The Pull – 12/18/2019: World Ending Wrap Ups and New Birth

Here’s what we reviewed in comics this week that you might want to check out: Justice League #38 The Justice League isn’t trying to win. They’ve pretty much accepted that that isn’t a possibility. But as Wonder Woman puts it in this issue “We’re here to go down swinging.” And if that’s not the most heroic thing I’ve ever heard from a literal God, I don’t know what is. Read the full review here!  Batman: The Last Knight on Earth #3 This is a DC Black Label book, which means it isn’t tethered to anything in the main DC continuity. These are also two of DC’s two hottest talents. So they were really able to do what they wanted and swing for the fences. Snyder combined his classic Batman take with some of his more recent, absolutely crazy concepts that he’s explored in Justice League. Read the full review here!Doomsday Clock #12 So, pop culture standing and relevance aside, how is the book? It’s good. It doesn’t quite fulfill all the promise of what led to this final showdown. As you would expect, we were never going to get the explicit binary of Superman destroys Superman or Dr. Manhattan destroys everything, but the third option wasn’t quite as scintillating as the first two either. The book succeeds in delivering two things: big huge, gigantic stakes & leaving no loose threads to end the story. Read the full review here!Batman #85 With issue #85, Tom King’s run on Batman comes to an end after three and a half years. The series’ end came a bit sooner — and suddenly — th…