Artist Clay Mann starts strong, but there's a bevy of guest artists in the end combined with an unsatisfying ending, there's a sense of Cycle of Life and Death just petering out. At the same time, while there's a good mystery within the pages, I never quite felt the stakes were high enough to make me truly feel any suspense. I definitely like writer Amy Chu's portrayal of Poison Ivy as an unrepentant anti-hero. That's no reason not to otherwise enjoy a book, of course, but it lessens for me the appeal of what's already a dubious prospect, a villain-focused miniseries, whose characterizations traditionally don't stick as time goes on. This will make it an immediate buy for some readers, but at the same time there's material especially toward the end that indicates Ivy's adventures here "can't" have happened and are therefore unlikely to affect the current Poison Ivy going forward. What distinguishes this book is in some respects its greatest obstacle: it's essentially set in the pre- Flashpoint Gotham City Sirens continuity. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death is enjoyable but light fare.
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