JUSTICE LEAGUE #5

Review by: dix

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Written by GEOFF JOHNS
Art and cover by JIM LEE and SCOTT WILLIAMS
Variant cover by ERIC BASALDUA
B&W Variant cover by JIM LEE

Size: 40 pages
Price: 3.99

Those who continue to criticize JUSTICE LEAGUE for its pacing are not wrong. Five issues – five MONTHS – in, the League’s barely had a dust-up with any serious powerhouse (though Darkseid appeared in issue #4). But as an accessible book for newcomers, especially an accessible EVENT book for newcomers, I think it hits the mark.

No matter who you are, though, this issue is exciting and takes a big step toward precisely what this arc is supposed to do: give an origin story for the League. Now that the whole League is assembled (or, at least, the initial members), somebody’s got to step up and make this little band a team. It’s not much of a surprise who does that, but how it’s done – that’s something else.

The characters continue to be written and rendered vibrantly, so as a way to get used to their looks and personalities this still proves a solid book. JUSTICE LEAGUE isn’t doing any deep development or character exploration, but I suppose that’s what their own self-titled books are for. For now it does exactly what it needs to, and does it with style.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good

Comments

  1. “No matter who you are, though, this issue is exciting and takes a big step toward precisely what this arc is supposed to do: give an origin story for the League.”

    This issue had very little excitement for me and it was basically some short scenes that ended up moving Batman, Superman, and the rest of the team in two or maybe three different places.

    To each their own, but this was a weak issue, maybe the weakest in the arc so far, IMO.

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