This was SO much better than the first 2 volumes! And I got Harley x Ivy, just like I always wanted!

4.5 starsI have so many feelings, I CAN'T. This series is getting better and better, I love how many DC comics characters are getting involved and I love Mera and Kate Kane with my entire heart.

This series is SO GREAT, and also Shazam’s Origin Story is one of the best things I’ve ever read.

This continues to be a really good series. The art is great, and I love that it is feminist without putting down men. The story is also really cohesive, which is great from a New 52 run. Overall, I higly recommend this!

Possibly the timing helped, but I finally got around to finishing this today and I teared up at the last section.

Raven has arrived. Also others.

Probably my least favorite of the series so far, but still plenty of silly fun to be had with the Bombshells!This volume opens with a Batgirls story back in Gotham City, where they mess with the plans of a certain Mr. Cobblepot with the help of a spunky reporter named Lois Lane. We then move back to Europe, where Batwoman gangs up with Ivy, Harley, Zatanna and Raven to organize an uprising in a Jewish ghetto. Meanwhile, Mera wakes up on the shores of Ireland and makes a, ahem, friend who will he...

Okay, not nearly as good as the first 2 volumes but still fun.Also gonna warn that one part of this review gets a bit political.What’s it about?That’s sorta hard to explain. Basically, it continues the story of this series.Pros:The story is still very interesting. I said in my review for the first volume that I like war stories and superhero comics so mixing the 2 makes for a really good story and I haven’t got fed up of it or anything yet so there’s a good sign.The characters are still awesome!...

My gender and racial identities are warring with each other. I don't know how to explain that this book appears to represent everyone EXCEPT black women well. It feels like a glaring absence and I just don't understand it.This is a tough one to rate and I don't really know how to write a review that doesn't come across as somewhat bitter without getting a few things out of the way: 1) I have a lot of respect for Marguerite Bennett as a creator. Not only is she managing a lot of storylines here a...

3.5 I didn't love this one as much as the last two, but I still enjoy this series. I love Mera's story here, but I missed Wonder Woman, Stargirl and Supergirl, who are absent from this volume. Also, I think I'm the only person who is completely indifferent to Harley Quinn (not just in Bombshells, but like, in general). Laura Braga and Mirka Andolfo have some spectacular art going on in this series.

Onwards with volume #3. They're quick reads with very nicely done art work.The basis of this series with kick-ass heroines in the lead were a line off 1940s pinup style Bombshells variant covers and a series of statuettes. Set in a WWII alternate universe we follow our female superheroes and how they came to be. I really like how this is done.Themes: DC Comics, female super heroes kicking ass in WWII, alternate universe, super powers,zombies, robots, feminists.4 stars

I stopped buying the individual comics for bombshells and decided to wait for the graphic novels as I like being able to read a longer story. This one picks up where I left off in the comics. It was good to go back and re-read the batgirls story again, (I skipped the straight Mera love story). But the rest I really enjoyed. It was good to see the villains not quite villains, and have a good ending and explanation for the Joker's daughter, Zantana and Constantine. I really do like this series. It...

I still really love the concept and characters of Bombshells! I struggled a tiiiny bit with this just for "lazy DC reader" reasons, ie I refused to look up "tenebrae" even though they kept talking about tenebrae.... (Here: I just googled it for you, GoodReads. "Tenebrae is a being from another universe that is part of the Mergence, a group mind. She is sent to Earth prior to the Mergence's arrival to get everything in order for the absorption." Is that even this same thing? IDK IDK I don't care)...

These are the Jewish heroines I needed as a little girl - the ones who actively kick Nazi butt rather than live in fear. Not that I resent historically-accurate WWII children's books; they're incredibly important. But as a little girl, they were also the only books I had with Jewish characters until my mother dug up her copy of All-of-a-Kind Family for me, and it made me worry that someday the Nazis would come for me. If I'd had Miri Marvel, maybe I wouldn't have had those fears.On another note,...

I'd say 4 stars for the story (the Mera arc confused me a little), but 5 stars for the whole book because this is prime Harley/Ivy ship content. Queer female creative teams mean that queer ships finally get realized. No more queerbaiting. <3

Best of the series both story and art wise. (view spoiler)[AND LOIS LANE! (hide spoiler)]

After the big battle in the previous volume, you'd think the Bombshells would take a minute to relax, but there's a war on and a Bombshell's work is never done.A lot of the disparate stories in the last few volumes finally dovetail together in this one as many of the Bombshells link up for a secondary assault on the Germans, specifically the magically powered Joker's Daughter. Meanwhile, Mera comes to terms with her abandonment and exile from Atlantis, with a little help from a certain blonde li...

I suspect I should probably bail on Bombshells. Yes, it's beautifully drawn, and sweet, and fabulously Jewish, and oh so queer (though not exclusively so – Mera's straight, albeit cross-species, romance is every bit as heartwrenching here as Harley and Ivy, or Batwoman and the Question, which is to say very). But it's so intent on those wins, those air-punching panels and pages, that I never feel it really hanging together as a story – something that's all the more noticeable the more strands an...

(originally reviewed at thelibraryladies.com )With the way that the last “DC Bombshells” collection ended (if you’ll remember, it was devastating), I was wondering if we were going to get into more pathos in which we’d have to potentially say goodbye to another of our beloved heroines. I suppose that I should have steeled myself for that possibility from the get go, as this is WWII and with war comes death. And given that our ladies are spread out across various fronts, battling not only Nazi...

I'm not going to lie, I read this series simply because I love the designs and Harley and Ivy actually get to be lovers. It's a dumb series overall, but it has some heart. This issue was quite chock full of ever single character they could think of, and who knows where the plot is going. But it's pretty?