Update Dec 01, 2018: Reading again cause I am a masochist. I don't like how this entire series irritates the shit out me but makes me want to read it again (and again). Goddammit!------------------------------------------------------------I will have to settle for 3 stars because it oscillates between subtly political and invigorating to borderline crass and stupid. It's upsetting to see the naivete, darkness and unmitigated bias that is in all these people who are generally considered to be goo...

★★★★1/2Remember that shitty Batman vs Superman movie from a couple of years ago? The most interesting part of that movie was also its most random, a dream sequence where Batman is the leader of a resistance in a dystopian America led by a villainous Superman. You see, contrary to popular opinion, I love seeing Superman as a villain, I think he's too powerful of a hero, leading to a lack of a sense of danger in many of his stories. I love the idea that he's an all-too-human god among men that is

I have been eyeing this series down for years, and I finally decided to cave and bought it for my birthday! AND I AM SO HAPPY I DID! I love the Justice League - it was a childhood obsession and now into my adulthood I still love them! I devour DC content like you wouldn't believe!Seeing Gods Among Us come out made my heart flutter, but these books can be expensive. So I waited until I had enough points to grab this book on a great sale! But now I want the rest of the series... It'll have to wait...

Reread for a paper I wrote for my Graphic Novel class comparing this with "Watchmen." I think this is a brilliant book. It holds up to reread and it's equally if not more distressing on reread. Horrifying to think what absolute power and absolute fear can do to a person.

What happens when heroes try to take charge of justice and become merciless? Will it save humanity or lead it to its end? Injustice is a one of its kind "What if" series. There are some parts where your loyalties would be split. You would take sides. Most of the time you would end up in a dilemma. The creators have cooked up a masterpiece involving all of Justice League and major villains as well. Injustice: Gods Amongs Us reimagines our favorite superheroes becoming Gods with the need arising f...

Oh. My. God. This has to be my new favorite graphic novel. I played Injustice 2 (Harley Quinn Tekken style, duh!) But I've never played the first (it's downloading on my PlayStation as this is written). This is all new to me, I only got pieces of the story from the second game. This is like Civil War but with higher stakes. The dialogue and story are so well written, each character has a distinct voice and personality. Ugh, it's just SO GOOD.

“Injustice” may be one of DC’s best stories in years. After a catastrophic event occurs, it creates a massive rift between Superman, the Justice League and other DC heroes and villains thrown into the conflict. It’s a ride with “Civil War” vibes that just never stops being shocking and unexpected, and leaves you wondering if the heroes can save themselves before they might kill each other. A (100%/Outstanding)

Year one was a fascinating gamechanger. I loved the broad sweep of events and widespread death. It was bold and uncompromising. And, yes, surprising, which isn't something I normally say about any of the DC line. I loved what Joker did, how he ended, and how this entire mess ended up with Alfred being such a badass.Then again, wasn't Alfred always a badass? Yeah, I suppose he was.That's not really the point of this set of 36 comics, though. It was about dragging Superman through the mud of moral...

This book is WAY better than it ought to be. This is one of those times when what would normally be a tie-in cash-grab turns out to be light years better than the source.In this case, the source is a Mortal Kombat-style video game featuring the various DC superheroes fighting one another. A perennial question asked by geeks of any fandom is "Who would win?" Battlestar Galactica versus USS Enterprise versus a Star Destroyer? Predator versus Alien versus Terminator? Jack Burton versus Snake Plissk...

So that was my second time reading Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year One, and it's still as incredible as I remember. I don't even care that some issues have questionable art sometimes, the story is just so compelling that I don't even notice it. And I gotta say, I've always loved the dynamic Harley and Green Arrow have in this series, and it's actually my favourite Harley Quinn interpretation other than the OG animated series. I wish the main DCU Harley was written this good. Amazing.

This is one of the best graphic novels I have ever read. This is a question superman asks, not once or twice but a lot of times. What would he do if he wasn't so bound by his principles. He is the man of steel. He could rule the world and knowing he is a True Good how can that be wrong? This book just answers that. This is alternate history of Superman and how life would be different if he could do anything to save the world. With the help of wonderwoman, flash and other justice league heroes he...

I can’t believe it took me so long to read this.It’s so badass. Definitely reminds me of Irredeemable, but tbh I kind of like it better. Superman is a scary antagonist for sure. This is a page turner, and it’s very dark… but still manages to land some very humorous dialogue beats. If you want a well written story that breaks the DC mold, look no further.

Whoa! Just… whoa!Once in a while there comes a writer who takes a character, pummels him into the ground, then takes that same character to pummel another, then another, until the end result is a ripple effect of destruction where everyone suffers. Dear Tom Taylor,Well done, Sir. You just broke the world. And it was brilliant. What a rollercoaster this edition was. It started good, then got bad, then got really, really bad, then devastatingly sad, only to end with utter depression. There’s nothi...

HOLY SHIT. What a book.I sped through this a lot quicker than expected -I just couldn't put it down!The art was a little all over the place (since so many people worked on this!). There was some art I hated but then there was some art I loved. And Injustice: Year One opens with some of the most beautiful art in the series: There was heavy boobage all around, and a teeny tiny babydoll for Harley, which I didn't love. I guess that's for the video game, which I don't play?Anyway, the book opens wit...

Starts out amazingly but nearly every character is forced to make stupid and uncharacteristic decisions to further the plot. Wonder Woman becomes manipulative and power hungry for no real reason. A huge disappointment, especially when it’s not the first time her character has been written this way (Kingdom Come). None of the heroes act rationally: every time they have a chance to talk, the heroes lose their cool and start beating each other up. In terms of pacing, this comic is fantastic, the pl...

Full review now posted!Wow. This first year of the Injustice series completely blew me away. So many philosophical questions were raised here. Having the heroes of your youth broken before your eyes and remade into something dark and terrible is incredibly hard to watch. When the Joker turns his attention from the Dark Knight to the Man of Steel, the world is changed forever. A god among men who is broken has nothing preventing him from lashing out and breaking others. How far is too far when it...

I am pretty broken after reading this one, not sure if I can endure more stress by reading year two, but you know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, let's see.

Just amazing. A DC Civil War, but...better! How wasn't I reading this ages ago? This is no cheesy tie-in, this is the real deal.

I'm fairly sure I've only read volume one of this 4 years ago but I accidentally reviewed the whole Year One. I'm glad I decided to reread this because it's amazing. About to go out now and buy the rest of the collection.

I started reading comic books again to take a break from other types of reading, so I just thought this was gonna be a fun easy read. But dang. I didn’t expect to be so moved emotionally, I almost cried a couple times. Also didn’t expect the questions of morality that were brought up. The theme of how a nation, or a world, devolves morally when it’s leaders are themselves immoral is both a deeply biblical theme in the OT and a pressing one for our day and age. I forgot how well comic books can b...