The Terrifics #15 Review

Writer: Gene Luen Yang / Artist: Stephen Segovia / DC Comics When The Terrifics Annual #1 was released, one of the stand out stories in the collection was Gene Luen Yang’s Halloween Party themed story that offered a unique perspective on the squad of characters removed from their typical dealings of multiversal mishaps. Therefore, it should not surprise you to hear that now that Yang has taken over The Terrifics for this next arc that he is bringing his A-game and having a lot of fun of testing the Terrifics in a less extravagant, but still epic, manner. Following the events of The Terrifics #14, the team finds themselves adjusting to the new status quo, although Mr. Terrific a.k.a. Michael Holt has the biggest adjustment by far. An alternative version of his late wife Paula Holt has decided to stay in this earth, and there are a lot of confusing feelings involved with that sort of variable. Yang does an incredible job of managing the heartstrings, clearly showing the memory of lost love in the fact of a potentially rekindled one, although not without some serious reconciliation. There is talk of fate, faith, and choice and it’s all brilliantly constructed to expose on the later themes of the issue.

Of course, it’s not a Terrifics’s story without some sort of biblically big, brawling action sequence and The Terrifics #15 definitely has that in spades. It takes a few pages for the exact context of why a giant snake is attacking the city, but the final page’s reveal is one of …