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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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Filling the Final Gaps: Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 5: A Savage End

 

Cover of Superman / Wonder Woman volume 5: A Savage End


Review:

This collection is a fitting capstone on the at-times brilliant ongoing New 52 series Superman/Wonder Woman. In keeping with the entire series, this collection is by times poetic, beautiful, intimate, brutal, merciless, unrelenting and, finally, romantic.

Author Peter J Tomasi pens the main story arc, of the battle against a ruthless and rejuvenated Vandal Savage and the approaching death of Superman. The sequence of events is jumpy, constantly interrupted by wild swings in the characters and situations between the chapters. This collection leaves those gaps in place, and points to the other Superman titles to fill in those gaps, with a set of one-page explanations to summarize those other developments.

To Tomasi's credit, the results hold together well enough as standalone stories, despite the jarringly large gaps.

I love that the collection includes two exclusive final stories, numbered #30 and #31. These are written by Brian Buccellato and drawn by Guiseppe Cafarl, and they fill in the gap between Superman #50 and Superman/Wonder Woman #28. Along with Tomasi's excellent #25, these are superb superhuman romance tales.

So many artists share in this collection. Doug Mahnke gets the cover credit for his two issues, and internally the styles vary widely, from the familiar Mahnke to the balletic violence of Cliff Richards in #27 and the clean, simple cartoon stylings of Cafaro in #30-31.

This is a beautiful, sweet and fitting end to this ongoing exploration, a giant "What If" of a series about two ultra-powered non-humans falling in love, and the impact on the friends, family and world around them.


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A “power couple” no more, Superman and Wonder Woman need each other more than ever if they’re to defeat the immortal despot Vandal Savage. By stealing the Man of Steel’s powers, Savage has realized his master plan to draw back to Earth the comet that gave him his power eons ago. And this time, he’s confident it will grant him unspeakable might.

In his weakened state, Superman is a near-certain casualty at the hands of Savage and the super-powered genetic offspring that kill in his name. Diana appeals to the Olympian gods to heal him, knowing that they will first put his spiritual form through an emotionally grueling test to determine his worthiness. Should the God of War’s desperate gamble pay off, she and Superman must still contend with the immortal madman and his progeny. Will that epic battle move the estranged lovers to reaffirm their feelings for one another…or must one final tragedy bring them back into each other’s arms?

Collects: issues #25-29 and collected edition exclusive SUPERMAN/WONDER WOMAN #30-31.

Authors: Peter J. Tomasi
Artists: Doug Mahnke, Cliff Richards, Ed Benes and Jorge Jimenez
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Dec 27 2016
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 9781401265458
Pages: 208 pages


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