It was pretty good, but as a graphic novel less than great in my opinion, felt too much like a giant preview session for the upcoming events than an actual fullfledged story. Still it was really engaging and emotional at times, I loved the narration with the voice of Wally West and could connect with his sadness and panic as time's running out for him. It did it's job of summing up the past timelines of DC and explaining what's the difference between Pre-Flashpoint continuity and The New 52, and...

An interesting one-shot where DC is rebooting their Universe once again (killing off the unpopular New 52) this time with Rebirth. Here Wayne West comes from an alternative reality to warn his friends about an aberration which has changed their relationships and poses a danger. The artwork is great, the story is interesting but most importantly, they introduce the Watchmen into this Rebirth series. I will be interested to see how this new series develops.

If you like Geoff Johns, then you'll like DC Rebirth. It is overall an improvement over New 52, but also weird that Johns himself spearheaded the whole Flashpoint and Justice League reboots just to undo it a few years later. All this DC continuity stuff is exhausting. What's the point? Superheroes don't seem to do anything to really save anyone from bad guys anymore, they just play around with cosmic arcs about how history is constantly rewritten. Guess it makes for some good character moments,

I am not a fan of Afterbirth. Neither in real life, where thankfully I've never come across it, nor in the DC universe. But I must say this is an Afterbirth story that's not bad. I mean it IS the Justice League and it IS Geoff Johns, a combination that ought not to fail, but DC's stories/plots/decisions over the past several versions (New 52, Newer 52, Newest 52 and now Afterbirth) show they can manage to fuck just about anything up. So it was nice to read a decent story and see some damn good a...

Unfortunately, the new 52 is alive and well. However, Johns does a fantastic job of setting up where the DC universe is headed for the next few years. He introduces a larger mystery, that someone orchestrated the new 52 out of Flashpoint. We visit a lot of characters throughout the DCU, setting them on new paths and reminding them of things wiped out in new 52. The book is full of great art. Finally Johns introduces something really cool at the end of the book. I just hope the rest of DC doesn't...

Well, I definitely didn't expect that

The New 52 exploded like a giant stink-bomb in September 2011, a line-wide reboot tying their DC, Wildstorm and Vertigo characters together into one overloaded, incoherent universe, and, spitting in the face of 70+ years of continuity, reset their numbering back to #1. The desperate move put DC ahead of Marvel briefly before readers realised from the shoddy quality of too many of the comics that DC didn’t know what they were doing and then sales tapered off; the New 52 died quietly in the summer...

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Hey Lashaan, is this another reboot by DC? No, my friend. This is far from being a reboot. We don’t start from scratch. We aren’t about to re-explore all the origin stories of our beloved superheroes. We will not be looking looking at rehashed stories from the past. Wait. Are we? DC Universe Rebirth is a new step by DC Comics. You can gladly say goodbye to all the New 52 tags that you’ve been seeing for the past couple years. DC even changed the...

The intro and the epilogue sent shivers up my spine!I freakin loved this. For someone who is new to reading DC stuff, this would definitely walk you through what's happening to the DC universe moving forward. I liked how they wrote this in a way that new readers would understand. It didn't assume that everyone reading this would have read every other DC comic book out there, which is mostly the case in comic books that are follow ups to previous series. There was a note though, that you should r...

when you're one of the two major comic book publishers, with hundreds of not thousands of characters that have been around decades, there's a possibility, no probability that the mythos will get messy. that's when you call in Geoff John's the creator cool enough to have 2 first names

This went from 4 to 5 stars with the last 6 pages or so. Full disclosure, I've yet to meet a version of Wally West that I really, truly care about. I like him on the CW show and he was cool in Young Justice but this is the first time I found him compelling. The entirety of this book is from his point of view. And I cared. I even teared up a bit in the end. This explains why Rebirth happens in a way Marvel has failed to explain their universe shifts. I'm still fairly new to DC comics and even I u...

Rebirth! <---99% better than Afterbirth!Kidding. I already knew most of the spoilers before going into this one, because my curiosity got the better of me. *hangs head*But I know not everyone is as weak as I am. So, if you haven't read this yet and don't want any hints, then for God's sake, turn away, man! I'm gonna try to tag the major stuff, but I wouldn't want to inadvertently ruin anything for you.Ok, even with all the spoilers that I'd read, I still wasn't sure exactly what this whole Rebir...

The new 52 is done! You don't have to complain about it any longer, for the most part i liked the new 52 stuff, and the name wasn't as disgusting as rebirth but whatever we gotta let it go. Johns does a pretty neat job in trying to explain the fuck up of the DC timeline, which some are more obsessed with than others. Me, i don't really care, personally i didn't feel the story needed to be done, if DC were just like we're rebooting most of our comics, crack on with it, i'd be like cool fine i don...

Two very significant things happen in this book:1) I teared up over two male characters saying goodbye who I have no emotional attachment to. I'm not trying to be sexist, but it is admittedly more difficult for me, personally, to get emotional over male characters. I just don't relate to them as well. So to say that I teared up over two male characters who I have little-to-no experience with is saying a lot.2) There's this one crazy reveal at the end that boggles my mind. I never expected it, bu...

Oh, wow! I have little to no experience with DC comics unless we're talking Harley Quinn, Suicide Squad or the Joker. But this is the first comic to bring tears to my eyes. And it was over two men bonding.I'm actually speechless. This is simply beautiful. And I need to go back and read all those comics I hear everybody talking about.

SPEEDY TRIAL REVIEW (Special comic book version)The Defense – “POW!”- Long-term DC Comics fans will marvel (oops, can’t use that word in a DC review) be in awe at seeing Wally West in action again!- Wally’s journey through a world that has forgotten him packs an emotional punch at times.- Wally’s observations on everything wrong with the DC Universe makes for a great meta-commentary.- Very intriguing ending!The Prosecution – “OOF!”- Exposition-heavy narration gets a little dull after a while. -

What can I say without spoiling anything? Well, after this, I am definitely re-reading Watchmen.I am extremely glad that this is not a reboot. Instead we have been told and shown that the continuity was not erased with The New 52, but that 10 years of the lives of the characters were erased, but the stories are still there, it has just been altered. But by whom? Or what? Wally West knows of this, but he does not know the culprit, so he is trying to remain in this plane in order to alert his old

That Geoff Johns guy. He knows what he's doing. He knows how to write a good comic and set up lots of cool stuff for Rebirth. Some of the stuff in this is just straight up masterful, which sounds like hyper bowl, but I consider myself more of Marvel guy and just a casual DC guy and I still loved this. I can't really get into much else without spoiling it but I think if you've ever read a DC comic, especially one from the 80s onwards, you should check this out.

A classic DC “event” setup. It builds mystery only to divulge the secret like a rabid reader too eager to wait. But that’s okay. The mashup itself is exciting enough to excuse the built-in spoilers. Fantastic illustrations.

I don't think that I'm going to continue with the rebirth. There are too much things that I have to know to enjoy it. Most of the time while reading I found myself just asking: What the hell is going on! I have no idea about the previous incidents on the new 52, so that's may make sense. I can understand (barely) why it would be amazing for others... and why it's not for me.