Justice League #39

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[beyondthefringe]

This is the part where I cry bullshit about the whole storyline.
We've followed this series for 39 issues, dealing with the post-Metal fallout, Perpetual, the Justice/Doom War and all that, and what happens at the end? A great big cliffhanger to lead into a different series beginning in a few months.

Sorry, folks, your storyline is in another castle. Meanwhile, stay tuned for something completely different and unrelated next month, while we take some time off. Oh, but be sure to follow Hell Arising where Apex Lex and BatJoker can fight it out elsewhere.

I just feel like we got this enormous bait and switch where the conclusion of the storyline was nothing of the sort and where we're left with a lack of resolution. And for what, this "Evil wins because everything is hopeless"?

Oh and of course the insinuation that Doomsday Clock happened in another timeline but don't worry, everything will make sense eventually...

DC is so screwed up at the moment, continuity and story-wise, and I can't help but feel like whatever resolution or fix they come to will be half-assed and unsatisfying.

[zylly]

My thoughts exactly

[john_wyatt]

Holy cow. I dropped out of reading this arc/series a while ago, but, until I saw this post, I had no idea that this conclusion was really a cliffhanger to... something else.

I don't know what to make of this tweet (https://twitter.com/Ssnyder1835/status/1222932395487264769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1222932395487264769&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbr.com%2Fjustice-league-snyder-explains-new-series-cliffhanger-capullo%2F):

For those asking, the cliffhanger in JL goes straight into this project.

You won’t have to read anything before picking it up though. We just needed a bigger stage to make a final all encompassing saga that links many dc stories, part & present, in the biggest showdown possible


I mean, the friggin' JUSTICE LEAGUE isn't a big enough stage to finish this tedious Justice League story?

[matrix_dragon]

I see we're going with 'people are fatally stupid' as the reason the Ultimate Evil of the Week has won.

[lordultimus]

This feels like a weird meta-commentary about how Scott Snyder failed to entice readers into his run.

Also, so much for the DC citizens being smarter than Marvel ones.

[akodo_rokku]

DC has been trying to turn their universe into Marvel's for 50+ years. They always seem to think the way to do it is through embracing cynicism.

[scorntx]

These'd be (roughly) the same DC citizens who willingly voted Lex Luthor into the White House.

Even Marvel's citizens haven't been quite that stupid yet.

[jlbarnett]

that was shady businessman Lex, who's supervillainy was under the table enough that even Superman didn't think it'd be right to out it for fear of being to influentional on people

[mastermahan]

Yeah, that version of Lex had managed to maintain some good PR. Being okay with Norman Osborn having his own government agency and a private army was stupider, since he was a known murderous nutjob who once strafed his own court hearing with pumpkin bombs.

But voting Doom might actually be stupider.

[scorntx]

That's why Doom doesn't let Latverians vote.

[zylly]

This feels like the exact opposite energy of the end of Morrison’s run, where everyone on Earth gets powers and responds to the call to help Superman.

[scorntx]

So that whole "everything's going to be light and positive again" thing at the end of Doomsday Clock lasted, what... two weeks? Three?
Wow, that was fast even for DC.

(Can only imagine what it's like in that office.
"Okay, guys, can we please, please, please try and write some more optimistic stuff for just... five minutes? Please?"
"Huh, you say somethin', Geoff?"
"... oh, screw it, I'mma bring back Superboy-Prime.")

[jlbarnett]

from what I've seen Doomsday Clock is like another timeline or something

[scorntx]

... no it ain't. It's supposed to be in continuity.
Just that Johns took so long with it, and all the other writers were okay to ignore the living daylights out of it.

[jlbarnett]

there were panels in this issue I've seen in other recaps, the referenced it but talked about it not happening to these characters

[scorntx]

So it's already been chucked in the discontinuity bin?
Huh. That was fast...

[thanekos]

It's so great that Scott Snyder solved how to be Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns at the same time.

[longboxingwhileblack]

Now. Pretend that Perpetua was running for president in 2016.

[cricharddavies]

The author probably thinks that she was, and is glad the other candidate won.

[mastermahan]

So people literally voted for their own doom? Hmmm, I wonder if this is political commentary.

[bruinsfan]

I don't know, something about it seems too... subtle? for that...

Oh wait, no, I meant the exact opposite of subtle.

Makes me glad I dropped this book like a hot potato when Snyder had the Justice League shattering and re-assembling the moon.

[jaxjyls]

When complainers say that DC is too dark, it's stuff like this that makes me see their point of view

[werehawk]

That was the most meh meta- end to a storyline I’ve seen. I’m going to coin the term “Mehta” to describe it.

[zylly]

The worst think is, this has basically been the book’s ONLY storyline for the entire run. It even partially coopted a crossover with Aquaman. It spilled out innumerable tie ins with the year of the villain.

To provide no resolution at all and instead go “you gotta wait for the next project!” is... not good.