't bothered.

This unusual reliance on tie-ins is partly down to the "Manhunter spy" hook, which is a great way to get comics involved in the crossover but runs into a serious issue - the spy makes their move; is beaten (or not, in the case of titles which were set to be cancelled) and that wraps up the title's involvement... except there's still a month of crossover left. Even if you read the tie-ins to get the full story, Millennium is a very front-loaded event - all the excitement is in the initial revelation of Manhunter sleeper agents (some of whom are more impressive than others - nice work getting Lana Lang on board, but Blue Beetle's guy is just one of his existing minor villains). Once those are dealt with the momentum fizzles, and the tie-ins mostly mop up the diminishing Manhunter threat while the main book turns its attention to the Chosen.

Ah yes, the Chosen. Again, there's a nice idea here: the Guardians Of The Universe have picked 10 special humans to 'evolve' and lead mankind into the next millennium - but because they're so distant from Earth, they have zero interest in our current political systems. So two of the candidates they appear to are killed by a mob or paranoid officials, and one is a white supremacist from Apartheid South Africa who is enlightened as to the nature of the cosmos, absolutely hates it, and promptly goes off to become a supervillain.

The remainder are an uncompromisingly diverse crew - a Black British woman, a middle-aged Japanese tech guy, a female Chinese worker, an Aboriginal Australian woman, a gay Peruvian dude, Green Lantern's Pacific Islander pal Tom Kalmaku and, er, Jason Woodrue the Floronic Man (because Englehart couldn't get permission to use Swamp Thing). It's a really bold set of characters, and a book using the richness of their backgrounds and exploring how they interact might have been fascinating.

Millennium is not that book. Englehart's conceptions are exciting, and sometimes that hits on the page - Celia Windward, the British character is introduced with the caption "Birmingham, FASCIST BRITAIN" which is both funny and sums up her healthy distaste for authority. But mostly the actual characters are a collection of caricatures and tropes: Celia has a dreadful phonetic Jamaican accent; Betty the Aboriginal Australian is otherworldly and connected to the dreamtime; our Chinese heroine is dutiful; and so on. Gregorio, the gay member, epitomises the problem - yes, a superhero comic with a gay main character in 1987 is groundbreaking, but awesome though his final design is, his personality is a very broadly drawn and quite ugly stereotype of a self-loathing gay man. I don't think writers should only work from their own lived experience, I know people can write effectively about lives and cultures vastly different from their own... but it's very hard to read Millennium and not think Englehart was way out of his depth with the Chosen. It's a last hurrah for his 70s style - big cosmic underpinnings to a weird, soapy surface foam of action - but it felt odd and clumsy even in 1987, let alone now.

And for a comic whose job it is to introduce us to these new characters, they really have very little to do. They are rescued; they are passive receptacles of the Guardians' "cosmic wisdom" (a whole issue of this!); at the end they transform into superheroes. But they take no active part in the story and we hardly see them interact with each other - a real missed opportunity which unfortunately seals in the sense that these are walking stereotypes, not actual people.

So Millennium is excitingly ambitious but terribly done. And yet... there's a hyperactive, cut-up brio to it that I can't help but like. Englehart's dialogue is like Jack Kirby's in a way - entirely stilted but extremely dynamic, full of little turns of phrase and panels which break off from the main action for an unexpected character beat (he is loving getting a whole DC Universe to play with, that much is obvious). And the art, by the unique team of Joe Staton and Ian Gibson, is full of movement and fun, Staton's vigorous pencils working well with Gibson's more delicate finishes. Millennium is a vibrant, pretty, upbeat comic, especially for a big crossover event. It's a failure on almost every level, artistic and technical, but it's interesting for what it tried to do - DC's Secret Wars II, except with a great deal more heart.

[Vicenç Sanz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Si Leyendas tenía elementos suficientes como para hacerla un comic entretenido, Millenium no cuenta ni con eso.

