Legendary’s Monsterverse has been unleashed on the DC Universe, and cities are threatened across the globe! From Metropolis to Gotham City to Themyscira, the Justice League scrambles to protect the citizens from these raging titans! What role has the Legion of Doom played in all this monster madness, and how will the tide of battle change…when a hero falls?!
গত পর্বে আমরা দেখেছি লুইসকে আর প্রপোজ করা হয়ে ওঠেনি ক্লার্কের। কারণ গগনবিদারী চিৎকার করে হাজির হয়েছে গডজিলা। সুপারম্যানের উপর দায়িত্ব পড়েছে মেট্রোপলিসকে রক্ষা করার।
জাস্টিস লীগের সব সদস্য ছুটে আসছে মেট্রোপলিসের দিকে। তবে ঝামেলা আছে। ফ্ল্যাশের সেন্ট্রাল সিটি, ওয়ান্ডার উওম্যানের থ্যামিস্ক্যারা, ব্যাটম্যানের গথামে এসে হাজির হয়েছে ভয়ানক সব দানব। জাস্টিস লীগকে "ডিভাইড এন্ড কঙ্কার" নীতিতে যেতে হচ্ছে।
এদিকে ভিলেনদের টিম 'লিজন অফ ডুম' এর সদস্যরাও পুরোপুরি জানে না কী চলছে! টয়ম্যান সুপারম্যানের 'ফট্রেস অফ সলিটিউড' থেকে এমন কিছু চুরি করেছে যা বাস্তবতা পাল্টে দিয়েছে। মনস্টারভার্সের একদম মুখোমুখি হয়ে গেছে জাস্টিস লীগ মেম্বারগণ, তাও চারটি ভিন্ন জায়গায়।
জাস্টিস লীগের মূল মেম্বারদের বাইরের হেল্প দরকার। গথামে মায়ান লিজেন্ড দানবীয় এক ব্যাট উড়ে বেড়াচ্ছে। একইসাথে আকাশে জ্বলছে ব্যাট-সিগন্যাল। ব্যাটফ্যামিলি এবং সাইবর্গ পরিকল্পনায় নেমে গেছে ঐটাকে থামাতে। কিন্তু ব্যাট পরিবারের ঘাড়-ত্যাড়া জেসন কি আর কথা শুনবে কারো? ভজঘট একটা পাকাতে হবে ঐ মাথা গরম পাব্লিকের!
সুপারম্যান এবং হকগার্ল মন্সটারদের মন্সটার গডজিলার সাথে ঝুঝছেন। কারণ ফ্ল্যাশের কাজ হচ্ছে এখন সবাইকে নিরাপদ দূরত্বে সরানোর। অন্যান্য স্থানেও সবার একই প্ল্যান, জনগনকে নিরাপদ জায়গায় সরিয়ে ফেলা অথবা ঐসব দানবকে দূরে কোথাও নিয়ে যাওয়া।
সুপারম্যান বনাম গডজিলার সরাসরি ফাইট চলছে। কিন্তু বিশাল এই দানব কতোটা শক্তিশালী এবং ক্ষিপ্র সেই ব্যাপারে কারো তেমন ধারণা নাই। বিলি ব্যাটসনসহ সুপারম্যানের সামনে এখন এক বিশাল বিপদ।
লেখালেখি এবং ডিটেইলড অঙ্কন দ্বিতীয় পর্বের ভালো লেগেছে। ডিসি কমিক্সের প্রতিটি হিরোকে তাদের ট্রেডমার্ক আচার-আচরণে পাওয়া গেছে। এই ইস্যুতে জাস্টিস লীগের প্ল্যানিং এবং টিময়োর্ক দেখে যেকোন কমিক্স পড়ুয়ার মন ভালো হয়ে যাবে। তবে পরিকল্পনা গথামে অনেক বেশি ভালো হয়েছে। অন্যান্য জায়গায় এখনো রয়েছে চরম অনিশ্চয়তা। মন্সটারভার্সের সাথে ডিসির হিরোদের মোকাবেলা দেখতে পরবর্তি পর্বের অপেক্ষায় রইলাম।
Comic Book Review
Name : Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong ( Issue #2 ) Genres : Action, Adventure, Superheroes. Publisher : DC Comics Writer : Brian Buccellato Artist : Drew Edward Johnson, Romulo Fajardo Publication Date : November 21, 2023 Reviewer : Wasim Hasan Mahmud
This is really a lot of fun. My son is enjoying all the extra monsters besides Godzilla getting time in the action. The superheroes are doing a great job answering the threat. The art is fantastic too! My son and I are really enjoying. For a silly crossover idea, this one is sticking the landing.
