Ho, ho… no! DC try and fail to be festively entertaining with their utterly dismal book A Very DC Rebirth Holiday Sequel.
Superman and Constantine talk inanely about hope in a pub; Batman stops a burglar haunted by a ghost; Green Arrow and Black Canary save some presents; Flash takes stranded airport passengers back home in time for Christmas; Deathstroke spends some time with his shitty family; Starfire learns the meaning of Christmas. And on and on. They’re such boring, unimaginative and cheeseball stories!
Also included with the holiday special are Green Arrow Annual #1, Batgirl #18 and Trinity #16, all of which reminded me why I’m not reading any of those titles! Ollie fights some guy who causes mean hallucinations; Batgirl goes on a pointless scavenger hunt set up by Harley; Deadshot fights Kobra with a little help from Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Yawn. Not a single one of those issues was worth reading!
Ironically, the one halfway decent story wasn’t Christmas-themed at all: Tom King and Francesco Francavilla’s Sgt Rock short. Set during WW2, a Jewish American soldier guards his hostage, a Nazi officer, in the snowy woods over the course of a week. Except he’s wounded - will he survive long enough for backup to arrive? Now I want to read a Sgt Rock series by these two creators!
A decent eight-page short though isn’t enough to recommend this rubbish - steer well clear of A Very DC Rebirth Holiday Sequel for a jollier holiday season!
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