Whew this is a lot.

The Avengers/Thunderbolt team up sees Buseik come back to unite his current Avengers run and his creation with Thunderbolts. It's a fun team up, that of course the heroes are at odds with each other and their team but work it out. The rest of this volume focuses on a lot of twist and turns. People dying, getting brought back, become tornado like monster versions of themselves due to power overloading, many faces of V, and a lot more. Just a ton of shit thrown at you, some sticks, some doesn't.

I think this was too cluttered at points. Issues I was trying to retrace my reading and understand what the fuck happened issues ago that brought up the newest characters. I did like some twist, and the start of this book is pretty great with a good build up. But the end results are iffy, some good, some not too good.

A 3 out of 5.

Just gonna rate the main story cause backups aren't doing it for me.

The main story focuses on the Super family, all of them, and it's a lot of fun. Watching them cover each other, Jon babysitting, the new twins, all of it works real well.

A GREAT Start for Stephanie as Batgirl. She's bright, fun, exciting, and just a ton of heart. The team up issues, her origin, all work really well and make her a different, more fun Batgirl than the previous two. I will say the zombie storyline just okay but the rest? Loved it.

A 4 out of 5.

Did a video on her too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN3daId3NWc

I truly dislike this first volume.

Cass feels nothing like how she normally does.

Barbara is SO annoying.

Stephanie is so "dumb" in this it's a insult to her character.

The storyline and "bad" guy are so shitty.

This whole volume is garbage really.

Jesus this run is running out of gas.

First two parter with static couldn't be more boring, and even with superboy returning nothing of interest happened, especially the storyline with Raven. A BORE to say the least.

I'm ready for a new writer.

This Omnibus took me for a ride of different emotions and thrills while also making me question what the fuck is happening.

So let's talk about the start. Fabian Nicieza takes over for Busiek on Thunderbolts as Busiek focus shifts more towards his major Avengers run at the time. And Fabian does a solid enough job to continue the story threads Busiek set up. I personally like both writers, so didn't bother me the change of hands when it came to writing except I believe Fabian tries to juggle TOO much. Setting up so many major storybeats that eventually will all be concluded but not before a couple dozen issues and a crossover to tell them. Leaving it feeling padded.

I do believe the very start of this run is great. Giving us a death out of nowhere, that almost feels so casual in the way it was done you have to appeciate it for feeling a bit too realistic in a shooting in public event. Once that happens we shift our attention to the Thunderbolts dealing with multiple threads, while scourge, a characters reveal who kind of left me wikipediaing him, returns, while Orge and Fixer have a major and kind of convulted storybeat, all leading to V grand return but this time a slight twist on all that.

Oh and as I mentioned, an avengers cross over happening to probably boost the Thunderbolts sales.

This is a lot to process, and honestly it left me confused at times and the lettering and heavy internal dialogue made some pages feel cluttered to the point of not enjoying the storybeats.

However, I kept going mostly thanks to Fabian having a good grasp on the characters and the art which was moving towards the early 2000s feel which felt cleaner.

Then after we do get to issue 50 things start to get a lot better for me.

Strip back all the high concept and 20 storylines, and have Graviton return. Yes, that psycho from the earlier stories in the first Omnibus, but this time Karla is at his side. The Thunderbolts are no more really, replaced by the Redeemers, and only Jolt and Charcoil are still a part of the thunderbolts. But when this evil villain returns things get messy real quick. A truly startling amount of deaths and brutal endings to characters while the old thunderbolts have to somehow work together as a team again to stop them. The second half of this Omnibus is by far my favorite part of it, and I was intrigued the entire time.

Except for the V mini series at the end. The first V mini wasn't bad, 3 parter, had a cool twist, and it was fun. The second wasn't nearly as interesting, kind of boring, been there done that, and it sadly was the very last story of this Omnibus besides the one shot issue at the end from a character who showed up previously in this Omnibus.

This one is a far more mixed bag than volume 1 for me. While I think volume 1 is far better constructed overall and more consisted, I do think this one tries to swing bigger and while I think the later half succeeds in a big way and I love the graviton story arc, I do believe the first half while fun can be overwhelming, and the V mini at the end is pretty bad. I'd say the art stays pretty solid throughout as well, with no major complaints. As we go on and get into the later issues, the art becomes easier and easier to follow, and I believe that's just due to the change in cleaner art in comics in early 2000s.

A 3 out of 5 overall.

Snooze fest. Damien is way too annoying here. He's always a bit of a dick but he's SO dumb here it's insulting to the character. I really didn't like the plot either, too typical high school boy gets picked on, gets powers, fights back. BORING. Art decent.

A book made for people who want to read a comic but not want to get into comics.

Basically first 4 issues is the avengers team from the first avengers in 2012 teaming up. Then we bring in the Guardians of the galaxy to spice it up and also cause the movie was coming as well as Bendis taking over writing duties for Guardians.

It's a okay action comic, goes quick, some funny dialogue, but nothing special. Feels almost too simple even though that's what it's going for.

A 2.5 out of 5. I'll bump it to a 3 cause it's a harmless comic book good for non-comic readers.

Batman and Superman remains to be a blast. This time it's about Dick taking out Kara on their date, and it goes BAD in the best way possible. Everyone loves a terrible date looking in from the outside anyway.

Okay, so it's not as bad as I remember, but this was kind of just big blockbuster feel, some funny dialogue, but doesn't have the real feel of family were used to with GoTg. It's still decent enough. A 2.5 I'll bump to a 3.