Final issue!
Having defeated the threat to their Earths, campy Dragonflyman and gritty Dragonfly must try to adjust to a detestable new status quo. Plus: the usual AHOY illustrated prose and extra features!
Score:
★★★★☆ (4/5)
QUICK REVIEW: 'The Wrong Earth: Night & Day' has been a complete joy to read thanks to Tom Peyer's charming and exciting script along with the colorful kinetic art by Jamal Igle, Juan Castro, and Andy Troy. Superheroes from different earths with totally different personalities and approaches to justice were forced to work together to fight an inter-dimensional threat played out with all the wholesomeness of golden age comics. In this finale, not every loose thread gets tied up and leaves the door open for more stories. That's good for fans of the series but leaves this arc too open-ended to be completely satisfying.
It's been a blast seeing what essentially boils down to Adam West's Batman and Ben Affleck's Batman go toe-to-toe as reluctant partners after each had swamped earths for a year. After defeating the supposed mastermind behind the interdimensional swap and revealing the plan to spread pollution to other earths. With a fun premise like this, you'd expect some goofiness but it's actually a character-driven storyline with traditional superhero action. Peyer finds the heart of each hero - the campy Dragonflyman and gritty Dragonfly - so it's not a rebuke of either just a contrast in styles. It comes across as a buddy comedy adventure that harkens to a simpler age of comics.
Issue six finds some resolution as the Dragonflies are reunited with Stinger while tussling with the conniving Man-Dragonfly and his innocent sidekick, an older version of Stinger. The events of the finale bring about big changes, and the epilogue by Peyer, Peter Krause, and Lee Loughridge show the consequences of those actions. It feels like there's another chapter coming to address these events so this 'finale' feels far from over.
'The Wrong Earth: Night & Day' has been a blast and even though this finale doesn't feel quite done the series has been one of the most entertaining reads this year.
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