The only reason this book gets 2 stars instead of 1 is because the art team on this book knocked it out of the freaking ballpark. The plot itself is an overstuffed mess though. It starts out simple enough, the Justice League is hunting down a thing called The Totality which they think they can use to fix the universe and keep it from collapsing in on itself after they accidentally broke it. The Legion of Doom however has other plans, using world-ending forces to take the Totality for themselves to use for...something?? There's a lot of verbose speech about the nature of living beings, hidden emotions and the like, but the message Snyder's trying to get across here is vague and indecipherable. I think that's why a lot of reviewers' favorite moment in the book is the issue written by Tynion IV, explaining how Lex Luthor went from good to bad. It's a more focused character piece that's SIGNIFICANTLY easier to digest than the rest of book, and feels like a breath of fresh air from all the other garbly-goop. There's a few charming/witty moments of banter between team members throughout the rest of the story, but the book doesn't delve into who these people are as characters. So when the Legion starts using things that supposedly fly in the face of everything the know/believe...it rings hollow. Because we don't know what the big deal is. Heck, I KNOW who these characters are and even I don't know what the big deal is! The new cosmic forces on display here (the Invisible Spectrum and the Still Force) sound cool, but no explanation is given about how they function in the universe other than that they're evil I guess. Lots of wasted potential here. I don't know what the next few volumes are gonna be like, but one thing is clear: Snyder needs to channel the Still Force when he's writing this book and slooooooooooooooooowww dooooooooooowwwwwwwn.