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Written by: Geoff Johns
Art by: Marco Santucci
Colors by: Ivan Plascencia
Letters by: Rob Leigh
Cover art by: Mikel Janin (cover A)
Cover price: $3.99
Release date: September 4, 2024
Justice Society of America #11, by DC Comics on 9/4/24, concludes Young Mordru’s bid to forge a path from the villain he will one day be, but a whole lot of heroes have to fight each other first.
Is Justice Society of America #11 Good?
Despite all the delays and sporadic meanderings, Geoff Johns still knows how to deliver one heck of a fun action comic. Justice Society of America is a non-stop action fest from page one, which is hard to come by these days, but the outcomes aren’t as satisfying as they could be.
When last we left the JSA in Justice Society of America #10, the expanding roster of heroes, under Huntress’s direction, was struggling to act as a team without taking reckless risks. The issue ended with the Legion arriving from the future to demand Young Mordru be taken into custody for crimes he hasn’t committed yet.
In Justice Society of America #11, the battle begins. Instead of posturing or trying to get the opposition to see reason through thoughtful discussion, the Legion’s arrival immediately launches an all-out battle.
Geoff Johns wasted no time kicking the issue off with a stream of level-setting exposition as the fight kicked off in earnest. Honestly, the exposition, from Helena Wayne’s point of view, gets wordy in spots, but Marco Santucci’s fantastic art helps even out the words and pictures.
As the battle progresses, there’s a growing suspicion that the fight over Young Mordru is the result of some manipulation. That suspicion grows into reality when Yelena, aka Wildcat, suddenly collapses, and her body is ripped open from the inside by the arrival of… Eclipso.
The battle and arrival of Eclipso sort of works and sort of doesn’t. Eclipso works because Geoff Johns pulls out heavy hitters to make the battle as high-stakes as possible. Eclipso’s emergence makes sense as a malevolent force that manipulated the typical allies into fighting each other. On the other hand, Eclipso’s arrival doesn’t work because the narration spins into overdrive, narrating a litany of off-panel developments to explain how all this came to pass. You get the feeling Geoff Johns needed a big bang, so he had to invent several shortcuts to make it happen.
Once everyone sees Eclipso at the heart of their fight, everyone turns their attention to the villain, but Eclipso’s power quickly takes over the souls of everyone within reach. As a last-ditch attack,Source link
