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Justice League Dark (2011) (Single Issues)
Justice League Dark #22
“Trinity War” part 3, continued from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (2013- ) #6! A member of the Justice League defects to Justice League Dark. But what does Constantine know about this murder that he isn’t telling? Continued in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA (2013- ) #7.
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Published July 24, 2013
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Jeff Lemire
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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May 17, 2019
Empezamos una nueva aventura en la que se encuentran muchísimos personajes entre sí. Se mezclan, se entreveran, se amigan y enemigan, por supuesto este es el más divertido. Entre tantos personajes es muy fácil perderse. Se me ha hecho un poco complicado poder rescatar bien cada uno de los personajes que estaban en las escenas. Muchos están de fondo, sin diálogo ni palabra, casi de relleno. Espero que después, en los siguientes cómics, se puedan ver mejor y que tengan una mayor participación porque a muchos me encantaría poder escucharlos. Por supuesto que no todos, porque sería imposible.
La verdad es que no terminé de adentrarme mucho en la historia. Hay muchos cambios de escena, de tiempo, de personajes, de diálogos y me resultó un tanto mareante. Además, nos encontramos con un principio bastante sospechoso con Madame Xanadu, no en las mejores condiciones. Espero en los siguientes episodios ser capaz de ver lo que está ocurriendo con ella que la adoro.
La verdad es que no terminé de adentrarme mucho en la historia. Hay muchos cambios de escena, de tiempo, de personajes, de diálogos y me resultó un tanto mareante. Además, nos encontramos con un principio bastante sospechoso con Madame Xanadu, no en las mejores condiciones. Espero en los siguientes episodios ser capaz de ver lo que está ocurriendo con ella que la adoro.
January 26, 2017
4.0 Here's where the crossover clicks into place and the teams begin to shuffle based on their allegiances and priorities, but all I can think about is Janin's art. I mean... wow. Why is he not on Justice League? And Superman? And Suicide Squad? He has to draw two dozen or more heroes in this issue and there isn't a single less-than-stellar panel that merges realistic figures without hyper-kinetic super action and a brighter-than-normal JLD color palette from Jeromy Cox.
October 16, 2013
This review was part of a full Trinity War review for the six chapters of the story as they were released in Justice League, Justice League of America and Justice League Dark. You can read it over at The Founding Fields:
http://thefoundingfields.com/2013/09/...
Preface:
“Start to finish, this was one hell of a ride, and as the first mega-event in comics that I’ve been able to follow issue by issue, this definitely was something else. Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire started off great, and they ended great, with ample support from all the artists involved like Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Mikel Janin and the others who were really on top-form here.” ~Shadowhawk, The Founding Fields
The road leading to Trinity War was laid down from the very first issues of all the titles that DC launched/relaunched with the reboot of their entire universe, dubbed New 52, in September 2011. Pandora, a mystical and mythical figure straight out of Greek legends and mythology, could be seen in subtle cameos in all the titles. I myself noted her in quite a few, although I couldn’t find her in some of them.
Regardless, Trinity War is an event that has been built up for almost two years. First it was Pandora’s special appearances. Then we started to have some backup stories in various issues of Justice League, penned by Geoff Johns, in which we saw mysterious villains carrying out schemes behind the scenes, and we even got to see more of Pandora herself as well as two other mystical and mysterious DC characters, the Phantom Stranger and the Question.
Then last year, we finally got on ongoing comic with the Phantom Stranger, which was initially penned by Dan Didio but has since fallen under the pen of J. M DeMatteis. Things came to a head earlier this year when DC launched Justice League of America, a new superhero team formed under the aegis of the United States Government as a possible opposition to the actual Justice League, should those heroes ever go off the rails.
And finally, we got a Pandora ongoing comic, penned by Ray Fawkes, and Trinity War was now on.
The idea of this event is that due to the machinations of a secretive group of villains, the Secret Society, the three Justice League teams currently in operation come to blows. There is mistrust and confusion on all sides, and this is meant to help the villains achieve their mysterious goals. With the Justice League, the Justice League of America and Justice League Dark (here on referred to as the JLA and the JLD respectively) all tied up and being manipulated without their knowledge, the stage is set, and what a fantastic and epic stage it is.
