The Kingdom

Not bad at all.Mark Waid made a wonderful story that earns great praise to this day. This story continues the previous story. But it's not so much a sequel or a spin-off but more like a long epilogue.Superman is caught up looking for a man that ends up being an enemy, so to stop him, several young heroes must go back in time to stop this foe. From the children of Flash, Plastic Man, Zatanna, Big Barda, Nightwing, and Batman are involved as well as the mighty forces of several beings do their part to save the day. It’s okay, could have been stronger. I wish they could have kept the story in the Kingdom Come Universe instead of going to the main DC Universe.Still, I do love reading about the children of Flash, Batman and of course my favorite pairing, Superman and Wonder Woman. Could have been stronger though.C+

If you went looking for the character Nightstar(Nightwing and Starfires kid) this is that comic.

An excellent adaption of the DC Universe. Great storyline and plenty of action. You definitely don't want to put the book down.

Fun and fast. Though breaks from Kingdom Come a bit, it is still a viable read. If you are a fan on Kingdom Come, you will enjoy this.

An excellent product for which I do not regret buying at the time. It is a true collector's item. I recommend it.

Despite this book being a sequel to 'Kingdom Come' and having the same characters, it's just too different both in art style and in the quality of the story itself to be a worthy follow-up. While 'Kingdom Come' was a real piece of art both in its stunning art by Alex Ross and in the poetical story which both set it apart from other superhero graphic novels, 'The Kingdom' is drawn in a customary comics style (while it's decent, still, there are better drawn graphic novels from the same period), and the story... well, if you've read DC's Zero Hour or One Million events, you might have some general idea about just how little logic and character development this one has.In short, a man, whom Superman has saved from death, worships Superman as a kind of a god to the point that he builds a Superman church, but later the man becomes disilusioned with Superman, looses his faith and the meaning of his entire life, and at that point a bunch of very wise (insert sarcasm here) cosmic superbeings for some reason, that I'm not sure I completely understood, decide to give this guy god-like powers and the whole knowledge and history of the universe (or something close). The guy goes nuts, calls himself Gog, decides Superman is not a messiah but an antichrist and sets off to get the universe rid of Supes by killing him over and over again by going back and back in time, in the process of which Gog also abducts Superman's newborn son. Of course, the great three DC heroes and a selection of hero offspring can't have that and come after Gog to stop him. Thankfully, this story is short (as compared to, say, the mess called 'Crisis on Infinite Earths') and has better dialogues (no idiotic shouting or repetition of what powers the character has and what he/she is doing).The only parts of this whole story that I actually liked were the part featuring Nightwing's daughter (story 'Nightstar') and the waitress' story ('Planet Krypton'), both of which had very little to do with the main Gog storyline. Also, the bit about hypertime was not bad either, because it ties in DC's Elseworlds stories into one universe, and if you've read any Elseworlds stories, look closely and you might recognize images from some of them.Don't expect much of this graphic novel and you won't be disappointed, and maybe even find a few good bits within. Better yet, consider this a fanfic based on 'Kingdom Come'.

Coming after the excellent "Kingdom Come", this must surely rank as the worst sequel ever written or published in the comics industry."The Kingdom" starts promisingly enough where "Kingdom Come" ended, a couple of decades in the future, with a very pregnant Wonder Woman about to give birth to the son of an older Superman on Paradise Island. The villain Gog appears, and after a brief battle with some of the younger surviving heroes from "Kingdom Come", manages to kidnap the newborn child, which he then brings back to the past (i.e. the present) for his own nefarious purposes. "As I am Gog, so you shall be my Magog". Will the baby boy become the very same Magog that precipitated the events in "Kingdom Come"?Suffice to say, the rest of the story does not live up to the promise of that exciting first chapter. What follows is mostly author Mark Waid's personal rant against comic fans who insist on continuity in their favorite comic books as against comic fans who aren't opposed to reading "good" stories (i.e. the "kingdom of wonder" touted by "The Kingdom") regardless of whether such stories follow the established continuity of a comic book character's life.The premise of "The Kingdom" is a good one, but the execution could have been much better. Plus, turning a story into a personal rebuke to a selected few in an audience who did not happen to concur with his views must have been the worst thing that an author could have done. And the art in the final chapter is really awful.All in all, a very bad sequel that most fans of "Kingdom Come" must have wished had never seen the light of day. Alex Ross had minimal involvement, the blame is solely Mark Waid's.

As single issues, the comics that make up The Kingdom" were fairly good, some better than others. As a collection, they don't work very well together.The storytelling is very patchy. The beginning gives a great set-up: the creation of Gog, the birth of Superman and Wonder Woman's child, the deaths of multiple Supermen, the appearance of the Linear Men, and the reappearance of many supporting characters from Kingdom Come. The middle of the book, however, breaks the flow by setting aside this storyline and focusing waaaaaaay too much on a select few supporting characters, even one who wasn't IN Kingdom Come. By the end of the book, when the original storyline resumes, you'll be hard-put to still be interested in what's happening, and the horrible art in the last chapter was an insult to Jerry Ordway's and Ariel Olivetti's beautiful work in the beginning.

There's some brilliant artwork in here, particularly from the always-impressive Frank Quitely, but the story is basically unreadable. A totally unnecessary sequel which adds precisely nothing to the excellent original. Seriously, writers - if you're resorting to time-travel purely in order to squeeze out another installment in the franchise, take a moment to reconsider.

This one title is rare, because it's printed in a limited edition. Don't know why. Got it at a cheap price too, with good discounts. Book was not as good as Kingdom Come, but a good one time read.