A few interesting tidbits here and there, but I found most of this to be pretty uninspired.

This is Grant Morrison at his best. A prophecy to vanquish the evil that has taken over Earth says that a group of seven soldiers will over throw the reign of evil on Earth. But it never said that all the soldiers would a)know about one another or b)be from the same time. This four volume series is a mind binder and is full of amazing writing a fight sequences. A brilliant graphic novel thriller.

I'm glad that first team wasn't the one we were stuck with xDthis looks to be a very interesting series and I can't wait to read the next installment!

Another dazzlingly wild and complex crossover, seven mini-series bookended with a zero issue and a one issue to wrap it all up. This is the first half, with Zatanna, Klarion, Shining Knight and the Guardian, heroes recruited unbeknownst to themselves in a war against a powerful race from the far future that feeds off flourishing civilisations. From a doomed mission to track down a giant spider in an Arizona Mesa, to a tabloid vigilante - literally a vigilante funded by a tabloid - to a support g...

The four trade volumes that make up this story were originally put out as a 30 issue series, and in reprinting them the story is presented chronologically, in the order that it's suggested you should read them. But the brilliant thing about Seven Soldiers - and, to an extent, comics in general - is that you don't have to read them that way, and in fact, the series invites you to read the books in almost any order you'd like. To elaborate: there are 7, four-issue stories that all interlock, and a...

Not gonna lie, the first half or more is tough to get through and I didn't like it. Then things start to pick up and get interesting, with the various characters' stories starting to interconnect. By the end, I still didn't love it, but I might read the next volume to see what happens. Maybe. I only read this for Zatanna and her stuff is alright. What I was surprised I ended up liking is the Klarion stuff! I quite like the art style and his story is, for me, more interesting then the others.

Overall, I liked it. I was, frankly, somewhat underwhelmed by the experience, as I think I expected more from the individual miniseries than I got. I like how Morrison wove different supporting characters through the various miniseries, but I never quite felt any danger from the Sheeda. It became more an experiment in putting together a puzzle than a fun story.I thought that the individual series were somewhat mixed - Guardian was terrific, as was Bulleteer. Zatanna - despite being a character I...

3.5 starsOk, so this was a mixed bag for me.The first story (Seven Soldiers of Victory 0) didn't impress me in the least. None of the characters, least of all the main chick, were relatable or likable. Reading a one-shot about scuzzy c-listers didn't do it for me.But I trudged on toward the next hero's tale (Shining Knight) and just about quit. Actually, I did quit. A story about a team of loseresque has-beens and then another about some King Arthur bullshit? No thank you. But I forgot to retur

I'm intrigued. But there wasn't enough story for me to be hooked yet. A book full of intros, essentially. I'm glad there was at least a couple storylines that got to the second issue in this collection. I've seen this chronological approach in collected trades a couple times, but I'm not sure I like jumping around from plot to plot so much. The Guardian and Limbo Town stories are most interesting to me for now. Then probably Zatanna's. I've had an increased fondness for the character since her o...

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I'm struggling to know how to rate this. Did I like it? No. Did I like the illustrations? Yes. Did I know anyone in these stories? Not a one! (But I still consider myself a graphic novel baby.) If I did know anyone in here I might have liked it. It was pretty disjointed, with nothing seeming to connect. I found this at the library. The cover stood out to me, and I was so blown away that the first four volumes were there, I just borrowed them all. However, after reading this first one -- I'm not

I enjoyed this, but there were parts of the cosmic weirdness of Morrison that I skimmed. The intro tells of I'm guessing, the old Seven Soldiers and what happens to them (but not entirely, and I'm not sure the time difference from when our newer ones start working on things). Ystin, The Shining Knight, I'm glad to see, as I've recently read some of her in 'Demon Knights'. Klarion the Witch Boy lives in a Grundy world of Puritans and undead, has the potential to be very interesting, I know I've s...

Picture this, you have loved comics for a while and made it your goal to learn everything about them, then when you think you do, so you pick up a book by one of you favorite writers Grant Morrison now you know four new characters that you want to know more about and now like three characters you previously disregarded or disliked. That was my experience with this book, I didn't enjoy the first five pages of the book but then when I read I was sad to find out that someone had volumes two through...

This is such an interesting idea, reimagining minor characters into a mismatched superteam that never actually meets. Each of the stories is fun to get into (with the possible exception of Klarion), but the real fun is in making the connections and piecing it all together. I'm almost completely ignorant of Shining Knight and Guardian, but they are real standouts here. I especially want more of Justin and Vanguard; like are they from a historical King Arthur scenario or an alternate universe of w...

This is supposed to be this great thing; this great thing that leads to all of Grant Morrison's other current great things. I did not get this great thing; this great thing this was supposed to be.

Man, this was good. A little shaky at first, with all the changes in mood/tone/art, but so far I'm enjoying things.

your time will come

Honestly not some of DC's better re-imaginings. Zatanna's storyline was a potential saving grace but Klarion the Witch boy, Manhattan Guardian, and the Shining Knight pieces were snoozers. This was a surprise revelation to me as I personally really prefer DC over Marvel because of the attention they pay to the minor characters. Every DC storyline does not need to have Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, ...etc. They focus on the real-life problems and flawed characteristics of their 'Super'heroes wh...

3.5Here's the thing about non-linear storytelling, you have to make sure that people know what is going on from scene to scene. Since the story as a whole is taking a non-traditional flow, a stream of consciousness, that makes each individual scene all the more important. When you refuse to flat-out say what's going on and use flowery prose and vague references, it just makes things all the more difficult.That being said, even though I had to read and reread things several times, I did enjoy the...

What does a comics writer do when he's written stories about the biggest characters in comics - Superman, Batman, X-Men? He goes after the barely remember kind of course, the Z-list superheroes! Grant Morrison resurrects characters from DC's past (some going back literally 60-70 years) in "Seven Soldiers of Victory".In this first volume he introduces Shining Knight, an Arthurian Knight sent from his medieval-esque realm along with his winged horse into our own world via a magical cauldron (I kno...