A comiXologist Recommends:
Harris Smith recommends The New 52: Futures End #7

The New 52: Future’s End is a superhero comic for people who love superhero comics. Bringing together four of the genre’s top writers, and a score of DC’s most interesting characters, it’s a fast-paced, no-nonsense example of the kind of unpretentious fun that well-written superhero stories can offer.

It would be easy to talk about what Jeff Lemire and Brian Azzarello bring to the book, and they do bring a lot, but if you’re currently a reader of DC Comics, you’re probably already well-versed in their talents. The New 52: Future’s End really belongs to its two most venerable creators, Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens. Both are master storytellers with a strong sense of character. Giffen specializes in oddballs- he’s written The Omega Men, Justice League International, Doom Patrol, the recent OMAC reboot and is co-creator of Ambush Bug. Jurgens is skilled at bringing out the humanity in his characters over the course of beautifully plotted narratives. In the 80s, Giffen wrote Booster Gold as a bit of a goofball, in the 00s, Jurgens gave him a sense of purpose. These two sensibilities, the absurd and the humane, play off one another nicely throughout Future’s End.

This book also brings something that’s been sorely missing from some comics in recent years- the subplot. There are no fewer than five narrative threads breathlessly running through Future’s End and one of the most compelling things about the series is anticipating what will happen when they all inevitably collide. This is admittedly not a book that’s great to pick up a single issue of, but even if you do, you’ll want to immerse yourself in the entire series. It’s unadulterated comic book excitement.

[Read The New 52: Futures End #7 Here!]

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_{Harris Smith is a Brooklyn-based comics and media professional. In addition to his role as a Senior Production Coordinator at comiXology, he edits several comics anthologies, including Jeans and Felony Comics, under the banner of Negative Pleasure Publications. He’s also the host of the weekly radio show Neagtive Pleasure on Newtown Radio.}