Justice League: Last Ride #3 Review

Writer: Chip Zdarsky / Artists: Miguel Mendonça and Enrica Eren Angiolini / DC Comics Justice League: Last Ride #3 serves as a calm before the storm as the team takes a break from the conflict while they prepare for an armada of antagonists who want to take Lobo from them and kill him before he stands trial.  Issues like these are important. It’s great to have a bunch of double splash pages that showcase some truly dope art and action, but from a narrative standpoint, when things standstill, it gives room for the characters to breathe, and it ultimately makes you care for them more. Plus, if it’s done right, it’ll be engaging and make you feel something. And it will ultimately make those double splash pages feel more special when they do come, because they’re like a reward for sticking with it all.  Zdarsky really takes really good care of these characters. He did some heavy lifting in this issue because since the conflict was kind of paused, that meant that he had to give the characters something to do and something to talk about.  So, he put them at a campfire and took their masks down figuratively and literally. This was a time for the League to truly reckon with its past as a group. I won’t spoil exactly what they got into or if everything is fixed, but it is a step in the right direction.

Plus, we get to see Batman try to act like a normal human. That might be his only weakness. When there isn’t something to decipher, my guy is just a really strange dud…