Justice League: No Justice #1 Review

Writer: Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Joshua Williamson / Artist: Francis Manapul / DC Comics Spinning out of the pages of Dark Nights: Metal is Justice League: No Justice, a weekly comic book event for the month of May which will set up Scott Snyder’s run on the League. Metal ended with our favorite heroes saving the day, but at a cost. Homies accidentally ripped open the Source Wall, which actually opens up the largely unexplored and unknown parts of the Multiverse to the DC Universe. In DC Nation #0 Aquaman describes it as “Dropping a fishbowl in the ocean”, so you know, things are about to get Bonkers McGee. No Justice is crazy as hell for subverting what you think the possibilities are. It follows four surprising rosters of heroes and villains alike that are embodiments of the four omega energies: Entropy, Wisdom, Wonder, and Mystery. Their goal in these new teams? Well, I’m not telling you. But you can probably guess that the fate of the Earth and the Universe is at stake. Isn’t it always?

Though this is an all-fun-and-feels epic, it is not without fault. Like Metal, it seems at times to be a bit overstuffed. There are a lot of characters and you can tell the writers are trying to do their best to do all of them justice, but sometimes it comes at the expense of driving the narrative forward. Because of that, we get bouts of exposition in places that might work better if we were shown rather than told. My other minor issue is that there isn’t (yet) a main character of …