YMMV / Seven Soldiers of Victory (2005)

• Awesome Art: Pretty much the entire modern series is beautiful, but special mention must go to Seven Soldiers #1, where Williams manages to flawlessly mimic all seven other artists involved, switching between each style on a dime.
• Complete Monster: Gloriana Tenebrae, Queen of the Sheeda, found a way to invade other timelines from the future. Usurping her husband Melmoth, Gloriana commits the Sheeda to atrocity after atrocity, having them harvest humanity at various points in history, having countless humans slaughtered or taken as slaves to be worked or death or kept as concubines, with others fed to the Sheeda cauldron. After annihilating countless civilizations, Sheeda arrives to wipe out New York as well to continue her constant genocides.
• Fridge Brilliance: A key component of Morrison’s run is a team of seven actually being a team of eight. The original Justice League of America were Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter...and Snapper Carr. The Big Seven are actually eight.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The subplot about the Newsboy Army shows how the original team fell apart after Captain 7 raped Chop Suzi and she died in childbirth, which led to the rest of the group murdering Cap in revenge. Recently, Cameron Stewart, the artist who worked on Manhattan Guardian was outed as a sexual predator who liked to groom young women. Knowing Stewart's a predator who worked on a story about a young woman dying after giving birth to her rapist's babies makes the story even more uncomfortable to read.
• He's Just Hiding: While the Decoy Protagonist team is supposedly wiped out entirely, Whip, Gimmix, and Dyno-Mite Dan aren’t explicitly shown being killed and it can be tempting to wonder if they did die. This is especially true since one of their teammates is resurrected later in the story and Whip and Gimmix do survive on an alternate Earth. Gimmix has since been revealed to be alive, having apparently hidden inside her Bag of Trix as revealed at the end of Blue Beetle Graduation Day.
• Iron Woobie: Most of the 2005 team go through utter hell before their stories are out, but does this stop them?
• Jerkass Woobie: Sally Sonic is introduced to the readers as a callous bitch who seduces normal married men into fulfilling their power fantasies and abandoning their wives. Then we find out she used to be a sweet young girl who gained superpowers and immortality and, despite trying to do good, had to watch as everyone she loves died. She was forced into an abusive orphanage because no one believed she was in her 20s. Then, when she escapes, she gets used and abused by a hero named Vitaman who succeeds in breaking her and brainwashing her with Doctor Hyde's Evil Serum as part of a convoluted revenge scheme. Although her tragic story does make her sympathetic to a degree, Bulleteer loses any sympathy she might have had for Sally after she tries to kill her, ultimately knocking her unconscious with a car engine.
• Narm: The Anti-Life Equation as revealed in this series is idiotic pseudomathematical gibberish that it's pretty much impossible to believe could drive anybody into abject despair. However, this can be Narm Charm for others, since it also fits the weird science commonly used by the New Gods, plus it's still the bloody Anti-Life Equation, which robs the free will and capacity of independent thinking completley.
• Tear Jerker: The story of Newsboy Army
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: This trope seems to be one of the themes of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers. Many interesting characters and ensembles are introduced and then killed, corrupted or deconstructed without really living up to their narrative potential, usually with Lampshade Hanging or meta-commentary on the comics industry accompanying it.
  • A lot of readers actually liked the Sacrificial Lamb team in Seven Soldiers #0, and were sad when they died at the end.
  • Newsboy Army of Nowhere Street and the Knights of Broken Table go down with their deeds left unsung.
  • Ironically, this happened to many of the main characters themselves. Then again, Morrison might have expected it...
• Spiritual Successor: Has one in Demon Knights, which amongst other things reintroduces the cyclic nature of Camelot, as well as the Seven Soldiers version of Shining Knight fighting with six other bad-asses to stop someone from misusing a grail. Sound familiar?