Intro
When the time I heard about Batman Beyond and Justice League
Beyond were returning in comic book form I was very much excited and relieved.
Because the DCAU had many great cartoon series that gave a rich universe of
characters and stories that left a lot of unanswered questions to be explored. Now
we are finally getting a lot of background history we always wanted in these
two books and they have been great. There’s one constant problem that Justice
League Beyond keeps running into that Batman Beyond is not. The characters
aren’t getting any interesting dynamics or struggles for them to become a
better hero instead we are getting many intertwined storylines that adds
nothing to the characters. It just really pulls everyone away. For example, Superman
loses control of his powers and we don’t ever come to terms of him having to
struggle and overcome it. But now it’s put to a stop because now we have this
new Superboy in team and Brainiac destroying the world. It’s a new story that
putting everything to a halt and sadly this issue continues to do that.
Story
Brainiac continues to destroying different parts of the
world as the heroes try to figure out how to save it.
The Good
We are seeing a lot of familiar characters we never seen
before in the universe, which is expanding the DCAU to a new level.
The Bad
This over-expanding the universe is also causing everything
to be cluttered and just skimming over on the action and what’s going on in the
event. There’s no constant character focus, it just jumps to one place to another
over and over. We have no idea how the characters get there or why they are
there or what they are doing. It just keeps one page cameos to cut-short action
shots. Everything just seems rushed and not getting to the full story.
I’m really having mixed feeling with the art here. It looks
really good sometimes, but sometimes it turns really bad and disgusting on
every panel. Some of the panels aren’t as detailed as others with no face
expressions or body structure. The action is even rough to look at because it
looks detailed in one panel and the next looks awful. It looks like it was
rushed and not rushed at the same time. It leaves me at a very confused state
on what’s going on.
Verdict
I give the issue a 2/5 out of 5/10 stars. I know it’s great
to see the over-expanding the DCAU universe to grow. But it’s really putting
the struggles of Superman’s powers and the character development about the new
Superboy to a halt. The event is not even good or giving focus to what’s going
on. It’s just really skimming through. The sad thing is that I see this book have
a lot of potential to really shine to give character growth. But instead it’s
just focusing too much on unnecessary stories that’s not needed. The only
reason I see picking this book up is to see the expanding DCAU universe. But to
me, I don’t see that as enough interest to me enjoy.
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