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Title: Kingdom by Mark Waid, Ariel Olivetti, Mike Zeck ISBN: 1-56389-567-6 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (12 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Worst sequal ever!
Comment: A better name for this book would have been stupid stories about characters in knigdome come. All this book does is tell a really bad story that has a really bad pay off. It makes all the characters in kingdome come look really dumb and weak then twists somethings in the kingdome come plot around. For me this book almost took away some of my great regard for the original kingdome come with the dumb things the authors did, you dont mess with something that was really good. This is what happens when you let someone write a sequal that oviously didn't like the prequal. In conclusion dont read or buy this book because if you do you'll regret it!
Rating: 2
Summary: Mark Waid should go to hell for this.
Comment: Kingdom Come was one of the best stories ever and had the potential for a lot of great follow ups but is completely ruined by the Kingdom. Why did Mark Waid think that this was the way to follow up Kingdom Come? There were too many mistakes here to be believed, the story was bad, the art was bad, and all it served was to create a plot device that completely undo's Crisis and is sure to be an even bigger mistake in the future. It also screws up Alex Ross's character designs. Batman doesn't wear his helmet in the final part, why do we want to see an old man in Bat-armor. The Flash's look is reduced to the regular custume with Jay Garrick's Helmet (why, why, why!!!?). In it's defense the filler stories showcasing the Kingdom Come characters decent, enjoyable stories with good art exploring the Kingdom Come future, which is what a KC sequel should have been about. But these aren't enough to forgive Waid and to ever just his writing again.
Rating: 2
Summary: Bad, bad, bad!
Comment: Coming after the excellent "Kingdom Come", this must surely rank as the worst sequel ever written or published in the comics industry.
"The Kingdom" starts promisingly enough where "Kingdom Come" ended, a couple of decades in the future, with a very pregnant Wonder Woman about to give birth to the son of an older Superman on Paradise Island. The villain Gog appears, and after a brief battle with some of the younger surviving heroes from "Kingdom Come", manages to kidnap the newborn child, which he then brings back to the past (i.e. the present) for his own nefarious purposes. "As I am Gog, so you shall be my Magog". Will the baby boy become the very same Magog that precipitated the events in "Kingdom Come"?
Suffice to say, the rest of the story does not live up to the promise of that exciting first chapter. What follows is mostly author Mark Waid's personal rant against comic fans who insist on continuity in their favorite comic books as against comic fans who aren't opposed to reading "good" stories (i.e. the "kingdom of wonder" touted by "The Kingdom") regardless of whether such stories follow the established continuity of a comic book character's life.
The premise of "The Kingdom" is a good one, but the execution could have been much better. Plus, turning a story into a personal rebuke to a selected few in an audience who did not happen to concur with his views must have been the worst thing that an author could have done. And the art in the final chapter is really awful.
All in all, a very bad sequel that most fans of "Kingdom Come" must have wished had never seen the light of day. Alex Ross had minimal involvement, the blame is solely Mark Waid's.
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Title: Kingdom Come (Graphic Novel) by Mark Waid, Alex Ross ISBN: 1563893304 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Crisis On Multiple Earths, Vol. 1 by Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky ISBN: 1563898950 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: History of the Dc Universe by Marv Wolfman ISBN: 1563897989 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman, George Perez ISBN: 1563897504 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Marvels by Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross ISBN: 0785100490 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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