This is simply put a bloated, empty and repetitive explanation for Bruce Timm and Company’s Justice League Unlimited, adjusted for whatever Big Stupid Event Mr. Terrific refers.
Timm and Company wanted to do something different for the third season of the animated favorite Justice League.
They needn’t worry about proprietary editors. Often not allowing characters to participate in team books.
So boom. Justice League Unlimited stormed onto the airwaves. No muss. No fuss. Every DC hero now counted themselves amongst the founding seven members.
Writers Joshua Williamson and Scott Snyder start the square ball rolling with Superman narrating the construction for the new JLA Satellite. None of this breaks any new ground.
The original Justice League Satellite was a combination of membership tech. Either mentioned in dialogue or depicted in panels.
Snyder and Williamson then shift Superman’s focus to Booster Gold--our point of view character.
Booster Gold was a self-serving crap protagonist created in the waning days of the pre-Crisis.
Keith Giffin's and J.M. DeMatteis' Justice League redeemed Booster as the comical partner of the Blue Beetle in the Blue and Gold double-act.
Booster finally became a decent overall hero in the New 52.
Mainly because writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray needed a decent time traveler for All Star Western Comics. No hyphen, which is really annoying.
If you are a fan of Booster Gold, All In is a special one-shot that you really can’t miss. He’s everywhere in the story. Everybody else can sit this one out.
All In is not a character builder. It’s got some nice art from Daniel Sampere and Kaya creator Wes Craig. All In though is more like a catalog with a narrative.
All In doesn’t really set anything into motion except for a Doctor Who rip-off.
A pretty blatant one at that.
What caused the crack? Darkseid suddenly attacks the newly refurbished JLA satellite, but his attack lacks excitement and true threat.
He’s done with it all. It’s a suicide run, or so it seems.
Darkseid has “concepts of a plan.” Concepts I can’t really fathom.
This version of Darkseid isn’t the cunning mastermind obsessed with hunting the Anti-Life Equation. He seems to be a shadow of himself, suffering from a mid-life crisis.
Everybody also keeps calling him Uxas. That’s just ridiculous. Nobody thinks of Darkseid as Uxas.
Darkseid is an evil New God. This cosmic deity rules a world where suffering is the way of life. He literally feeds on woe. Any hope he allows to cultivate on Apokolips, is all a ruse to season the utter demoralization of the people he lords over and allows to exist. I mean when it comes to pure villainy. Darkseid is easily number one.
Flip the book over and you get the story from Darkseid’s point of view. For some reason, Darkseid wants to bind to the Spectre in order to…to…I have no idea why. Even after reading.
The Spectre created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Bailey in the 1940s was the alter-ego of murdered cop Jim Corrigan.
Empowered by the Christian god to be the ultimate form of vengeance against murderers. He did things like growing to Godzilla size and crushing a car full of live, screaming hoodlums, then casting it into the Pacific Ocean just for good measure.
He never mellowed either. In the Bronze Age of comic books, the Spectre enlarged a pair of scissors to snip a murdering hair stylist in two. Point being. Don’t. Cross. The. Spectre.
Darkseid detaching the Spectre from Jim Corrigan, a literal walking dead man, and temporarily possessing the force, even when using the genius of the New Gods’ Himon, is way too hard for me to swallow.
Alas. I’m stuck with it. What is the point? After Darkseid is beaten by the Justice League, spoiler ahoy, I guess. Darkseid somehow coalesces into a new universe where he is the deific force.
Don’t ask me how this happened. I haven’t any idea. Even after reading. If you glimpse the captions, Darkseid specifically states he wants to be free of the Kryptonian. Yet what does he do when having the option of creating a universe without Superman.
“Why would we create an enemy to fight us? What sense would that make? That would be a terrible idea.” The Sheriff of Nottingham.
“Yes! Yes, it would. Wouldn't it? Yes, that would be a rubbish idea. Why would you do that?” The Doctor realizing Robin Hood is a true man.
Yet, this appears to be Darkseid’s “concept of a plan.” Create a bubble universe, a concept which used to be hated, hated, hated by the Powers That Be at DC, inhabited by the very enemies that just defeated him.
Oh, but this time. It will be different. For these heroes are different.
So…what? It’s the mid-nineties again?
I have considered this plan very carefully.
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