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The Movement #7-12
The Movement, Vol. 2: Fighting for the Future
Its the corrupt cops and politicians of Coral City vs a rag-tag group of young super powered vigilantes known as the Movement. But after The Movement has been taken down, only the powerless Vengeance Moth is left to protect the streets from the Graveyard Faction!
Critically acclaimed writer Gail Simone concludes her run on this fascinating new series. Collects THE MOVEMENT #7-12.
Critically acclaimed writer Gail Simone concludes her run on this fascinating new series. Collects THE MOVEMENT #7-12.
144 pages, Paperback
First published December 9, 2014
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Gail Simone
1,091 books1,240 followersGail Simone is a comic book writer well-known for her work on Birds of Prey (DC), Wonder Woman (DC), and Deadpool (Marvel), among others, and has also written humorous and critical commentary on comics and the comics industry such as the original "Women in Refrigerators" website and a regular column called "You'll All Be Sorry".
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July 27, 2019
I was not a fan of The Movement, Vol. 1: Class Warfare, by the talented Ms. Simone, but since this series only extended to one subsequent volume I decided to check out Vol. 2: Fighting for the Future.
Ugh. It wasn't quite a 'hate read' but there sure was a huge and lingering annoyance here. A guest appearance by Batgirl - a character that Simone can dependably write like nobody's business - in the middle story was one of the few positive things. Batgirl swoops in to apprehend / extradite a super-powered suspect back to Gotham City to stand trial for two murders. The characters of the self-appointed 'The Movement' team fall all over themselves claiming the suspect did the killings in self-defense, won't get a fair shake in court, etc. All well and good (well, not really, but . . .) until readers then witness this suspect cold-bloodedly murder two innocent people in a separate incident while hiding out in Coral City . . . and 'The Movement' folks continue to be oddly sympathetic to the guy!
I think I get what Simone was going for in the series - a radical or extremely liberal faction rising up to bring change to / challenge the establishment in a troubled city - but I'm not the target audience.
Ugh. It wasn't quite a 'hate read' but there sure was a huge and lingering annoyance here. A guest appearance by Batgirl - a character that Simone can dependably write like nobody's business - in the middle story was one of the few positive things. Batgirl swoops in to apprehend / extradite a super-powered suspect back to Gotham City to stand trial for two murders. The characters of the self-appointed 'The Movement' team fall all over themselves claiming the suspect did the killings in self-defense, won't get a fair shake in court, etc. All well and good (well, not really, but . . .) until readers then witness this suspect cold-bloodedly murder two innocent people in a separate incident while hiding out in Coral City . . . and 'The Movement' folks continue to be oddly sympathetic to the guy!
I think I get what Simone was going for in the series - a radical or extremely liberal faction rising up to bring change to / challenge the establishment in a troubled city - but I'm not the target audience.
March 4, 2017
This series has some problems but the cast is one that I'm interested in, for the most part. It makes me sad that I'm sure we'll never see this team again with all that was Rebirth-ed in DC comics.
I still have no idea how a guy that can communicate and control rats is helpful? It doesn't make any sense? With Squirrel Girl, that ridiculousness is leaned into partially because Doreen is the main character. Also, people like squirrels. Rat Guy means well here but... why?
Anyway, Virtue is a great character! She's an awesome leader, very compassionate and Simone created a black lesbian comic book character. That's awesome! I wanted to see more of her and Rainmaker in this book.
There's a disabled character that kicks ass, an asexual female character and a gay man possessed by a hell demon. I mean, that should be a formula for a fantastic series but, even without the knowledge that this book will most likely get cancelled, I see why it didn't do so well.
There was nothing super memorable about the plots in these volumes. The bad guy, the Cornea Killer, is sidelined for the storyline about corrupt cops and the random gang trying to kill them. In creating this world, Simone had to set up the good guys and the bad guys and there just wasn't enough time to make the characters matter. I don't really know how she could have fixed it? Maybe, the team takes on established bad guys? That way we can focus on setting up the team more than these interludes.
