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Justice League (2018)
Justice League, Vol. 1: The Totality
Visionary author Scott Snyder makes his mark on DC's most legendary team in JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL. 1!
Spinning out of the cataclysmic events of Dark Knights: Metal and the universe-defining No Justice, the core members of the Justice League--Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and more--are finally reunited!
The cosmos suddenly opens up to new threats that the Justice League could not imagine! As Lex Luthor and Batman race to solve a mystery going back to the beginning of the DCU, the rest of the League dive deep into new corners of their own mythologies!
One of the most critically acclaimed authors of his generation finally scribes DC's flagship title in JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL. 1!
Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE #1-6.
Spinning out of the cataclysmic events of Dark Knights: Metal and the universe-defining No Justice, the core members of the Justice League--Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and more--are finally reunited!
The cosmos suddenly opens up to new threats that the Justice League could not imagine! As Lex Luthor and Batman race to solve a mystery going back to the beginning of the DCU, the rest of the League dive deep into new corners of their own mythologies!
One of the most critically acclaimed authors of his generation finally scribes DC's flagship title in JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL. 1!
Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE #1-6.
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First published November 13, 2018
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Scott Snyder
1,779 books5,121 followersScott 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.
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February 14, 2019
Every couple of years, I decide to dive back into JLA to see if I can get into it once and for all—it is, after all, a series that features iconic characters for whom I feel at least some degree of affection, and it seems like a book I should enjoy. Not coincidentally, every couple of years, I make a face akin to the one I imagine Pauly Shore would make when attempting to explain a cosine to someone whose native language isn’t English (though, to be fair, I’m not entirely sure we can call what Pauly Shore speaks English).
Part of that’s because I don’t routinely track big DC events (I am, after all, a Marvel zombie), so I’m utterly clueless as to what universe-affecting things have happened of late. But, in this case, it’s also because the story is incredibly complex and just downright confusing, and there are about 18 million different characters involved.
I’ve generally enjoyed Snyder’s Batman work; I can’t say I dug this book and it’s oftentimes nonsensical pseudo-science as much. Still, the art is fun, and if you’re up to speed on what’s going on in the DCU generally, it’s probably a better read—as with pretty much everything in life, I won’t denigrate it for my own intellectual shortcomings.
Part of that’s because I don’t routinely track big DC events (I am, after all, a Marvel zombie), so I’m utterly clueless as to what universe-affecting things have happened of late. But, in this case, it’s also because the story is incredibly complex and just downright confusing, and there are about 18 million different characters involved.
I’ve generally enjoyed Snyder’s Batman work; I can’t say I dug this book and it’s oftentimes nonsensical pseudo-science as much. Still, the art is fun, and if you’re up to speed on what’s going on in the DCU generally, it’s probably a better read—as with pretty much everything in life, I won’t denigrate it for my own intellectual shortcomings.
November 29, 2018
When did Scott Snyder become so verbose? It's like he really wants to write a novel instead of comics. I hated his third person narration / exposition in this. There's some decent ideas presented here. The problem is there are too many concepts. Snyder has to learn to edit himself. He just added all those stupid metals in Dark Knights: Metal. Now he's also creating seven new energies? Enough's enough. There's enough energies existing in the DC universe to use them without creating a bunch of new nonsense readers have to wrap their heads around. Snyder's shown here and in No Justice that he is not very good at being Grant Morrison. Morrison does do a lot of high concept stuff. But he presents it in a way that's less dense and more understandable. Snyder is feeding us high concept stuff with a fire hose.
I did like Snyder's treatment of Luthor. He's really the main character in this arc. The art is fantastic. I'm glad they brought the big guns out for what should be one of DC's top-tier titles.
Received a review copy from DC and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.
I did like Snyder's treatment of Luthor. He's really the main character in this arc. The art is fantastic. I'm glad they brought the big guns out for what should be one of DC's top-tier titles.
Received a review copy from DC and Edelweiss. All thoughts are my own and in no way influenced by the aforementioned.
October 1, 2019
So dense and challenges readers.
World: The art is amazing, the splash pages, the characters with their personality, the colors, this book is very pleasing to the eyes. Of course, it gets to even more amazing when Jorge is drawing...gorgeous. The world building is probably the biggest and the most challenging thing of the book, it is awe inspiring. Snyder is the new Grant Morrison, he takes the past and gathers it together and adds his own and makes something grand. If you loved the world building that he did with Dark Nights Metal and Justice League No Justice, creating a larger and broading universe for the DC characters to play in than this Justice League book is for you. It not only takes the past such Kirby’s Source Wall and the ideas behind (yes Claremont first name it the Source) but along with the the other cosmic forces of the DC universe like the Speed Force, has created something more. At the same time honoring and taking pieces of the current run from other books and not leaving them out, such as the Still Force with Joshua Williamson and the Sage Force used in the past. Snyder is rolling a lot of these ideas all together into something amazing, much like what Morrison did with Multiversity and the Multiverse map created there. It’s ambitious, it’s all emcompassing and Snyder is not done. There is a sense of overwhelming at time with the sheer amount of information and Snyder does ask readers to think about the universe and understand and see all the moving pieces. This world challenges, it’s not a basic cardboard backdrop of “oh no aliens are coming to attack us and we must save the Earth” stage that so many team up books easily fall back on. This is Snyder’s first arc which sets the world in motion so that moving forward all the rest of the stories and all the other writers that follow him have something wonderous to play with both large scale or small.
Story: The narrative is large, it’s grand and often overwhelming with the amount that’s happening and the forces and characters that are put in place as the story progresses. It’s not a linear story where all the pieces are immediately there for readers to pick at, the story is not simple, it’s not cliched and not mindless. As I said above, there is no simple “aliens are coming” story here, this is a world building story, this is about constructing the rules and the ideals of the characters and also the team. It asks big questions about the idea of Justice and what it means. It poses the idea of the Legion of Doom and what they represent? If Justice is to be more than ourselves than Doom is to be honest and truly be ourselves. It is two views colliding with each other, about seeing that man is by nature good, or self serving and questioning what ‘Evil’ is. The pacing is breakneck and there are often times when the art and the story don’t catch up to the scope and the intention of Snyder (this is one of the issues of this first arc). There are a lot of pieces and ideas and characters at play and sometimes there are too many broad strokes which confusing and overwhelm readers, this is a book that requires a reread. I won’t go into details with the story as I don’t want to spoil it but go into it expecting to be challenged, expecting to think about what you’ve read and what Snyder is trying to say with these characters and what they represent. This book feels like Westworld with it’s narrative style, and Jeff Vandermeer’s ‘Southern Reach Trilogy’ with it’s science and concepts, that is amazing. I finished the story overwhelmed, needing to breath, needing to think, need to put the pieces together, when I did I looked back and I saw something different, something that changed the DC Universe and for a team up book that’s fucking amazing.
