Well, I got the highly-anticipated SSoV #1 today.
Having read the first 3 books and having seen the bulk of the 4th book but not having read the whole thing I decided that I’d just pick up this issue anyway – especially as this is definately a book that’s about the journey and not the ending.
And thankfully, that’s the attitude I went into this with because the book make’s no sense.
Well, that’s kind of unfair – but for example Mr. Miracle’s story and Klarion’s story end without any explanation of how they got there, while Frankenstien just dissappears (or maybe I just need to re-read the damn thing but somehow I don’t think I missed anything). Now, it does make sense and you can ‘get’ it by making a few guesses but… it just feels cheap.
Now obviously there was never going to be complete ‘resolution’ to the whole story especially as the idea of the series was to reboot and revamp some obsolete and unused charachters but even so the lack of a satisfying resolution (especially given the weird ‘jars’ between Father Time from this series and his appearence in Uncle Sam along with the strangeness to do with the Fourth World’s New Gods and their appearence everywhere else) ends up with this story falling flat especially as some effort to tie things together simply dosen’t happen.
If you’ve been reading this you’re going to pick up this book regardless. If you’ve heard of the book and are curious – pick it up, it’s certainly something you won’t have seen the like of before.
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