The main event begins with Justice League #22, where events are sparked off once Shazam, a new and rather inexperienced superhero, who goes into the country of Kahndaq to lay the remains of his nemesis Black Adam to rest. Unfortunately, his arrival there brings him into conflict with the national army, since the arrival of any superhero in the country breaks an international law. This necessitates the arrival of the Justice League to get Shazam out of there, no matter what. Matters are complicated further once the JLA detects the Justice League’s intervention and deploys to, essentially, arrest all the members of the Justice League for breaking the international law themselves.
Review:
The third chapter in this saga is Justice League Dark #22, penned by Jeff Lemire and with art by Mikel Janin, Jeromy Cox, and Carlos M. Mangual. We’ve already had two excellent installments in the event, and as we hit the middle stretch, things really start to heat up with the appearance of the Question at ARGUS headquarters and Wonder Woman off to seek John Constantine’s help. This issue also steps up with the character work, and seeing all these different characters divided over ideological lines is fascinating.
One thing I’ve enjoyed so far with Jeff Lemire’s run on Justice League Dark is his character-work, all of which has been excellent. Ray Fawkes’ introduction to the creative team fuzzled things up quite a bit, so its nice to see that Jeff Lemire has full control of the series for this event 2-parter. The way John Constantine in particular is portrayed here plays true to how Lemire has handled him throughout his run: he is a manipulative bastard who really cares about his own goals and his own plans. And then Lemire plays off Constantine against Wonder Woman, who’s come to ask the JLD for help in finding Pandora and is impatient about it.
This then segues into the defining element of this issue: all the teams have finally chosen sides. There’s one team with the Question and Superman, intent on finding a cure to his affliction and discovering why and how he lost control in Kahndaq. A second team is with Batman the Phantom Stranger, intent on making sure that the third and final team with Wonder Woman and Zatanna go off to find Pandora. There is so much conflict here, and this issue tests everybody’s loyalties to each other and to their beliefs. We see a strong and potent sequence between Green Arrow and Amanda Waller as the former’s frustration finally boils out. We see how Waller manipulates Firestorm into creating a… weapon against Superman. We see Batman and Wonder Woman go head-to-head against each other, certain that the other is walking the wrong path to exonerate Superman.
Superman killing Doctor Light. That’s what it all comes down to. This is what everything connects back to because this is the thing that set everything off. Initially it was just an opening gambit in a larger story, and now, slowly but surely, this is getting more and more prominent.
It also helps that Mikel Janin draws a really great Superman, and an afflicted Superman at that. The expressions on his face, his body language, his dialogue, everything is just so much on point. Just as withthe previous two chapters of Trinity War, Superman gets some great splash pages and some really poignant moments. Overall, Mikel Janin’s art is just amazing. I love his work and his run on Justice League Dark has made that book one of the best looking books that DC is currently putting out. Justice League Dark #22 represents the peak of his work on the series, and that is no small praise or an overestimation at all. It is the truth. He’s not alone on this book, of course. Jeromy Cox’s colours are different in sharpness and are a bit softer than what we’ve seen so far in Trinity War, falling between the other two chapters.
If there is one concern I have, it is that I want to know more about what the Secret Society of Supervillains is planning, and what the long game really is, as the mysterious leader of this group hints at to Madame Xanadu, his prisoner.
Rating: 9.5/10
http://thefoundingfields.com/2013/09/...
Preface:
“Start to finish, this was one hell of a ride, and as the first mega-event in comics that I’ve been able to follow issue by issue, this definitely was something else. Geoff Johns and Jeff Lemire started off great, and they ended great, with ample support from all the artists involved like Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Mikel Janin and the others who were really on top-form here.” ~Shadowhawk, The Founding Fields
The road leading to Trinity War was laid down from the very first issues of all the titles that DC launched/relaunched with the reboot of their entire universe, dubbed New 52, in September 2011. Pandora, a mystical and mythical figure straight out of Greek legends and mythology, could be seen in subtle cameos in all the titles. I myself noted her in quite a few, although I couldn’t find her in some of them.
Regardless, Trinity War is an event that has been built up for almost two years. First it was Pandora’s special appearances. Then we started to have some backup stories in various issues of Justice League, penned by Geoff Johns, in which we saw mysterious villains carrying out schemes behind the scenes, and we even got to see more of Pandora herself as well as two other mystical and mysterious DC characters, the Phantom Stranger and the Question.
