In my opinion, this is a bad comic. Slow pacing, painfully inconsistent characterisation everywhere, fixed archaic gender roles (in a 2022 mainstream publication!), poor editing, and worst of all, it has one of the messiest and most poorly thought-out endings I've ever seen. Plot points, character points, character relationships, and characters period are dropped and forgotten about. Even one or two promising LBGTQ elements are completely forgotten about by the end. It's rushed, underdeveloped, underwhelming and lacks gravitas to boot, and there are many plot holes. I barely cared about anyone in this dreck. It's hardly even magical, overall. Just a boring, frustrating waste of potential.
One pure positive I can give is that the art is very nice. The drawings and colour palettes (especially those of the setting, Coney Island) are soft, lovely, lively and striking.'Zatanna: The Jewel of Gravesend' (hell even the subject of that title gets forgotten about at the end! how is that possible?) also doesn't refute my general observation that Zatanna is basically a slave to her shady AF father, unwitting or otherwise. And to other men in her life. But when a woman is ambitious and manipulative, she is thoughtlessly designated as the villain. She is defeated and punished, but not the men for their own evil deeds - if those deeds are acknowledged. That this double standard is still prevalent in 2022 reflects the sorry state of the entertainment industry as a whole. It's untenable.
Love the aesthetic, dislike everything else.
What the regressive world is coming to...
Final Score: 2/5
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