I have found that every book in this series has been a sheer delight to read.

I've become as lost as Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman in the 52 universe.

This volume gives 52 its most poignant and best material. By that, I'm referring to the death of Charlie. Not since The Death of Captain Marvel has cancer been used so effectively in superhero comics. Jane Foster's Thor has the same rotten luck. Hopefully Jason Aaron can pull off a similarly impactful conclusion.And aside from that, obviously the whole story is reaching its climax. Big things happen.

OK, we’re into weeks 27 through 39. I suppose you could argue that here is where the metal meets the meat. In other words: things start getting (even more) hairy.Off the bat Ralph Dibny’s story ventures into Spectre territory and turns weird, as could only be expected. In the The Question arc, Renee Montoya’s fate is about to be decided. In fact, most of the arcs are coming to a head. Notably: the Skeets issue.More DC characters wander into and out of the series. Even Waverider makes an appearan...

I really can't tell if this volume of 52 is impressively skating along on two wheels or completely off the rails. There are certain times it's quite good (Renee Montoya dealing with the death of Charlie) and others where I don't even know what's going on (basically the Starfire/Animal Man/Adam Strange storyline that's basically Lobo as a full time guest star). It's frustrating that it's not really congealing, or at least it doesn't seem like all of these elements are coming together in any real

Better and better. Only a bit of the leftist agenda seeping through what has become an increasingly complex and satisfying super hero story. The reveal of who Supernova actually is works well and fits, without being obvious. The disparate threads that seemed like they were not connected are raveling (if you can unravel, you can ravel, righ?). This story feels like the TV show HEROES, but even better because the characters express their powers all the time, not just their feelings, the special ef...

(This review applies to each of the four volumes of the series)This, for me, was the best crossover DC series I've ever read, and just about perfect. I devoured it in four huge chunks – it's a lot of comic – and was delighted with it all.We follow the DC world over the course of a year after a massive battle. The Big Three (Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman) are in various forms of awol, and the story has several interleaving arcs, involving characters who are either stepping into the vacuum lef...

The storylines all reach major turning points as deaths abound. Yes, this is darker (and gorier) than the previous book, but the transitions are natural and storytelling remains strong across the board. Some protagonists die here. I wasn’t expecting one of them, though I’m fairly certain the character will come back (then again, given the writer of this sequence maybe not). Also in this volume, Supernova’s identity is revealed, Luthor’s Everyman program grows more disturbing, and we see just wha...

If I could give this 3.5 stars, I would, because I really loved all the Renee & Charlie and Renee/Kate stuff, and though I could have gone for more of Batwoman's story, I was happy to finally read the Kate-Dick meet cute in context (no, Dick, you're really not her type *snerk* even if you do give hilarious Christmas gifts). Also, I'm pleased that my guess about the identity of Supernova was proved correct, but the rest of it I didn't really care all that much about. Still, a better read than the...

Waiting for the finale!

I simply didn't care about any of this (not even Nightwing).

I am reading the individual 32-page comic book issues, but because GoodReads does not list those and for ease of review, I am reviewing the trade-paperback issues of this series.(Minor spoilers to follow.)I love Sobek and no one can say otherwise. He is awkward, shy, timid and a crocodile, what's not to love? The story line is getting quite intense, there is so much to the story. I must say, I am impressed with it.Booster Gold is back and we see how his "faithful robot" has turbed to the dark si...

THE SERIESThis tale follows a “missing year” in the DC Universe after the groundbreaking “Infinite Crisis” story (see my review for that one) which was one of the bestselling graphic novels for the 2006 year. Note that "Final Crisis" follows after this and was published in 2009.52 asks the questions who takes the role of the most popular superheroes (Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman) when they step down from their roles? There are a list of vying superheroes trying to make a name for themselves...

The pay-offs begin in Volume 3 of 52, starting with the culmination of the Renee Montoya/Question storyline. Charlie's death, handled with thought and care from the dark, mysterious streets of Gotham City, to the isolated, snowy mountains of Nanda Parbat, are my favorite moments of the entire series. The reader actually feels like he or she is witnessing the birth of a superhero, coinciding with the end of another. Ralph Dibny's journey with Dr. Fate also lends to some surprising moments, includ...

Volume three is the point where the storylines start to ramp up, and some of them are coming close to concluding. There's still quite a bit left to go, and there's obviously still a lot to cover. The quality has remained surprisingly high, with the exception of the space storyline. Sorry, but I just hate Lobo.

I assume readers of this review are reading 52, and are familiar with the overall structure of the tale and the preceding volumes. Mild spoilers follow for the hypersensitive that consider them such, for those earlier entries in the series I suppose... The end-game is clearly starting up, seen most clearly in the plot-lines of Renee Montoya and The Question, Steel and Luthor, the happenings on Oolong Island and the reveal of the identity of Metropolis' mysterious new savior, and the Intergang ar...

This volume once again knocks it out of the ball park. Giving us one hell of a great read. I'm finding myself caught between emotions here. On one side I can't wait to get my hands on the last volume of this series because it's absolutely amazing. On the other side I'm really not looking forward to finishing it. I really, really, REALLY don't want this adventure to end. One thing is certain though, shit is definitely going to hit the fan in the next instalment!We get to see some big stuff happen...

Enjoyable and necessary - when the great tragedies and triumphs of the fourth volume finally hit, you can be sure that the crescendo of this book will have led directly and inevitably to it.It's amazing to see such a well-oiled writing team work so well together that their talents are interchangeably pulling off whichever character they tackle each week. I'm finding myself enjoying the progression of each storyline more as this goes on, and less self-aware of how "staged" this felt in the early

Things begin to escalate and storylines hurtle towards their conclusions. Enjoyable enough but for some reason I didn't enjoy this as much on the whole as earlier volumes. Will definitely be intrigued to see how things end though...

There were issues in this collection where Too Much Story existed to be properly conveyed in an entertaining manner. While still keeping the Question/Renee Montoya story, the Ralph Dibney/Spectre story, the Skeets gone mad/Rip Hunter story, the Renee Montoya/Batwoman story, the Black Adam family story, the Animal Man/Adam Strange/Starfire/Lobo story, the mystery of Supernova, Mad Scientist Island, and the Lex Luthor/Infinity Inc/Steel story, the writers toss in Batman/Nightwing/Robin, the Green