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cassie_grace's review against another edition
3.0
Pretty silly and all over the place, but it gets points for having Red Alice chewing on the scenery and quoting Alice in Wonderland constantly.
billblume's review against another edition
1.0
What the actual fuck???
Sometimes, you can’t appreciate a storyline until you see it play out through multiple issues. That’s not the problem here. Every storyline within this volume is a failure.
First: the trip into space and then a “Medieval Times Gotham” to battle Morgaine Le Fay. I almost think this could have worked, if the series wasn’t trying to juggle it along with the mess that Kate Kane/Batwoman’s personal life is at this point in the series.
Second: The Nocturna storyline is equally robbed of any value it might have had, because it’s mashed in the middle of the whole Morgaine/Medieval nonsense. The idea Kate thinks she’s turning into a vampire and killing people actually could have been interesting, if it was the only storyline at work here. There’s not nearly enough page time devoted to give any depth to it, and the idea Kate would be in a relationship with Nocturna doesn’t come across believable at all given the flimsy setup the storyline received. This could have been dark and erotic and even clever, but it’s just utter nonsense like a Wikipedia plot summary of a vampire novel’s Cliff’s Notes that’s been vandalized by a hacker to make even less sense.
Third: I’d fault the writer, Andreyko, but really, I think the editor probably deserves more of the blame. There’s no way someone thought mashing this much story into such a small number of issues could have made sense. If they did, they were fools.
This volume of “Batwoman” only has value as a literary train wreck in graphic novel form. I kept reading it and thinking “This will start to come together at some point... right?” No, Past Bill, it will not. Present Bill regrets your life choices here.
Sometimes, you can’t appreciate a storyline until you see it play out through multiple issues. That’s not the problem here. Every storyline within this volume is a failure.
First: the trip into space and then a “Medieval Times Gotham” to battle Morgaine Le Fay. I almost think this could have worked, if the series wasn’t trying to juggle it along with the mess that Kate Kane/Batwoman’s personal life is at this point in the series.
Second: The Nocturna storyline is equally robbed of any value it might have had, because it’s mashed in the middle of the whole Morgaine/Medieval nonsense. The idea Kate thinks she’s turning into a vampire and killing people actually could have been interesting, if it was the only storyline at work here. There’s not nearly enough page time devoted to give any depth to it, and the idea Kate would be in a relationship with Nocturna doesn’t come across believable at all given the flimsy setup the storyline received. This could have been dark and erotic and even clever, but it’s just utter nonsense like a Wikipedia plot summary of a vampire novel’s Cliff’s Notes that’s been vandalized by a hacker to make even less sense.
Third: I’d fault the writer, Andreyko, but really, I think the editor probably deserves more of the blame. There’s no way someone thought mashing this much story into such a small number of issues could have made sense. If they did, they were fools.
This volume of “Batwoman” only has value as a literary train wreck in graphic novel form. I kept reading it and thinking “This will start to come together at some point... right?” No, Past Bill, it will not. Present Bill regrets your life choices here.
moonpie's review against another edition
1.0
My favorite part of this volume was that the subtitle for of a bunch of the collected issues was "How in the Hell Did We Get Here?" It's funny because it's true. What a mess. It starts with a pointless abridged origin story that's been covered already -- and even I remember it, so it was probably covered pretty well -- and then dumps us into Point C of the volume's main story, then just when you think that you must have missed some sort of crossover in another title, it zips back to Point A, but it's not really CLEAR that it's Point A at first. What else? There were a bunch of characters I knew nothing about heavily featured throughout the whole volume, the relationship plot was weird, and the art was confusing and... not beautiful. And the issue tucked at the end, wow. That is not an admiring "wow."
I've grown to love Batwoman, and I'm a little pissed that I read this, and honestly I'm just going to try to forget that it exists. I haven't read Volumes 4 and 5 yet since my library never picked them up; maybe I can read them and replace any memory of this collection with those.
I've grown to love Batwoman, and I'm a little pissed that I read this, and honestly I'm just going to try to forget that it exists. I haven't read Volumes 4 and 5 yet since my library never picked them up; maybe I can read them and replace any memory of this collection with those.
clarazorel's review against another edition
1.0
Let's just collectively ignore that this book exists.
johnawickline's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
radicalbradacal's review against another edition
2.0
This was not the way this series should have finished.
tmaluck's review
3.0
It took Volume 5 to get over the transition away from Williams III, and now Volume 6's wacky, time-traveling, space-faring, ragtag-assembly anti-team is kind of charming. I was immensely pleased to see addressed in ways that I think acquitted earlier perceptions of destroying the narrative. Keep giving us Kate Kane adventures, or at least building on this persona of Clayface.