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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Of Peace and Politics - Earth 2 Society volume 2 - Indivisible

   

cover of Earth 2 Society volume 2


Review:

The group of crossover-event Convergence-related mini-series from DC Comics occasionally gave glimpses into what life would be like under a dome for a year, and the increase in social chaos that the inevitable shortages would cause. When that planet, Telos, became the new home of the Earth 2 refugees, it had, it turns out, scant natural resources. The budding young city-states slowly realize this, and political wrangling begins in earnest

Led by Green Lantern, can the Wonders play diplomats and keep the peace? As they become increasingly blamed for the current situation, what role do they have in this young new society?

Author Dan Abnett raises some interesting questions and he packs some clever ideas into his narrative. But ultimately this collection feels overly simplistic in its purported stakes. The city-state politics, Green Lantern's miserable failure at diplomacy are a frustrating subplots. Far more interesting is the re-emergence of Fury and the Amazons (and briefly Queen Marella and the Atlanteans)

Jorge Jiminez's are is fun, fluid and dynamic. The battle sequences, postures, hair and faces are reminiscent of Manga. When the art team changes to Federico Dallachio in issue #11, the visuals become simpler, and the colors brighter. That the art team changes again for issue #12 is a sign of the looming end - high turnover among less-established names surely hints at the publisher's struggles with the series.

With a story that meanders between fascinating and simplistic, and the beginning of head-spinning artistic shifts, I score this a mediocre 2.5 out of 5 capes.


Description:

Earth and its greatest champions have never felt so familiar—or so alien—in this alternate take on the DC Universe.

Green Lantern, Superman and a World Army cabinet of “Wonders” have assumed leadership roles in an effort to unite the cities of Earth-2…whether the population of the still-rebuilding world likes it or not.

But the growing sentiment against metahumans may soon prove moot. Earth-2 is a geologically barren world, unable to produce vital natural resources for its newly arrived inhabitants. And the resources that do exist are rapidly dwindling, prompting cities to wage all-out war against each other.

Even as the Wonders struggle to prevent the last of a civilization from renewing its violent history, Batman and his allies take the battle to the mysterious Mist, who profits from the racketeering of power cells steeped in toxic waste. Unfortunately for them, he’s also recruited a Wonder of his own in Hourman. Meanwhile, Hawkgirl may have uncovered Earth-2’s greatest threat: the world-changing intentions of an Amazon race resurrected by Wonder Woman’s daughter, Fury!

Collects: EARTH 2: SOCIETY #8-12

Authors: Dan Abnett
Artists: Jorge Jimenez
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Aug. 30 2016
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-1401264710
Pages: 128 pages


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