Reviews

DCeased: Dead Planet by Tom Taylor

offworldcolony's review against another edition

3.0

A difficult third act plagued with repetitive voice over, a lot of "trust me" characters, uneven artwork and basic panel layouts. But binding it together is Taylor's typically engaging characters and nice dialogue and it all comes together at the end in a satisfying way.

kadu_1516's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

padds's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

littleyarngoblin's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

mrtofu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

talon1010's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This is genuinely one of the best written comics I've ever read, and of course it's gorgeously and horrifically drawn. A well-written superman, magic kryptonite. Green Lantern Dinah, Supersons inheriting World's Finest. Plot largely founded in the realm of the arc, not dependent on continuity,and makes great use of that.

unladylike's review against another edition

4.0

Such a satisfying conclusion to this miniseries! Smart plotting and entertaining action and script beginning to end.

captwinghead's review against another edition

3.0

I didn’t enjoy this one anywhere near as much as the first book. I’m just not a Constantine fan and this was very John Constantine and magic heavy. In addition, there were all the random couples that just confused and annoyed me. Why was Damian paired with Cassie Sandsmark - she was a Teen Titan when he was like 8??? I’m still not used to Jason/Rose. John/Lois was also strange. It felt weird in that whole “I found a woman to fix me” thing that annoys the life out of me about m/f pairings.

The writing just wasn’t as emotionally moving for me as the first one and the story wasn’t entirely my favorite, though I’m glad they fixed Victor’s end.

So, DCeased is a recommend from me. This one, not so much.

maukingbird's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I'm getting a little tired of seeing all my favorite characters get brut lly killed in these Elseworlds but the ending of this one made up for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Murder

Moderate: Grief

tigercrossin's review against another edition

4.0

Still one of the greatest Tom Taylor series, and one of the best DC events I’ve ever read! I personally enjoy DCeased more than injustice and I think it’s a story every DC fan needs to read at least once. The one thing that I will say about this volume in particular is that I know Tom Taylor is a big fan of Constantine so he is featured heavily in this, and I’m not too familiar with him so some of it was confusing to me. I also wish the story had explored cass with the wizards power more! I thought that design was so cool!

Overall my favourite volume of DCeased is probably still unkillables followed by the first volume but this series really does tie up nicely, and apparently there’s more coming? Super excited to see what else could possibly happen