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A review by thealucinaut
Justice League, Volume 2: The Villain's Journey by Geoff Johns
2.0
In my review for the first volume of New52-League I wrote:
"I wanted to love the New 52 so so bad!!
Unfortunately, making something "new and fresh" meant stripping away the pathos and character depth we all loved, removing the love and history behind the characters, and replacing it with dick jokes and "badass" moments. "
That is never more ture than in this collection. i remember being SO heartbroken to learn that in the infamous "~~five years~~" that all of DC history was condensed into, the League had not only failed to expand beyond their new Big 7, but that they also failed to become any closer as people. They still know nothing about each other and still call each other by their code names and are always in costume. Imagine working with someone else very closely for five years in life or death situations and still calling them by their full name or official title and still regarding them as a work acquaintance. It makes me SO SAD. I know there's lots of reasons to dislike Meltzer's identity Crisis, but the one thing that will always make that book special to me is that all of the heroes referred to one another by their first names. There's such a rich history there. They feel like part of a community of people who have grown to know each other if not always love one another.
This is all without touching on the rest of the weirdness of this story, from the cookie cutter villain, to the strange origin-relatedness of it--it feels like it takes place two weeks after the first volume!-- but I just don't have the time. Ugh. The whole thing.
"I wanted to love the New 52 so so bad!!
Unfortunately, making something "new and fresh" meant stripping away the pathos and character depth we all loved, removing the love and history behind the characters, and replacing it with dick jokes and "badass" moments. "
That is never more ture than in this collection. i remember being SO heartbroken to learn that in the infamous "~~five years~~" that all of DC history was condensed into, the League had not only failed to expand beyond their new Big 7, but that they also failed to become any closer as people. They still know nothing about each other and still call each other by their code names and are always in costume. Imagine working with someone else very closely for five years in life or death situations and still calling them by their full name or official title and still regarding them as a work acquaintance. It makes me SO SAD. I know there's lots of reasons to dislike Meltzer's identity Crisis, but the one thing that will always make that book special to me is that all of the heroes referred to one another by their first names. There's such a rich history there. They feel like part of a community of people who have grown to know each other if not always love one another.
This is all without touching on the rest of the weirdness of this story, from the cookie cutter villain, to the strange origin-relatedness of it--it feels like it takes place two weeks after the first volume!-- but I just don't have the time. Ugh. The whole thing.