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Justice Society Of America, Vol. 3: Thy Kingdom Come, Vol. 2 (2008)

by Geoff Johns(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1401219144 (ISBN13: 9781401219147)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

DC Comics

review 1: Patience is the key word here. It's really quite something the way a book with that large of a cast, expected to sell at a level on a month to month basis is able to keep the careful execution that Justice Society is. It's a testament to the trust the editors have in the readers (not something that you see often enough at DC), and it's a testament the readers have in the storytellers (Johns had earned it in spades at that point with the out-of-the-park success of the Sinestro Corps War capping off an already prolific and profound career at DC). Yet with absolute professionalism and aplomb, the crew pulls it off.This volume is packed. I'm in the midst of part 3 right now, and building a list of the events that happen in here is surprising. We get the discovery of Gog a... mores this apparently benevolent galactic power (maybe a god?) come to earth to save everyone (yeah right...). We get heroes tossed around the multiverse. We get a rift beginning to form at the heart of the Justice Society over their reactions to Gog (Damage has his face restored, Doctor Midnight has his vision returned). And on top of all that we get the very downplayed return of Black Adam.It does start to wear a bit. Power Girl's foray into Earth 2 starts to drag (maybe it's just because it's characters I've never really known or cared much about), but there is never the sense that pieces are falling into place to carry this title and possibly the DC universe (multiverse?) as a whole onward.
review 2: I really need to just stop reading Geoff Johns' work, I think (if I had known this was him before I grabbed it in the library, I probably wouldn't have picked it up, to be honest).The story's a bit of a mess. The JSA is a huge group - twenty-odd superheroes, some of whom have been heroing for over 70 years (in-story, not just in terms of publication history). There's so many of them here, in fact, that you don't really end up caring about any individual character, because there isn't enough time spent on them. These two dozen heroes spend the bulk of the book fighting this guy named Gog, who's going around killing supervillains who claim to be divine, because they're an affront to his god, also named Gog, who wakes from a centuries-long slumber and starts actually doing things to make the world a better place. The JSA distrusts him, though, for reasons that are never quite made clear. There's also travel to two different alternate Earths, which is treated in enough of a matter-of-fact way that it almost seems boring, and doesn't really add anything to the plot (which ends on a cliffhanger that will only hold your interest if you've also read Kingdom Come, published 15 years earlier, but even then it doesn't really because they've established that that story didn't take place in the future, but rather an alternate Earth, so the "ooooh foreshadowing" falls flat). less

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