Monday, August 23, 2021
JUSTICE LEAGUE EXTREME #1
written by BRANDON THOMAS
art & cover by BRAD GREEN
variant cover by PHIL CHO
card stock variant cover by ED BENES
Bloodwynd is no hero. The mysterious dark mage of death has his own
agenda, which he preferred to pursue in isolation. Outed by his nemesis,
the necromancer briefly played at being a champion during a time of
unprecedented tumult, when the world’s greatest super-heroes were
threatened with extermination. The savage Kryptonian behemoth Doomsday
beat Superman into a coma. Hulking criminal mastermind Bane broke the
Batman. The minions of the war god Ares saw to the demise of a Wonder
Woman. The multiversal destroyer Anti-Monitor extinguished the Flash.
Alien tyrant Mongul drove Green Lantern mad. Extraterrestrial terror
Imperiex obliterated Aquaman. The worshipers of Darkseid, Lord of
Apokolips, executed Martian Manhunter. Through his necromancy, Bloodwynd
recognized that these magnificent seven crusaders were tied mystically
to the fate of all creation, and he stepped up to defend all of
existence… including, especially, his own.
Then came Judgment Day, when the Overmaster and his Cadre arrived to witness the end of the Earth. Bloodwynd was cosmically aware that this moment was beyond him, that all hope rested with the Justice League. He merely watched as the universe ended… and began again. Like tumbling dominoes, the events set in motion by Doomsday led to Hal Jordan becoming Parallax, and with other terrorists against time itself, unleashed entropic energies that annihilated the universe. Only a handful of heroes remained at the Vanishing Point to restart everything with a Big Bang. Today, another Crisis in Time has begun, and many of the horsemen of the previous apocalypse rise again… without any of the Magnificent Seven to meet them. The Septuplicate is essential for salvation, a search for seven successors, an extreme form of Justice League.
Reignman has been born through the melding of the corpse of the Cyborg Superman Zor-El, further enhanced with the automations of John Henry Irons, controlled by the intelligence of the Kryptonian Eradicator. The unjustly exiled Amazon Artemis has chosen to wear the indignity on her back, in the discarded garb of her fallen sister Diana from her own hour of disgrace, as a living Requiem. Freed from Mother’s control and picking up where The Colony left off, the genetically engineered and psychologically programmed killer Jean-Paul Valley is among the sole standing vigilantes defending Gotham from Leviathan, within his sealed Knightfall battle armor. Arrived from a catastrophic near-future where his family perished before his eyes, Walter West takes no prisoners with the crimson quickness of Dark Flash. Compelled by the Life Entity within his White Power Battery to defend their home world against aliens, Kyle Rayner returns to Earth to wield nearly limitless powers over creation as the Omega Lantern. Obsessed with reclaiming the throne for his bloodline, Arthur Curry’s only surviving son, the berserker Koryak, would rule as Aquamaster.
The return of Mongul to Coast City attracts several of these
anti-heroes who have faced him in the past, and understand the danger he
normally represents. However, the flaxen fiend has not come alone, and
his fellows’ reach and menace in unfathomable. What is the Superman
Death Squad, and what purpose could it still serve in a world without
the Man of Tomorrow? And what of these would-be heroes? Are they all
that they seem, and could there be just as much of a threat within their
ranks as without?
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This is great I would read this in a heartbeat!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was fun, and the artist did a GREAT job!
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