The magic of the world is being destroyed in order to create a new order of magic, and it's up to the Justice League Dark to stop it, but can it prevail if its leader is possessed by the very entity that is the source of this destruction? It's a weird tale. The story ramps up pretty quickly and the heroes seem to be in real danger of failing, so it's quite tense as well.

I like witches. I also like Wonder Woman. So, one would think a graphic novel series in which Wonder Woman becomes a witch would be a winner for me. It wasn’t.“The Witching Hour” was, however, somewhat better than some of the more recent Justice League Dark volumes that I have grown to find annoying and yet still continue to read like a bad habit. It’s much like my addiction to Taco Bell. I know it’s unhealthy, and I should just quit eating the shit, but they just keep making Chicken Gorditas an...

This was okay. Art still great and some wonderful interactions but the whole power in wonder woman to be used as a weapon was eh...meh.

"Magic will never be the same"... I've heard this plotline a thousand times. Making a story confusing and adding layers and layers of mystic words doesn't make up for a plot that is actually too simple to last these many books.I had to brace myself to finish the whole story, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted at first.

I think this is just more proof that the Justice League Dark just doesn't do it for me. I like the concept, but I still don't find the stories particularly compelling, and while this is pretty good, it is no exception. The idea behind this arc is a fun one, and James Tynion IV puts a lot of hard work into the worldbuilding and, especially, Hecate, who makes for a really strong villain. It just felt overwritten and overexplained, especially near the end, which routinely took me out of it. Also, I...

Wonderful art, interesting story, but INCREDIBLY TOO MUCH EXPOSITION TEXT.

So, umm yeah my idea of Halloween reading the past couple of weeks has been reading digital floppies of Halloween comics (nothing in the TBR piles is remotely horror). The occult/horror angle here may not be very large, and it left me with some questions.The big question, in my mind anyway, is with all of the mini-event series DC is doing (Drowned Earth just started) is DC actually trying to build towards another Crisis on Multiple Earths type of event? Metal rewrote the multiverse, Flash is cur...

Just a little FYI: This story takes place in the middle of Justice League Dark, Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic.I stopped reading JLD after issue 3, picked up The Witching Hour, and then resumed JLD at issue 5. I think it probably helped keep me from scratching my head as much as I would have otherwise.Ok, the gist is that Wonder Woman is (because of spoilery stuff) possessed by a very angry Hectate who's pissed that humans took her gifts and fucked her over.Bottom line?Our girl Diana gets a bit o...

Tynion is knocking it out of the park with the Justice League Dark. Editorially, the collections are a mess as you should read the first 3 issues of Justice League Dark, then come back to this, then go back and finish Justice League Dark, Volume 1: The Last Age of Magic. Still he's building quite the story as the laws of magic are being rewritten and the very core of magic threatened. Hecate has gotten it in her head that magic is irrevocably broken. She's going to destroy all magic on Earth and...

3.5. Fun but overly info dumpy.World: The art for the most part is pretty solid, I did see a drop in quality towards the end as they had to finish the book out but overall this book looks interesting. The world building here is dense, it's so dense that there is a lot of info dumping here. I know Tynion IV loves to write and there is a lot of reading in his book but this is a bit overkill for me. I found the information also a bit fractured to make a cohesive narrative for the world. I love the

Kinda had hoped this would have been better. It was kinda slapdash put together and wasn't long enough to make the story feel epic as it should have. This should have been like the Batman Metal story.....ugh.

I really love the story and i can't believe i didn't see that ending coming it was kinda obvious.

I really loved this. Definitely would have been useful to have read it when I was supposed to, but I don't know how collecting it would have made more sense exactly, except by maybe making book one of JLD shorter and book two longer. Hope that the rest of the run works as well for me as these first two volumes have.

Are there any crossover events in existence that don't turn into barely legible mess towards the end? I doubt it. James Tynion's latest one, The Witching Hour, is also one of those — started out extremely well, then petered out into a convoluted stream of infodumps and too-high-to-care stakes in the last few issues. Still, it was a fun ride while it lasted.First of all, I have no idea how DC is planning to collect all this. The crossover starts right after the third issue of Tynion's Justice Lea...

Wonder Woman & the Justice League Dark have just dealt with the Otherkind, but a new threat has risen - Hecate is threatening to rewrite the laws of magic, and only Diana and her friends can stop her in this crossover event!Justice League Dark has been a hit since it launched for me personally, so getting extra JLD is always a treat. This crossover doesn't require any previous reading, especially not from the Wonder Woman series, but reading the first three issues of JLD definitely helps. James

Quite possibly the best crossover event I have read this year. I have to say I love the fact that DC comics appears to really be trying to keep their event books really contained to several series and not their whole line of series currently being published. The Witching Hour is only covered between the Wonder Woman series and Justice League Dark respectfully. I will admit to not collecting this series arc but I instead waited for the trade to be released. I am happy that I waited to read this s...

The Witching Hour has some rather good artwork. Kudos to the artists. The story? Not bad, though nothing great.Hecate, Queen of Witches, is coming to Earth and she wants to reshape magic. She has already chosen her avatars by giving them the "witchmark" when they were children. One of them happens to be Diana. Fast forwards to the current time and the Justice League Dark faces an all out assault from Hecate. I really liked the Hecate character, she was well done and quite dark. I was also fond o...

I liked this a bit better than vol 1 of the main series, but I still didn't love it. Thrown into a pretty good story we get some silly tropes ("she is so strong she could blink us out of existence, but she's choosing not to for now for some reason"), a big old info dump toward the end, and an ending that felt very anti-climactic considering that we are told their enemy is "stronger than any god that ever walked the earth" (view spoiler)[the main villain is literally defeated in a single panel (h...

I originally read this as single issues a few years ago but didn’t remember the entire story. I think the story was solid, but not quite as good as I remember it being before. I think the art was really cool but some aspects of the story were a little weak. Hecate’s reasoning for doing all of this first and foremost. But over all the story was enjoyable and not a bad crossover even at all.

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.There are only several writers who are able to envision creative new ideas based on existing lore, graft those original concepts onto existing stories that currently serve as the foundation to many character’s backgrounds, and flesh out these new worlds with enough substance for readers to engage with. This applies even more to the comic book world, notably for well-established superheroes who have known multiple reboots as new eras are introduc...