Justice League #33 Review

Writers: Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV / Artists: Bruno Redondo, Daniel Sampere, and Juan Albarran / DC Comics In Justice League #33, the Justice/Doom War inches toward its climax as the League finds ways to carve out little victories toward evening the playing field. Don’t count the heroes out yet. They’re starting to figure out how to win. But we all knew that was gonna happen, we just didn’t know how. In this issue, a few things became clear. There are three things that need to happen for the Justice League to defeat the Legion of Doom: The Ultra-Monitor (a combined version of Monitor, Anti-Monitor, and World Forger) have to keep the offense coming against their mother Perpetua, Poseidon’s conch from the past, and Hawkgirl’s new mystery powers.  Hawkgirl’s evolving powers have been slowly developing since the beginning of the series, and to see her finally begin to come into her own is so exciting. She’s essentially the biggest key to all of this. Without her, all the other plans fall into themselves like a house of cards. She has the ability to literally stop Perpetua in her tracks, as the power coursing through her veins and wings is the same power that imprisoned Perpetua in the first place. She’s the Sparta kick that will send Perpetua back where she came. Let’s just hope everything else works out so we can get to that climactic moment.  The biggest threat to the plan right now is the Legion of Doom’s team in the past. Aquaman has returned from his sabbatical in tim…