Heroes in Crisis #6 Review

Be the Best, Wally West

Writer: Tom King

Artists: Clay Mann, Mitch Gerads

Colorists: Tomeu Morey & Gerads

Letters: Clayton Cowles

Cover By: Mitch Gerads

Variant Cover By: Ryan Sook

Associate Editor: Brittany Holzherr

Editor: Jamie S. Rich

Special Thanks to: Seth Mann

Cover Price: $3.99

On Sale Date: February 27, 2019

**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE BOTTOM**

Whenever I read the title to this series, I think of the Misfits song “Children in Heat.” Which I think might be a parody of another song. Here’s the tune:

And here’s my review of Heroes in Crisis #6!

Explain It!

I have a sneaking suspicion that this is one of the three “extra” issues slipped into this series after the core six had been completed. What gives me that impression? Well, there’s more than one penciller on it, for one thing. For another thing, this entire issue is set up much like the previous “extra” issue, which I think was #3: a whole lot of exposition between characters, flitting between scenes like cards in a Nickelodeon, and not a lot of information being passed to the reader. I mean, we do find out who the murderer is. Sort of. But the road there is so stupid so as to be infuriating.

And I’m thinking: is a service to the reader to spoil pertinent moments of this issue, as I normally do? My personal reviewer’s philosophy is that spoilers are more likely to entice someone to read the comic themselves, and that at least it gives them information upon which they can gauge the series. What, then, when an issue is an outlier to the intended series? And furthermore: what if the series is so deplorably bad, that driving people to read it is a disservice in itself?

Heroes in Crisis is so aggressively bad, it deserves an award on that merit. Heavens forbid you are a fan of any character featured in the series, because none of them behave in any recognizable way. Perish any thought of character examination or deconstruction, that has been given over to quippy dialogue and Sanctuary holodeck wish fulfillment. Would you like to see Gnaark muse on the human condition in the modern world? Here’s your book. Anyone that ever liked these superheroes should have bailed by this time already.

Bits and Pieces:

Pretentious garbage. You might enjoy it if you've never read a comic before, and will never read another comic again.

2.5/10