60% | C+ | Good"We won't have you and your creative hair colours disturbing our neighbours"An evil corporation called RetCo, the power of milk and brainwashed superheroes makes for one wild rideDo you ever read something and think 'what the fuck was that'? Usually, I give a plot summary, but half of the time I didn't really know what was happening so I wouldn't be able to do this storyline justice. This book is so wacky and weird that I'm not sure how I feel about it. There are some funny moment...

As with all things Young Animal, this is spectacularly weird, and definitely not for everyone. But if weird comics are your thing, read the Young Animal titles. Then, if you've got a working familiarity with the currently-active DC Comics superhero roster, come back to this. It's work, and there is a somewhat limited audience that lands in the middle of that Venn diagram, but man oh man, is this worth it.

4.5Gerard Way brings more of the Doom Patrol into this crossover of the Young Imprint characters and DC universe. It's nice to see the label gain recognition into the larger universe, it's a great sign for the quality Way and the other writers have injected into the label.Why the 4.5?I liked the story and it was a nice addition to the label. I personally don't want another team-up with the DC world, just the label would've been cool. The added mixture of writers and artists aren't the greatest a...

Meh. This is one of those books that could have been spectacular, and even delivers some really great moments (for example: "There's something in my eye." - Cave Carson). But its a bit too disjointed to be constantly great.

Hell, after finishing this I'm astonished any mainstream comic book publisher had the guts to go ahead with this story. It is, in some ways, a criticism of most of the big money makers in this pretty small industry. At the same time, it gladdens my heart to see DC's Young Animal line embrace what made Vertigo great at its height.They set out to tell a good story. The story has a message, especially in the first and fifth installments, but above all this is a good story.You want to read a tale wh...

I couldn't force myself to finish this. It's kind of a Grant Morrison writes a silver-age story but gets sidetracked and forgets to have fun with it. It's a very self-aware and meta imagining of the Rebirth DC Universe colliding with the Young Animal imprint.I recommend it only to people who think Seaguy is a game changing work of genius.

Where heros familiar and new fight against everything we want them to be. They will be here for us, but they won't be perfect. They'll be human and flawed and weird. The weirdness stacks up high and all comes clattering down in the very end. I'll probably need to go over the entire Young Animal run once more to make more sense of it, but I feel like I kinda get it. However flawed the Young Animal runs are, they all come together nicely in this book. I'd advice any fan of DC to read this, if only...

After the end of Gerrard Way's Doom Patrol I was a bit disheartened by the lack of a big ending, but alas it wasn't the end as Milk Wars in a lot of ways the conclusion to the series. Although I wish Doom Patrol continued as a series cause it was brilliant in Ways hands.And you know what? I enjoyed the hell out of it. Was it perfect? Nope! But was it satisfying? Hell yes! The main downside here is that multiple titles means multiple writers. If Way had written the whole thing, it would have been...

This was the first time I've felt Gerard Way has met the weirdness of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol series head on. It felt like an extension of that run. I think the difference is that the story is not only weird but coherent for the first time, and really, quite simple. An evil corporation called Retcon has brainwashed the world in various scenarios throughout each one shot through the power of milk. It not only does a body good, but also whitewashes the mind. I felt they really captured the sp...

What in the fuck? That was probably my thought process 80% of the time here. So Milkman Man (Not a typo) is on a rampage. His quite little town of peacefulness is breaking down and it's up to all the Young Animal characters to come save the day. So this story starts with Doom Patrol and ends with them but inbetween get Shade, Mother Panic, and Cave all being a part of the overall storyline to stop our favorite heroes from being stuck in the retacon world. Good: It's very vibrant, craazy, and fun...

I liked this more than the Grant Morrison stories other reviewers are comparing it to, I thought it it held together better and actually made a statement instead of just spiraling around its own references until it's meaningless. But I went into it not knowing any of the Young Animal characters and that was a bad decision, I wasn't invested so the emotional moments and reveals meant nothing to me.

You know that if it takes the combined efforts of the Doom Patrol, Cave Carson, Shade the Changing Girl, and Batman and the Outsiders to defeat a villain, the villain is going to be weird. Very weird. In Milk Wars, Gerard Way does his best version of Grant Morrison, but with his own spin on things. He employs much of the same types of tactics: Highly strange and mysterious villain(s), obtuse writing, likable heroes, and a penchant for dynamic splash pages. However, I think Way does a very smart

Gerard has no problem bringing a ton of originality to his art.

Let me just say this, first of all Swamp Thing will make any comic better, and second of all, if Swamp Thing says “burn me” as in take a toke of what I’m offering here, yes, I’m in.I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. No Swamp Thing, no third star.Yes this is wildly original and different, maybe too different. Reminiscent of Ira Levin’s 1972 novel the Stepford Wives, Retconn is an evil corporation that has turned wholesome milk into a mind capturing substance that steals your soul under

To love 'Milk Wars' is to fully embrace the manifesto of the Young Animal line.World: The art is beautiful, from Quietly's covers to the multiple artists for each 5 books in the series, it is a visual feast of the weird, odd, quirky and the other. The art is not normal, the biggest example being the Shade issue, it's different and the art really informs the odd and unorthodox nature of the event, it's a visual feast. The world building, where do I start? It's a meta textual, fringe, middle finge...

Id loved the latest doom patrol volumes by Way but this was just all over the place. Sometimes I had no idea what was going on.

When the first issue of the Milk Wars came out I grabbed it out of curiosity but wasn’t really anticipating much. We’re in the middle of DC’s great Metal, White Knight, and Doomsday Clock stories. But once I read the first issue I was amazed by the depth and meta commentary to such a degree that it has to be said DC is going through somewhat of a renaissance as of late (well the weird copycat new heroes they just came out with are still up in the air for a moment, but I digress...).Despite the d...

This book's biggest problem is that it's a particularly ill-conceived crossover. You see it's the story of heroes suddenly trapped in a Retconned reality where everything is different. They have to figure that out and break free and then get a Cybernetic-eye telegram from Cave Carson and decide to go fight the Retconn Corporation itself. Oh, and there's always mind-control milk as a major plot element.Innately, that core concept is flawed because none of the authors produce Retconns that are tha...

This was a most conundrum inducing story/event/crossover for me as a comic reader generally and as a DC comic reader specifically.It was fun. But it was a bit dull.It was interesting and different. But it was kind of cheesy and derivative.It had great characters and dynamic moments. It had really convoluted and boring moments.It was quirky and amusing. It was plain silly.In the end: It was definitely more innovative and pushing into new territory than the average DC comic, which is why despite t...

DC has decided to go Retro! Well, sort of, in a manner of speaking. Part of the Expanded Multiverse has been "homogenized" by Retconn with the aid of Milkman Man and other transformed super heroes. The Doom Patrol and Cave Carson are some of the semi-forgotten super heroes that join the normal lineup. If you do not mind a bit of silliness, You are likely to enjoy Milk Wars!