Justice League Unlimited #10 – Mark Waid, Writer; Dan Mora, Artist; Alejandro Sanchez, Colorist
Ray – 9/10
Ray: With several dozen characters on the team, this title tends to be chaotic in the best way, as it pulls in subplots from around the DCU. Including the ongoing Superman storyline – as Time Trapper arrives on the Watchtower. For anyone who hasn’t been reading Superman, this is actually Doomsday – a hyper-evolved ancient version of Doomsday who has gained full intelligence and seeks Superman’s help so he can finally bring his long story to an end. But someone else wants to do it first – the minions of Darkseid’s Legion, who attacked him and ripped him open. He seeks help from the heroes of the League – but they soon find out that what’s afflicting him isn’t natural, and his built-in defenses dilate time around him, rapidly aging anyone who touches him. Wally West is able to get out quickly and regenerate, but it becomes clear they’ll need outside help for this one.
As this crisis is going on and Metamorpho is called in to perform the surgery (after transforming himself into non-organic, non-aging matter), Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman confront the massive security breach caused by Air Wave. As Batman argues for shutting down recruitment and fully vetting everyone they’ve brought in, things start to get personal between him and Superman in a way they haven’t for a while. Meanwhile, over in Markovia, one of the DCU’s most obscure heroes is deployed to Marokvia to assist outlaw hero Geo-Force (who killed Ra’s Al Ghul not that long ago) in a crisis that’s developed in his home country. A massive volcanic hole has opened in the country, but it doesn’t seem to be natural and doesn’t seem to have a bottom. Every issue of this comic manages to surprise with just how many elements it works in, even if they don’t always perfectly sync up.
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