You know what a very DC Valentine’s Day would really look like? A pop in the chops by Batman wearing heart-shaped knuckle dusters. And that’s basically how it feels to read this book! So very DC - you want to like them, you hope they’ve changed and they’ll treat you nice, and then they just fuck you up instead.
A Very DC Valentine’s Day collects three one-shots: Young Romance: The New 52 Valentine’s Day Special from 2013, Harley Quinn Valentine’s Day Special from 2015 and last year’s Young Monsters in Love. Not that the monsters are young, just that DC probably just have a connection to the word “Young” in the title like they have a bizarre attachment to the number 52!
This was SO BORING! It’s exactly what you’d expect from seasonal anthologies: sappy, predictable, nothing stories about characters finding the true meaning of blah blah while treasuring their relationship with yawn snore in what are meant to be moving or comical or entertaining stories and which turn out to be nothing of the sort.
They’re unimaginative and obvious cash-grabs taking advantage of a holiday built around cheap sentimentality and read as such. The stories are pointless, instantly forgettable and dreary beyond belief.
I won’t even go into mentioning any of the far too many stories here but not a single one was worth bothering with. The writing, the art, all of it is a total waste of time. I don’t know why DC bothered - hell, I don’t know why I even bothered with this one (ah kin change him, I just knows it!)! Seasonal comics are the pits and A Very Tedious and Unspecial DC Mess is no exception.
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