Review:
This is the explosive conclusion to the bi-weekly Justice League Generation Lost limited series. And what a conclusion! Maxwell Lord has been playing a long game, always several steps ahead of Booster Gold and his Justice Leaguers, the only people in the world who remember who Maxwell Lord is and the horrendous things he's done.
In these 12 chapters, including a double-sized finale, Captain Atom takes another time jump into the future and contributes to the destruction of the moon, Fire is shot and very nearly killed, Blue Beetle is captured by Maxwell Lord, tortured, shot and killed (not another Blue Beetle killed by Lord!), Batman and Power Girl finally remember Max, and Wonder Woman barely survives her own beatdown. Yes, bursting with action!
Writer Judd Winick mostly sticks the landing in this long running and complex serial. All the apparently scattered threads of Max's plan come together, and, in the end, he controls Checkmate plus the OMAC project, stitches together elements of Blue Beetle's alien tech and Creature Commandos into a giant, sassy, adaptive OMAC-Prime. The more the team fights it, the more it studies them, learns their weaknesses and mimics their powers back at them.
Rotating through three teams of artists, no doubt due to the deadline pressures of their challenging bi-weekly schedule, gives each chapter a subtly different look. Keith Giffen had done layouts for the first six chapters of the series, but with him long gone, the creative teams have been more free to apply their own styles. The result is impressively consistent and coherent, with the artists clearly buying into the concept from the beginning. Hi-Fi colors, as always, are gorgeous.
The focus on Booster Gold growing into a leader is a highlight of these chapters. He is far from a perfect leader, still clearly learning on the fly.
Description:
Written by JUDD WINICK Art by AARON LOPRESTI, FERNANDO DAGNINO, JOE BENNETT and others Cover by DUSTIN NGUYEN In this second JLGL collection featuring issues #13-24 of the twice-monthly series, the U.N. revokes Checkmate's charter, Captain Atom is wanted, and Blue Beetle is . . . dead? Don't miss the second half of this can't-miss epic!
Collects: issues #13-24
Authors: Judd Winick
Artists: Joe Bennett, Jack Jadson, Fernando Dagnino, Aaron Lopresti, Matt Ryan
Published By: DC Comics
Published When: Oct 18, 2011
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-1401232832
Pages: 320 pages
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