DC Comics Quick Takes for the Week of May 7, 2025
Sometimes, there isn’t enough to say for a complete review, but there is still something to be said. That’s what Quick Takes is about. It would be difficult to review EVERY comic I read in a week, but I’ll always have something to say. So, here’s to something new…Quick Takes for the Week of May 7, 2025. Be sure to comment on what you’re reading and enjoying this week and check out the full reviews for the week at DC Comics News!
Black Canary: Best of the Best #6
The finale of this series is nearly unreadable. The narration is still overwhelming and a distraction from any story Tom King might be trying to tell. The fight sequences attempt to glorify the violence which makes it all the more gratuitous. It’s not enjoyable, it’s not engaging on any level. It’s a real shame King isn’t capable of utilizing the existing history between Shiva and Black Canary. There’s A LOT there that was explored by Gail Simone in Birds of Prey 20 or so years ago. Those stories are far better than this in every way. EVERY WAY. This series just comes off as an admission that King doesn’t really understand the subtlety and nuance of Dinah’s character, as if losing a fight with ZERO STAKES and surrendering would be difficult for her to do if it meant saving someone’s life. Maybe training enough to last long enough to surrender is a story…, but not having difficulty in surrendering. King has successfully made both Canaries appear petty and superficial.  And, still we don’t know why this fight even exists…. And, we still don’t know why Dinah is willing to turn to Vandal Savage’s methods to save her mom from cancer. This series doesn’t even deliver on THAT central motivation. What an awful ending to a poorly conceived series, and what a lackluster attempt to write Black Canary. Others have done it better. Heck, even Kelly Thompson’s attempts in the current Birds of Prey are better than this.
Justice League: The Atom Project #5
This series suffers way too much from the fact that it is born out of a mediocre concept to begin with. Add in that the compelling ideas that do exist in the series are just sort of thrown away without being developed further contributes to the inability of this series to really rise above the “slightly better than average” level outside of Mike Perkins art. Finally, the fact that it ends up going right into “We Are Yesterday,” it becomes sort of ho-hum. Inferno is revealed here, if you didn’t already know and instead of, “wow, interesting,” it’s “oh, is that all?” I don’t think the “We Are Yesterday” crossover can support more than the two main titles it is running in (Justice League Unlimited and World’s Finest) and it falls flat here.
Poison Ivy #33
There are aspects in this issue that could feel derivative, trite or cliched, but G. Willow Wilson does a great job of making things feel important and GENUINE. Much like Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing of 40 years ago, Poison Ivy creates a different world and set of perceptions experiences. It speaks to how we as humans experience nature and one’s place in it. This is the world in which Pam and Janet-from-HR are facing these challenges that are not so much about right vs. wrong, but rather how one makes those decisions on a larger level and how does intimacy (not sexual) between humans impact us. Recommended, but with the understanding…this book is in a different place, true diversity of content, not just checking boxes for headlines.
What are you reading this ? What were your favorite DC Comics for the week of May 7? Be sure to leave a comment below!
