Justice League #40 Review

Writer: Robert Vendetti / Artist: Doug Mahnke / DC Comics Justice League #40 is a new beginning for Earth’s premiere superhero team. New creative team. Same roster of heroes, with a few notable exceptions in Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter. This new direction for the team has them facing the Eradicator and his Daxamite army as they arrive to conquer Earth. It’s interesting that the book didn’t start over at #1. It doesn’t (at least not yet) seem like this book is going to follow any of the things that Snyder and Co. built up over the past two years. Other than the roster that’s stayed relatively the same, it doesn’t have much that tethers it to anything continuity wise. So, in an age where it feels like publishers will set a book at #1 at the blink of an eye, it’s a bit odd that this one didn’t do that. That’s not to say that this story isn’t good, though. I enjoyed what I read even if I was trying to do some mental jogging and figure out how all of this connects to things. Once I stopped doing that, I was able to just take things at face value. The story is already so different than what we’ve grown accustomed to. It’s kind of like a return to form for a Justice League book. The stakes are still big, and they’re still personal. But they aren’t nearly as balls to the wall as the story that Snyder was telling. This feels like the Justice League of old.

What I really enjoyed about Vendetti’s take is that this team feels a lot more equal than other versions. You can tell everyon…