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3.0

So we enter the third volume and...it's still good! But I didn't connect to this one as much. Mainly because of one big storyline.

But let's talk about the good. As always there's some wonderful stories in here I really enjoyed. The book actually opens with a pretty funny team up of Supes and Batman as they have to stop a vampire lady from killing people. It's silly, over the top, but I can't help but have fun with this one. There's also a King Kong like story with Titano which is both sad, a bit heavy handed, but with a lot of heart. Basically a Giant ape scared and thanks to a crazy doctor he goes berserk and starts destroying the city.

Then we get into a Banshee story that's pretty fun. If nothing else, her design is freaking awesome. We then get the Millennium storyline which has some really meh stories here. Ones I couldn't wait to get past. And not too sure what the hell Millennium tagline was, I haven't read much DC during this time. The Manhunters come in and they are just a weird plotline that I couldn't get heavily invested. It didn't help it felt so out of the loop compared to the rest.

Luckily we follow up with a excellent story of Gangbuster and Jose being the badass hero he is. Such a great side by side comparison issue really with excellent human moments from a cast of characters and a brutal ending that made me super sad.

Sadly last few stories are just okay. The ending had a cool idea with Superman having to use his wits to stop a evil mastermind from eventually destroying the world. But overall it failed to live up to prior stories for me.

This group of stories varied but I do feel it still had more good than bad. Saying that it didn't live up to volume 1-2 for me but still solid at 3 out of 5.