Kastie Pavlik's Reviews > Outsiders (2023-) #7

Finally we get to the heart of the matter. While I think this was a fantastic read, it was also frustrating because I've never had to stop and Google so many things while reading one comic before.

Prior to this, I knew nothing of Planetary. Had only heard of Wildstorm. And only knew about Century Babies thanks to a recent article about Jenny Sparks coming back to comics.

And then as I'm reading and the timing keeps changing, I'm noticing Wonder Woman's New 52 silver and Batman's Rebirth gold edging, which I recognized since I've been reading at least that long, but didn't need to because the time shifting is kept in the text, too. And then we get to Dawn of DC and the 2 Supermans and so forth.

Anyway - my thought about this having the potential to be a cool crisis story in my review for the last issue turned out to be fairly spot on. This is a character caught in freefall between all the changes DC has gone through, and who is the big bad here? Not the creators. The ones who read.

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I don't know that the issue itself is 5 star worthy, but the reading in between to figure out what the hell is happening and to understand context is. And it'll make a lot more sense if you're familiar with all these characters in the first place. I'm actually kind of sad this has been relegated to a side title like Outsiders and not a bigger title that allows for more depth because this is actually much cooler than I thought it would be, and it's a title I for sure thought I would drop after #3. Glad I didn't.