La trama es cansina, disgregada y da golpes de efecto totalmente absurdos que se pasan por el forro la continuidad de un puñado de personajes. Los malos no ayudan, masillas sin alma a los que zurrar y que no suponen nada para los héroes. Y el dibujo es cumplidor, sin más.

Con todo nos queda una saga muy, pero que muy sosa, que sospecho en su momento fue igual de mala que es ahora. Una excusa para vender comics pero sin ningún peso detrás, ni tan sólo el final la salva, más bien la acaba de hundir y te deja pensando: en serio? Para eso tanto bombo?

No diré que es el peor comic de Dc que he leído hasta el momento, pero sí que os diré que es una saga mala, que no aporta nada y ni tan siquiera divierte (requisito indispensable de un comic de superhéroes).

Tiene algo bueno? Tiene sus momentos, pero son tan escasos que no vale la pena ni comentarlos.

No os acerquéis a ella.

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

There was a time when Steve Englehart was one of the best writers in comics. He could do big stories, and small, as highlighted by his run on Batman and Captain America. Here he picks up the gauntlet of doing, what was then DC's annual, company wide event. The premise is that Earth is special and representatives from two immortal races are here to help herald in a new age on enlightenment and evolution. Whatever germ of a story there may have been here was lost in the exposition dumps when Englehart felt the need to give us his new age views on life. The collection's biggest plus is how Joe Station and Ian Gibson's art meshes nicely and is so different from what is on today's shelves.

[Fizzgig76 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reprints Millennium #1-8 (October 6, 1987-November 24, 1987). Nadia Safir and Herupa Hando Hu come to Earth with a mission…to find the next Guardians of the Universe! As the heroes of Earth find they have been infiltrated by the Manhunters, the Manhunters spring their trap…now the Guardians’ biggest failure could destroy the world.

Written by Steve Englehart, Millennium is a DC Comics superheroes event series. The comic was released weekly from October 6, 1987 to November 24, 1987 and crossed over with most of DC’s titles at the time.

Millennium spun out of Legends…and was potentially one of the most confusing stories in DC at the time. I had a hard time getting through this collection, and I still feel I’m not sure what I read…which is never a good thing.

The problem with Millennium is actually a very modern problem. With both Millennium and Secret Wars II, the comic book ties actively affected the core Millennium series. It is a logical step for a comic book company to try to get multiple series purchased and introduce readers to new characters in the core series, but the logistics of keeping up with multiple series is a problem…and it hurts the core series because it doesn’t stand alone. Series do this a lot currently, but Millennium was an early adopter of it.

The story has essentially two parts and they really don’t mix much. You have Heru and Nadia training the New Guardians and the drama surrounding the most the New Guardians who are worse teamed than a season of Real World. The second part involves battle with the Manhunters which is really confusing with some big characters being sleeper Manhunters, brainwashed agents, or even robots…it doesn’t make much sense and post-Millennium stories seem to ignore most of what happened in this series.

The positive aspect of the story is Joe Staton’s classic art. It feels like more of a throwback to old art and just before the art world really changed (Todd McFarlane was already doing his thing). It has a nostalgia factor that helps carry the series a little (but art can only go so far).

Millennium isn’t a very good series. It is overly long, overly confusing, and the collection doesn’t feel like it contains all the necessary parts of the series (I’m not sure it works even if it did). I was hoping a through second read-through would clear some things up, but the series still confuses…It could have been a contender, but instead it crashes.

[JD Comics · Rating 2 out of 5]

After Crisis on Infinite Earths and Legends, the next post-Crisis DC event was Millennium, which was released in 1988. It is an eight-issue mini series published in 1988, written by Steve Englehart and illustrated by Joe Staton.

The premise of the story is that an Oan Guardian and a Zamaron have identified ten individuals to be the next stage in human evolution. They have chosen a very diverse group of individuals with different backgrounds and different allegiances, including some who are villains. Those who accept the Oan and Zamaron’s offer must undergo a transformation before becoming the New Guardians.