Babs shows up for a little bit and clashes with the group. I like that Simone hit on the fact that, while GCPD is corrupt as hell, Babs still tries to work with them. She still gives them the benefit of the doubt in a way the Movement cannot because the Coral City Police Dept is even worse. I like that Babs got along with Virtue. It makes me think that, if Simone returns to DC, she'll find a way to bring Virtue back. She has a rich backstory, she's easily the most developed member of the team and I think she could totally fit in another series.
That being said, even as a Simone fan, this didn't really wow me. There's so much potential here that I think, with more time, Simone could have really expanded this into something great. I'm sad I didn't like this more.
I still have no idea how a guy that can communicate and control rats is helpful? It doesn't make any sense? With Squirrel Girl, that ridiculousness is leaned into partially because Doreen is the main character. Also, people like squirrels. Rat Guy means well here but... why?
Anyway, Virtue is a great character! She's an awesome leader, very compassionate and Simone created a black lesbian comic book character. That's awesome! I wanted to see more of her and Rainmaker in this book.
There's a disabled character that kicks ass, an asexual female character and a gay man possessed by a hell demon. I mean, that should be a formula for a fantastic series but, even without the knowledge that this book will most likely get cancelled, I see why it didn't do so well.
There was nothing super memorable about the plots in these volumes. The bad guy, the Cornea Killer, is sidelined for the storyline about corrupt cops and the random gang trying to kill them. In creating this world, Simone had to set up the good guys and the bad guys and there just wasn't enough time to make the characters matter. I don't really know how she could have fixed it? Maybe, the team takes on established bad guys? That way we can focus on setting up the team more than these interludes.
Babs shows up for a little bit and clashes with the group. I like that Simone hit on the fact that, while GCPD is corrupt as hell, Babs still tries to work with them. She still gives them the benefit of the doubt in a way the Movement cannot because the Coral City Police Dept is even worse. I like that Babs got along with Virtue. It makes me think that, if Simone returns to DC, she'll find a way to bring Virtue back. She has a rich backstory, she's easily the most developed member of the team and I think she could totally fit in another series.
That being said, even as a Simone fan, this didn't really wow me. There's so much potential here that I think, with more time, Simone could have really expanded this into something great. I'm sad I didn't like this more.
June 25, 2016
Volume two of The Movement is a little disappointing in that it’s also the last volume. Some things are wrapped up, but really you’re just left feeling this frustrated sense of how much has been left undone, how much potential exists within this mismatched group of characters. I love the fact that the story itself brings this up, in a way: people warn Virtue that her team doesn’t fit in with how existing superheroes work and think, and she says essentially, well, one day they’ll have to. Change is coming.
Change is coming, and maybe The Movement was a little too soon, a little too blatantly diverse, a little too brazen about being a new sort of superhero team. Maybe it’s just that it’s difficult to launch a new set of superheroes without serious support — some of which the team gets, in Batgirl’s appearance in a couple of issues. Successful as the Young Avengers have been, they don’t have a current comic either, while Cap and Iron Man and all the mainstays are going on (and on, and on).
I love what we did get, though: a complex team made up of people who complement and clash with each other in equal measure. It’s a team of diverse voices, not only in terms of skin colour and country-of-origin and sexuality, but in terms of political ideals too. Katharsis is fairly blatantly not down with some of the more liberal ideas held by other members of the team. Burden comes from a religiously conservative background and is only just opening up to new ideas. It’s not just a liberal hippie love fest.
And on a lighter note: I love that we saw the hinted-at date between Virtue and Rainmaker. Cute.
Originally posted here.
Change is coming, and maybe The Movement was a little too soon, a little too blatantly diverse, a little too brazen about being a new sort of superhero team. Maybe it’s just that it’s difficult to launch a new set of superheroes without serious support — some of which the team gets, in Batgirl’s appearance in a couple of issues. Successful as the Young Avengers have been, they don’t have a current comic either, while Cap and Iron Man and all the mainstays are going on (and on, and on).
