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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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Who Deserves a Happily-Ever-After? Earth2 Society volume 4 - Life After Death

   

cover of Earth 2 Society volume 4


Review:

The DC Comics New-52 Earth 2 reboot comes to its end with this collection. After more than 60 issues across three series, we learn the final fate of Earth 2. And it's ... surprisingly happy an optimistic.

After years of dark, dystopian stories, putting the earth and its Wonders and citizens through multiple wars with Apokolips, the deaths of countless heroes, the global population reduced to a fraction of a percent of its original number, after all that pain and suffering we reach the end. And it's bright, cheery, filled with smiles.

Like a fairy tale or heavenly vision, all is restored. Through the actions of Wonder Woman's daughter Fury, unleashing the mystical powers of the Pandora Casket, old Metropolis, old Earth, it is all back, and filled with all the social and economic and environmental challenges we would expect.

Oh, the path from dystopia to restoration is not smooth. We spend 2+ issues in a world of white panels, with Bruno Redondo giving us his pencils but inker Juan Albarran getting the month off - no need to ink these panels!

Lurking throughout is the Ultra-Humanite, seeking to eliminate the Wonders and control this world the same as he sought for the previous one.

The final chapter is pure Epilogue, as author Dan Abnett gives these heroes, who have been through so much, a chance to breathe, relax, smile, do their hero thing. In many ways it's a clever reversal, taking Earth 2 out if its early twenty-first century dystopia all the way back to the candy-colored optimism of the Golden Age of comics, from whence these character originally came. He leaves this Earth and its heroes ideally set up for unlimited possibilities in DC's future.

For a happy ending and the novelty of page after page of all-white panels, 3.5/5 capes.


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Writer Dan Abnett (AQUAMAN, TITANS) and artists Bruno Redondo (INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US) and Vicente Cifuentes (BATGIRL) bring the story of the Wonders of Earth-2 to a stunning conclusion!

The heroes of Earth-2 have lost their planet twice—first to the forces of Apokolips, and now their newly rebuilt world has fallen thanks to one of their own. To prevent the all-powerful Pandora Casket from falling into the Ultra-Humanite’s hands, the Wonder known as Fury used it herself in an attempt to recreate their original world.

Unfortunately, Fury and a small band of other Wonders have awakened in a ghost of a world…one that appears to have entirely wiped out and replaced Earth-2 and all of its survivors.

But the Wonders are not alone in this ghost world. Something is stalking them…something familiar, and powerful, and with one all-encompassing mission: to kill the Wonders before they can solve the mystery of this strange new world!

Collects: issues #17-22

Authors: Dan Abnett
Artists: Bruno Redondo
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Aug. 15 2017
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-1401271435
Pages: 136 pages


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