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A review by mattquann
Justice League, Vol. 2: Graveyard of Gods by Scott Snyder, Jorge Jimenez, James Tynion IV, Jim Cheung
2.0
Man, what a serious drop in quality.
The story here continues Lex Luthor's quest to acquire the "dark energies" of the universe, but these next two energies related to Aquaman and Wonder Woman made little sense to me. It turns into one of those stories where impossible odds are met with deus ex machina left and right. What you end up with is an almost inscrutable story about space-sea alien gods with very few actual stakes.
Can I also say, at the end of the story I don't even know what the two new energies are? They were at least clearly the Still Force and Invisible Spectrum in the first volume. Are these just life and death? Who knows? Frankly, at the end of this volume, who cares? Luthor's knob is lit up with two more colours and the story will move on.
Also, the art is painfully obnoxious in this volume. It changes all over the place between Jorge Jimenez and, later on, Frazer Irving. I know everyone doesn't love Irving--I happen to be a fan--but he is an exceptionally strange choice because he changes the visual language of the book so dramatically that it only complicates an already muddled story. Put simply, if you're going to have multiple artists on a single book let them at least be similar.
In any case, a really weak arc that crosses over with the main Aquaman book. I'll be going back for volume 3, but if that seems to stink I'll likely drop the book.
The story here continues Lex Luthor's quest to acquire the "dark energies" of the universe, but these next two energies related to Aquaman and Wonder Woman made little sense to me. It turns into one of those stories where impossible odds are met with deus ex machina left and right. What you end up with is an almost inscrutable story about space-sea alien gods with very few actual stakes.
Can I also say, at the end of the story I don't even know what the two new energies are? They were at least clearly the Still Force and Invisible Spectrum in the first volume. Are these just life and death? Who knows? Frankly, at the end of this volume, who cares? Luthor's knob is lit up with two more colours and the story will move on.
Also, the art is painfully obnoxious in this volume. It changes all over the place between Jorge Jimenez and, later on, Frazer Irving. I know everyone doesn't love Irving--I happen to be a fan--but he is an exceptionally strange choice because he changes the visual language of the book so dramatically that it only complicates an already muddled story. Put simply, if you're going to have multiple artists on a single book let them at least be similar.
In any case, a really weak arc that crosses over with the main Aquaman book. I'll be going back for volume 3, but if that seems to stink I'll likely drop the book.