Justice League Odyssey #6 Review

Writer: Dan Abnett / Artist: Carmine Di Giandomenico / DC Comics The group reunites and purposes are renewed as Darkseid’s dire plans focus everyone’s perspective. There was a lot to like about this issue. A shift took place in more ways than one that resulted in a breath of new life for the series. For starters, Dan Abnett worked his magic with the words, so a difference in perspective from behind the scenes could be one reason why things feel a bit different. But I think that a lot of the shift of the book happens organically within the story. It’s all predicated off of what’s been building for the past 5 issues. Abnett strengthens this by sprinkling in small, little problems that make the overarching conflict tenser. A good example is that Jessica Cruz can’t charge her ring in the Ghost Sector. So now on top of finding and stopping Darkseid, that’s another problem that they have to deal with that’s almost totally unrelated. It just goes a long way in making these events feel more like real life. What I really enjoyed was seeing everyone together. There’s been so much going on the past few issues that we didn’t really get a chance to see this unique group interact too much. That’s rectified a bit this time around, and we get some cool moments that really bring out each characters individual mannerisms and how they all mesh together. Part of what made that prevalent was finally giving everyone a singular goal. Everyone still has their individual motivations, but it’s all s…