Characters: There are a lot of characters here so it’s natural there are not a lot of quiet moments. A lot of the characterizations rely on preexisting knowledge of these characters and their archetypes and it’s great cause Snyder plays on these and makes readers think. Most team books have lack of character buildling and it’s a problem with team books in general with the limited page count and the amount of characters so this is not new at all. What Snyder has done here is use our expectations of these characters and extend what they are to represent something bigger. Luthor is this, Clark is that, Manta represents this, Sinestro can mean that (I’m not getting into it so I don’t spoil it). Having these characters deal with the forces around them and also representing them makes sense cause it also makes readers understand why these characters are here in the first place. Then there’s Luthor, wow Snyder made him amazing. Much like ‘Legion’ the tv series and quite many different books and tv shows using him as narrator is great, not only does he tell us why the Legion of Doom exists but being seen from the point of view of the ‘villains’ the drive and the ideas behind this first arc take on something different, not quite shiny and bright but something real and raw. Not the deepest of characters but done so well.
I really liked this first arc, it’s not perfect there are some pacing issues and sometimes the story is too big for the book itself but the scope and the ambition and what it does for the DC universe moving forward is pretty awe inspiring. I love book that challenge readers and asks them to read again and pay attention and connect the pieces and this is a prime example of that.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
World: The art is amazing, the splash pages, the characters with their personality, the colors, this book is very pleasing to the eyes. Of course, it gets to even more amazing when Jorge is drawing...gorgeous. The world building is probably the biggest and the most challenging thing of the book, it is awe inspiring. Snyder is the new Grant Morrison, he takes the past and gathers it together and adds his own and makes something grand. If you loved the world building that he did with Dark Nights Metal and Justice League No Justice, creating a larger and broading universe for the DC characters to play in than this Justice League book is for you. It not only takes the past such Kirby’s Source Wall and the ideas behind (yes Claremont first name it the Source) but along with the the other cosmic forces of the DC universe like the Speed Force, has created something more. At the same time honoring and taking pieces of the current run from other books and not leaving them out, such as the Still Force with Joshua Williamson and the Sage Force used in the past. Snyder is rolling a lot of these ideas all together into something amazing, much like what Morrison did with Multiversity and the Multiverse map created there. It’s ambitious, it’s all emcompassing and Snyder is not done. There is a sense of overwhelming at time with the sheer amount of information and Snyder does ask readers to think about the universe and understand and see all the moving pieces. This world challenges, it’s not a basic cardboard backdrop of “oh no aliens are coming to attack us and we must save the Earth” stage that so many team up books easily fall back on. This is Snyder’s first arc which sets the world in motion so that moving forward all the rest of the stories and all the other writers that follow him have something wonderous to play with both large scale or small.
Story: The narrative is large, it’s grand and often overwhelming with the amount that’s happening and the forces and characters that are put in place as the story progresses. It’s not a linear story where all the pieces are immediately there for readers to pick at, the story is not simple, it’s not cliched and not mindless. As I said above, there is no simple “aliens are coming” story here, this is a world building story, this is about constructing the rules and the ideals of the characters and also the team. It asks big questions about the idea of Justice and what it means. It poses the idea of the Legion of Doom and what they represent? If Justice is to be more than ourselves than Doom is to be honest and truly be ourselves. It is two views colliding with each other, about seeing that man is by nature good, or self serving and questioning what ‘Evil’ is. The pacing is breakneck and there are often times when the art and the story don’t catch up to the scope and the intention of Snyder (this is one of the issues of this first arc). There are a lot of pieces and ideas and characters at play and sometimes there are too many broad strokes which confusing and overwhelm readers, this is a book that requires a reread. I won’t go into details with the story as I don’t want to spoil it but go into it expecting to be challenged, expecting to think about what you’ve read and what Snyder is trying to say with these characters and what they represent. This book feels like Westworld with it’s narrative style, and Jeff Vandermeer’s ‘Southern Reach Trilogy’ with it’s science and concepts, that is amazing. I finished the story overwhelmed, needing to breath, needing to think, need to put the pieces together, when I did I looked back and I saw something different, something that changed the DC Universe and for a team up book that’s fucking amazing.
Characters: There are a lot of characters here so it’s natural there are not a lot of quiet moments. A lot of the characterizations rely on preexisting knowledge of these characters and their archetypes and it’s great cause Snyder plays on these and makes readers think. Most team books have lack of character buildling and it’s a problem with team books in general with the limited page count and the amount of characters so this is not new at all. What Snyder has done here is use our expectations of these characters and extend what they are to represent something bigger. Luthor is this, Clark is that, Manta represents this, Sinestro can mean that (I’m not getting into it so I don’t spoil it). Having these characters deal with the forces around them and also representing them makes sense cause it also makes readers understand why these characters are here in the first place. Then there’s Luthor, wow Snyder made him amazing. Much like ‘Legion’ the tv series and quite many different books and tv shows using him as narrator is great, not only does he tell us why the Legion of Doom exists but being seen from the point of view of the ‘villains’ the drive and the ideas behind this first arc take on something different, not quite shiny and bright but something real and raw. Not the deepest of characters but done so well.
I really liked this first arc, it’s not perfect there are some pacing issues and sometimes the story is too big for the book itself but the scope and the ambition and what it does for the DC universe moving forward is pretty awe inspiring. I love book that challenge readers and asks them to read again and pay attention and connect the pieces and this is a prime example of that.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
November 9, 2018
Not bad. Better than no Justice.
The thing with Justice League is that it's not always easy to write about a group of gods who are nearly unbeatable. So scott snyder decides to bring back the injustice squad. Doom squad. Evil versions to go head to head with the justice league. With Lex back to being evil will he be able to take down the justice league with his own league?
Good: art is great. Some awesome fights in this one. The dialogue can be really well done. Especially from flash or superman. I also thought the storyline was solid.
Bad: the pacing was sometimes bad. Usually when snyder went into big long exposition moments that weren't needed. Also the evil justice league been done alot.
