52, Vol. 1 by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of 52, Vol. 1
Book Review: The aftermath
Summary: 4 Stars
To say that DC's 52 is ambitious is saying it lightly. While fast forwarding the rest of the DC universe a whole year after the cataclysmic events of Infinite Crisis, DC launched this weekly, real time comic series (hence the title). 52 finds the DC universe minus Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and those that have fallen in the events from Infinte Crisis as well. The series mainly revolves around what could be considered minor heroes, including Elongated Man, Booster Gold, Steel, Adam Strange, Animal Man, Starfire, and the Question among the many others that populate the DC universe, as well as Captain Marvel nemesis Black Adam. In this first volume that collects the first thirteen weeks, Elongated Man finds the grave of his dead wife Sue desecrated and soon learns of a cult seeking to resurrect the fallen Superboy, Booster Gold defends Metropolis seeking fame and fortune for his deeds, Steel finds himself transformed as Lex Luthor reveals a devious plan, Adam Strange, Animal Man, and Starfire are trapped on an alien planet with a bounty on their heads, and the Question teams up with burned out Gotham City cop Renee Montoya, and Black Adam takes over the nation of Khandaq, meets the love of his life, and seeds are planted for future events that could spell doom for all involved. Also here are the debuts of Batwoman and the mysterious Supernova, who becomes the new defender of Metropolis much to the delight of reporter Clark Kent. We also learn the fate of the rest of the space team from Infinite Crisis (Green Lantern Alan Scott, Hawkgirl, Firestorm, Cyborg, Red Tornado, etc.) who return to Earth in vastly different states. Featuring a bevy of talent in terms of writers (Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid) as well as artists (Keith Giffen, Joe Bennett, Ken Lashley, and Jimmy Palmiotti among others), 52 manages to be compulsively addicting as well as confusing for new readers. Despite all that though, 52 has more going for it than some reviews may make you think, and as a follow up to Infinite Crisis, it succeeds mightily. All in all, 52 is an ambitious project that surprisingly works well for what it is, and it's definitely worth picking up if you missed out on the single issues.Book Review: The first collection of some of the greatest DCU stories EVER
Summary: 4 Stars
52 was, according to all the comic book podcasters that I have ever listened to, one of the best series ever to grace the DC universe, and after reading the first volume I found myself heartily agreeing with them. One of the reasons why it is such an monumental achievement is that the writers, artists and editors had to put the book out on a weekly basis, and any sane person would think that the story and art would actually get worse as time goes by because of deadlines and added pressure. In 52's case the reverse is true; the writing and art actually became better as the issues went along, and by issue #6 I really started loving the book rather than just enjoying it. Another reason why 52 succeeded is because of the four core writers: Rucka, Waid, Morrison and Johns. Just look at their earlier work, then its safe to say that they could be considered as the Travelling Wilburys of comics. My favorite storyline in the series started with the Rene Montoya/Question tale, but eventually became the Black Adam story after we started seeing more of Kahndaq. The only reason why I give this collection 4 stars and not 5 is because it takes a prior knowledge of the DCU to fully enjoy these comics, and if you didn't read Infinite Crisis or any of the recent DC crossovers then it's kind of hard to get into the flow of the stories in the first volume (I know because my friend read it without having read any DC for 10 years and he found it confusing). That having been said, I enjoyed this collection much more than I thought I would. Bless you, DC, for a captivating series, and I can't wait to have all 4 volumes in my bookshelf.Book Review: The first volume of 52 is a must have
Summary: 5 Stars
52 volume one is an awesome book, from the characters that are featured to the story. It hard to put down this book once you get started.Book Review: VOLUME 1... Not bad at all
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm a guy going through the road to Final Crisis and I gotta tell this book worth every cent of my money. I took the liberty of begining with Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hush, Under the Hood, the Countdowns and Infinite Crisis.
52 is a direct follow up to Infinite Crisis. Just were it left, without the 3 main guys and with the leftover heros... did I say "leftovers"?. I mean, this books (52) screams "DC Comics is not only Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman". There is a whole other set of heros that haven't been taking into account.
What is 52?. I haven't read the whole 4 volumes, and I certainly won't spoil anything to anybody, but this is a really fun, addictive read. Mistery and several cool plot twists that makes you wanting for more.
I recomend this for sure in order to fell in love with characters who you are not familiar with and that apparently have a main participation on the Final Crisis events.
Buy it!.
Book Review: Very entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
At first very skeptical with keeping the plot from week to week but upon reading found it very entertaining and hard to put down a great start to an epic story soon to unfold in the further volumes