This collection is a side companion of the Infinite Crisis story. In this one, Lex Luthor is organizing all the villains into one group to devise an attack against the Justice League. A small collection of villains do not want to join and they form their own group. In true comic book fashion, these two groups clash.I read the main story of Infinite Crisis and I am attempting to read its side pieces. This one was a pleasant surprise as I did not think this was up my alley. I am not the biggest DC...

Gail Simone is always a pleasure to read, with a fine knack for putting words into the mouths of bizarre people. When you think about it, making grown-ups dressed in Halloween costumes (and in this book, really bad Halloween costumes) speak is going to be a challenge. But she has a sense of voice, quirks and character that makes the somewhat cartoonish world totally entertaining on a real level. The plot is pretty forced (little after they're hired by a mysterious employer they're tortured to ex...

So Lex Luthor decides that he wants to create a society of villains. He decides to go recruiting, riding on the waves of the Justice League lobotomizing another villain. The catch is, bad stuff happens when someone declines. Six of the pretty low-level villains, Scandal Savage, Ragdoll, Cat Man, Deadshot, Cheshire, and Parademon, have Luthor after them because they don't want to be in his society. They get an offer to join/get threatened into joining a group run by a mysterious figure named Mock...

Dr Light’s told everyone what happened to him at the hands of the heroes in Identity Crisis (boo!) so now the villains are uniting in a Society to prevent any further mind-wiping (and here’s me hoping Villains United was a football team). However, six villains hold out so the Society decide to kill them and find out the identity of their secret benefactor, Mockingbird. Even though none of that makes any sense. So this is the beginning of Gail Simone’s Secret Six run, a series I’ve read some of a...

Gail Simone has quite the talent when it comes to writing a mini-series that revolves a team. Personally, I dislike anything that revolves around a team. There are too many interesting characters who simply do not receive enough attention. Villains United serves as a prequel to Simone's later series, Secret Six. It's a brilliant start as the Society comes together and so does the Secret Six. Gail Simone builds humanity into characters that are not meant to be pitied. At the same time, each villa...

There were some entertaining parts, but this was mostly a mess.I really like Gail Simone’s dialogue. It’s clever and punchy. I also liked the overall characterizations. The weakness here is a very silly story that doesn’t maximize drama effectively. It’s a shame. I think this could have been a lot better, especially if it was condensed to 3 issues.The best part was actually the torture part in issue #3. This is a necessary read in preparation for Infinite Crisis... but I don’t think it’s going t...

This book is a very interesting accomplishment. Apparently DC gave Simone a very rigidly structured assignment as to when and where the story all had to take place, and what had to happen and who had to do what in order to make it fit into their C-to-I-C master framework, and despite all of the restrictions she produced a very good story that holds together well using mostly forgotten B-list (and C- and D- and so on down the alphabet) villainous characters. The art is pretty good, even though Ca...

Villains vs villains. A very confusing story, and twin Luthers???? I liked seein the different DC villains as I'm not too familiar with DC, but this story didn't make a lot of sense to me. Maybe I had to read something before this. I don't know.

Lex Luther and some of the other big supervillains band together to create the Society. They use the fallout of Identity Crisis with what happened to Dr. Light to scare all the villains to join so they don't get brainwiped by the Justice League. Still there are 6 B-list villains who refuse to join and the Society determines to make examples of them. This very much has a Suicide Squad feel to it. Gail Simone captures these characters very well. I love the interactions between the team. Simone wil...

Despite all the logic in the world to the contrary, this book was actually really good.

Simone’s dialogue is witty and I like the use of C-list villains, but the story is convoluted and, even by superhero comic standards, far-fetched.

As part of my Countdown to Infinite Crisis: I read the Villains United books and all the crossovers()!). As another direct result of the Identity Crisis the DCU villains beginning uniting. Includes Flash's 'Rogue Wars', Batman's 'Under the Hood volume one', Villains United mini-series, Batman's 'Family Reunion etc. Good to see Gail Simone leading an event! 7 out of 12

I loved this, I mean who doesn't like a good villains story and this was a great villains story.

Now I finally get what all the Gail Simone enthusiasm is about. I really get an emotional connection with her main characters. It's not like (with some writers) they're just reading from the playbook or reporting on things the artist should be drawing; I actually get the sense these characters have some internal motivations and are acting like the rest of us imperfect creatures.The story itself was fun and adventurous enough - probably more meaning-laden or those who've followed these B-list cha...

This is a great book! I'll admit the first chapter is pretty boring but after that it is so excellent! A great prequel to the infinite crisis saga! By the way if you do want to read infinite crisis first you have to read this! But overall a great story and this is like what the justice league would be like if they were villains!

You’ve seen hero vs hero now get read for villain vs villain. Lex Luther is rallying villains across the world to join his secret society of super villains, but not everyone is okay with it and the mysterious Mockingbird gathers six villains known as the secret six to go against the society. I personally liked the villain vs villain angel because it’s a lot more interesting and believable than most hero vs hero stories, villains have their own agendas and aren’t afraid to play dirty and backstab...

After his JLA lobotomy was reversed, Doctor Light seems to have at least partly devoted himself to making sure everybody knew about it. At any rate, by the time Villains United rolled around, virtually every metahuman in the DC universe knew about it, and we're seeing some very realistic repercussions here. Luthor is using it to rally a massive team of supervillains to his Society. Our focus characters, and de facto heroes, are a half dozen second string (or worse) villains, employed by the myst...

Gail Simone - with her "wish-I-could-do-that" uncanny ability to blend the over-the-top nature and action of super hero themed worlds with regular real world moments - is arguably one of the best comic book writers out there and witout doubt one of my favorites.Villains United (one of the few things that spun out of the Identity/Countdown to Infinite crises/ Infinite Crises string of stories and story lines that I actually enjoyed) is an example of how good writing can draw you into the lives of...

No matter how many times I read this book, I still find new things to love about it. Gail Simone knows how to write a team book, and she excels at witty banter and battle scenes. I didn't really enjoy her run on Wonder Woman (too bland and lackluster), but she really shines here. I think it's got to be all the diverse personalities the Secret Six afford her. Because this book was a tie-in to Infinite Crisis, a few of the plot points in VILLAINS UNITED are unclear, but the writers do a good job s...

it's pretty awesome when you can turn a whole bunch of B comic characters into something worth reading. most of these guys i've never heard of and, at first glance, dismissed most of them as silly, but after reading through this, it was a pretty fun read. of the IC tie-ins, this had the best characters. at least, the best writing for the characters.