A 3 out of 5. A decent start. I hope continues to get better.
The thing with Justice League is that it's not always easy to write about a group of gods who are nearly unbeatable. So scott snyder decides to bring back the injustice squad. Doom squad. Evil versions to go head to head with the justice league. With Lex back to being evil will he be able to take down the justice league with his own league?
Good: art is great. Some awesome fights in this one. The dialogue can be really well done. Especially from flash or superman. I also thought the storyline was solid.
Bad: the pacing was sometimes bad. Usually when snyder went into big long exposition moments that weren't needed. Also the evil justice league been done alot.
A 3 out of 5. A decent start. I hope continues to get better.
August 19, 2018
The two step process for saving a floundering DC comic:
1. Have Snyder or Johns take over writing duties
2. Go "back to basics" and/or appeal to nostalgia
So here we have the new Justice League book. First, the good:
It is better than anything from the Rebirth run by far.
We get a fun cameo or two (I love me some Swamp Thing), plus Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl are on the team again.
The page with the Joker creeping up behind a certain member of the League with a chainsaw is probably my favorite piece of comics art so far this year.
Seeing the Hall of Justice and the Legion of Doom was actually a lot of fun.
The not so good:
I know that villains are supposed to be opposite versions of the heroes, but here it is just WAY too "on the nose". "Oh no, Flash has to go up against the Still Force and Green Lantern has to fight the Invisible Light Spectrum!". They are teasing that every member is going to have an "opposing force". So do you fight Batman with the Anti-Karate force?
I loooooooove everything to do with all of the lanterns, but do we need yet another new corps (especially when the ones that we have are already so underused)? No. The answer is no.
This story is DENSE. It took me two days to get through it and I still can't really explain everything that happened.
Issue 5 is a flashback issue that kind of brings the story to a screeching halt.
The "the villains could have won if only they had killed the hero when they had the chance rather than saying 'I'll kill you later' for no reason" trope.
Did this book blow my hair back and send me into seizures of joy? Nope, but it's definitely a good start and I will definitely be checking out the next volume.
1. Have Snyder or Johns take over writing duties
2. Go "back to basics" and/or appeal to nostalgia
So here we have the new Justice League book. First, the good:
It is better than anything from the Rebirth run by far.
We get a fun cameo or two (I love me some Swamp Thing), plus Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl are on the team again.
The page with the Joker creeping up behind a certain member of the League with a chainsaw is probably my favorite piece of comics art so far this year.
Seeing the Hall of Justice and the Legion of Doom was actually a lot of fun.
The not so good:
I know that villains are supposed to be opposite versions of the heroes, but here it is just WAY too "on the nose". "Oh no, Flash has to go up against the Still Force and Green Lantern has to fight the Invisible Light Spectrum!". They are teasing that every member is going to have an "opposing force". So do you fight Batman with the Anti-Karate force?
I loooooooove everything to do with all of the lanterns, but do we need yet another new corps (especially when the ones that we have are already so underused)? No. The answer is no.
This story is DENSE. It took me two days to get through it and I still can't really explain everything that happened.
Issue 5 is a flashback issue that kind of brings the story to a screeching halt.
The "the villains could have won if only they had killed the hero when they had the chance rather than saying 'I'll kill you later' for no reason" trope.
Did this book blow my hair back and send me into seizures of joy? Nope, but it's definitely a good start and I will definitely be checking out the next volume.
January 12, 2022
Scott Snyder’s 2018 collection of the first few issues of the Justice League rebirth is colorful, exciting, with lots of action and I’m really not sure what all was going on.
When I was a kid back in the 70s I remember playing superheroes with my friends outside. Frequently we would watch an episode of Batman, starring Adam West, and then go reenact what we had just seen. There was a lot of action, it was exciting and colorful, and we made it up as we went along.
I liked the way Snyder wrote for Martian Man Hunter and the illustrations from Cheung and Jimenez were exceptional. Luthor’s depiction seemed stapled on and the Fantastic Voyage sections were not as developed as they could have been and not really explained all that well. Also more Lantern corps colors and some Flash rogues … lined up against Flash …
Snyder has a name that’s recognizable and sometimes I think publishers will roll out a run and really hype the writer, like say, oh I don’t know - KOFF KOFF BENDIS! KOFF KOFF – and just assume the writer will make the series good. Sometimes …
So, YES!, it’s a comic with lots of characters and lots going on, but NO, I do not have a buy in.
When I was a kid back in the 70s I remember playing superheroes with my friends outside. Frequently we would watch an episode of Batman, starring Adam West, and then go reenact what we had just seen. There was a lot of action, it was exciting and colorful, and we made it up as we went along.
I liked the way Snyder wrote for Martian Man Hunter and the illustrations from Cheung and Jimenez were exceptional. Luthor’s depiction seemed stapled on and the Fantastic Voyage sections were not as developed as they could have been and not really explained all that well. Also more Lantern corps colors and some Flash rogues … lined up against Flash …
Snyder has a name that’s recognizable and sometimes I think publishers will roll out a run and really hype the writer, like say, oh I don’t know - KOFF KOFF BENDIS! KOFF KOFF – and just assume the writer will make the series good. Sometimes …
So, YES!, it’s a comic with lots of characters and lots going on, but NO, I do not have a buy in.
October 27, 2021
Reread: 27/10/2021
This was epic!
I loved every second of reading this one. It starts off with the JL fighting different threats and then finding out that they are being attacked on all sides and a totality (a comet) is heading towards earth and well its upto them to stop it and also finds it secrets but while thats going on John has to fight Sinestro and Umbrax while Barry has to deal with Still force powered Grodd but Lex and Joker are targeting the core 3 and its all pandemonium and its a war between LOD and JL and who will win and who will lose will change everything we know about the team!
Its an epic story with so many moving parts and has foreshadowing of things to come and a cosmic goddess and also has some great moments for John and Barry highlighting their vulnerabilities but also gives great moment to J'onn and sets his next mission and builds on the mysteries. What I love more is the art and how good it is, each page a marvel to look at. It makes the writing even better, it ends with hope and its just perfect! <3
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THIS WAS EPIC!
