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Justice League Dark, Volume 1: The Last Age of Magic
Title | Justice League Dark, Volume 1: The Last Age of Magic |
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Date | 2024-12-22 17:43:13 |
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Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
The new Justice League Dark is here! Led by Wonder Woman this team of Zatanna, Swamp Thing, Man-Bat and Detective Chimp (?) must bring the fight against all supernatural foes too big for the World's Greatest Super Heroes!From the pages of JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE comes writer James Tynion IV's epic new series JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK! Earth's magic once belonged to them. Now they want the magic back. But who exactly are they? It's up to the new Justice League Dark to find out and stop this nightmarish new threat at all costs! After the events of NO JUSTICE, Wonder Woman guides the misfit magic mix against enemies too fantastic even for the Justice League. Plus, what awful things are coming through the Tree of Wonder? Dark days ahead...Written by James Tynion IV (Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) with phenomenal illustrations from Alvaro Martinez (Detective Comics), this bold new graphic novel series is one of the most anticipated in years! Collects issues #1-3 and 5-6.
Review
If you want to get the most out of this volume, make sure you have a copy of Wonder Woman & Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour ready to go. That comic interrupts this one after issue #3, and I think it's well worth putting The Last Age of Magic down for a second so that you can get the complete story before continuing.There are a whole slew of new faces on the team that I wouldn't have immediately thought of to be on JLD, including Wonder Woman & Detective Chimp. But it works!This is actually way better than I thought it had any right to be, honestly.The basic plot is that magic is broken (nothing new there) and this ragtag group of weirdos is the only hope of fixing it (also nothing new). And yet...?Somehow, against all odds, I really enjoyed this.I wasn't all that thrilled to see Wonder Woman on the cover because I figured she was the fill-in for Batman (who usually gets stuck into the mystic comics to make them seem more legit or something), and I'm honestly not all that interested in any of the regular DC characters right now. There's no real reason for it, but I'm just more in the mood for the oddballs at the moment. I said that to say this: WW was cool.I mean, I'm sure it didn't hurt that Mystic DC is my jam, but even so, I was impressed with the way she was incorporated into the story as a real mystic character instead of just a normie who is following the magic users into the supernatural fray.If you're on the fence but you enjoy Mystic DC, hop off and read this.Recommended!