I read the second issue. Here are a few quick thoughts.
It's fine. Art is good to great. Some funny banter, keeps things light. So many characters. Batman fighting a giant bat monster is funny, though I kind of wish he had met Godzilla since there had been plans for such a crossover years ago. Also, Shazam! (Poorly used, but Shazam/Captain Marvel makes an appearance)
Lots of noise is being made about Godzilla defeating Superman. I think it's ridiculous--no way would Godzilla beat Supes. But, okay, whatev, the story would be boring if Superman was full power and just flicked Godzilla into nonexistence or sneezed and destroyed a universe again.
Also, where the heck is King Kong??? Two issues in, his name is on the cover, and he ain't in the story!
Whilst the first issue of Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong did a lot of set-up, things finally kick into high gear with the second issue, and we get what we all came to this series for, Superman punching Godzilla in the face! A lot of time with inter company cross-overs there's a sense of trying to play it safe, like neither company want to seem to be the one showcasing 'losers', they want their characters and their IP's to look really cool so that the fans are happy, and that new people will go 'wow, that's cool'. The same way franchises like The Fast and the Furious have gotten ridiculous because big stars have ridiculous clauses in their contracts to never lose, and to be biggest on screen and so such. This kind of thing doesn't seem to be an issue with this series, as this issue showcases characters from both sides having a pretty rough time of it.
The issue picks up where the last one left off, with Superman flying towards Godzilla as the giant lizard steps out of the ocean towards Metropolis. Of course, Superman being who he is, he tries to talk to Godzilla first, to find out if there's a peaceful solution. But it quickly devolves into a fight as Superman learns that Godzilla is able to give even his strength, speed, and invulnerability a challenge, sending the hero smashing through buildings. The rest of the League are on their way to the city to help when they learn that other giant monsters have appeared in Coast City, Gotham, and Themyscira, resulting in the team having to split up to go and deal with them. They do at least make the smart call to call in every hero that they can to help with this; which also has the added bonus of expanding the 'Justice League' of the title to mean pretty much any and every character.
This being the Legendary Monsterverse we don't really get any big name monsters other than Godzilla make an appearance in the issue. Scylla and Behemoth, who had previously been seen on screen in Godzilla: King of the Monsters come across to the DC universe, as does the giant bat monster Camazotz, which has only ever been seen in comic form. Everyone scatters to go deal with the new monsters, with Green Arrow joining Wonder Woman to head to Themyscira. However, along the way they find a mysterious island that shouldn't be there. Having experience with mysterious islands, Diana drops Ollie off to have a look around Skull Island, sorry, mystery island, as she continues on.
The main bulk of the book is split between Superman fighting Godzilla and the Bat Family taking on the giant bat monster over Gotham. You might be asking how a bunch of regular human vigilantes can deal with a Kaiju. The quick answer is that they don't. Instead, they have the help of Black Canary, who uses a modified sonic device on one of the Bat-Wings to fire her own version of Camazotz's sonic cry back at it, knocking it unconscious. As a fan of Black Canary, this was pretty cool. The fight with Godzilla is less successful, however, as even with the help of some other heroes the monster is able to bat everything aside. We get a cool moment where we have atomic breath and heat vision clashing; it's very Dragonball and is the kind of thing I picked this book up for. But even with Shazam using his lightning to strike Godzilla in the head the monster us unbeatable. As Superman catches Billy Batson after the lightning strike Godzilla hits them both with his atomic breath. Superman takes the hit to protect Billy, but it leaves him laying in the street, smoke rising from his hopefully just unconscious body.
Whilst there's no King Kong in this issue there is a lot of Kaiju action, and the book doesn't really slow down much to stop from the opening to the final splash page. Even when we check in with the villains, who seem to have been transported back to their home Earth along with the Kaiju, it's in frantic moments as they try to work out what to do with the situation. Despite not having much chance to spend time with the characters Brian Buccellato manages to get some little moments in there that feel nice. Jason Todd is a bit of a dick, and Ollie is fun on every page he's one, but one character who still feels weirdly off is Hal Jordan. I wasn't too keen on him in the first issue, and here he just acts really put out by the idea that Superman might need help. Perhaps it's just me, but something about him didn't sit right with me.
