"The comic that started the Millarverse and its sequel 20 years later. Wanted is very different than the movie. It's about a universe where the villains secretly won Crisis back in 1986 and have been controlling the world ever since. Wesley is introduced to this world and takes to it quickly. You can tell it was written 20 years ago. There's all kinds of triggering language in it that is no longer used today.

The sequel, Big Game, shows how all of the comics from Millarworld are connected. Who would have thunk it. Wesley and crew are back and they are out to kill all the heroes that have sprung up in the last 20 years. There's no way this should work and yet it does very well. Kudos to Millar. I don't like all his stuff but this was a fun read."

"A cool concept... what would happen the day and days after the world stop focusing on consumerism. Consumerism seems to be the leading mythos of our age. It's what drives our world, we measure the success of our economy by the growth of our industries, the success of our countries by GDP.

I found a lot of the content here to be a bit more fantasy and a bit irrelevant. There's numerous chapters - like one about whales - that just talk about how much better the world would be.

I think more organizing of the topics would be appreciated. The author covers a lot of ground, but it's hard to reference certain topics when they're spread across different chapters.

There's some great stuff, like a chapter on heating/cooling. How we're so focused on an ideal comfort level, without realizing that living in relation with the natural temperature can be (while less comfortable) more pleasing. There's also no real "perfect" temperature. Here in Canada in the winter I always found it odd that shopping centres crank the heat to above 20. Like, I'm wearing my long johns and sweater because it's freezing cold out. Then I walk inside and I'm sweating to death. I'm the guy that you see wearing a t-shirt in the winter because it's the only way to be comfortable indoors. If we keep the heat closer to the natural temperature, people can choose to wear what makes them comfortable. Plus, dress codes should absolutely allow people to wear shorts+short sleeves in the summer.

I really liked the chapter where we learned about the lives of people who purposely live without purchasing much - or as little as possible. There's stuff about how we know "money doesn't buy happiness" but we're still a bit pissed off when we finally do get a big promotion or windfall and realize, oh yeah that oft-stated quote is kinda true. I needed more of a "How-to" style book.

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I've been trying to avoid being so consumer minded. It's easy to say that once you've already bought all the crap you need though. Yeah, now more Amazon purchases... and even book purchases (!) are inessential and just a waste of my money and the Earth's resources. That said, my big goal for the year is to just buy groceries (mostly produce+meat, not prepared stuff) and stuff like internet/heating/gas for travel. Essentially just make each non-essential purchase mindfully.

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"You should read this if you like: any of the DC movies, superheroes punching each other in the face, Batman VS Superman as a concept, Superman going dark, Bat family, Joker, Lex Luthor, other DC villains, Gotham City Sirens, alternate timelines.

This might just be one of the worst DC comics I have ever read. There's no complexity to the plot or the myriad characters that are paraded out at one point or another. The characters remain pretty black and white throughout the story. Any hint of moral dilemma is quickly squished under yet another massive fish fight. At one point, Barry Allen faces a stretch of open road where he literally runs away from his problems. And that pretty much sums up how everyone deals with their problems on Injustice. They blindly ignore reality till the plot requires it of them. And then too, the issues are just as quickly ignored.

But it is not all bad. The only saving grace of this story were the relationships, whether antagonistic or familial, between the many, many characters: Bruce's relationship with Dick, Damien, and Alfred. Ollie and Dinah's epic love story with its heartbreaking, bittersweet conclusion. Lex Luthor's friendship with Superman. Bruce's complex relationship with his city and his people, both criminals and civilians. And lastly, Bruce and Clark/ Batman and Superman's relationship with each other. These are all played out in varying degrees in the background of the story, and its something that would have been really interesting had it been explored more in dept. That is not the focus of the story here, however.

Instead, Injustice is an unrelenting surge of fight scenes after fight scenes! In one of the scenes, Atom engaged in a fight with Superman tells him: "So many different ways you can attack...And yet whenever we come up against someone else just like us, we just punch each other in the face. You know why? Because it feels good!" Brian Buccellato must have taken this quote to heart seeing as how his plot revolves around having all DC heroes punch each other again and again. What might be an adrenaline rush in the beginning soon gets very repetitive and tiresome.

The real pain is the climax, which ends abruptly on a massive cliffhanger! To find out what happens next, you must play the game the Injustice comics is based on. What the actual fuck??? You mean to tell me I read all 5 books, only to then be told the actual interesting stuff happens in the game and that I have to play to find out? Where is the justice in that?

Overall, I'm very disappointed with this series and wish they had done a better job of, well, creating an actual story with some meat. 2.5 Stars, most of which goes to the final couple of issues for building up the plot again only to leave us with that disastrous non ending."