Doomsday Clock #8 Review
It’s been over a year since Doomsday Clock first started, back in November 2017. The series has had an uneven pace, with some issues focusing mainly on characters and not the main story, but issue #7 kicked the story into high gear. So, does issue #8 follow up on the previous issue’s momentum?
Doomsday Clock #8 focuses mostly on the Supermen Theory, and Firestorm having a conflict in Russia. Firestorm has a major outburst, which Superman goes over to Russia to try and minimize the damage, but ends up choosing the wrong words to say, and making things even worse.
The writing in this issue is phenomenal, and while it’s mostly detached from the overall story, save for the end of the issue, it’s still a great read. When you see Firestorm his words convey his struggle of someone who wants to help, but just keeps messing up. Superman also has a very important moment when he tries to calm everyone down, and while he says what he truly believes, it means he has taken a side, causing much more violence.
While the writing helps elevate the story to a great level, the art shows everything off perfectly. You can see the conflict in Firestorm’s face when he doesn’t know if he should give up and leave, or continue trying to help those that he hurt. When Superman tries to quell the aggression, you can see on his face that he truly believes what he saying, and that everything will be ok, even though it obviously won’t.
Doomsday Clock #8 is a mixed bag for me, because the writing is great, this issue’s story is great, there are some interesting questions brought up here, but it’s issue #8 of this series, and the forward plot momentum has mostly stopped. However, there was plot movement towards the end of the issue, and it seems like these recurring elements that currently seem unrelated will all tie together in the end.
