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Justice League (2016) #3-4
Justice League: Rebirth Deluxe Edition, Book 2
The Rebirth of the Justice League continues as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, the Flash and the newest Green Lanterns go toe-to-toe with such challengers as Maxwell Lord, the Suicide Squad, hostile alien hives, zombie armies and—most dangerous of all—beings with the power to manipulate time itself!
Whether they are repeating the same moments again and again or are flung to far reaches of history, can even the mighty powers of the Justice League conquer time?
Writer/artist Bryan Hitch (The Authority) and artist Fernando Pasarin (Green Lantern Corps) take the World’s Greatest Heroes past the fourth dimension in this deluxe edition, featuring guest stories from Shea Fontana, Dan Abnett, Tom Derenick, Ian Churchill and more.
Collects: JUSTICE LEAGUE #12-25.
Whether they are repeating the same moments again and again or are flung to far reaches of history, can even the mighty powers of the Justice League conquer time?
Writer/artist Bryan Hitch (The Authority) and artist Fernando Pasarin (Green Lantern Corps) take the World’s Greatest Heroes past the fourth dimension in this deluxe edition, featuring guest stories from Shea Fontana, Dan Abnett, Tom Derenick, Ian Churchill and more.
Collects: JUSTICE LEAGUE #12-25.
326 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 17, 2018
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Bryan Hitch
873 books98 followersBryan Hitch is a British comic book artist and writer who gained prominence on American titles such as Wildstorm's Stormwatch and The Authority, DC Comics' JLA, and Marvel Comics' The Ultimates.
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November 8, 2022
I could go the rest of my days without reading another story about time travel or mind control. Furthermore, this collection seems totally disjointed for being a singular volume. There are a few stories that just dive off a cliff and never appear again.
The art isn't downright bad, but it is boring. These new green lanterns are also garbage.
The art isn't downright bad, but it is boring. These new green lanterns are also garbage.
January 1, 2019
It’s not a great sign when the first two stories in a Deluxe Edition set up an arc (Justice League v Suicide Squad) that isn’t included in this run of volumes. Only one of those two stories really works well as a standalone, “Max Lord: Rebirth” in which the title character gets one up on Amanda Waller. So, when writer Bryan Hitch’s issues kick in at around the page 50 mark, it’s almost an anticlimax.
The standalone “Regroup” sees the League trapped in a cave and discussing their anxieties, although after 14 issues this approach is starting to feel like a crutch for Hitch. He’s particularly interested in Green Lantern Jessica Cruz’s imposter syndrome, a thread that guest writers Shea Fontana and Tom DeFalco deal with in “A Thousand Little Things” and “Fear Itself” respectively.
In fact, it’s a lot of single issues here, which is a double-edged sword. The Suicide Squad crossover (or lack thereof) notwithstanding, it’s an easier set of jumping on points that the first volume. Dan Abnett and artist Ian Churchill’s “Fury” introduces Mera to the League in a spectacularly moist fashion.
The two main arcs at the centre of the piece are “Timeless” and “Endless,” both by Hitch. The former should be totally my bag: a temporal entity is trying to erase heroes from time, setting up the idea that with every continuity reboot, these heroes have been responsible for more deaths than lives saved. It’s just that the ideas don’t quiet gel. More successful is the immediate follow-up “Endless,” a kind of Groundhog Day bootstrapping scenario that is shorter, more focused, and almost feels like a Star Trek: The Next Generation script. These are stories that people with only a vague idea of DC characters can get into.
“Reborn,” Hitch’s final piece, focuses these ideas by dealing with a lot of DC staples I’ve been researching: the Multiverse, Hypertime, and the Eternal return. Yet there’s a pervasion feeling that Hitch is setting up something bigger and darker that will have to be pretty massive for a worthy payoff. The first volume suffered from this as well, and sadly the next 12 issues haven’t improved this much.
The art is a mixed bag of styles. Hitch pencils several pages in his blockbuster fashion, and all of the Flash-centric “Endless” and they truly are showstoppers. Fernando Pasarin and Matt Ryan’s art on “Timeless Part 5” is truly cinematic, from the massive explosions to the depiction of Tempus split over 5 thin vertical panels. I was also quite fond of the look and feel of Tom Derenick’s work on “Reborn.”
