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Justice League, Volume 1: The Totality by Scott Snyder, Doug Mahnke, Jorge Jimenez, Jim Cheung
bethanybaggins's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
mattquann's review
4.0
Lo and behold: Justice League under the guidance of Scott Snyder!
Picking up from where Dark Nights: Metal and No Justice left off, a new league is formed to combat the new world left in the wake of a perforated Source Wall. Martian Manhunter is the man in charge of a cast you probably know, but it's Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom that really steals the spotlight here.
This first volume has the feeling of a proper event comic, but since it doesn't feel the need to be constrained in a set number of issues, it is all given a bit more room to breathe. The threats are world/universe/multiverse-threatening, but they all feel in service to a larger story that will play out over the subsequent volumes. To that end, Lex Luthor making a team of the main-League's biggest baddies gives the book a real sense of threat: these guys really give the team a run for their money.
There's some really nice art in here too (Jim Cheung looking very appropriate in the DCU), and all the artists are given some zany and impressive stuff to draw. Even when the story feels like it is bending DCU mythos in weird angles (White Lanterns?), the spectacle of it all was enough to keep me from judging it too harshly. Again, you've got to appreciate that sometimes superhero comics are meant to be too zany for common sense.
Overall, a pretty cool popcorn comic and I like the direction that the series is heading. I also love that Luthor and the Legion of Doom seem like they'll be sticking around as the series' main antagonists since it gives the book a feeling of a long-form story instead of artificial arcs. I'd say my reading of volume two isn't that far away!
Picking up from where Dark Nights: Metal and No Justice left off, a new league is formed to combat the new world left in the wake of a perforated Source Wall. Martian Manhunter is the man in charge of a cast you probably know, but it's Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom that really steals the spotlight here.
This first volume has the feeling of a proper event comic, but since it doesn't feel the need to be constrained in a set number of issues, it is all given a bit more room to breathe. The threats are world/universe/multiverse-threatening, but they all feel in service to a larger story that will play out over the subsequent volumes. To that end, Lex Luthor making a team of the main-League's biggest baddies gives the book a real sense of threat: these guys really give the team a run for their money.
There's some really nice art in here too (Jim Cheung looking very appropriate in the DCU), and all the artists are given some zany and impressive stuff to draw. Even when the story feels like it is bending DCU mythos in weird angles (White Lanterns?), the spectacle of it all was enough to keep me from judging it too harshly. Again, you've got to appreciate that sometimes superhero comics are meant to be too zany for common sense.
Overall, a pretty cool popcorn comic and I like the direction that the series is heading. I also love that Luthor and the Legion of Doom seem like they'll be sticking around as the series' main antagonists since it gives the book a feeling of a long-form story instead of artificial arcs. I'd say my reading of volume two isn't that far away!
hypops's review
3.0
Heroes and villains race after yet another MacGuffin (something to do with a doorknob, a black hole, and endless power). I won’t pretend to understand much of what happens in this book, but whatevs. If you read the major event comics and ensemble books from the Big Two (Marvel and DC), then you know what kind of cosmic gobbledygook to expect.
At the end of the day, I had fun with it, and it’s got some excellent art (especially by its colorists).
At the end of the day, I had fun with it, and it’s got some excellent art (especially by its colorists).
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