The League are fighting the enemies on all front and I mean everyone and then you have Luthor taking down Savage and the Neanderthals and on the other hand there is the league who discover this totality and with the legion of doom after it too, and John Stewart having to deal with Sinestro and the Invisible spectrum and his new corps, and a living galaxy in Umbrax and Barry having to deal with Grodd who has got Still force. And its almost end of the earth on multiple fronts as the league is split and forced to battle on multiple fronts, will they live or will they die? Who will survive and what not? Plus Luthor vs Batman and secrets revealed and gallore! Its epic and I love the high stakes and the inclusion of top villains in the series and finally the way they are able to overcome just like the JL does its awesome!
This sets a series of events that push the DCU into new directions and introduces a lot of new elements and introduces a wild card in the end, the return of a big villain! The series writing was awesome and the art even better, Cheung and Jiemenez giving it their all and making each page so worth it, its a blast to read through. High recommend.
This was epic!
I loved every second of reading this one. It starts off with the JL fighting different threats and then finding out that they are being attacked on all sides and a totality (a comet) is heading towards earth and well its upto them to stop it and also finds it secrets but while thats going on John has to fight Sinestro and Umbrax while Barry has to deal with Still force powered Grodd but Lex and Joker are targeting the core 3 and its all pandemonium and its a war between LOD and JL and who will win and who will lose will change everything we know about the team!
Its an epic story with so many moving parts and has foreshadowing of things to come and a cosmic goddess and also has some great moments for John and Barry highlighting their vulnerabilities but also gives great moment to J'onn and sets his next mission and builds on the mysteries. What I love more is the art and how good it is, each page a marvel to look at. It makes the writing even better, it ends with hope and its just perfect! <3
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
THIS WAS EPIC!
The League are fighting the enemies on all front and I mean everyone and then you have Luthor taking down Savage and the Neanderthals and on the other hand there is the league who discover this totality and with the legion of doom after it too, and John Stewart having to deal with Sinestro and the Invisible spectrum and his new corps, and a living galaxy in Umbrax and Barry having to deal with Grodd who has got Still force. And its almost end of the earth on multiple fronts as the league is split and forced to battle on multiple fronts, will they live or will they die? Who will survive and what not? Plus Luthor vs Batman and secrets revealed and gallore! Its epic and I love the high stakes and the inclusion of top villains in the series and finally the way they are able to overcome just like the JL does its awesome!
This sets a series of events that push the DCU into new directions and introduces a lot of new elements and introduces a wild card in the end, the return of a big villain! The series writing was awesome and the art even better, Cheung and Jiemenez giving it their all and making each page so worth it, its a blast to read through. High recommend.
March 8, 2019
I actually enjoyed this Snyder JLA. The writing is good, the characters are interesting and the artwork is excellent.
JLA shows our heroes going up against a worthy foe- Luthor's Legion of Doom. As the Injustice Legion hijacks a Vandal Savage inspired plan to destroy the Earth, this causes something called "The Totality" to appear. It is a great power source and the Justice League and the Legion clash over its control. All of this with good writing and good art to back it up. So why three stars?
Well the constant "reboots" is annoying. I can't keep track of which Justice League this is (the newest one I assume). Also the "new" bad lanterns (no not the Black Ones) and the "Still Force" were um...not-so-great ideas. It is a rather "already been done" kinda thing. Too many damn rings flying around..and the Still Force idea seems just lazy.
Still as atrocious as some DC comics have recently been -this was a nice read. Not perfect, by one I enjoyed and will earn a welcome shelf space with my comic collection. A JLA fan will love this. I also gives kudos to Luthor's Legion. The Joker makes it :)
JLA shows our heroes going up against a worthy foe- Luthor's Legion of Doom. As the Injustice Legion hijacks a Vandal Savage inspired plan to destroy the Earth, this causes something called "The Totality" to appear. It is a great power source and the Justice League and the Legion clash over its control. All of this with good writing and good art to back it up. So why three stars?
Well the constant "reboots" is annoying. I can't keep track of which Justice League this is (the newest one I assume). Also the "new" bad lanterns (no not the Black Ones) and the "Still Force" were um...not-so-great ideas. It is a rather "already been done" kinda thing. Too many damn rings flying around..and the Still Force idea seems just lazy.
Still as atrocious as some DC comics have recently been -this was a nice read. Not perfect, by one I enjoyed and will earn a welcome shelf space with my comic collection. A JLA fan will love this. I also gives kudos to Luthor's Legion. The Joker makes it :)
November 13, 2018
Back in November 2017 came the release of the cinematic Justice League, which I felt it wasn’t going to be the JL movie that I wanted to see long before its theatrical release. When it was finally released, it failed to do justice to the much-maligned DC Extended Universe. If the Zack Snyder film left a bad taste in your mouth, there are always the comics, as well as four excellent seasons of the Bruce Timm animated series. Speaking of comics though, this first volume of Scott Snyder’s current run has given me what I wanted from the publisher’s flagship superhero team… and more.
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January 22, 2023
The Hall of Justice and the Legion of Doom?!? What more could you want from a reboot of the series. Scott Snyder has basically taken the old Super Friends cartoon and reimagined it as a new version of the Justice League.
January 27, 2019
Cosmic Goulash
Alright I’ll admit I’m a little late to the party on this one. But after the not much loved Bryan Hitch run and the much loved Christopher Priest run, we have Mr. Scott Snyder taking over for writing duties on JUSTICE LEAGUE. My biggest fear about reading the 7 issues collected in the trade was that this was gonna be like No Justice AKA: Torture. Thankfully no. But still as a whole I definitely did not enjoy reading this incredibly overstuffed universe ending event. It took me over 5 days to read it.
There is a lot of great ideas in this book. A lot of great ideas and good dialogue sometimes. (Sometimes) Martian Manhunter makes a great chairman and has the most interesting character arc. And the art is all amazing which I’ll get to later. One joke lands and that’s because it’s inappropriate. All the Batman voice “comedy” was CAAARRRINGEYYY!! And it never stops. After the fifteenth time they used the joke, I was like “oh would you shut the fuck up!!” Fact of the matter is that Snyder crammed the story with so many plots, new cosmic entities, and universe ending situations that I feel like you need to have an IQ of 160 just to understand all the stuff at once. If the Totality or the still force, or ultra violet lanterns, or the cosmic door nobs had separate story lines, not only would it have been a more coherent story line but each of those things had their own story lines around they would be more impactful and feel important. The splitting up of the Legion of Doom and The Justice League to deal with all those things was just......hard ta deal with. The fact that their was so much shit flying around made me lose interest and just want to get through every issue. The most entertaining issue out of all of them was issue 2. That was a pretty good read. Everything else was just crammed, generic slog. I couldn’t get behind it. The character writing is for lack of a better word: serviceable. A lot of it was exposition and back story. It works for what is happening in the story (which I’m still not 100% on) Sinestro has one good line. Otherwise his dialogue is reeeally cringey! Silver age super villain bullcrap. But I did like how bad-ass Gorilla Grodd was. I like a lot of people don’t really know why Lex Luthor randomly changed back to a super villain. I know Re-Birth ended, but at least come up with something better than he realized how foolish heroism is. That’s garbage.
