Justice League Infinity #4 Review

Writers: J.M. DeMatteis and James Tucker / Artist: Ethan Beavers and Nick Filardi / DC Comics Diana and Darkseid sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. That’s right, as the cover suggests, Justice League Infinity #4 brings us all the hot and steamy Wonder Woman & Darkseid content we didn’t know we needed. Actually, we probably didn’t need it. But I’m not mad that we got it to be honest.  But for real, this was a story more about love than it was about lust, so even though that cover makes you think there’s some wild stuff happening inside, it’s not like that. What we really got in this issue was an alternate Darkseid who is more simp than he is a slayer. And I absolutely love that. Justice League Infinity #4 follows Wonder Woman as she’s plucked from her universe and dropped into one where a version of Darkseid lives on a barren Apokolips all alone after the death of the love of his life: this universe’s version of Wonder Woman. He’s haunted by a personified version of the Anti-Life equation that’s hellbent on reminding him of what he’s lost. When Diana shows up, she beats his ass, and I’m not gonna lie, it was kind of fun to see Darkseid all sad and soft like that. He took that beating like a champ. I wanted to hug him afterward. 

Darkseid tells the saddest tale he could have told to get me to care about him, and it has to do with Wonder Woman steering him away from the error of his ways and accepting love into his life instead of having it be controlled by conqu…