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I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Save a few of the ridiculous dialogue the writer gave all three at times, it was a fairly good read. ( )

I liked it well enough; I didn't love it.

I wish I had read the actual printed book, instead of the digital version.

A few pages were absolutely gorgeous, and none of them were bad; but I don't love the way he drew the faces, which is kind of a bummer.

The story was good, but not great. Maybe part of the problem is that I went in with high expectations.

Fun take on the first time Superman and Batman meet Wonder Woman. ( )

This is my third all-Matt Wagner comic in the course of this readthrough... and I want to like every one of them more than I do. Wagner's art is great, it's expressive, and he really captures the characters' personalities. I like the contrasts between Metropolis and Gotham and Paradise Island. I like how he mixes and matches villains between the three heroes here.

But his stories always seem to fail to coalesce. I think it's because they're maybe too ambitious. If this was just a superhero punch-up, it would be fine. But it wants to be something more, it wants to be first meeting between the three most important heroes of the DC universe, and it wants to say something about them as people, and about their ideals. What that statement is, however, gets lost in the muddle that is the plot, and I'm left dissastisfied, having glimpsed from a distance an excellent story that I haven't been allowed to read. This is good, but it's hard to shake the feeling that it ought to have been great.

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