Then last year, we finally got on ongoing comic with the Phantom Stranger, which was initially penned by Dan Didio but has since fallen under the pen of J. M DeMatteis. Things came to a head earlier this year when DC launched Justice League of America, a new superhero team formed under the aegis of the United States Government as a possible opposition to the actual Justice League, should those heroes ever go off the rails.
And finally, we got a Pandora ongoing comic, penned by Ray Fawkes, and Trinity War was now on.
The idea of this event is that due to the machinations of a secretive group of villains, the Secret Society, the three Justice League teams currently in operation come to blows. There is mistrust and confusion on all sides, and this is meant to help the villains achieve their mysterious goals. With the Justice League, the Justice League of America and Justice League Dark (here on referred to as the JLA and the JLD respectively) all tied up and being manipulated without their knowledge, the stage is set, and what a fantastic and epic stage it is.
The main event begins with Justice League #22, where events are sparked off once Shazam, a new and rather inexperienced superhero, who goes into the country of Kahndaq to lay the remains of his nemesis Black Adam to rest. Unfortunately, his arrival there brings him into conflict with the national army, since the arrival of any superhero in the country breaks an international law. This necessitates the arrival of the Justice League to get Shazam out of there, no matter what. Matters are complicated further once the JLA detects the Justice League’s intervention and deploys to, essentially, arrest all the members of the Justice League for breaking the international law themselves.
Review:
The third chapter in this saga is Justice League Dark #22, penned by Jeff Lemire and with art by Mikel Janin, Jeromy Cox, and Carlos M. Mangual. We’ve already had two excellent installments in the event, and as we hit the middle stretch, things really start to heat up with the appearance of the Question at ARGUS headquarters and Wonder Woman off to seek John Constantine’s help. This issue also steps up with the character work, and seeing all these different characters divided over ideological lines is fascinating.
One thing I’ve enjoyed so far with Jeff Lemire’s run on Justice League Dark is his character-work, all of which has been excellent. Ray Fawkes’ introduction to the creative team fuzzled things up quite a bit, so its nice to see that Jeff Lemire has full control of the series for this event 2-parter. The way John Constantine in particular is portrayed here plays true to how Lemire has handled him throughout his run: he is a manipulative bastard who really cares about his own goals and his own plans. And then Lemire plays off Constantine against Wonder Woman, who’s come to ask the JLD for help in finding Pandora and is impatient about it.
This then segues into the defining element of this issue: all the teams have finally chosen sides. There’s one team with the Question and Superman, intent on finding a cure to his affliction and discovering why and how he lost control in Kahndaq. A second team is with Batman the Phantom Stranger, intent on making sure that the third and final team with Wonder Woman and Zatanna go off to find Pandora. There is so much conflict here, and this issue tests everybody’s loyalties to each other and to their beliefs. We see a strong and potent sequence between Green Arrow and Amanda Waller as the former’s frustration finally boils out. We see how Waller manipulates Firestorm into creating a… weapon against Superman. We see Batman and Wonder Woman go head-to-head against each other, certain that the other is walking the wrong path to exonerate Superman.
Superman killing Doctor Light. That’s what it all comes down to. This is what everything connects back to because this is the thing that set everything off. Initially it was just an opening gambit in a larger story, and now, slowly but surely, this is getting more and more prominent.
It also helps that Mikel Janin draws a really great Superman, and an afflicted Superman at that. The expressions on his face, his body language, his dialogue, everything is just so much on point. Just as withthe previous two chapters of Trinity War, Superman gets some great splash pages and some really poignant moments. Overall, Mikel Janin’s art is just amazing. I love his work and his run on Justice League Dark has made that book one of the best looking books that DC is currently putting out. Justice League Dark #22 represents the peak of his work on the series, and that is no small praise or an overestimation at all. It is the truth. He’s not alone on this book, of course. Jeromy Cox’s colours are different in sharpness and are a bit softer than what we’ve seen so far in Trinity War, falling between the other two chapters.
If there is one concern I have, it is that I want to know more about what the Secret Society of Supervillains is planning, and what the long game really is, as the mysterious leader of this group hints at to Madame Xanadu, his prisoner.
Rating: 9.5/10
April 12, 2020
There's some good artwork, but also some white space. Shazam and Constantine team up, and this particular thing continues into Constantine #5.
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