Justice League: No Justice #3 Review

Writer: Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson / Artist: Riley Rossmo, Marcus To / DC Comics This week in the third issue of the No Justice miniseries the stakes are raised so high, I needed some A1 sauce to help wash it down. In issue #3 we learn from Brainiac 2.0 that the mission can’t succeed without Brainiac, whose head became spare parts back in issue one. Brainiac’s plan from the get-go was to use the Justice League like very specific tools to save his planet and double-cross Earth. I like when heroes find out they ain’t shit. It makes their perseverance that much sweeter. This issue yet again succeeded when it focused on the individual team moments. I truly love these interactions between characters that otherwise would never be in the same room together. Like last week, we were gifted with some cool character dynamics that made my inner and outer nerd happy. For example, Harley Quinn gave the most seemingly nonsensical advice to Cyborg that actually ended up working. Then, we had Martian Manhunter stroking Starro’s ego.

Telepath to telepath, ain’t no one got more steez than you ‘Ro. Where it loses me is with the abundance of stakes that I mentioned earlier. From the jump, No Justice promised to be the cosmic Justice League story that wasn’t gonna pull any punches. Maybe it should, though? I feel like the multiple conflicts are getting in each other’s way. I can’t concentrate on any single aspect of the story that gets me get invested in our heroes succeedi…