The bet has been held without missing a single week, it is now time to see if history holds the road in a collection format. This first volume contains episodes 1 to 13. Listed writers, it's heavy. There Geoff Johns (Green Lantern 1: The Sinestro Corps War & Justice Society of America. Thy Kingdom Come Pt 1), Grant Morrison (Final Crisis & Seven Soldiers of Victory vol.1), Greg Rucka (Gotham Central Vol. 2: Jokers and Madmen Hc & Wonder Woman: Mission's End) and Mark Waid (Kingdom Come & The Brave and the Bold. Lords of Luck v 1). Finally, to ensure visual consistency to the series, DC hired Keith Giffen (Showcase Presents Ambush Bug 1 & Justice League International) to make the storyboards and JG Jones (Wanted) to illustrate each of the blankets.
With all that, this first volume to track (1) Booster Gold of the adventures that realizes that its talking robot malfunction, which puts him in situations more critical, (2) the desperate search for Ralph Dibny to defeat the crime committed in Identity Crisis, (3) John Henry Irons and his niece Natasha that tear around who is a hero, (4), Animal Man, Starfire and Adam Strange desperately trying to regain land and (5 ) Black Adam who rules his own country.
Listed illustrations, this first volume overall is a pleasant surprise as this is Joe Bennett performs half of drawings and it is the height of the challenge. For the rest, the illustrations are between a pretty decent level and frankly average.
In the end, this volume is an enjoyable read, highly segmented (that is the nature of the project that wanted each character to appear in short sequences in each episode), with engaging characters (the writers are really very good) and many of key moment in the history of the DC Universe (we include just the first appearance of the new Batwoman).
