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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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Lois Lane Loves ... Batman? Batman / Superman volume 3 - Second Chance

cover of Batman / Superman volume 3 - Second Chance

 

Review:

This collection begins with a couple of fairly forgettable standalone tales, before diving into the truly bold and fascinating four-parter that lends its title to the whole collection.

"Second Chance" gives us Superman with all his powers, and Batman with all his skills and wealth. But both are missing something crucial: their memories. It is a loss that, in Greg Pak's narrative hands, also costs them the formation that made them the personalities, men and heroes of their established, Boy-Scout and Broodingly-intense selves. Superman is all-powerful but naïve, and when he comes under the influence of Catwoman, what will he become? Batman loves the Bruce Wayne money and the Bat tech, plus the strong and skilled physical body he inhabits. But when he falls for Lois Lane, she must decide if she wants him like this or like the Dark Knight Batman she remembers. It is a touching, gripping, well-imagined and well-told tale.  The memory-recovery sequence at the climax is especially powerful.

Less gripping is the art, which has a dozen different contributors and wanders inconsistently from page to page. Most striking are the Jae Lee covers and sections, with their stark, neo-gothic horror feel. Shame he only handles one of the four parts, but it was enough to give him top billing on the whole collection. The others do fine work, but the constant turnover is visually frustrating.

For one strong story and some weaker add-ons rounding out an artistically ever-shifting collection, we give it 2.5/5



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Batman and Superman: the two greatest heroes the world has ever known. Surely, together, there’s no menace they can’t face.

A microscopic planet so small it can float in a person’s veins. A Doomsday-infected Superman. A time-traveling chaos demon. The onslaught of threats is putting the pressure on the world’s finest. But when a rescue mission goes wrong, both heroes awake as blank slates, all memory erased.

Now Gotham City is faced with a Superman without his moral compass and a Batman without his vendetta. Without the two super heroes to rely on, who remains to remind them who they truly are?

In BATMAN/SUPERMAN: SECOND CHANCE, acclaimed writer Greg Pak (ACTION COMICS) and a bevy of comics’ best artists including Jae Lee, Karl Kerschl, Marc Deering and Diogenes Neves set Batman and Superman on a collision course...but will either hero emerge unscathed? 

Collects: issues #10-15

Authors: Greg Pak
Artists: Jae Lee
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Dec 22 2015
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-1401257545
Pages: 160 pages

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