Status Updates From Lazarus Planet (2023)

Ok I remember why this wasn't grabbing me. Everything is built off of arcs that aren't a part of this book so I'm just reading disconnected pieces of what probably are interesting stories, but I will have no idea

I told myself that I would finish this and then I could go back to reading gay hockey romance, so I will be finishing this with a fervor.

Hmm. I'm starting to see why this book is relatively lowly rated. They're too spread thin with this story so a bunch of the main pieces of the book happen outside of it.

Lazarus Planet: Omega ✅

Finishing off with some more Federici art is always a plus.

Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate ✅

This one-shot covers groups/characters I don’t normally follow, so it’s a bit hard to keep up, but I like all of the different artistic styles.

Lazarus Planet: Next Evolution ✅

It’s nice to see Red Hood in a physical comic, even if the story doesn’t give us much. I don’t know why Flatline irritates me so much, but when she said “I’m a kpop stan” in the middle of combat it made me roll my eyes so hard I hurt myself. It must be because a middle aged man wrote her dialogue.

Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton ✅
Lazarus Planet: We Once Were Gods ✅

Both of these set up the event plots in each of the heroes individual runs, which is important when you have an all-in event like Lazarus Planet or Crisis on Infinite Earths. I feel like We Were Once Gods does a better job of setting up conflicts than Assault on Krypton, or maybe their conflicts are just more interesting.

Lazarus Planet: Alpha ✅

This series needs a lot of other comics for context, which I thankfully own and have already read. I do love Federici’s art, and finished this edition pretty pleased with the beginning of the Lazarus Planet event.