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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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The Building Storm: New 52 Futures End volume 1

 

New 52 Futures End volume 1 TPB cover


Review:

Collecting the first third of the 2014 weekly New 52 Futures End series, this book is jam-packed. More than a dozen story arcs and sub-plots compete for space in its pages. From Firestorm's dissolution over the guilt Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch feel over the death of Green Arrow, to Red Robin lying low and running a bar; from Lois Lane's investigations to SHADE and Frankenstein in space; from Mr Terrific's helpful / harmful schemes to Grifter, Deathstroke and the imprisoned heroes of Earth 2. It takes a team of writers and an even larger team of artists to bring it all together.

Epic in scope and ambitious in coverage, it portrays these events in roughly real time - a week passes between issues, both in real life and more or less within these stories.

The New 52 era of DC Comics has its detractors, and they are not quieted by this series. With the major characters nowhere to be seen, the story is carried along by secondary or otherwise infrequent or little known characters. Much as I love Firestorm, whose JLA membership dates back to a classic 1980s tale with Superman insisting he be admitted, he is hardly a central player in the DC Universe. Nor are Mr Terrific, Frankenstein, Princess Amethyst, Grifter (who comes recently to DC via acquisition of Wildstorm Productions). Deathstroke and Red Robin are maybe a little closer to the center of the DC mythology, although still decidedly in the second-string.

One can only hope that this large a team of writers will succeed in bringing the complex and scattered elements together by the end. For a confusing, disconnected and scattered story that leans too heavily on familiarity with lesser-known characters, I give this first volume 1.5 capes.


Description:

Five years from now, the DC Universe is reeling from a war with another Earth, leaving the world unprepared for an approaching evil that threatens to destroy the future. As heroes are turned into mindless villains, the planet as we know it is no more. The only salvation lies in the past, where this future apocalypse must be averted. Can a time-traveling Batman Beyond help a massive cast of the DCU's finest avert the impending apocalypse?

Written by a cast of the industry's best talents, including Jeff Lemire, Brian Azzarello, Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens, this new epic series will expose the secrets of the New 52 universe!

Collects: issues #0-17

Authors: Jeff Lemire, Brian Azzarello and others
Artists: Various contributors
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Dec 9 2014
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-1401252441
Pages: 416 pages


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