This comic gets off to a shockingly shaky start with a "0" issue which is a positively dull walk through a score different artists. The volume picks up from there, but it never actually becomes good. Instead, we got plotless issue after plotless issue, most of them descending into mindless, gratuitous, and graphic violence. I like the characters, and I like the occasional funny, but toward the end of issue #6 -- as a totally pointless series of murders, strung out over three issues, was coming to its end -- I decided that I was wasting my time. 
 So, consider this a review off issue #0 through half of #6. If the comic suddenly started being worth reading in #7 and #8, I couldn't tell you. 
 I'd expected a ton more from the great acclaim this book had gotten. Though it's certainly not in the dull style of the original New 52, I don't think the empress was actually wearing any new clothing.