Justice League by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Omnibus Vol. 2

Justice League by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Omnibus

by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV

The fate of the Multiverse hangs in the balance as Justice and Doom collide!

As the Justice League races to prevent the rise of Perpetua, the Legion of Doom enacts its grand plan to reshape reality itself. But as the ultimate battle between Justice and Doom erupts, a new darkness rises—the Batman Who Laughs. Twisting the very nature of heroism and villainy, he threatens to plunge existence into chaos. From the minds of Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV, this omnibus delivers universe-shattering stakes, mind-bending storytelling, and an all-out war for the soul of the DC Universe.

Collects Justice League #19-39, The Batman Who Laughs #1-7, The Batman Who Laughs: The Grimm Knight #1, DC’s Year of the Villain Special #1, and Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen #1-4.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Dc Comics

896 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2025

About the author

Scott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.

Reviews

[Lukáš Kudela]

Snyder’s Justice League is truly a wild ride, with ambitions as big as Morrison’s legendary JLA run. And while Morrison’s JLA is still my undefeated number one when it comes to Justice League stories, I definitely respect Snyder’s ambition.

I mean, this is undeniably a great and fun read. Sometimes a bit too much, all over the place, and essentially a bridge between Metal and Death Metal, but I had an absolute blast with it.

The theme of Doom vs. Justice runs throughout the entire run, and in this second volume we follow Lex Luthor as he becomes the Apex Predator in the service of the goddess Perpetua, the being responsible for the creation of the Multiverse. They are the ones trying to stir humanity’s lowest and most selfish instincts and bring the entire Multiverse under the rule of Doom.

I won’t spoil the ending here—go read it for yourselves—but I definitely have to mention the time travel (into both the future and the past), the multiversal hopping, and the downright insane super-cosmic ideas. That’s exactly my kind of thing, and I’m really glad Snyder delivered it this way. Plus, I can’t not mention Jarro, the best Robin of all time!

I’m also very happy that the omnibus includes The Batman Who Laughs miniseries. At first glance it might not seem like it fits the overall concept, but later it makes perfect sense—and it’s one of Snyder’s best works ever, so it absolutely belongs here. To close things out, we also get Tynion’s Hell Arisen miniseries, which was a very pleasant surprise for me. I enjoyed it far more than I expected, and it perfectly bridges the end of Snyder’s Justice League run with Death Metal. Thanks to this miniseries, things that previously didn’t fully make sense finally start to click.

So if you love bold, insane, and ambitious adventures across time and dimensions, with a philosophical edge and reflections on the nature of humanity, this run—despite its minor flaws—is made just for you.

[Langston Lardi]

Finally finished omnibus 2 of Scott Snyders run on JL and boy is it a ride, I do think I enjoyed the simplicity of omnibus one a tad bit more, as while this book is still definitely followable I can see how some could consider it a little convoluted if you aren’t a seasoned DC reader. I mean we jump from the monitors and world forger, to the 6th Dimension, to a Batman vs the Batman who laughs story (all of this JL run spins out of Dark Knights Metal), to deep martian manhunter and hawk girl lore, the JSA, the future, Lexs past, and so much more. It’s easy to get lost if you aren’t prepared. I found each story to be really interesting and engaging, not one story did I find boring or slow at all, but I definitely paced myself since each story was dealing with so much going on. At the heart of it I’d say this book is definitely a Lex book as he’s almost our soul character we follow the most aside from the JL of course. The stakes have never felt higher and now I wonder to myself after reading this how I ever read Death Metal prior to this. Overall I think Scott has done a great job on his runs with Batman, Metal, JL, and Death Metal to really broaden and deepen the DC lore even more so than it was before.

[Shannon Appelcline]

The definition of an uneven book. We get a strong 6th Dimension arc, an overly long Doom War arc, a Batman Who Laughs story that really doesn't fit in this volume but turns out to be important to the ending, a non-ending to the Justice League, and a follow-up in Year of the Villain, which also has a non-ending.

That makes this a really long shaggy dog tale to get you to Death Metal, but at least Death Metal is in print and available to continue on.