The art by Jim Cheung and Jorge Jimenez is nothing short of incredible. I never thought for a second it was some of the best art I had ever seen but that is just because their styles aren’t my favourite. But when I look at the penciling and colours I can’t even imagine being able to draw on their levels. It’s insane.
In the end, this start to Justice League was just not for me. I love Scott Snyder, but damn this and No Justice definitely disappointed me. So many ideas are forced and jammed into this story that it didn’t leave any room for compelling arcs or smooth writing. It’s all just very disjointed and flashy. I can’t recommend you read this book but I’ll say this, I didn’t hate it. It had some slight entertainment value. VERY SLIGHT. The one star rating isn’t out of hatred, but disappointment and an exhausting reading experience.
Letter Grade: (C-)
Alright I’ll admit I’m a little late to the party on this one. But after the not much loved Bryan Hitch run and the much loved Christopher Priest run, we have Mr. Scott Snyder taking over for writing duties on JUSTICE LEAGUE. My biggest fear about reading the 7 issues collected in the trade was that this was gonna be like No Justice AKA: Torture. Thankfully no. But still as a whole I definitely did not enjoy reading this incredibly overstuffed universe ending event. It took me over 5 days to read it.
There is a lot of great ideas in this book. A lot of great ideas and good dialogue sometimes. (Sometimes) Martian Manhunter makes a great chairman and has the most interesting character arc. And the art is all amazing which I’ll get to later. One joke lands and that’s because it’s inappropriate. All the Batman voice “comedy” was CAAARRRINGEYYY!! And it never stops. After the fifteenth time they used the joke, I was like “oh would you shut the fuck up!!” Fact of the matter is that Snyder crammed the story with so many plots, new cosmic entities, and universe ending situations that I feel like you need to have an IQ of 160 just to understand all the stuff at once. If the Totality or the still force, or ultra violet lanterns, or the cosmic door nobs had separate story lines, not only would it have been a more coherent story line but each of those things had their own story lines around they would be more impactful and feel important. The splitting up of the Legion of Doom and The Justice League to deal with all those things was just......hard ta deal with. The fact that their was so much shit flying around made me lose interest and just want to get through every issue. The most entertaining issue out of all of them was issue 2. That was a pretty good read. Everything else was just crammed, generic slog. I couldn’t get behind it. The character writing is for lack of a better word: serviceable. A lot of it was exposition and back story. It works for what is happening in the story (which I’m still not 100% on) Sinestro has one good line. Otherwise his dialogue is reeeally cringey! Silver age super villain bullcrap. But I did like how bad-ass Gorilla Grodd was. I like a lot of people don’t really know why Lex Luthor randomly changed back to a super villain. I know Re-Birth ended, but at least come up with something better than he realized how foolish heroism is. That’s garbage.
The art by Jim Cheung and Jorge Jimenez is nothing short of incredible. I never thought for a second it was some of the best art I had ever seen but that is just because their styles aren’t my favourite. But when I look at the penciling and colours I can’t even imagine being able to draw on their levels. It’s insane.
In the end, this start to Justice League was just not for me. I love Scott Snyder, but damn this and No Justice definitely disappointed me. So many ideas are forced and jammed into this story that it didn’t leave any room for compelling arcs or smooth writing. It’s all just very disjointed and flashy. I can’t recommend you read this book but I’ll say this, I didn’t hate it. It had some slight entertainment value. VERY SLIGHT. The one star rating isn’t out of hatred, but disappointment and an exhausting reading experience.
Letter Grade: (C-)
July 11, 2022
در نبوغ اسنايدر هيچ شكي نيست و اين آرك يك شروع خارقالعاده بود طراحي خيلي فانتزي بود و به نظرم اين خوبه و به فضاي داستان مي خوره داستان از همون اول هيجان انگيز شروع ميشه و با همون هيجان ادامه پيدا مي كنه. تنها دليلي كه كه به اين آرك پنج ندادم اين بود كه مطمعنم آرك هاي بهتري هم وجود داره و منتظرم ببينم اسنايدر در ادامه چيكار مي كنه
August 18, 2018
I’ve been reading comics for a few years now. While I’ve read many eras of DC over the years, Rebirth was the first time I thought I’d follow series as they came out instead of trades as I usually had. I’ve mostly enjoyed the experience with the books I’ve picked, save the initial run of Justice League.
The first Rebirth issue was okay. It was a fun, although bizarre, introduction to the new era of the league. But something was off. Hitch’s storytelling felt disjointed and soulless, and ultimately fell flat for me (I hung in the first full storyline and then left). I’ve heard that even after I signed off the series, most found the rest of the run similar.
Then Snyder comes along, fresh off of Metal, and throws complex Sanderson-esque rule based storytelling into justice league. I’ll admit while the issue-to issue read can be confusing at times with all of his rules, Snyder injects a lot of craziness and fun back into the title.
And there is a lot to keep track of here: a totality (which may be a controlling mechanism to the multiverse) comes hurtling to earth, throug the broken Source Wall rippling time along its way (ala Metal). It’s power can be accessed (?) once seven forces of nature are unlocked. One of the time ripples of the totalities approach leads Luthor to find a magic doorknob in the past with a symbol on it representing these seven forces. Sinestro also found a book in the past about them too. Two forces are unlocked; the emotional spectrum and the slow force (in the form of a fourth reincarnated Flash villain, the Turtle). The emotional spectrum is tied to some purple other dimensional planet that sinestro wants to use to consume earth, and he enslaved earths inhabitants with the spectrum. All this while Superman and Martian Manhunter are trying to walk towards the Totality to inspect it with Batman and Hawkgirl shrunk riding inside their respective bodies for protection. Oh and lex and the Legion of Doom are also collecting these forces, and Lex and joker are hidden away waiting to attack Batman and hawkgirl in the respective bodies too.
If that sounds like a lot, it is. If I got something wrong, apologies, but can you blame me?
