Reviews

Irredeemable, Vol. 8 by Eduardo Barreto, Damian Couceiro, Mark Waid, Peter Krause, Diego Barreto

blairconrad's review

3.0

The pace is definitely slowing in this series. I didn't really feel like much happened or we explored the characters' personalities very much. Sigh.

clarks_dad's review

5.0

Review available in volume one.

diewachen's review

1.0

This volume was just a rushed rehash of the plot that was the previous 7 volumes. Plutonian destroys the world. The heroes screw up their attempt to stop them, ending in the death of one of their own. Bette's infatuation with Plutonian leads to her downfall. Plutonian's nemesis jumps into the body of someone he most cares about. And Plutonian is captured by a weapon that is as dangerous to humankind as it is capable of capturing a god.

I don't understand why this story was told at all. Has Waid run out of ideas? Should this story have wrapped up in three or four volumes? Probably.

I asked if the plot had jumped the shark in the previous volume. I think it has.

theartolater's review

4.0

I suppose this volume is more noteworthy for the twist at the end. This was a very strange, dire-feeling read throughout most of it and then the end comes about and is more than a bit of a game changer. I could argue that it really comes from nowhere, but I don't know if we can say that without finishing the volumes.

Still, really enjoying this series as it runs toward the conclusion.

stevenk's review

3.0

In this volume we get more backstory on the major characters and some of the conflicts in their past. We also see more of the reaction of the world population to the Plutonian's rampage. Again there is apparently enough here to make me wonder what is going to happen next (I didn't think I'd pick up Volume 8) and this one actually had a cliffhanger that looks like it will lead to a new, more interesting direction.