Forever Evil

This is a great story that takes place after the DC 52 event some years ago. I purchased it used and it arrived quickly. It was in great shape when it arrived and now is sitting with my collection.

Title: Forever Evil (HC)Publisher: DCWriter: Geoff JohnsArtists: David Finch (pencils), Richard Friend (inks), Sonia Oback (colors), Finch, Friend & Oback (covers)Collects: Forever Evil #1-7Price: $24.99Let's face it: villains are fun. The villains not only drive the story, they usually look cooler and are more entertaining to watch at work. In video games, people love the chance to be the bad guy - at least once in a while. This book puts readers squarely in the shoes of the villains, for once - Lex Luthor, in particular. In my opinion, there are far too few books that focus on the villains, so I was (naturally) thrilled when I heard about his project from Johns. Marvel put out some truly excellent book a few years ago, under the Dark Reign banner. Those books each focused on villain characters - some of whom had supplanted heroes and were now pretending TO BE heroes. Those books were some of my all-time favorite books, and the year-long project was one that readers won't soon forget. I was hoping that I would find something similar in this book. Though it turned out to be a bit different than what I had expected, it was not disappointing in the slightest.The basic premise of this book is that the Crime Syndicate of Amerika (If you have never heard of this group of characters before, check out the book  JLA Earth 2  for an excellent story and some background information!) has managed to do away with or remove the Justice League from our Earth and are now setting themselves up as the new planetary monarchs. They demand submission from everyone, and deal savagely with anyone who refuses to bow to their leadership. In the absence of Earth's greatest protectors, Lex Luthor, Black Adam, Sinestro and other super criminals form an alliance to get rid of these new, foreign menaces. Naturally, this leads to all sorts of tumultuous encounters and fisticuffs by the truckload. The book is a very fun read, and one that you won't want to put down once you start in. This is the best "event" comic that has come out of the New 52, thus far.David Finch is an accomplished and famous artist who is probably best known for his dark illustrations of night-patrolling heroes. He seems most adept at drawing capes, claws, and beasties. This book gives him some good opportunities to draw those sorts of things, though the art in this book isn't his best work. (His best work, in my opinion, is still found in his first Moon Knight book -  Moon Knight, Vol. 1: The Bottom ) The diminished quality is understandable, as Finch isn't known to be the speediest of artists. Like many greats, he puts a lot of effort into his books to get the illustrations just the way he wants them to look. By being put upon to finish this mini-series by a specific hard-and-fast date, he was probably forced to cut a few corners and lessen the detail. I'm happy he was able to fully illustrate the entire story, even if it wasn't his best work. The artwork is still very good, and the overall story-telling is spot-on. Finch doesn't force any weird camera angles or experiment with panels that span page divides and make the flow of the story hard to decipher. The book is just told in a common, easy-to-read format that is what I prefer.Johns' story-telling is pretty near perfect, too. I generally either love or hate Johns' work, and this book easily falls into the first classification. This book was a super fun and super cool read from start to finish. I can easily recommend this to any comic fan who just wants a fun story to read. I really enjoyed this book, and I think you will, as well. Considering the price that amazon is offering it at, you can't go wrong with this one!Writing: 9/10Artwork: 8/10Cool Factor: 10/10Value: 9/10Overall: 9/10

You can say a lot of things about Geoff Johns but he is a great comic book writer. Forever Evil keeps you guessing on what will happen next in every panel. And once you think you have it figured out he'll pull the rug from under you. Read and find out for yourself.

Reading this story in one collection really increased my opinion of this story. When it came out in issue format, it was plagued by a couple of delays, which kind of made it hard to keep up with the story. Johns' writing is pretty fluid, albeit a little rough around the conclusion. It's a satisfying read, containing several surprises, but almost feels incomplete. It was nice to see such a cadre of legendary DC villains go up against evil versions of the Justice League. When I found out that Finch would be illustrating this series, I was a little disappointed, but he ended up doing a fine job. Some of the faces here and there look strange and rushed, but I'm very satisfied with his work. I feel he did particularly nice work on Lex and pretty much the entire CS (except maybe Johnny, who looks sort of dumb and dated, but he never did anything for anyway). Reading Forever Evil in one sitting is much better than the stop-and-go format it initially was in. Similar Superman: Birthright or Justice, there are not really any clean chapter breaks. The story starts out with all sorts of intriguing questions and secrets, but none are really revealed until the last and second-to-last chapters. This could be explained, however, as a means to sell future issues.Is this book worth the money? Yes. It's not as good as Blackest Night in regards to writing or art, but this is a very different story. Finch's heroes never really looked al that heroic to me, so seeing his style on pretty much only villains worked well for him. It's fun to read, and it was a nice break from all the hero-to-hero fighting in the massive Trinity War saga. The ending was fairly satisfying, but by no means is a closure to the story line. I recommend reading Forever Heroes along with this work, it fills in some gaps and gives a chance for the reader to see some cool characters that will likely never appear again.

