The final issue of Scott Snyder’s epic run reaches the finish line, but it’s still not over yet. Accompanied by an army of artists, Scott Snyder spins his wheels until the very last page of this issue. Seeming to have backed himself into a corner, Snyder opts for an out by way of deus ex machina. With the previous thirty-eight issues building towards this moment, it feels like yet another marketing ploy from Snyder and DC to produce a complete non-ending for the series and create a new title that fans must read if they are to get their ending to this story.
For the last few months heroes across space and time have gathered in aid of the Justice League to face down the mother of the Multiverse, Perpetua. Alongside her Toadie, Apex Predator Lex Luthor, Perpetua has amassed an army of possessed heroes and villains alike to take on the DC universe at large. With Villains Unite: Hell Arisen already on the stands and the upcoming Snyder Capullo collaboration, the finale to this Justice League run cannot be found within its own respective title.
Jorge Jimenez makes his last few marks in the pages of this title before jumping ship to Batman while simultaneously leaving the art for this final chapter overall uneven. Albeit colored by the ever wonderful Hi-Fi, the pencils just don’t work together and add more of a magnifying glass over the problems of this issue and the series as a whole.
Even within the first issue of the aforementioned Villains United mini-series, it took place after this final issue, albeit being released an entire month beforehand.
Every character is left to posture within this title as both writers and artists attempt to rack up the page count as the wheels continue to spin. From Metal, No Justice, Justice League And now the next project Snyder moves from one title to the next in an attempt to build towards something epic while dragging readers through dozens of pointless issues that only lead into yet another mini-series filled to the brim with every hyperbole imaginable in the superhero landscape.
Yet again delivering a complete non-ending to another story, there will be yet another mini-series to spread his story out even further and thinner. The decompressed nature of comic books has infected the medium to the point that its acceptable to span out one story over a two-year timespan while it accomplished little to nothing in the end before everything is set back to the status quo.
Grade: C
