COLD WAR, CONCLUSION: TO FORGIVE DIVINE
The Justice League battles through the dreaded Pit of Tartarus, mythological prison to the most wretched creatures imaginable. Batman, Superman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, and Wonder Woman must resolve their long-held grudges while they still can — and before the world burns. Yet even if they succeed, they must still defeat the monster that lives and rules at the dark base of Tartarus.
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Barry Allen
John Stewart
Jim Corrigan
Clark Kent
Diana of Themyscira
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This was just an ok story conclusion, which to be honest in my opinion really sums up both Venditti's 4 issue arcs on JL, just okay. I mean, that cover is absolutely amazing, love it, but the story was pretty meh. I...
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I only read one issue of Venditti's run. Once I found out it was just a filler run until Snyders mini series is finished I lost interest. Plus it wasn't a very good issue either. Really disappointed as he's done some great work on Hawkman. I was really expecting something great.
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I agree! This issue in particular felt very “phoned-in.” It was fine, but totally bland and with no oomph. I guess it didn’t help that I also read Aquaman #60 which was all heart all the time and the construct between the two was just so huge.
Justice League is just in a holding pattern right now which is why I dropped it. They decided that Scott Snyder's run should spin off and be concluded in a separate mini series. When Robert Venditti took over it was clear immediately that his run (Which I assume is still ongoing) was taking place prior to Snyder's last few issues. Therefore it was just fill in with no consequence or peril for the characters. So I completely lost interest. They're just killing time now until the reboot or Synders series is finished I think.
This arc was doomed from the start after you find out that it has no stakes, as mentioned above. Decent characterization. There's just no point in this really existing.
Justice League #53 will be a Death Metal tie in, so that will be where some of you want to pick it back up. As someone that bought JLA: Classified each and every month when it came out, I have no problem with the current Justice League arcs.
It might have worked as a standalone mini series. They should have taken the regular series off of the schedule and ran this on its own merit instead and then bring back the regular series after Snyder's stuff is finished.
Since Bendis is finishing up his Superman runs why is he not on it? They brought Bendis in with much fanfare and Justice League should be their best, most important book.
Maybe he doesn't want it. I would think a book like Justice League would be less appealing to the big name writers. Yes you get to use the big characters but you cant actually do anything with them unless its co-ordinated and probably comes from their own titles.
It's so weird after Justice League was essentially relaunched as an end of the world story after Dark Nights: Metal how we have a couple filler arcs before a main person finds their footing. Bendis is known for disassembling the Avengers before he started them anew with other writings following in his footsteps.
I wouldn't mind a Brian Michael Bendis Justice League book. That being said, I don't really care for much of his output post-Siege, but I would be very willing to try it, as the book does need something after Scott Snyder kept the gas moving and immediately left the book due to his ongoing saga following in Dark Nights: Death Metal.
I liked the ending of the issue, even if it feels corny. I felt the battle between the monster in Tartarus could have been better, but I liked how Jim Corrigan was the one who saved the JL since he was the one they went after. It was just a small change where JL weren't the ones that saved the day.