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And it does take off with this second volume.One of Divinity’s comrades finds her way back from outer space. After her encounter with The Unknown she possesses the same god-like powers that he does. But she has completely different plans of how to use them.She’s not exactly happy with what happened to the Soviet Union and since she’s able to travel back and forth in time she figures she should have a little talk with some people.All of them pretty well known.So the MI-6, after capturing Divinity...
Wow, what a great series! Thanks, Valiant, for not sucking.So while Divinity follows Abram Adams, Divinity II follows Myshka, aka Valentina Volkov. Myshka is Abram's foil, a contrasting character with a similar origin, an orphan who is also picked for the top secret Soviet space program. Much like Divinity, Divinity II strikes a balance between action and philosophy. Philosophy of what? The human condition mostly. Of time and living with regret. Being lonely and angry, but instead of taking reve...
A book whose characters struggle for relevance, in their own story, rarely have much fruit to bear. DIVINITY II is an improvement over its progenitor . . . but that's not saying much.For those with an eye toward detail, DIVINITY II fails on the very first page. Indeed, the summary of the previous book is a cobbling together of presumption, hyperbole, and phenomenal nonsense. Notably, the summary erroneously boasts, "after a violent confrontation with the deity, [the forces of the West] were easi...
Pretty neat-o story that I didn't realize existed when I read Divinity a while back. I thought it was just some weird one-shot sci-fi story set in the Valiant universe. But wait! There's more!It looks like this will conclude in Divinity III: Stalinverse.Again. I was surprised to discover that this wasn't the end. So, bonus.The gist is that cosmonauts went out into deep space, ran smack into some wacky-powerful celestial entity, and came back to Earth (years later) with god-like powers over time...
Comparing Divinity II with the first Divinity, I have more respect for the artist, less for the writer.The art was actually quite beautiful. The story.. had.. moments.
Divinity IIWriter - Matt KindtPenciler - Trevor HairsineCover - Jelena Kevic-DjurdjevicWhen Divinity returned to Earth, he left his other two crewmembers behind. Now Valentina Volkov has embraced the power of “the Unknown” and returned to Earth as well, however she is a devout Communist and is horrified at what has happened to her country since she left over 60 years ago. Now, she’s determined to return the Soviet Union to its former glory!This isn’t so much a clash of super-powered people as it...
I liked the first Divinity quite a bit, and really had my hopes up for Divinity II. Unfortunately, things don't get any better in the second installment. Basically, we learn that another of the three Russian cosmonauts ALSO gained superpowers from the unknown, and became a god. The set-up reads a little lazy, but Kindt does throw a curve-ball, by making her a Russian loyalist. Over the course of Divinity II, the new, second Divinity, uses her power to manipulate the world market in Russia's favo...
Abram wasn't the only cosmonaut to see the entity that gave him God-like powers. Now Myshka has returned and she's a hard core communist from the 50's. She uses her powers to put Russia on top of the world and only Divinity can stop her. What follows are 4 issues of philosophy and discussion as they spiral through time and space. It's actually pretty great. Abram has to convince Myshka that things like compassion matter and she shouldn't alter the world.I like that Valiant isn't resting on the l...
While divinity I got my be surprise, by divinity II, I knew what to expect. I liked this one better. Still 3.5 and will look into the III chapter.
I liked the first volume much more than this one. I also thought that the first volume was way more confusing than this volume, so go figure. I felt that the conflict between Mishka and Abram went on too long. It felt drawn out. It had a nice conclusion and definitely had its place, but they could have wrapped it up sooner in my opinion.
When Abram Adams travelled to the end of the universe and gained his immense powers, he returned to Earth and settled into a life of memory and quiet. But Abram wasn't alone - now one of his fellow Cosmonauts, Myshka, has also returned, and she's not half as easygoing. It's a war between gods as Abram and Myshka battle across space and time, with the fate of the entire Valiant Universe at stake.The original Divinity felt kind of undefined, even by the end of the story; this is just as much his s...
Divinity 2 is a direct follow-up to the first one. This time though we have a woman with the crazy powers of pretty much ultimate power. SO in other-words she can pretty much be a god of sorts, but luckily we have a god on our side now. In the last volume we were introduced to three soviet soldiers who went into space and never came back. Well, we thought they died. However, one came back. Abram came back to earth and the Unity (avengers/justice league of this universe) went to meet him. While a...
Awesome!!!! Some crazy, cosmic, reality & time bending shit from the mind of Matt Kindt. I loved it. This is the Superman level of Valiant, and while it’s nothing like Superman, it’s at the ubercosmic scale, and I think it adds a pretty exciting top-power end to the universe. It’s a powerful and emotional story, and it definitely comes together at the end really well. This is an east 5 stars.
(4.5 stars)Solid vol.2 from Valiant, Divinity is a great series that Matt Kindt has written. It is sci-fi at the core but has small elements of superhero and world building into the other valiant series. book 2 picks up with the other two astronauts that Divinity left behind in space, Myshka and Kazmir. Myshka decides to expose herself to the power that created Divinity. Myshka returns to earth and has a great sense of nationalism and thinks Divinity betrayed his country and his comrades. They b...
I thought Divinity vol 1 was okay. Not great but not terrible so I gave it three stars. Divinity vol 2 was in my opinion pretty bad but I’ve read worse so I am hinging it two stars. The story was sloppy and the pacing too rushed. The conflict between Myshka and Abram had a very anticlimactic ended. If the price is right I may buy vol 3 just to see how it all ends.
The second volume of Divinity continues the wonderful sci-fi story from the first volume.Abram Adams has returned with the powers of a God. But, tempered by his love for his former beau and child, he does not use his powers to their fullest. Enter Myshka, the 2nd of three cosmonauts sent on this mission, and she has no qualms about using her powers. Putting her support and powers behind President Putin-Russia emerges as an untouchable super-power. In time they take over the entire world. Adams i...
SUPER FAST REVIEW:Starts off as an interesting story. The characters are interesting, the art is great, it’s very well written and there’s some great action throughout. Unfortunately around half way through it becomes a Man of Steel-esque dick measuring contest of 2 superpowered characters punching each other to see who’s more powerful.Entertaining but not nearly as good as the first book in the series.4/5
This is the sequel to the cosmic drama miniseries about a Russian orphan turned cosmonaut who, after being lost in space returns to Earth as a reality-manipulating powerhouse. In this second miniseries, we discover that Myshka, one of the two other crew members that Abram Adams went into space with has returned with the same powers, but without the same benevolent attitude. I was surprised that I enjoyed this book more than the first. But I loved how it showed the way that different upbringin...
Reprints Divinity II #1-4 (April 2016-July 2016). Divinity’s return to Earth threatened to tip the scales of power, but the return of Abram’s flight partner Myshka has just done that. Teamed with Russia, Myshka hopes to restore the grander of the Soviet Union and she intends to do it by any means. Unity’s only hope is Divinity who is now their prisoner…but even if Divinity agrees to help, can he stop Myshka’s quest?Written by Matt Kindt, Divinity II is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed V...
Solid time travel story as two former cosmonauts with godlike powers vie for control of history and the world. In the end love conquers all, just as it did in Divinity. It’s kind of Dr. Manhattan versus Dr. Manhattan in this go-round, which is interesting. The ending felt a bit rushed to me, but at least it doesn’t overstay its welcome as many stories are prone to do these days.