Don’t let the three star review fool you. I throughly enjoyed this read! It just has some issues for me that put it a bar below the rest of the collection.
For starters, the series name is more accurate in this volume. This book is truly about Orion & Orion alone. And for the first half (& the last issue, which alone nearly made this a four star read for me), it was riveting. But most of the second half of the book it just felt like fluff & filler. I’ll admit that I was bored throughout this section. There were so many random characters that just show up for an issue or two about which I really couldn’t have cared less. The shining light of this section is the character development we see in Orion. The toll of the prophecy, the power, & the failure really push him into the final issue, which have I mentioned is phenomenal?
All in all, it felt like a satisfying conclusion to 114 issues of Fourth World craziness into which Kirby, Byrne, & Simonson poured themselves & I’m glad it experienced this entire story at once!