I love what we did get, though: a complex team made up of people who complement and clash with each other in equal measure. It’s a team of diverse voices, not only in terms of skin colour and country-of-origin and sexuality, but in terms of political ideals too. Katharsis is fairly blatantly not down with some of the more liberal ideas held by other members of the team. Burden comes from a religiously conservative background and is only just opening up to new ideas. It’s not just a liberal hippie love fest.
And on a lighter note: I love that we saw the hinted-at date between Virtue and Rainmaker. Cute.
Originally posted here.
March 31, 2015
Gail Simone's DCNU52 title is flawed, but I'm sorry that it didn't receive a little more time to get its feet under itself. While introducing several new characters and a new city, Simone tries to bring DC heroics down to the street level Not, just the grim and gritty stuff that large publishers usually do (Daredevil, Batman, Moon Knight etc.) The Movement was also about a group trying to assist the disadvantaged with soup kitchens, and teaching while making civic corruptions its priority.
OK, it doesn't quite work, but I think part of the problem was getting all the characters introduced to the readers. It is not a small main and supporting cast. Virture is probably the best developed character by the series' end. The second half (arguably more) of this volume works pretty well.
DC actually had a counterpoint to this title, The Green Team, where young billionaires became "super heroes" , and that title faired worse than this one as The Green Team had its TPB canceled after it was solicited.
OK, it doesn't quite work, but I think part of the problem was getting all the characters introduced to the readers. It is not a small main and supporting cast. Virture is probably the best developed character by the series' end. The second half (arguably more) of this volume works pretty well.
DC actually had a counterpoint to this title, The Green Team, where young billionaires became "super heroes" , and that title faired worse than this one as The Green Team had its TPB canceled after it was solicited.
September 21, 2015
Trendy PC vigilante justification of the worst sort - utterly uninspired and hypocritical.
November 10, 2019
Pierwszy tom zaskoczył mnie swoją świeżością, bowiem nie spodziewałem się niczego dobrego po tytule, który mi nic nie mówił, a w ofercie New 52 takie rzeczy oznaczały raczej coś poniżej nawet przeciętnego poziomu. Jakże miło mi, iż się myliłem, bowiem drugi tom jest nawet lepszy od jedynki i nieco bardziej urozmaicony, choć szkoda że nie kontynuuje pewnych wątków nieco dosadniej.
Jedynka kończy się skatowaniem Myszy przez grupę wynajętych "dobrych" bohaterów, którzy mają w końcu zakończyć działalność Ruchu, jednak autor nie pokusił się o mocny początek. Bohater przeżywa dzięki szybkiej interwencji przyjaciół, kiedy to Vengeance Moth i Burden stawiają czoła oprawcom samotnie. Chłopak, który myśli że jest opętany odegra tutaj nieco większą rolę. I dobrze, bo motyw jego mocy to jedna z lepszych aspektów omawianego tytułu. I rozwinie się jeszcze bardziej, chociażby przez ukazanie jego dzieciństwa i chorobliwie religijnego brata i ojca, którzy próbowali wyplenić z chłopca zło dość radykalnymi metodami...
Wracając jednak do głównego zadania, grupie udaje się w końcu zebrać i stawić czoła najemnym "bohaterom". Dowiadujemy się też co u licha łączy seryjnego mordercę mającego władzę na pogodą z pewnym wpływowy politykiem. Jednocześnie mamy tu kontynuowany wątek złego gliniarza z pierwszego tomu, choć był on tutaj nieco potraktowany po macoszemu. Podobał mi się z kolei mały występ gościnny pod postacią Batgirl, która przybyła z Gotham w ślad za pewnym przestępcą, a z którym to zbliżyła się jedna osoba z grupy Movement. Spięcia będą nieuniknione, ale same dialogi bardzo mi się tutaj podobały. No i było kilka mniejszych, zabawnych kwestii, chociażby kwestia zauroczenia Mouse w stosunku do Tremor. A takich wątków jest tu jeszcze kilka.
