** spoiler alert ** Heavy handed but ok, worst part is when they do what comics all to often do today - remove the very thing that makes a character special or unique.

Another victim of DC politicization. lets make a storyline and blame terrorists, and then moan and rend our garments about how we prejudged the obvious terrorist candidate and vow to never do that again...but in the very next line lets assumptively stereotype the 'real' villains of the story - who we never bothered to catch - as teenagers in their parents basements .

The best Vision comic I have ever read. Granted, its the first Vision comic I've ever read which sets a very low hurdle to clear, but smart writing with a tight story is far to uncommon in the graphic medium from DC and Marvel right now.

A little slower to start than the first volume, but just as powerful when it comes to discussing topics of ethics, predestination, fate and free will.

Quite thin as adult entertainment, but entertaining for the targeted preteen audience.

Ridiculous premises, far to much crossover requiring pages of expository catch-up material, and the stupid presentation of material out of order makes for a terrible read.

Bland color palette, thin, confused story and page after page of small panels with no dialogue other than screams.

Unnecessary dreck. The original runs of classic comics routinely made it over 500 issues, 'new' series are lucky to get a tenth of that. Constantly starting over at #1 is marketing driven junk. Tell good stories and leave the continuity alone.

Riffing on the title of an era-spanning collection of stand-alone's from a decade ago, this has neither the charm or skill on display then (and that wasn't much). Superman and Batman are oddly portrayed, their respective minors are only characterized by naivety and rage, and their is neither coherence or resolution in the story.

Anytime 'scream-y general' is a major villain, you know it's gonna stink.

A good comic never has more exposition than dialogue. This is not a good comic.

Repetitive, overly broad crossover that got so bad even the creators realized it - requiring 7 different writers for less than 40 pages in the final chapter.

I was willing to give it a try and it was OK, up to the point where Steve Trevor was recast as a whiny PTSD sad sack and Supergirl became a proud defender of the glorious Soviet.

No real plot beyond making sure every page reminds you that every single female character is aggressively gay, or was at least once 'curious'. The authors confusion about who were the good guys and the bad guys during the Spanish revolution also clouds the issues terribly.

A self-curated collection of political cartoons from the last years of the Eisenhower Administration and the first month of Kennedy's. Most interesting for the many teapot-tempests that were worthy of commentary at the time but are utterly obscure now, and for the in-the-moment opinions on and scandals of the few still-recognizable political figures - opinions that in many cases have been downplayed or glossed over and scandals which are wholly ignored outside of the most academic of circles.

Written during the final year of WWII while the author was still stationed overseas, Up Front is an on-the-moment, almost stream of consciousness work that chronicles the thoughts of average GIs on all aspects of a soldiers life from overbearing martinets to the desperate need for distraction from rain, mud and monotony.

A look at the origins of the American soldier, stripped of myth and mystique. With quotes from little remembered first-hand source material and the insight of a seasoned WWII infantry veteran, this is a must read for any historian and could easily be incorporated into any high school class.

First hand reporting from January - April 1952 of the war in Korea, unfiltered by subsequent events and unedited by meddling historians. Originally printed in Collier's magazine before being collected, Maudlin skillfully uses the conceit of correspondence between his two WWII cartoon GIs to frame the reporting, giving insight into the mind of enlisted men, insight that is all the more nuanced because it is offered by a former enlisted man. 
Most noteworthy is the concluding chapter discussing the negotiations going on at Panmunjom - particularly the attitudes of the North Korean delegation. Such attitude being one of immature self-importance, unearned pride and pomposity, and first-rate pettiness. Several quotes still relevant today " The cocky little North Koreans kind of amuse the Chinese", "Maybe that's why the Koreans dress so fancy, it's about the only thing they can do that makes them feel important.", and quoting an officer "They have the minds of children...[They]shouldn't be allowed to get their hands on live ammunition."

Enjoyable as a straightforward history of the author's first decade of professional activity, but invaluable as an unintentional social history of the period 1935-45. Shedding light on unrecorded or currently inconvenient attitudes toward racial stereotyping vs. racial reality, laissez-faire child-rearing practices, and sexual mores.