Slow to start, and Red Guy Gardner looks terrible, but once the story gets going its a good read. Although you will get sick of the phrase 'magic blood pool'.

Needlessly, pointlessly, stupidly confusing time travel story arc. Avoid at all costs.

Some of the worst art I've ever seen. Mangled bodies, distorted faces, and a full page with Superman and Superboy where boy looks a full decade older and man more resembles an anime character than the classic man of steel.

bo. ring. boring.

A good start, lets see where it goes.

Went in blind and presently surprised. Twists and turns on the traditional spy story with a great sense of place and fantastic art.

New co-author, same great results. Was expecting the biblical Solomon but pleased with the results; hoping the coda is the jumping off point for the next installment as well.

Bad-but-not-evil is good in small doses.

Bane as a harsher bat-protector is an interesting concept.

Again, a good story idea mucked up by vague execution. When any problem can be fixed with a spell the heroes already know - ANY problem - there is no tension at all in the tale.

Gee, Deadman is brought back to life more often than Ra's Al Ghul. And I'm pretty sure no one was clamoring for Nightmare Nurse backstory. Why did I read this again?

Meh. Characters I've never heard of (Nightmare Nurse??) playing prominent roles in a plot that feels like an abandoned side story to Forever Evil. Doubly disappointing since I already read FE and nothing they were talking about lines up or ties in.

Took forever to get through, picking it up and putting it down for other, better things. Caught its stride in the last quarter though.

For being a part of a large tale, the story is remarkably

self-contained.

The bones of the story are visible, but Dreamworks (thankfully) hung upon them a far superior story.

Read aloud to the family over the past few weeks. Annotated notes address all of the expected areas of obscure history and literary allusion that the modern reader could miss, extensive bibliographic and biographic information fleshes out the author and her works, and a set of supplemental essays place the novel in context. Except for a rather dry and flawed introductory essay, an excellent edition.

I was more interested in the (unrelated)backstory of the world then in the story they were telling.

GRRM's language is a tad repetitive, but repetition is a time honored storytelling device, and the phrases he repeats tend to have bearing to the current story or to his larger mythology, so the duplication has its place. 
The three stories themselves are well crafted and lend backstory to the larger tales told in the novels without falling for the George Lucas curse of prequels where everyone must know everyone and everyone and their relations must show up again because god forbid you introduce a new character when you can just reuse an old one or their kids.

Good story well told.

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