This causes the Manhunters to come out of hiding to foil the Oan and Zamaron’s plan to create the New Guardians. The Manhunters are androids, originally created by the Guardians as their first attempt at an intergalactic police force. However, they eventually turned on the Guardians and went into hiding. On Earth, they have secretly infiltrated human society. It is later revealed that some of the friends and allies of the DC Heroes are actually Manhunters in disguise, while others have been brainwashed by the Manhunters. Hence, the “trust no one” tagline.

I am not really a fan of this story. DC used this event to introduce a new set of superheroes, the New Guardians. However, these new heroes did not garner much interest, as evidenced by the fact that their New Guardians ongoing series lasted for only twelve issues before it was eventually canceled. Another aspect I did not like is how this event was collected. While this book collects the main titles, I wish it had also included the key tie-in issues that are integral to the story (this event has around 40+ tie-in issues). Normally, I don’t enjoy reading tie-in issues, but it seems like I missed out on some important Manhunter-related stories.

Collects Millennium 1-8.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second crossover even after COIE. This is wear the mistakes/cracks start to happen. It's an ambitious story, the premise is that Earth is special and representatives from two immortal races are here to help herald in a new age on enlightenment and evolution. I love that idea--it fits into the idea of Earth being the herald/cradle of the Fifth World.

I love Green Lantern lore, and this story smacks of it; the returning Guardian and their failed experiment, the Manhunters. It helps explain why Earth is so important in the DCU cosmos--why so many heroes exist here.

Englehart was one of the best writers in comics, but this is rife with editorial interference--crucial plot elements are left out of this comic, and you've got to purchase the ancillary issues to make heads and tales of it. This is a bit of a hot mess, and you can tell it's a little more "corporate" than previous stories.

While I liked the all the characters of the DCU reflecting on the events, the characters hyped to be the next stage of evolution seemed kind of erratic, ultimately they're not really utilized or heard much again after their failed series. What a let down!

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

Everyone else has said the main problem here, and that is the nature of these crossovers. The main story here is ancillary to making everyone buy the crossover issues where the real story is. And that story which we are told is the real story is the choosing and ascension of the 10 (or 8, or 7, or 6, oh ffs who cares!?) people who will bring on the next level of evolution for mankind. That encompasses maybe 30 panels, tops, across these 8 issues. We get to see them do tai chi and meditate, and beyond that, these characters are left to their own devices. If these people are under threat from the Manhunters, why are they left alone so much? Who knows. Not the brightest of plans from our heroes, but they are obviously too busy in their own crossover issues to care. Kudos for trying to globalize the heroes of the DCU, but this plot point -- next stage of evolution -- and why these people were chosen just fell into comic book limbo. Sad.

[MatiBracchitta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tengo que admitir que estoy un poco confundido sobre si esta edición abarca o no todos los cómics de Millenium dado que, si bien la descripción dice que sí, la cantidad de páginas no me termina de cerrar del todo.
Creo que en realidad engloba solo los de Steve Englehart y lo tomaré de esta forma.

La historia en sí es malarda. Tiene sus puntos un tanto interesantes, sobre todo al inicio al estilo Invasión Secreta, pero en general parece ser una historia muy superficial (al mejor estilo DC) donde priman los golpes y la acción por un buen trasfondo.

Tiene sus momentos, pero mayormente es de esa clase de sagas que al rato de leerla te aburren y te preguntas cuanto falta para terminarla.

[Matthew Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I started reading this mainly because I was reading the Batman issues that tied into it and felt I needed context for them. It’s an enjoyable enough story somewhat bogged down by almost incomprehensible philosophical and metaphysical explanations of the nature of the universe. The main issue though is that this series had a lot of tie-in issues which aren’t collected here and it makes the story feel incomplete with several major plot points being delivered in exposition because they took place in a companion issue. If this ever gets released in an omnibus format with all of those additional issues collected I will give it another go.