All in all this feels like a part one in an ongoing story leading to bigger things.
After all, even after the resolution, there’s only two forces unlocked and a huge hole in Source Wall...and the moon was blown up (right?).
It’s a lot of fun. But walk in prepared for insanity and rules galore. Recommended to read in one sitting.
October 3, 2018
The pros outweigh the cons in Snyder's Justice League debut.
This story is very, very 'out there' and sometimes struggles to make a lot of sense. Plus the resolutions at the end... eh. But I like where this is going. I like the characterization. I love the emphasis on John Stewart and J'onn J'onzz. The villains are well written, and the art is solid across the board.
A lot to like, but far from perfect.
This story is very, very 'out there' and sometimes struggles to make a lot of sense. Plus the resolutions at the end... eh. But I like where this is going. I like the characterization. I love the emphasis on John Stewart and J'onn J'onzz. The villains are well written, and the art is solid across the board.
A lot to like, but far from perfect.
January 2, 2019
For old fans of the Super Friends series, this brings back some good memories. The Hall of Justice is back as the headquarters of the Justice League, and the Legion of Doom returns as well. Another plus is that the bickering Justice League of the New 52 is gone. These are heroes that are friends that trust each other.
On the downside, the story is a bit too complex. It’s hard to say what’s happening after this first volume of this storyline. Also, I had just finished reading Batman: White Knight, which features a more lighthearted Joker, so I wasn’t really into the violent Joker of this series.
Finally, the art is amazing. There were several splash pages that deserved to be made into posters.
On the downside, the story is a bit too complex. It’s hard to say what’s happening after this first volume of this storyline. Also, I had just finished reading Batman: White Knight, which features a more lighthearted Joker, so I wasn’t really into the violent Joker of this series.
Finally, the art is amazing. There were several splash pages that deserved to be made into posters.
June 19, 2019
Heroes and villains race after yet another MacGuffin (something to do with a doorknob, a black hole, and endless power). I won’t pretend to understand much of what happens in this book, but whatevs. If you read the major event comics and ensemble books from the Big Two (Marvel and DC), then you know what kind of cosmic gobbledygook to expect.
At the end of the day, I had fun with it, and it’s got some excellent art (especially by its colorists).
At the end of the day, I had fun with it, and it’s got some excellent art (especially by its colorists).
December 12, 2018
You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.
It all began with the mind-altering universe expansion that took place in the aftermath of DC’s cosmic event Dark Nights: Metal. I have and will likely always believe Scott Snyder is a visionary storyteller who isn’t afraid to bring on risky and creative twists to what would otherwise be recognized as the status quo among some of DC’s greatest superheroes. Upon completing his and Greg Capullo’s Metal event, Scott Snyder’s announcement of henceforth leading the creative team behind DC’s most legendary team, the Justice League, was first teased with a prelude story arc in Justice League: No Justice and promised fans that what he’s about to unveil to the world is far from having ever been conceived by the human mind, and even less possible to comprehend to the grand scope of it all. However, in the first volume of his Justice League run, collecting issues #1-7, The Totality, Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV hands over a story arc that destroys all conventionality and brings forth their visionary outlook of DC’s future in explosive and psychedelic fashion.
In Justice League: The Totality, the story follows an epic and iconic team of heroes including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, The Flash, Aquaman, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern. As they are in the midst of fighting off strangely advanced Neanderthal creatures while Martian Manhunter focuses on connecting them all telepathically through their strengths, a grand threat sores through the cosmos and is set on a course straight for Earth. Being the only person able to understand the high risk of this concentrated essence of the secret source of all things called the Totality, Martian Manhunter strives to figure out what options are left for the Justice League to save the universe from extinction. In a pursuit for answers, these heroes collide with some of their worse enemies as their leader Lex Luthor conjures a devastating plan that will change the course of time forever.
The first thing that you notice with this story arc is how wordy it can get, yet I found myself enthralled by every panel, by every dialogue and every square of narration. As master storytellers, Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV take the time to fully flesh out their characters throughout a story where hope is barely the size of a grain. A huge portion of the story also fixates on each villain’s perspective of their lives and their end goals, and the amount of characterization that comes out of it is staggering and beautiful. The third-person narration that further gives readers insight on the events unfolding is not a style of comic book story-telling that is easy to appreciate or adapt to. I however grew to enjoy its strangeness that especially gave the story a very dramatic and legendary overtone. Nevertheless, the complexity and outright supernatural and cosmic elements that are grafted to the Justice League’s lore is beyond ambitious yet incredibly riveting. This is not a saga that will seduce many, but it is one that plans on growing much bigger than what it already is.
The artwork is where they sealed the deal, but before even mentioning its greatness, a word on the paper is necessary as this volume in particular steers away from the glossy paper that is commonly used nowadays for comic books and looks at the newspaper type of quality as the alternative, and it is a splendid one that brilliantly gives the artwork so much more gravitas and superiority. In fact, there’s no light reflection to disturb your appreciation, especially when you have Jorge Jimenez giving us some of the most beautiful panels ever. From splash pages to double-page spreads, his artwork alone is always a masterpiece. And to make everything even better, the other artists do an incredible job in keeping the quality consistent throughout the volume without suddenly changing the style. The explosions are huge, the emotions are strong, the action is intense. There’s simply no flaw in that department and simply enhances the story itself.
Justice League: The Totality is a visionary expansion of the multiverse in the same vein as what Grant Morrison has achieved for DC Comics and doesn’t shy away from exploring heroes and villains in their most vulnerable and powerful states.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/
It all began with the mind-altering universe expansion that took place in the aftermath of DC’s cosmic event Dark Nights: Metal. I have and will likely always believe Scott Snyder is a visionary storyteller who isn’t afraid to bring on risky and creative twists to what would otherwise be recognized as the status quo among some of DC’s greatest superheroes. Upon completing his and Greg Capullo’s Metal event, Scott Snyder’s announcement of henceforth leading the creative team behind DC’s most legendary team, the Justice League, was first teased with a prelude story arc in Justice League: No Justice and promised fans that what he’s about to unveil to the world is far from having ever been conceived by the human mind, and even less possible to comprehend to the grand scope of it all. However, in the first volume of his Justice League run, collecting issues #1-7, The Totality, Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV hands over a story arc that destroys all conventionality and brings forth their visionary outlook of DC’s future in explosive and psychedelic fashion.
