I mean, the arts nice...

Wow. I rarely rate anything less than three 💫s, but this was so disappointing. I've not read a great deal of Bendis' work, but pretty much everything I have read is better than this. The plot is interesting and held my attention until the last issue, when... at last... nothing really happened. This comic had some of the most awkward, the most idiosyncratic dialogue I have ever read in a comic. Based upon this comic alone, a reader might be forgiven for thinking that English is not Bendis' first

A passable event that ended up being quite dull in parts, with a lot of promise going unfulfilled, and a handful of red herrings being so obviously implausible that they added no tension to the story. I was entirely unsurprised when they were “revealed” to be red herrings 100 pages later, and I don’t think any regular DC reader would be tricked by.Also, the grand reveal of Leviathan’s identity was a bit of a nothing. I have a pretty deep knowledge of the DC universe and this one left me scratchi...

Welp. As an event comic, Event Leviathan was kinda mediocre. Sure, it had some fun moments here and there, but overall I wouldn't say it was particularly exciting — I never really cared who Leviathan was and what he was doing, there wasn't really any sense of threat or urgency throughout the entire thing, and in the end, when the whole scheme (and the villain identity) was revealed, it felt more like "eh" instead of author-intended "whoa". The biggest strengths of the book itself were definitely...

I could write something nice about the art or the concept of this collection, but the simple fact is this is a dull, confusing and forgettable story. By the time the big villain reveal came around I didn’t care one iota. Have to confess that I’ve pretty much written Brian Michael Bendis off; everything this guy has done lately is near unreadable in my opinion.

Bendis's first DC event is a big ol’ misfire. It's a story that has been building in his Action Comics run since the beginning. It promises a focus on more street-level action and more detective work and espionage featuring the best detectives in the DC universe as they try to figure out who Leviathan is and why the group has infiltrated every spy organization. So we get to see Batman, Lois Lane, Green Arrow, Robin, Plastic Man, and The Question all work together.But ultimately, it's a total cho...

4I had been putting this book off due to the reviews on here but I must admit it's actually good. Bendis is one of those writers who needs the collected volume to do his storylines service. I've found that reading single issues aren't ideal for his style and Event Leviathan is no different. The book is a long who is Leviathan conspiracy and the momentum of the storyline keeps this ticking over. I'll circle back around and mention the reviews on here. I've started using Comicbook Round Up as my f...

I was going to write something clever here, but then my brain reminded me that I’d used up my allotment for the week when, during a presentation to 450 colleagues today, I referred to those halcyon days when "social distancing was just something that happened to me at middle school dances.”So, I’ll just say that the art is nice, the premise is interesting, but the execution is a bit lackluster, and two days after I read it, I couldn’t even remember who Leviathan was because, even to someone with...

Kobra, Task Force X, ARGUS, the DEO, Spyral - all the spy agencies of the world get ‘sploded by Leviathan. Except it weren’t Talia al Ghul ‘cos she’s been usurped by a mysterious someone. Who is the new head of Leviathan and what do they want? Find out in: Event Leviapants! I’ve read enough of Bendis’ DC stuff at this point not to have high expectations for any of it and, yeah, unfortunately Event Leviathan is another boring Bendis book. I think after this many strikeouts DC needs to send him ba...

Bendis' first big DC event is all around a strange beast.It starts off with a superb Superman comic, and then both sets many of its characters aside and takes Superman off-screen for a couple of issues.It feels like there should be sub-stories, but as far as I know almost everything is here.It offers itself up as a mystery, but seems to be mainly about arbitrary red herrings that get knocked down because of the plot requirements.It makes itself very relevant to the modern day DC universe, but it...

2.5 rounded down. This just felt really lackluster and like Bendis was spinning his wheels for all six issues.

2.5 stars"I said this is some grade-A 'Bat-themed' #$%& !" -- Kate 'Manhunter' Spencer, late in the storyWell, Event Leviathan is not quite '#S%&' (although Manhunter's actual dialogue quote was too irresistible not to use here) but it does remind me of that tagline in a series of humorous AT&T advertisements back in 2018 - "Just OK." I mean, the ingredients for a good brew are assembled - a great line-up of DC superheroes / crimefighters (among them Superman, Batman, Green Arrow, Red Hood, etc....

This was Bendis's attempt at Secret War for DC. All of DC's spy agencies are destroyed by Leviathan and DC's greatest investigators go on the trail to find out what happened. While not completely necessary, Superman: Action Comics, Vol. 2: Leviathan Rising is the lead-in for this book. The spy agencies actually get taken down there and Event Leviathan is the aftermath. Turning this into a crime procedural certainly plays to Bendis's strengths. Although as with a lot of Bendis's books, it's not s...

An ok book, but with the cast I was expecting a lot more. I liked the artwork I went really well with the mood of the book, but the story was for me a bit ambitious and did not deliver.Usually I do not mind a story lacking in action if story is good. Here the "greatest detectives" seem to be grasping at straws, jumping to every conclusion or just arguing with each other. Batman sort of surrenders the leadership role to Lois Lane. Then the big reveal at the end was a bit flat for me as I really d...

Took me a bit to warm up to this with the really stupid and irrelevant Jimmy Olsen in Gorilla City story kicking things off. And the early chapters seemed to be unnecessarily vague and written to make events seem more mysterious than they were. After all the filler, the end of the story actually gained momentum as it got more and more fanboy oriented, dredging up a pretty obscure series from the 1980s that will probably leave casual readers going "Huh?" when it comes to the finale.While I can go...

This was okay. I waited a long time for this because I figured this was a Superman event since both his current books state "follow the events of Leviathan to know what happens" but Superman is kind of just a plot point. This is really a Batman book, with Lois Lane and Green arrow as the main support cast. Saying that, the start is actually pretty good. We have this mysterious Leviathan character murdering and kidnapping main players, people who have been keeping secrets from the world, and forc...

Event LeviathanWhen all of the world's intelligence agencies are attacked at once, it's up to a select group of DC's detectives to investigate and discover the truth behind the mystery of Leviathan.Given that this has been seeded in most of Bendis' Superman books since he took over and I've not read them all, this is actually fairly accessible. The premise is straightforward enough to jump into, and the hook keeps you going throughout the entire six issue story.When Bendis is good, Bendis is rea...

Please. We’re rid of King. Can someone please fire Bendis now? It’s all I wanted for Christmas!

Basic Plot: Leviathan has destroyed the world's intelligence and espionage organizations, and the world's greatest detectives seek to uncover Leviathan's identity and plans.Super jumpy. Art was iffy. I'm sure I missed a lot by not reading the connected titles while reading this mini series. It just didn't come together for me. I loved the concept and some of the character moments, but it was not a terribly good special event comic.

Meh. That would basically sum it up.A mediocre event at best, it got a lot of attention and delivered an extremely underwhelming ending.I don’t get what’s with these stories that get stretched so thin that just feel like a lost breeze in the end. No substance, no emotion, just a whimpering end full of nothing. And of course, it doesn’t end here. It continues back in Action Comics, where everything started, and where nothing happened, btw.Bendis wants to fill too many pages of the DC Universe but...