[Colin Parfitt · Rating 1 out of 5]

A crossover where a lot of the key activity takes place in other books.

Lana Lang is a traitor? Is she? We don't find out.
Two major-ish heroes turn traitor. Or do they? We don't find out.
Who's in the mysterious black car? We don't find out.
What mistake does the Russian recruit make? We don't find out.

Unfortunately, there's not even a guide to where this information might be found.

[Cesar Millán · Rating 2 out of 5]

Note the best crossover, I fill it lacks a good timeline of continuity. During the story happends a lot of stuff aorund the universe but without a clear focus and the Manhuters are a pretty bad villains to build a story around. Good to know about one of the major crossover of DC just not good enough.

[Carlos · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeeeesh this was bad like really bad not something I would expect by Steve Englehart and what does it lead to yeah New Guardians which half of the characters died BY AIDS what a stupid comic I don't even care if I spoiled it's bad don't read it only very few things are good but even that doesn't make that much better so I give it a 2/5

[Jody Banman · Rating 1 out of 5]

The whole crossover was poorly planned and weakly plotted. The concept of every hero having a manhunter betrayer is good, but the series didn't back it up with anything resembling good writing or art. Incoherent and pointless. The New Guardians, the team and the series launched by the crossover also sucked.

[Acton Northrop · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, this pointless mess of a crossover probably deserves fewer stars but it's hard to hate any book with Staton/Gibson art that spins out of the best Green Lantern run. Reads a lot better with those issues in the mix. (Millennium omnibus, DC? No?)

[Sarospice · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yeah, this is about a 2.5 because so much happens off screen of this trade. We get some groovy Stanton art and the creation of The New Guardians, which was a fun time, and brought the world Extrano!

[Book_eater · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5⭐, just because I read all the tie-in stuff

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seeds planted centuries ago, by the Guardians of Oa, are about to come to term, and the human race is about to enter its next stage of evolution.

These next stage people live amongst us and it's up to the assembled heroes of Earth to find them and bring them together.

Unfortunately, the robotic Manhunters have also been waiting for this moment and have built a vast conspiracy of spies amongst the super hero community.

Decent idea that in its attempt to include every DC title gets very clunky and convoluted.
There's a lot of set up potential story threads that don't last much past the event story and it was mostly used to wrap up some series that were about to be canceled.

[Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

So. This. Pros and cons here. The second major post-Crisis DC "event title," Millennium deals mostly with the return of the Guardians of the Universe and the Manhunters, and some silly business intended to introduce a new team of heroes who then rapidly disappear into obscurity. It's got some neat ideas, but the writing is all over the place and it's hard to get through. The many tie-in issues, however, are often great! They really help make it all seem worthwhile. It does benefit from the post-Crisis fun of writers reimagining the DC Universe in interesting new ways, and that makes it both worth the read and historically interesting. BONUS POINTS: Though he rapidly fades into obscurity with the new team, this book features one of the first openly gay characters in comics, Extrano! He's ridiculous! But for the time, it's a pretty cool touch.

[Nicolas · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's always cool to see the whole gang team up, unfortunately that doesn't always result in a good story. This was overly long, hard to follow and ultimately forgettable. Also, what's up with Aqualad's hair?

We had a great chat with author Steve Englehart on the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/in...

[Fugo Feedback]

Recuerdo que algo de esto leí de Ediciones Zinco... Me parece que el final. Pero estoy casi seguro de que no lo leí completo, ni siquiera sé si habré llegado a la mitad. Cuando tenga a mano el contenido y lo que sea que leí yo, quizás rerreseñe.

[Nick Atkins · Rating 1 out of 5]

Avoid. Poor story to start with, plot leaps between frames that make no sense, painful dialogue - a character who's supposed to be from the UK speaks like she just got off the plane from Jamaica.

Some of the art's pretty good, though.

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