It has suffered a bit from overcrowding, a problem that afflicts this issue in particular as storylines are wrapped up, villains threaten terrible destruction and all the heroes are on hand to do their part.
While previous issues have been moving along slowly, giving the reader time to get his or her bearings, here the volume is turned up to "11" as the team must deal with the powerful sorcerer Mordru and the returned (and somehow still alive) Rogol Zaar, who once destroyed Krypton and now threatens to do it again with New Krypton.
And somehow he's become a giant, for reasons that elude me.
So there's lots of punching and throwing spells and general chaos here. It's frankly difficult to keep everyone straight.
The issue is written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Ryan Sook and Wade Von Grawbadger. I'm a big fan of both artists, but this issue looks incredibly rushed - some pages are stunning, and others I'm hard pressed to figure out what's going on.
From here the series jumps into the Future State storyline, which I'll be passing on. Aren't they already in the future?
Overall, I give high marks for the series as a whole. This issue, though, was a bit of a stumble.
Grade: B
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"Future Future State!!"
Sigh...
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