Scott's Take: Justice League Unlimited Vol. 1: Into the Inferno by Mark Waid, Jep Loeb, and Dan Mora (Illustrator)

 

Justice League Unlimited Vol. 1: Into the Inferno by Mark Waid, Jep Loeb, and Dan Mora (Illustrator),  and other artists, is the new Justice League title set after Absolute Power. I read this through partly through Hoopla and partly through the DC Infinite app. There has not been a new Justice League title in several years.

 

This new league has formed by including every hero in the DC Universe. There are a few prequels and spin offs not included in this main collection. Since Waller’s takeover new metas are appearing on Earth. Before this volume, Waller had robots that could steal superpowers from people. When the robots were destroyed, the stolen superpowers either went back to the original people or went to random new people across the planet. There is also a massive power vacuum in the universe after Darkseid’s suicide/ascension to become a separate universe.

 

In the here and now of this volume, it is all heroes on deck to stop the chaos that has been unleashed. Additionally, there is a terrorist organization calling itself Inferno is attacking the planet while the league has a traitor in their midst.

 

This is an action-packed epic with incredible art. It is a who’s who of heroes as there are more than twenty heroes used in this book. The key players are Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, and Mister Terrific. The cover has Captain Atom, Star Sapphire, and Black Lightning as main characters, but they have limited use in this first volume and are more important to other titles connected to this title. There are so many heroes that I think new readers might be a little confused. There is a lot of backstory and tie ins explained in this read.

 

The Inferno villains were interesting, but the reveal of their real identities was ruined by how this trade is collected. There is a variant cover before issue 5 which unveils all the identities before you find out in the story. In short, this is a global crisis story. I really enjoyed it. This is basically a big budget action movie in comic book form.

 

The adventure will continue in Volume 2 which does not have a title yet as it collects multiple issues and specials. There is also a crossover collection with World’s Finest coming out in November titled We Are Yesterday. Both books will include time travel elements as time has become broken because of the events over the last few years.

 

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I read part of this through the Hoopla App by way of the Dallas Public Library System and part through the DC Infinite app.

 

 

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