I really loved Forever Evil. The central premise is essentially "what if saving the World was left up to DC's supervillains," but the execution of the story is far more interesting and entertaining than that summary suggests, though also slightly misleading. This is an unusually grey DC story, with the villains shown to range from the irredeemably malicious to people who, in slightly different circumstances, could have been heroes.The book is basically a celebration of the various villains who have played a pivotal role in DC's popularity over the years (though there are some big names noticeably missing from the cast). There are big action moments and big character moments, though the book is saturated with neither.As always with crossovers, the biggest weakness of the story is that the ending is, in fact, as much the beginning of another story as it is the end of this one. I also felt some moments were a little too out of character for some of the cast.It's a thoroughly enjoyable read though, with great artwork. I would happily recommend it to anyone.

This storyline was mad but brilliant. I now want to find out the story that led up to this. I have read the continuation from this The Barman Who Laughs. So I know I need to read Dark Metal and Death Metal. For any Justice League or Barman fans this story is a must. It looks really good on Kindle too. Highly recommended. Please excuse me as I now have the next book to read😀😀.

Why is Forever Evil a joy to read?. The answer is simple because the justice league are trapped inside the firestorm matrix and, it's up to lex luthor to put together a team of villains to rebel against the crime syndicate from earth 3. Team luthor consists of characters captain cold, black manta, sinestro, bizarro, deathstroke and black adam. Batman & catwoman also join in the battle.The crime syndicate have captured nightwing and, revealed his true identity to the world as Richard Grayson. The world's remaining heroes are no match for the crime syndicate. Cyborg is rebuilt by his father and, prepares for a showdown with grid. Owlman is plotting against ultraman and, superwoman is pregnant but, who's the father?. If you haven't read this book yet then I won't spoil the surprise by telling you. Superwoman has become my favourite CSA character because she the evil version of my favourite dc character wonder woman. I get the impression superwoman is everything that Diana would be if she ever crossed the line and became a villain. The look of disbelief on the faces of deathstorm and, ultraman when superwoman reveals her true intentions.The writing by Geoff johns yet again is pretty good. In forever evil the artwork is provided by current wonder woman artist David fynch.

So the premise of this book is that the Justice League are all but defeated, the Crime Syndicate have invaded Earth Prime and every villain in the world is on the loose and trying to carve out a piece of the world for themselves. Of course not everyone is happy with this new arrangement, Lex Luthor being the main one, and he uses his Superman clone B-0 (Bizarro!) to help him deal with them, and along the way he ends up teaming with Captain Cold, Black Adam and Black Manta to get the job done.Each character has a motivation for wanting to stop the Crime Syndicate, which makes it even more interesting. Black Adam doesn't want them to enslave people, Black Manta wants to kill them because they took away his change at avenging his father's murder at the hands of Aquaman, and Captain Cold wants to stop them because he was told to destroy his city and refused, and wants to stop the Syndicate from enacting the plan.The best part of this book is surprisingly not seeing these unique characters team up, but their motivations and how they're narrated. We get a look inside Lex's head as he tells a story about his sister and how he does what he does in order to get results, regardless of the cost both monetarily or morally.Seeing the Crime Syndicate in their full glory is mesmerising, watching total opposites of heroes we know and love is quite surprising and seeing Ultraman needing Kryptonite for fuel, Owlman wanting to reconnect with Dick Grayson and seeing a pregnant Superwoman manipulate the men in the group is truly something special. Each one has a hidden agenda that they keep from the group as a whole and it's ultimately this distrust and failure that leads to the climax of the story.The art by David Finch is consistently fantastic and brutal, from the small detail of a scared Bizarro to the epic nature of Ultraman moving the moon with his bare hands, he does a great job of showing the scale of what is happening under the control of the Crime Syndicate.

I came to this event series well after it's heyday, after the dust had long since settled.The kindle version was on cheap offer and a mini-series works well on kindle - like a motion picture summer blockbuster.This is a powerful, game-changing series that engages immediately, looks beautiful and flows well.There are no real story telling boundaries broken here - some bad-guys rise to the occasion against the ruthless Crime Syndicate in the absence of the Justice League.Lex Luthor gets the bulk of the spotlight but there are some important character beats for some others - the greatest being Nightwing of course.Whilst I do not feel this was essential reading it does enhance many DC series and satisfies well enough.