In Justice League: The Totality, the story follows an epic and iconic team of heroes including Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg, The Flash, Aquaman, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter and Green Lantern. As they are in the midst of fighting off strangely advanced Neanderthal creatures while Martian Manhunter focuses on connecting them all telepathically through their strengths, a grand threat sores through the cosmos and is set on a course straight for Earth. Being the only person able to understand the high risk of this concentrated essence of the secret source of all things called the Totality, Martian Manhunter strives to figure out what options are left for the Justice League to save the universe from extinction. In a pursuit for answers, these heroes collide with some of their worse enemies as their leader Lex Luthor conjures a devastating plan that will change the course of time forever.
The first thing that you notice with this story arc is how wordy it can get, yet I found myself enthralled by every panel, by every dialogue and every square of narration. As master storytellers, Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV take the time to fully flesh out their characters throughout a story where hope is barely the size of a grain. A huge portion of the story also fixates on each villain’s perspective of their lives and their end goals, and the amount of characterization that comes out of it is staggering and beautiful. The third-person narration that further gives readers insight on the events unfolding is not a style of comic book story-telling that is easy to appreciate or adapt to. I however grew to enjoy its strangeness that especially gave the story a very dramatic and legendary overtone. Nevertheless, the complexity and outright supernatural and cosmic elements that are grafted to the Justice League’s lore is beyond ambitious yet incredibly riveting. This is not a saga that will seduce many, but it is one that plans on growing much bigger than what it already is.
The artwork is where they sealed the deal, but before even mentioning its greatness, a word on the paper is necessary as this volume in particular steers away from the glossy paper that is commonly used nowadays for comic books and looks at the newspaper type of quality as the alternative, and it is a splendid one that brilliantly gives the artwork so much more gravitas and superiority. In fact, there’s no light reflection to disturb your appreciation, especially when you have Jorge Jimenez giving us some of the most beautiful panels ever. From splash pages to double-page spreads, his artwork alone is always a masterpiece. And to make everything even better, the other artists do an incredible job in keeping the quality consistent throughout the volume without suddenly changing the style. The explosions are huge, the emotions are strong, the action is intense. There’s simply no flaw in that department and simply enhances the story itself.
Justice League: The Totality is a visionary expansion of the multiverse in the same vein as what Grant Morrison has achieved for DC Comics and doesn’t shy away from exploring heroes and villains in their most vulnerable and powerful states.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/
January 4, 2022
Something from behind the source wall heads towards Earth. It's able to cross space and time, seemingly impossible to stop. When the Justice League learns about it, they begin to asses what to do and decide to let it land on Earth as it may be more helpful than harmful. This book explains the race between the League and the Legion of Doom, as they both rush to investigate and somehow obtain what they now call, the Totality.
So Scott Snyder's first foray into the world of the Justice League is, in one word, Epic. It has a lot of moving parts - a huge, almost indescribable challenge to overcome, and it has insurmountable odds that are eventually overcome. I think Snyder made a smart move by going this big with this book, because the Justice League book should be about this larger than life situations that the League have to somehow resolve. This was much closer to the Grant Morrison days of the JLA than what we have been seeing recently on the book.
Snyder toys with the idea that the League represents what we aspire to be, while the Legion wants us to accept who we are and embrace our darker side. It throws into question the whole point of the League. Are they acting against nature? Is preserving the status quo not as important? The answer is pretty much, we can be better, which is in line with the book, but an interesting question nonetheless.
With so much going on, the details of the plot can become lost however. Also, the pacing is convenient at times, with characters acting uncharacteristically in order for the plot to move along. There's also a sense of sensory overload, as Snyder throws a lot at us at the same time.
However, the book is still enjoyable and entertaining for all the right reasons. I'm looking forward to see where it goes from here.
So Scott Snyder's first foray into the world of the Justice League is, in one word, Epic. It has a lot of moving parts - a huge, almost indescribable challenge to overcome, and it has insurmountable odds that are eventually overcome. I think Snyder made a smart move by going this big with this book, because the Justice League book should be about this larger than life situations that the League have to somehow resolve. This was much closer to the Grant Morrison days of the JLA than what we have been seeing recently on the book.
Snyder toys with the idea that the League represents what we aspire to be, while the Legion wants us to accept who we are and embrace our darker side. It throws into question the whole point of the League. Are they acting against nature? Is preserving the status quo not as important? The answer is pretty much, we can be better, which is in line with the book, but an interesting question nonetheless.
With so much going on, the details of the plot can become lost however. Also, the pacing is convenient at times, with characters acting uncharacteristically in order for the plot to move along. There's also a sense of sensory overload, as Snyder throws a lot at us at the same time.
However, the book is still enjoyable and entertaining for all the right reasons. I'm looking forward to see where it goes from here.
August 12, 2019
A bad comic in all sorts of familiar ways.
There’s the storytelling, an inbred descendent of the 90s “widescreen” style which forgets that what happens isn’t as important as how it happens, and that four cool ideas rushed isn’t as effective as one cool idea given space.
There’s the DC obsession with structure which first manifested with the “emotional spectrum” and now turns every plot into a shopping list, the opposite of the wonder, mystery and mystique they’re presumably aiming for.
And there’s the elevation of philosophical issues into matters of cosmic principle. The lever on which several years of stories is apparently going to turn is the question of whether people are selfish or altruistic - leaving aside the fact that Lex Luthor stories have been exploring this for decades anyway, what exactly is gained by having one side of this not exactly original dispute represented by some cosmic badass? Exhausting, dumb and worst of all not even fun.
There’s the storytelling, an inbred descendent of the 90s “widescreen” style which forgets that what happens isn’t as important as how it happens, and that four cool ideas rushed isn’t as effective as one cool idea given space.
There’s the DC obsession with structure which first manifested with the “emotional spectrum” and now turns every plot into a shopping list, the opposite of the wonder, mystery and mystique they’re presumably aiming for.
And there’s the elevation of philosophical issues into matters of cosmic principle. The lever on which several years of stories is apparently going to turn is the question of whether people are selfish or altruistic - leaving aside the fact that Lex Luthor stories have been exploring this for decades anyway, what exactly is gained by having one side of this not exactly original dispute represented by some cosmic badass? Exhausting, dumb and worst of all not even fun.
January 28, 2019
Not sure about this at all. Like Aaron doing The Avengers, Snyder has earned some trust. Here's hoping.
