By: Jeff Lemire (story), Steve Pugh (art), Timothy Green II (pencils), Joseph Silver (inks), Lovern Kindzierski (colors)
The Story: Buddy discovers his world can cross its overpopulation problems off the list.
The Review: One complaint everyone pretty much has about Events from either of the publishers, one I join wholeheartedly on, is how many titles they end up invading. Sometimes—who am I kidding?—almost all the time, there’s no actual reason to squeeze them into the plot. But you can’t deny that there’s no better way to give a storyline an epic, important feel. When one title has a world-spanning conflict no other title notices, why should you do any different?
Such is the rock and hard place we have in Rotworld. I’m rather charmed that Lemire and Scott Snyder continue to claim that this dystopia their stars have entered is anything more than an alternate reality, as if there’s even a chance none of this grimness will reverse course after several issues. Can we truly believe that once this arc ends, we’ll have other heroes sitting around, reminiscing about the time Hawkman turned into a deformed, flesh-eating zombie?
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