Polecam. Naprawdę. Drugi tom jest zauważalnie lepszy, fajniejszy i zakończa wszystkie niezbędne wątki w bardzo satysfakcjonujący sposób.
Jedynka kończy się skatowaniem Myszy przez grupę wynajętych "dobrych" bohaterów, którzy mają w końcu zakończyć działalność Ruchu, jednak autor nie pokusił się o mocny początek. Bohater przeżywa dzięki szybkiej interwencji przyjaciół, kiedy to Vengeance Moth i Burden stawiają czoła oprawcom samotnie. Chłopak, który myśli że jest opętany odegra tutaj nieco większą rolę. I dobrze, bo motyw jego mocy to jedna z lepszych aspektów omawianego tytułu. I rozwinie się jeszcze bardziej, chociażby przez ukazanie jego dzieciństwa i chorobliwie religijnego brata i ojca, którzy próbowali wyplenić z chłopca zło dość radykalnymi metodami...
Wracając jednak do głównego zadania, grupie udaje się w końcu zebrać i stawić czoła najemnym "bohaterom". Dowiadujemy się też co u licha łączy seryjnego mordercę mającego władzę na pogodą z pewnym wpływowy politykiem. Jednocześnie mamy tu kontynuowany wątek złego gliniarza z pierwszego tomu, choć był on tutaj nieco potraktowany po macoszemu. Podobał mi się z kolei mały występ gościnny pod postacią Batgirl, która przybyła z Gotham w ślad za pewnym przestępcą, a z którym to zbliżyła się jedna osoba z grupy Movement. Spięcia będą nieuniknione, ale same dialogi bardzo mi się tutaj podobały. No i było kilka mniejszych, zabawnych kwestii, chociażby kwestia zauroczenia Mouse w stosunku do Tremor. A takich wątków jest tu jeszcze kilka.
Polecam. Naprawdę. Drugi tom jest zauważalnie lepszy, fajniejszy i zakończa wszystkie niezbędne wątki w bardzo satysfakcjonujący sposób.
November 20, 2018
I gave the series a second volume to improve, and it didn't. Still a muddled mess that can't decide what to concentrate on and so wastes what could have been some interesting characters that would have given a lot of people a great sense of representation (a black lesbian character, an asexual character, a disabled character, a gay character), turning them into token caricatures instead (seriously, some of the 'representation' here was only one speech-bubble; that's not representation, that's an afterthought). I still can't stand Katharsis (a freakin loose cannon who does more harm than good in 4 out of 5 situations, if not more, so WHY is she still on the team?!), and just when you started to think this storyline was confused enough, someone decided to throw in Batgirl (there were too many variables already, guys!) and a whole other villain. Because what this wandering mess needs is ANOTHER rushed storyline stuffed in alongside the rest. That's the main problem here, I think--everything is too rushed to give any depth or more than passing interest to story or characters. If they'd just taken time to develop people's backstories and flesh out a stronger major plot (instead of mashing together 5 skeletal-outline subplots all competing for attention), I would have cared.
This gets a disappointed 'no' from me.
This gets a disappointed 'no' from me.
July 13, 2018
*3.5. I liked this one more than the first. Vengeance Moth was cooler here and the other characters had more stories told. Also, little bit of DC character crossover so that was cool I guess. The Movement only has two books and I don’t think they’re making more anytime soon but that’s fine, it was nice while it lasted.
June 26, 2022
It's better than first volume. the writing gets better and somehow i more interested to batgirl than this group itself, Because they just bunch of teenager doing vigilante in not amusing way. Just realised the woman with wings have score with batgirl in previous batgirl title, didnt realise that because art change and she seems kinda smaller
December 31, 2017
Druga i ostatnia część zmagań Ruchu, który pokazuje ludzką twarz superbohaterów. Każdy z nich ma coś na sumieniu i każdego uwarunkowała jakaś trauma, jednak w pokrzepiający sposób walczą o dobro ogółu.
