Barda makes a valid argument for leaving, but at this point in the narrative that just distracts from the main conflict at hand…and kind of makes her look like a jackass. We check in Mister Miracle and Big Barda, who debate about abandoning the League to return to liberate the Darkseid-less Apokolips. That dialogue doesn’t always add up to one cohesive story however. It’s like Johns tries to balance this heavy character load by divvying up the dialogue, just in case you forgot a particular character was involved. There are too many characters Justice League 49 for its own good. Myrina Black’s response is the embodiment of my own to this particular issue: “wait…why?” As I said, random crap just keeps happening because… Despite the fact that she should be pretty familiar with her daughter’s plans by now, Myrina Black was totally caught off guard by Trevor’s attack. Grail shows up at the end of the issue and sics her new lapdog Steve Trevor on the Anti-Monitor, killing him in the process. I’ve never felt the necessity of these many changes however – it all feels very arbitrary and pointless. Arguably, when you’ve got as many characters as the New Gods, the Justice League and the Crime Syndicate you’re bound to have some betrayals and shakeups. Though not as egregious as At World’s End, “The Darkseid War” has felt very similar to me – culminating in this week’s Justice League 49. That was never storytelling for me, it was just random crap happening. Justice League 49 is full of so many characters with their own separate (often fluctuating) motivations that it makes me think of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End which we all know is never a good thing. My biggest takeaway from that gratuitous sequel was how seemingly every character double-crossed or triple-crossed one another at random. Justice League 49 is the penultimate chapter in “The Darkseid War,” continuing the story’s overarching theme of “doing stuff, undoing stuff and redoing the stuff – at high volumes.” Michael: Guys I did it again: I thought that my love for Geoff Johns and the Justice League would win out over the cynical critic that lives inside of my brain. Today, Michael and Mark are discussing Justice League 49, originally released April 27th, 2016.
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