Justice League #6 Review

Writer: Scott Snyder / Artist: Jorge Jiminez / DC Comics Reading Justice League is like eating Thanksgiving dinner. Snyder’s cooked up a feast of all of our favorite foods, and Jiminez and Cheung bring the dessert we don’t deserve but devour nonetheless. They fit so much into 22 pages. This issue alone featured tiny Batman and tiny Luthor catching each other’s fade inside of Superman, a sentient planet named Umbrax that fuels the negative emotions of the Ultraviolet corps, Grodd freezing Flash with the Still Force, and John Stewart riding a Speed Force motorcycle around the world over and over and over again a la Christopher Reeve’s Superman. If this series really was Thanksgiving dinner, every inch of our plate would be filled with carbs enough to put us asleep for the winter. The main course of the meal is Lex Luthor. He is as determined as ever to accomplish his goals. Homie is always focused, but this dude is embracing his vision so wholeheartedly, that he’s got me inspired.

One of my favorite scenes of this issue was a brief but fruitful fight between microscopic versions of Batman and Lex Luthor. You’d think the outcome would be a no-brainer, but like I said, Lex is the turkey and he just came out of the oven. That would make Batman your uncle who’s coming back for his third helping. Bruce got smoked, man. He caught those hands. His beating messed me up and I’m totally aware that none of this is real. Like, when Luthor was done with him his… his legs were bent in the w…