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Justice HC Vol 03 by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger
2.0

Justice gives a lot of B & C-list characters moments to shine, but the story itself left something to be desired. What if every supervillain teamed up? What if they knew everyone's secret identities? What if super villains actually DID decide to help solve all the worlds problems instead acting selfishly? And why havent the Justice League tried to do anything on that scale? The book asks a lot of questions and creates some interesting scenarios that arent fully explored the way I would have liked.

The presence of nanomachines and the fact that they're STILL trying to kill the Justice League while doing this humanitarian work really undercut the drama/intrigue for me and the revelation of mind control was disappointing and snapped me out of the story. This series really would have been better if the Legion of Doom was trying to right the world's wrongs entirely of their own will and we didnt know who was behind the assassination attempts until MUCH later.

Anyways, the designs are cool, the fights are fun (though a bit chaotic and hard to follow), but the plot's not great and could have benefitted from being shorter and more focused.