mysteriousmre's Reviews (1.22k)

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.

Had some potential by reversing who's trying to take control of whom. The art is nice, reminiscent of 90s comics with a. It of anime thrown in, but the story and characters were so bland I couldnt care less.

Not a great read, but I like the angle Costa takes on Brock and the Venom symbiote's current relationship. They're kind of like a couple who's broken up and reunited, but can't seem to make it work or trust one another.

With the symbiote becoming more of an actual character in recent years we're treated to Venom's origin from its perspective. Very cool. The rest of the book I found rather boring, but loved the art. Cool to see Bagley's pencils on a Spider-Man related book again.

Still not a fan of Jock's art style, but Black Mirror ended up being more enjoyable than I remembered. Snyder does some fun things with established characters/continuity and it makes for a great suspense story. Snyder's also a lot less wordy here than he is in his later work, so if you've tried a recent DC book of his and didn't like it maybe give this a shot! It's a more concise read and his themes more clear.

I was really happy to re-read this after so many years. Gates of Gotham was the book that introduced me to Scott Snyder's work on Batman, but I discovered after looking through the credits that it ALSO introduced me to another of my favorite Bat-authors, Kyle Higgins from Batman Beyond 2.0! VERY cool! Anyways, it's my general understanding that Snyder and Higgins worked on the plot together, with Higgins handling the actual written dialogue. The dialogue didn't quite grab me like his later work did on BB2.0, but I love how the history of Gotham's architecture was so well thought out. Using the city's history was also a great way to show the differences between Dick Grayson/Bruce Wayne. Grayson is an outsider that's been grafted into Gotham City, and that status as an outsider with little knowledge of Gotham's past puts him at a disadvantage in solving the case. If you're a fan of Dick Grayson as Batman I'd say this is a must read.

Not a masterpiece, but a fun blockbuster focusing on the world of Aquaman. The alien ocean gods (particularly Captain Drogue) have some really great designs and Snyder gives them a really strong motivation to hate the earth using some old school DC characters that simultaneously flesh out the history he's making for the DC universe. Snyder also does a better job explaining what one of the "dark energies" is that the Legion of Doom is searching for. Still not sure whether I'd recommend this series to someone, but it's an improvement.

Bought both this and Justice League Vol. 2: Graveyard of Gods thinking they were completely different stories. Oops! They aren't, they just have 1-2 different books collected in each volume. The JL book collects the Justice League tie-ins that lead up to the Drowned Earth plot and this book skips the lead up in favor of stories (namely from Aquaman and Titans) that take place during Drowned Earth. So which one do you buy? I like both collections for different reasons, but I think I prefer Graveyard of Gods over this. The Titans issue was nice, but the Aquaman issue did nothing for me. Honestly though, if you want to read this story just pick up whichever book you can find cheapest.