Justice League #16 Review

Writers: Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV / Art: Jim Cheung, Stephen Segovia, Mark Morales, Tomeu Morey, and Wil Quintana / DC Comics Justice League #16 took us back to school to take Multiverse History 101. It didn’t used to be a requirement before graduation, but now it’s one of the most important core courses in the curriculum. Everything is predicated off the events learned in this class. The teacher is the Martian Keep, and this is her last semester. So if you wanna get that eons old education from someone who actually lived it, this is your last chance. You better hurry, though. The seats are filling up and if you don’t sign up now, you’ll miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime. Martian Manhunter is gonna be the professor next semester, but he’s a lot more reluctant and burdened by the job. So, he probably won’t have the same passion that the Martian Keep has. Okay, dumb analogy aside, this was an issue jam-packed with a lot of reworking and expanding upon what we thought the DC Universe was. Remember those answers that Manhunter had been clamoring for the past 4 issues? He got them in spades, and he probably now wishes that be never came barking up that tree. This issue explored the past in a way that gave our heroes renewed purpose in the fight against Luthor and the Legion of Doom. They initially stood in his way because it’s just what they do. They’re the Justice League, and they don’t let evil prevail. But after the Martian Keep spilled all the beans to J’onn, i…