September 10, 2018
An okay story that's by and large let down by pretty bad art. It's definitely not the worst art in the world, but ugh, it is ugly. Too messy, with warped character designs and questionable communication about what's going in a scene or who characters are talking to or what they're trying to do.
September 8, 2018
Please bring them back in Re-Birth. What a good story.
Young people reaching out.
Good cops, bad cops.
A city that wants to be better.
Yeah this was good.
Oh yeah and Batgirl.
Young people reaching out.
Good cops, bad cops.
A city that wants to be better.
Yeah this was good.
Oh yeah and Batgirl.
October 11, 2018
Much better than the first volume.
June 29, 2023
Poor, doomed Movement. They would've been a great team, at the right time.
April 8, 2017
!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 21, 2017
S'up, Tremor, I see you.
February 25, 2016
Well, it's definitely a step up from the first volume. All the main characters actually get to make an impression this time, with the story serving the characters, rather than running roughshod over them. The concept still seems a bit over-the-top in its attempts to be PC (it seems every prominent minority is presented here), and its message is a bit heavy handed, but the stories actually work this time. The aftermath from the previous volume is worked through, there's a Batgirl crossover that isn't really necessary, but does help develop the characters some, and then there's an issue dealing with familial abuse, albeit on a superpowered level.
Virtue and Burden and Mouser all get decent moments, and some of the other characters as well, but I still am less than thrilled with the overall concept. This does a better job justifying itself, but it still comes across as trying too hard. It might be nice to see some of the characters show up later in the larger DC world, but the end of this series isn't that big of a loss.
Virtue and Burden and Mouser all get decent moments, and some of the other characters as well, but I still am less than thrilled with the overall concept. This does a better job justifying itself, but it still comes across as trying too hard. It might be nice to see some of the characters show up later in the larger DC world, but the end of this series isn't that big of a loss.
June 29, 2019
I'm really starting to love The Movement and hope Gail Simone gives us more with them in the DCU. This is the diversity that is needed and lacking in the comic world. Gail has made a world where sexuality something that isn't exclusive straight and white. She has made a compassionate, multiracial, quirky, sassy, witty team that I would love to see in the Justice League. I really, really, really need more and hope that we will see these characters in their own universes too.
May 22, 2016
I'm sad this series of diverse heroes had such a short run but am glad they were able to give it a fitting conclusion in this volume.
I hope to see these characters again down the line, particularly Rainmaker and Virtue.
I hope to see these characters again down the line, particularly Rainmaker and Virtue.
May 25, 2014
Incredibly sad to see this end. The final issue was everything I wanted it to be and even made me tear up a bit.
May 31, 2015
Deze comic legt een goede basis voor de personages om in andere comics op te duiken. Ik had eigenlijk verwacht deze comic beter te vinden, maar ik miste er toch precies iets in.
February 21, 2015
read in single issues. the last issue was everything i wanted and more. wish it coulda kept going, felt like it was just hitting its stride.
December 16, 2014
It's a shame this series got cancelled because it seems like this was the Vol where the creative team really found their mojo....
September 15, 2015
It's a shame that this series got cancelled when it did, as it just continued to improve and I was looking forward to finding out more about these characters.
October 2, 2015
Really enjoyed this wee rebellious group shame it didn't continue, had potential
August 28, 2016
More of the same, good stuff.
A cameo from Batgirl included.
A cameo from Batgirl included.
March 25, 2017
It seems like Gail had a long term plan for this series, and DC said, "mmmmmmNah, that's okay. We will let you finish with 12 issues." And it's too bad, because here we had a group of vigilante outcasts covering quite an intersectionality of minorities, and we barely had the chance to get to know them, let alone understand how they work together. The characters Gail wrote are fantastic, and I would love for this book to continue, or at least for Virtue to get her own book; a black lesbian named Virtue. Virtue is AWESOME. Stick that in your pie hole and choke on it, Patriarchy!
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