Just when I thought Doomsday Clock couldn’t get more boring here comes issue #5! I could run down the list of characters doing what but it really comes down to them all doing the same thing: looking for other characters. That’s how little happens in this comic.
Couple that with oodles of tedious superhero - sorry, “metahuman” - media blather on nearly every page and this is one helluva dull read. Super Hitler himself Black Adam is offering his country of Kahndaq as a metahuman refuge for some reason and Green Lantern is teased. Batman meets Ozymandias. So far, so nothing.
Joker appears briefly at the end and I know Geoff Johns can write a mean Joker - he looks damn good too thanks to Gary Frank - but it’s precious little and only serves to underline how pointless this issue is. I’d rather be reading the next one than an entire comic of dreary table-setting! Then again, Johns might end up serving another stale platter of rubbish next time too. Gotta stretch this nonsense to the arbitrary 12 issues somehow, right??
Doomsday Clock - apocalyptically monotonous event comics!
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