I used to have time to read my comics in a coffee shop. Now I have to read them in the bathroom. Then I write reviews of them. I wash my hands in between.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #29
Thank GOD!!! It's been over a half a year in the making but it's finally happened! This book features my favorite panel of any comic, DC or Marvel, to come out in recent memory. More than the boobs in any of the Image comics I read/ review. It's the final panel on the final page of the book. I could tell you what's going on in the panel, but it doesn't matter. It could be a blank white panel and still be my favorite. It's the few words overlaid on the page that sets this apart from the millions of other panels I have looked at this year one. Seven words.
'To Be Concluded In Forever Evil #7'
This gorram crossover will never end. It is LITERALLY lasting forever. Not only is this damn story still going on but it feels like all the other regular books are just spinning wheels until they can actually react to the post-Forever Evil DCU landscape. Ugh. So frustrating. I hope DC is getting a lot of flak for this debacle from more well respected and less gamey critics than yours truly. Only then will they learn a lesson and deliver better work. Only then.
The story itself is not bad if you're a fan of Cyborg these last couple issues have been like Christmas for you. Here we see his final showdown with The Grid, the artificial intelligence from the Crime Syndicate world currently occupying his old cybernetic parts. At the outset of this event, the intelligence took over and forcibly ejected Victor Stone's human parts, and then took control of the world's communications systems. In this issue, Vic gets some payback. In the past, Vic had always rejected his cyborg half, feeling like he didn't fit in either world and being real angsty about it along the way. Here, in order to defeat the Grid, he fully embraces and integrates himself as a complete being and proceeds to whup the Grid's ass all over cyberspace.
With the help of The Metal Men. In the last issue we saw him convincing Dr Magnus to re activate his team and here they are revived and ready to save the day.
Side note: the cover of this damn issue shows what one would believe to be the Metal Men wrapping up the Justice League in their protective bodies like a layer of armor and fighting the Grid. Yeah, that never actually happens in this book. The JL is still trapped in Firestorm. So that's false advertising on top of your other transgressions DC.
So the Grid is defeated on the cyber plane and all the worlds communications start to come back online. Mission accomplished. Then Steve Trevor shows up with Wonder Woman's lasso telling Cyborg that if he can get him to Firestorm, he can use the lasso, Martian Manhunter and his special sex bond with Diana to break the JL out. Of course he's then blasted by a whole bunch of Secret Society members. But Cyborg's got a new mission now and he's gonna accomplish it!
So yeah. Next issue should be some post Forever Evil stuff. Can't get here fast enough.
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