Justice League Odyssey #12 Review

Writer: Dan Abnett / Artist: Will Conrad / DC Comics This is it! This is what Justice League Odyssey has been building toward for the past 11 issues. It has all led to this exact moment. But this isn’t the end, it would seem. I wrongly assumed this book was only going to go 12 issues, and I didn’t do an easy Google search to see that it was solicited for more than that. I’m ashamed. Don’t look at me.  This is the end of this particular arc, though. Starting with issue #13, the plot and characters are going to be drastically different than what they’ve been so far, and I’m eager to see how it all unfolds. This was a very tense issue. The decisions made felt heavy. The dire outcomes felt final. That’s all because Darkseid finally activated Sepulkore, the device that promises to both bring him back to full strength and save the Ghost Sector from the destruction of the multiverse. Think of Sepulkore like a mashup of Apokolips and the War World. This thing is massive. And it burns with the intensity of your first crush. 

Abnett did a good job of bringing the stakes to the forefront. If you don’t remember, the team had planned to help Darkseid build Sepulkore, then double-cross him and stop him from using it. He of course, saw this betrayal coming, and he got the jump on them before they could even think to do anything. But they didn’t just get an astronomical beatdown, Darkseid transformed Cyborg, Starfire, and Azrael into three heralds of varying levels of power: Technology, Fir…