August 3, 2019
Lo and behold: Justice League under the guidance of Scott Snyder!
Picking up from where Dark Nights: Metal and No Justice left off, a new league is formed to combat the new world left in the wake of a perforated Source Wall. Martian Manhunter is the man in charge of a cast you probably know, but it's Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom that really steals the spotlight here.
This first volume has the feeling of a proper event comic, but since it doesn't feel the need to be constrained in a set number of issues, it is all given a bit more room to breathe. The threats are world/universe/multiverse-threatening, but they all feel in service to a larger story that will play out over the subsequent volumes. To that end, Lex Luthor making a team of the main-League's biggest baddies gives the book a real sense of threat: these guys really give the team a run for their money.
There's some really nice art in here too (Jim Cheung looking very appropriate in the DCU), and all the artists are given some zany and impressive stuff to draw. Even when the story feels like it is bending DCU mythos in weird angles (White Lanterns?), the spectacle of it all was enough to keep me from judging it too harshly. Again, you've got to appreciate that sometimes superhero comics are meant to be too zany for common sense.
Overall, a pretty cool popcorn comic and I like the direction that the series is heading. I also love that Luthor and the Legion of Doom seem like they'll be sticking around as the series' main antagonists since it gives the book a feeling of a long-form story instead of artificial arcs. I'd say my reading of volume two isn't that far away!
Picking up from where Dark Nights: Metal and No Justice left off, a new league is formed to combat the new world left in the wake of a perforated Source Wall. Martian Manhunter is the man in charge of a cast you probably know, but it's Lex Luthor's Legion of Doom that really steals the spotlight here.
This first volume has the feeling of a proper event comic, but since it doesn't feel the need to be constrained in a set number of issues, it is all given a bit more room to breathe. The threats are world/universe/multiverse-threatening, but they all feel in service to a larger story that will play out over the subsequent volumes. To that end, Lex Luthor making a team of the main-League's biggest baddies gives the book a real sense of threat: these guys really give the team a run for their money.
There's some really nice art in here too (Jim Cheung looking very appropriate in the DCU), and all the artists are given some zany and impressive stuff to draw. Even when the story feels like it is bending DCU mythos in weird angles (White Lanterns?), the spectacle of it all was enough to keep me from judging it too harshly. Again, you've got to appreciate that sometimes superhero comics are meant to be too zany for common sense.
Overall, a pretty cool popcorn comic and I like the direction that the series is heading. I also love that Luthor and the Legion of Doom seem like they'll be sticking around as the series' main antagonists since it gives the book a feeling of a long-form story instead of artificial arcs. I'd say my reading of volume two isn't that far away!
December 21, 2018
Definitely some homage-to-Grant-Morrison vibes. I'm still trying to get used to Snyder as a huge-scope/universal crisis type of writer. I've always felt he's at his best on a micro scale (a setting in American Vampire, Gotham, etc.), because the characters personalities really come out, and we benefit. I did enjoy this though, and Jimenez's art is the perfect match for something as grandiose as the Justice League. Props to Snyder as well because I would've thought writing the Legion of Doom in anything other than in a "Super Friends-y" kind of way would be difficult, but he made me believe these psychos could actually coordinate and come together.
December 11, 2018
The artwork was good--some parts even felt like throwbacks to other eras of the comics. The story felt scattered. There was just too much going on. At times, the heroes seemed to be working all on their own instead of as a league. Having read Dark Nights: Metal, I was expecting more, and this one just wasn't as good. I wish it had more working as a team and less exposition.
**Read via NetGalley
**Read via NetGalley
December 11, 2018
I wanted to like this but it’s just so boring but I love justice league.
The art is amazing and there are some funny moments but the bad is that sometimes it feels like I’m reading an essay and I don’t really like the narration.
Overall boring book
The art is amazing and there are some funny moments but the bad is that sometimes it feels like I’m reading an essay and I don’t really like the narration.
Overall boring book
December 14, 2018
I'm...
....so....
....f**king....
....confused.
....so....
....f**king....
....confused.
Read
January 13, 2021An edited review of this book will come sooner or later, this last one was pretty bad.
March 8, 2021
Awesome, weird, incredibly high stakes, lots of confusion, some great dialogue, damn near perfect art, tons of action... and I have no fucking idea what’s happening.
Not a bad read.
Not a bad read.
October 18, 2022
Three words: total f*cking gibberish.
January 2, 2022
Molto bella l’idea di fondo: se l’essenza della realtà fosse in profondità composta da materia oscura e malvagia?
Se l’ordine prestabilito delle cose, insito nel tessuto della materia, fosse destinato a compiersi e quindi a far emergere l’oscurità nel multiverso?
Se tutto ciò fosse vero e quindi la JL, che prova da sempre a combattere l’oscurità, fosse in definitiva la parte “cattiva” di questa storia?
Tema super intrigante, specie se applicato alla società: se i costrutti sociali e morali fossero in realtà degli ostacoli che impediscono al nostro vero potenziale di uscire allo scoperto?
E se quindi per realizzarci davvero e compiere la nostra visione dovessimo svincolarci dalla morale e dalle leggi che governano il mondo?
L’unica cosa che mi fa storcere il naso è un po’ l’abitudine di Snyder ad agire da deus ex-machina e risolvere la situazione un po’ come gli pare a lui, spesso con svolte pseudo (fanta)scientifiche che ti lasciano lì, a pensare “vabbè, però grazie al ca**o”.
Comunque sia è un primo volume notevole.
Se l’ordine prestabilito delle cose, insito nel tessuto della materia, fosse destinato a compiersi e quindi a far emergere l’oscurità nel multiverso?
Se tutto ciò fosse vero e quindi la JL, che prova da sempre a combattere l’oscurità, fosse in definitiva la parte “cattiva” di questa storia?
Tema super intrigante, specie se applicato alla società: se i costrutti sociali e morali fossero in realtà degli ostacoli che impediscono al nostro vero potenziale di uscire allo scoperto?
E se quindi per realizzarci davvero e compiere la nostra visione dovessimo svincolarci dalla morale e dalle leggi che governano il mondo?
L’unica cosa che mi fa storcere il naso è un po’ l’abitudine di Snyder ad agire da deus ex-machina e risolvere la situazione un po’ come gli pare a lui, spesso con svolte pseudo (fanta)scientifiche che ti lasciano lì, a pensare “vabbè, però grazie al ca**o”.
Comunque sia è un primo volume notevole.
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