Justice League 3000 #4 Review

Justice League 3000 #4 is one of those proverbial "all your questions are finally answered" issues. Writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis finally establish just who and what these apparent Justice League clones are and how they came to be. The problem with comics like this is that they tend to go overboard on the exposition as the explanation pours forth, and that's definitely a problem this comic suffers from at times.

With the team down to just the Trinity after Flash died a premature death and Green Lantern found himself the unwanted boy-toy of the god-like Locus, the time has come for Ariel Masters to explain how these bizarre facsimiles of the original Justice League came to be. The answer adds several nice wrinkles to the previously established formula, and promises that these characters will only grow more complex and conflicted over time. The problem, as mentioned, is that there is an overabundance of expository dialogue at times. But the worst offender is actually Green Lantern, who in a completely unrelated scene talks his way through an escape attempt in the manner of a Silver Age hero.

Still, it's difficult not to be excited about the future of the series after reading these pages. The writers have clearly only shown us the tip of the iceberg in terms of the conflict and the cast involved. And artist Howard Porter is settling in nicely. He brings an energetic vibe to the book, captures the dank future setting well, and his struggles with female facial work seen early on seem to have mostly receded. With the first arc finished, the future is looking bright for this team (metaphorically, if not literally).

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