Justice League 3001 Vol 1 Deja Vu All Over Again Collecteed

Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis ramp up wild and wacky to its highest caste in Justice League 3001 Vol. 1: Deja Vu All Over Once more, the fourth book in their 3000/3001 saga. The writers manage to populate their 31st century with an about absurd (probably purposefully) number of electric current DC Comics characters, from A-list and B-listing Justice Leaguers all the way through more than esoteric characters from deep in the DC mythos. Thus far, the 3000 books take struggled somewhat to balance Justice League activeness with the writers' trademark bicker-talk, not ever successfully; with Deja Vu, the book gives itself over talking, often eschewing the action entirely, and it improves the tone overall. By this indicate 3001'south got a pretty large bandage, and it begins to experience like familiar, comfortable territory for Giffen especially, who juggled large casts in his well-regarded Legion of Super-Heroes runs with aplomb.

Unpredictable and irreverent, the beginning volume of Justice League 3001 is a curious animal, and I'k interested to meet the heavy lifting Giffen and DeMatteis will have to exercise to bring this all together with the last volume.

[Review contains spoilers]

In the first result of Justice League 3001 (collected after the final issues of 3000), Giffen and DeMatteis have artist Howard Porter depicting the Legion of Super-Heroes dead in the background of a boxing with Starro, just equally the Justice League 3001 arrives. Evidently in that location's no reason to get besides worked up about "Giffen kills the Legion!" since outlandishness here was certainly the betoken. But despite that 3001 volition exist over with the next volume, this marks a potent statement of 3001'southward (supposed or intended) longevity, that the Justice League is here and the Legion is gone and non coming dorsum.

At the aforementioned time, if Justice League 3000, specially in its second volume, eventually revealed itself to be fairly akin to Giffen and DeMatteis's Justice League International, Deja Vu is very reminiscent of Giffen's Legion of Super-Heroes. The volume has a bandage now that includes Superman, two Batmen, Wonder Woman, two Flashes, two Green Lanterns, Fire, Ice, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Firestorm, Supergirl, Etrigan the Demon, Darkseid's head, an evil Lois Lane, a futuristic Harley Quinn, and Turtle Boy Jimmy Olsen, amidst others, and the reader can't exist guaranteed of seeing all of them every upshot (Booster and Beetle, specifically, are off-camera possibly too much). The potent use of Jack Kirby properties, too, both Etrigan, Darkseid, and also characters like Kamandi, the Final Male child on Earth, seems like a nod to Paul Levitz and Giffen'southward selfsame use of the Fourth World in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga.

Admitting the ii final issues of 3000 collected here aren't battles royal (the second is, merely the get-go is a grab-up with Ice since the present day), merely once again action gives way significantly to conversation once 3001 begins. The first issue is all conversation, on the battleground, and the tertiary is a succession of character pairings -- Superman and Batman, Lois-Lane-disguised-as-Ariel-Masters and Ronald (former Justice League International sidekick 50-Ron), Guy Gardner and Wonder Woman, Flash Teri Magnus and Supergirl. Xviii total problems in, the character relationships have maybe progressed far enough that the original bicker-talk has given way to something deeper, but additionally in taking this tack 3001 becomes much more interesting. At that place'southward no lack of super-team action books on the shelves, and one where the characters spend an issue talking over drinks instead immediately stands out.

Deja Vu takes a giant step toward better establishing 3001'south continuity, but that doesn't brand things whatsoever less confusing. At the end of 3000, Ice recounts the events of Giffen and DeMatteis's miniseries I Can't Believe Information technology'south Not the Justice League, though the events that follow differ from what actually followed in terms of Ice's resurrection in Bird of Prey, her reunion with Fire in Checkmate, etc. In that location is, at to the lowest degree, a jumping off signal. What follows involves Kamandi and the Atomic Knights, leapfrogging entirely the Legion of Super-Heroes until arriving at Ice'southward advent in 3000. We can't say the writers didn't requite us answers, but they're far from conclusive.

Indeed, at that place's no lack of storylines to wrap upward in the final volume. Etrigan has Darkseid'south head in a glass example in his castle, for one matter (a series of words I never thought I'd type); for another, Lois Lane has L-Ron for some reason, renamed Ronald, but his L-Ron personality threatens to re-sally (additionally, the mystery of why Lois Lane wants to kill Superman anyway). It'south hard to some extent to determine what Giffen and DeMatteis intend to be a mystery and when they're just fooling around, as with why at that place'south a Jimmy Olsen Turtle Male child or the significance of Kamandi finally learning to say Ice Tora Olafsdotter's name.

Justice League 3001 Vol. 1: Deja Vu All Over Again reaches its peak absurdity in the last chapter, as Batman and Supergirl fight a pair of droll robo-aliens aslope a time to come-Batman, who turns out to be a fifteen-year-old girl. Tina Sung is beyond annoying, a nagging character akin to Giffen's Fifty Sue in New 52: Futures End. But, in what I also believe to be indicative of Giffen's way, this heightened comedy belies a gruesome, shocking cease to this story. Death is hardly an absolute in Justice League 3001, though there aren't that many issues left to bring a character back; again, I'm eager to see how the finale ties all of this together.

[Includes original and variant covers]

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