Christian Duce provides art on the issue with Luis Guerrero doing colouring, and the book is a visual treat throughout. This is the kind of book that's fun to read, but you end up flicking through it several more times once you're done, just taking in the art and enjoying the spectacle that's been put to the page. There is a fantastic double page splash of Godzilla smashing Superman through a building that's great, and the final page image of Superman lying on the ground as Godzilla roars in the background is likely to be one of the most shared and remembered images from the series. Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong is the kind of comic that just ticks all the right boxes. It's fun, ridiculous, jaw dropping, and looks great throughout. It's the kind of story that my inner child loves, and it's the kind of thing I'd make my action figures do as I smashed them together, imagining epic battles. It might not be trying to do anything novel, nor is it trying to get you to think about themes or messages, it's just here to have fun and absolutely achieves those goals.
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Maybe the concept of big hype moments where the heroes are fighting the monsterverse isn’t the most well thought idea, lol, as now I’m seeing this as the cash grab it is. This feels like something that should be 10x bigger but now all I am seeing is a Godzilla traced from the movies, and a slowly moving Superman vs Godzilla fight taking pace between the other big monster fights and a small roster of heroes. Shoot, throw everyone at this for crowd control and fighting these things, this is wack. So as we left off last issue, the toyman used the dream stone to wish skull island into the dc universe and throw the monsters and everyone back to their respective cities to let the chaos ensue. Wonder Woman and GA ended up spotting skull island on their way to paradise island, so Wonder Woman ended up leaving ollie there to explore as it’s not his first time on a deserted island, lol. If anyone can meet kong and chill him out…it’s probably not Ollie.
Of course the giant bat creature got sent to Gotham, and seeing a giant original design fly through the streets of Gotham is pretty cool. But dang do they screw up the bat family, half of them aren’t even here and once again Jason is portrayed as a trigger happy maniac who almost gets everyone killed because he wants to take a shot at the creature. That’s so wack and #notmyjason. They end up defeating the bat creature by figuring out it uses sonic attacks, then having cyborg analyze the sonic, and then use black canary to replicate the sonic necessary for taking it down. Que the Batman hype moment as the bat comes crashing down in the park.
The issue comes to an end and continues the Superman Godzilla fight. Hawkgirl ends up going down, just in time for Shazam to come in and save her. Shazam has now joined the fight, and right as he does Superman and Godzilla get locked into a blast battle. Nuclear blast vs heat vision. Apparently they are at a standstill. Ha, see! You can’t say either one is more powerful you stupid power scalers. Shazam decides he wants to help and tries to land on top of Godzilla and call down a magical lightning bolt to turn back into Billy while blasting Godzilla. This is stupid on multiple levels, he could have easily flown under Godzilla and called the lightning so he wouldn’t change into a kid and Godzilla would still be blasted and he could of helped with his numerous other powers. But this is all to put Superman into a vulnerable position where he is forced to swoop in and save Billy…only to get a full blast of nuclear energy that takes him down hard. Ooof.
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Tras la pesada necesidad argumental de justificar este crossover del 1º número, lo cierto es que se están tomando más en serio de lo que creía en un primer momento esta colisión de TITANES. Brian Buccellato lleva el enfoque cinematográfico del MonsterVerse de lograr que la humanidad pueda defenderse de estas colosales criaturas gracias a sus avances tecnológicos y comprensión de las biologías y capacidades sonoras de las criaturas (sobre todo en el BatTeam). Aún teniendo claro el descomunal poder destructivo del paso de gigante de los Kaijus, por lo que la acción siempre es defensiva y de control de daños.
Por otra parte, aquí tenemos materializado uno de esos clásicos "¿Personaje X ganaría a Superman?". Teniendo en cuenta también que apenas ha iniciado la historia y que el kryptoniano siempre abogará primero por no emplear toda su fuerza en un acto de violencia que pueda evitarse.
This is turning out to be pretty awesome. It's not as good as Batman Offworld, but it's still great. More Kaijus have shown up in different cities, resulting in the heroes separating into teams. It works.
Ver a mis heroes favoritos como Nightwing, Black Canary, Shazam y Hawkgirl luchando contra los Kaiju es algo de otro nivel aparte que el arte está 10/10 ya espero ver a Wonder Woman y Supergirl en acción.
Would be a one star for me, but there are some great panels in here. One too many of characters acting incredibly out of character and stupid to advance the plot (Shazam and Red Hood).
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