Wow. The real Justice League was hiding here the whole time!
I know it isn’t the “real” pre-52 Justice League, but at
this point, getting the further, continuing adventures of the Bruce Timm-style
JLU is perfectly fine with me.
Jumping years into the future, the roster of the League has
gone through some changes. Superman is still around, along with Martian
Manhunter, Shazam, Mary Marvel, Starfire, Barda, and Mr. Miracle. The next
generation is represented by a new GL, Steelhawk, a new Atom, a new Kid Flash,
and Batman Beyond. The dynamic works surprisingly well. It doesn’t hurt that
all those senior heroes act the way I’d hope and expect them to. It’s been a
long time since I saw some of these characters.
This is a tremendously dense comic. I think it was released
as digital chapters first, and man, people spending 99 cents for a few pages
certainly got their money’s worth. This is a collection of origins, so there
are a lot of backstories to get through, but Derek Fridolfs and JT Krul pack
this thing with words. It’s been a long time since I read a book with so many
caption boxes!
Other than the classic heroes and pleasing origin stories,
the collection also has an entertaining story featuring the repercussion of
Superman’s social engineering when he rescued an alien world years ago. The
alien sides are visually exciting and have different enough outlooks and
attitudes to make it fairly easy to root for one side over the other. Best of
all, the entire Justice League gets to come riding in to help resolve the
story. At this point, any Martian Manhunter is better than none!
Howard Porter handles a lot of the art in the Superman
portion of the book, so that looks the most like “classic” super-hero comics to
me. Dustin Nguyen handles a bunch of the origin stories, and his chapters look
nice and “animated DCU” also. I’m not sure if I love the redesigns on Martian
Manhunter and Superman, but Barda is still rocking her classic look, and the
new characters’ costumes are all well done.
I never would have guessed it, but my favorite Justice
League book in quite some time is actually based on a cartoon. This comic is
GOOD.
More please!
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