In the Nietzschean concept of the Eternal Return, it is said that “that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.” I’m sticking with this for now as I want to catch up with Scott Snyder’s newer run. However, for now I feel like Barry Allen caught in an endless time loop and reliving variations of the same stories over and over.
The standalone “Regroup” sees the League trapped in a cave and discussing their anxieties, although after 14 issues this approach is starting to feel like a crutch for Hitch. He’s particularly interested in Green Lantern Jessica Cruz’s imposter syndrome, a thread that guest writers Shea Fontana and Tom DeFalco deal with in “A Thousand Little Things” and “Fear Itself” respectively.
In fact, it’s a lot of single issues here, which is a double-edged sword. The Suicide Squad crossover (or lack thereof) notwithstanding, it’s an easier set of jumping on points that the first volume. Dan Abnett and artist Ian Churchill’s “Fury” introduces Mera to the League in a spectacularly moist fashion.
The two main arcs at the centre of the piece are “Timeless” and “Endless,” both by Hitch. The former should be totally my bag: a temporal entity is trying to erase heroes from time, setting up the idea that with every continuity reboot, these heroes have been responsible for more deaths than lives saved. It’s just that the ideas don’t quiet gel. More successful is the immediate follow-up “Endless,” a kind of Groundhog Day bootstrapping scenario that is shorter, more focused, and almost feels like a Star Trek: The Next Generation script. These are stories that people with only a vague idea of DC characters can get into.
“Reborn,” Hitch’s final piece, focuses these ideas by dealing with a lot of DC staples I’ve been researching: the Multiverse, Hypertime, and the Eternal return. Yet there’s a pervasion feeling that Hitch is setting up something bigger and darker that will have to be pretty massive for a worthy payoff. The first volume suffered from this as well, and sadly the next 12 issues haven’t improved this much.
The art is a mixed bag of styles. Hitch pencils several pages in his blockbuster fashion, and all of the Flash-centric “Endless” and they truly are showstoppers. Fernando Pasarin and Matt Ryan’s art on “Timeless Part 5” is truly cinematic, from the massive explosions to the depiction of Tempus split over 5 thin vertical panels. I was also quite fond of the look and feel of Tom Derenick’s work on “Reborn.”
In the Nietzschean concept of the Eternal Return, it is said that “that the universe and all existence and energy has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.” I’m sticking with this for now as I want to catch up with Scott Snyder’s newer run. However, for now I feel like Barry Allen caught in an endless time loop and reliving variations of the same stories over and over.
January 17, 2019
People can criticize the New 52 as much as they like, and most of it will probably be true. But Nobody can honestly tell me this run of the Justice League can stand up to Geoff Johns run of JL. It's not close. The art is solid, mostly. But the stories.... I apologize if the writer of these reads this. But the stories are bad. No other way to say it. The one highlight of this collection is a single issue when Mera shows up, and lays the smackdown on the entire Justice League. That issue was good. Everything else is forgettable, to put it kindly.
June 25, 2022
The main stories in this volume have a time travel plot that I can't quite wrap my head around. There are several one shot stories that worked better for me. The art is mostly good, the stories run hot and cold.
An okay volume overall.
An okay volume overall.
August 25, 2024
Two multi-part stories ("Timeless" and "Endless") bookended by a number of one-shot stories. The two main stories have some interesting ideas, but something feels off in the execution, like they needed a little more work. The assorted one-shots are OK overall, though a few of them also feel similarly off. (B-)
April 28, 2021
Oopsa doosle! Hitch obviously is a beautiful artist, but he was going REALLY high concept with time travel and combining universes and etcetera. But he came up with the most jumbled, barely coherent, mish mash of trying to do something with the entire Rebirth universe that didn't need to be that complicated.
It really sucks that it happened on a big title like Justice League.
It really sucks that it happened on a big title like Justice League.
February 2, 2020
It wasn't as much of a slog as the previous volume, because there's just one longer eye-rolling arc. But I have no interest in reading any further. I only plowed my way through this because I'd already borrowed it from the library.
June 30, 2021
It felt different than other comics I have read. One word I would use to describe this book is: disjointed
December 6, 2022
little disjointed as a whole book but some really fun issues in this.
May 16, 2023
Gripping, full of daring do, visceral art, giant plot twists and epic changing events :D
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