The setting of pieces.
Creative Staff:
Story: Brian Buccellato
Art: Mike s. Miller
What They Say:
The Gods now directly enter the fray and order Superman to step down. Will his call for help go unanswered?
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Injustice: Gods Among Us upped the ante a bit when it got into the fight with Superman and Wonder Woman, which worked out well for a good if brief slugfest between the two. Though they’re more than they were before, they both still had to do what was necessary in the moment, at least until Sinestro came in and mucked it all up even worse. There was a lot of fun with it simply because Sinestro’s point of view was actually right in a sense, since it’s all about winning the moment to determine the future and own that completely, but when you have so many people with the morals that they do have here, even if they’ve gone off the deep end in a lot of ways, there’s still some core principles at work here.
With this issue, the fight between Superman’s side and the gods of Olympus is essentially put into a bookended position. That’s not entirely bad since the middle covers a range of material. The fight between Superman and Wonder Woman has been put to the side for the moment, but it’s made clear that things must be resolved here. It’s no surprise to see that Superman won’t back down over it considering what he’s accomplished so far, so there’s a good defiance to it even as Achilles tells him that they’ll give him twenty-four hours to finish his affairs and get off world so they can reclaim the world for themselves and set things right. This, naturally, does not go over well with Batman since he has his own plans. But even he knows he can push only so far with them in this situation and with the meager resources available to him.
The rest of the book is a kind of mishmash of events, some that don’t do much beyond reminding us that things are going on, such as seeing Billy Batson tied to a chair while unconscious for a few panels. Raven gets some time as she struggles with what happened to her father with his death and her feelings about it, but bringing her back into the book now means she’ll be a key player soon enough. Where the book spends a lot of its time in setup is in a flashback to when Superman discovered what Luthor did in creating Connor before and how he dealt with Luthor over it. But that segues into the fact that Luthor has created something else now that events have turned as they have and he’s closer to bringing it out of the tank. Which will also be another potential game changer in the upcoming series of fights that are brewing. Random catalysts are coming on board pretty quickly, which is needed in some ways considering some of the characters that have been killed off so far.
In Summary:
Injustice moves along fairly well here as it sets the stage for the big fight to come, giving some of the side players a chance to make their entry into the game as well. That’s what pretty much dominates this installment as it provides for the bit of honor of the gods to get things accomplished, a frustrating moment for Bruce to be sure, while digging into the past and touching on others that will make their way into events sooner rather than later. It’s certainly not bad and a series like this needs to take time between the big slugfests to rearrange the pieces a bit. Bringing some of these players into it will definitely alter the dynamic a bit and just getting Raven back into action should be pretty interesting to see.
Grade: B
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: DC Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: July 14th, 2015
MSRP: $0.99
