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I regret every minute I wasted on this garbage. This collection has the middle chapters of a couple different major crossovers. There are several instances throughout the book where the reader is presented with a summary of what happened elsewhere in the storyline before being tossed back into the sewage flow. Godawful comic book writing at its worst. ( )

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review.

Holy crap, that was a lot of bouncing around. It was so bad that the editors had to insert splash pages with tiny print to explain what was happening at the start of almost every issue. Let's work the DC Comics checklist, shall we?

Time travel - Check
Inexplicable enemies - Check
Inexplicable enemies controlling lesser enemies - Check
Mandatory Justice League appearance - Check
Plot that makes no sense - Check
Cliffhanger that requires a ton of background knowledge - Check

There's more, but I'm stopping there. The plot was all over the place, the artwork was hit-or-miss from issue to issue (some of it really bad), and overall, this was just a complete mess.

Here's hoping "Superman" is fixed with the DC Universe Rebirth/Reboot. He desperately needs it. ( )

Most of the TPB is a combination of two things. We get the end of the Hordr thing, sorta, and then a very cool story with Vandal Savage, oh so much Vandal Savage (and not enough Scandal!)

We get his origin again, which is tweaked a little. They bring Krypton into the mix in what I thought was a mostly interesting way. And then we travel through time with Vandal as he tries to get Absolute Power over the entire world.

It's a convoluted plot that's probably not helped by the fact that this TPB only has some of the story in it, not all of it, but, it's also not the first time that I've had to read multiple TPBs to get an entire plot, that's just what the Big Two tend to do when they have humongous-ish stories that they tell.

There were also a couple of issues from the Final Days of Superman story line (that TPB is next on my reading list). And then there were a ton and a half of variants. Some were really, really cool. I usually only skim over the variants at the back of TPBs, but, these were very cool!

I got this ARC through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment. ( )