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Salvation Run (2008)

by Matthew Sturges(Favorite Author)

3.1 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401219306 (ISBN13: 9781401219307)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

DC Comics

review 1: The storyline of Salvation Run was teased in Gotham Underground: the government has been secretly rounding up unrepentant supercrooks and exiling them to a distant planet. So far, so good. I'm sure the good people of Gotham feel so much better every time that Joker is hauled off to Arkham for a short vacation. And the storyline does start promisingly, at least in the first few issues. But in the back half, it starts to fall apart. For one, we have two factions set up, lead by Lex Luthor and Joker. But I have a hard time buying Joker as a leader of men, instead of a lone anarchist working against the others' interests for the hell of it. But we had to have Joker vs. Luthor, didn't we? There's also a Vandal Savage storyline that really goes nowhere and doesn't seem to serve ... moreany real purpose. Of course, the government who exiled them all is holding perhaps the biggest Idiot Ball of all time here. I know they want to get rid of them all, but why on earth would they send off evil geniuses who are more than capable of engineering their way off the planet? Especially when one of them is Luthor, who is both brilliant and charismatic enough to lead the project. As soon as they sent Luthor, they guaranteed that these guys would be back.
review 2: I liked this a lot more than I thought I was, but this not the usual sort of superhero thing that I go for. Basically, all of the heroes get angry at super-villains and decide to exile them to idyllic planet, which is actually full of bloodthirsty alien critters. Hijinks's and extreme violence follow shortly.The comic seems to be an excuse for the writers to brutally kill a lot of third string foes, which has some entertaining moments, but for the most part is for the shock value (which is little). I did enjoy the large amounts of love given to the Flash's Rouges who appear (and narrate much of the book) and Martain Manhunter's fate was effectively depressing. Also, the writers really do a great job with Lex Luther, he has an amazing speech at the end of the book which so perfectly encapsulates the character, it is almost worth the price of admission alone. For fans of splatter, dark humor, and the tv show Survivor. less

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