By Mark Rodriguez
For eons a comet has been headed towards the Earth, and with it the secret knowledge needed to either save or destroy the world. The Justice League thwarted a global attack by Vandal Savage not knowing he actually meant to move the Earth out of the way. Savage was attacked by the new Legion of Doom, led by Lex Luthor, who now want the knowledge for themselves.
The comic starts 3 months back when Lex went to visit a little shack called the Legionnaire's Club in Kansas, to which his father would abandon his family to go drink. He is there to buy the bar and fill it with explosives. The place is supposed to explode in 30 seconds, and his suit is bomb proof. The men in the bar run out and Lex sees a glowing door with a strange symbol on the doorknob. This started his quest for the truth.
John Stewart is in space, taking the criminal Greelok with him. Greelok can sense the source wall being destroyed and ancient energies being released. John has a plant with him called the Blue Moebius, used to block out bad thoughts.
The planet suddenly turns into Swamp Thing saying he brings a message. The plants turn from Swamp Thing to Batman to tells John to join the Justice League. Batman explains an energy source containing all the power of the Source Wall landed in the Nevada desert and it created a protective shell around itself. Batman says it broadcasts a code that Jon might be able to help out with. John is unsure but Batman tells him Hal Jordan is busy with his own missions. The Justice League Dark has done their best to keep the Totality a secret but word is getting out. The other day, Killer Croc of the Suicide Squad went into the energy shell and was warped near Belle Reve Prison and was transformed.
Croc has turned into a giant monster, keeping the Justice League at bay. He is able to exhale oxidized Kryptonite to keep Superman back, and he can tamper with the Speed Force to mess up The Flash. Batman tells Jon he needs to step up and stop being a soldier. He also says Martian Manhunter has forgiven him for the past events at Xanshi.
Martian Manhunter turns into a giant ape and smashes into the Godzilla sized Croc while Wonder Woman and Hawkwoman pull him down with the Lasso of Truth. Croc is knocked out. Manhunter asks Batman how things went and Batman says Jon might be thinking about it.
Lex leads Cheetah, Black Manta and Gorilla Grod to a hidden underwater base that not even Black Manta knew about. Lex shows them the doorknob with the strange symbol on it. He says the Totality is the key to everything, and to control it they need to find the seven hidden forces of the universe. He tells them that each one is something they've been looking for their entire life, even if they never knew about it.
Lex shows them the first source, which will help Grodd defeat The Flash. He shows him a baby, and Lex tells him that when he connects mentally to him to find out who he is. Lex says Siniestro is out in space looking for the second source. Lex says the stars are fireflies to them and the wall was built to protect them from humanity.
At the Hall of Justice, Flash is fixing up a car that can ride on the Speed Force so that the Titans can use it to stop an enemy of his called Turtle that uses the Still Force to stop the Speed Force. Manhunter and Superman arrive and they can't wait any longer, they have to enter the Totality now. Batman explains that Flash has to stay behind since his powers might fail at a critical moment, but also anything that enters the Totality will get twisted and mutated. The only ones that can withstand this are Martian Manhunter and Superman.
Currently Batman is in a miniaturized vehicle injected into Superman. Manhunter also has such a vehicle to be inject inside himself which he wants Kendra to pilot. Kendra says she is too busy trying to discover her own body as Hawkwoman to be trusted with this. Flash says she can have that mission. Manhunter says when it comes to the Totality, they can't wait any longer.
John is still in space when he finds Siniestro. Siniestro has now unlocked the Invisible Emotional Spectrum and he wishes to recruit him.
Superman and Manhunter arrive at the Totality and the rest of the League can see though cameras in their special suits. They found the protective shell and it has markings that Wonder Woman and Aquaman can recognize from their culture. As Supes and Manhunter enter the structure, they lose contact. Suddenly John Stewart smashed into the Hall of Justice, saying he now belongs to the Ultraviolet Corps, and is ready to kill them.
Gorilla Grodd is still trying to gain knowledge from the baby. Cheetah thinks Lex is lying about his quest for the truth and hacks his face off. Lex turned out to be a robot. Lex is actually within his own miniaturized vehicle, injected into Superman, and now both him and Martian Manhunter force their way into the Totality!
My Opinions
Things are heating up as we get closer to discover exactly what the Totality is and what secret it hides. Will it help save the multiverses, or will destroy everything? There is obviously a lot of lore I missed out on here since I missed out on any event dealing with the source wall and dark multiverses and Omega Titans and whatever else, but it keeps me interested nonetheless.
I see Hawkwoman has a similar story to Archangel, when she had normal feathered wings and now has metallic wings and is dealing with it.
The line up is mostly following the classic WB cartoon, with Batman trying so hard to enlist John into the team without flat out saying 'We need you so we can resemble the 90's cartoon. We already have Hawkwoman on here!' This is interesting since at the same time the Legion of Doom is a callback to the 80's Super Friends cartoon. Similar enough, The Flash is also kind of a joke character here again, like the cartoon. The whole scene of him basically whining of why he couldn't come along, only to find out that Batman and Hawkwoman would be going by being injected into Superman and Martian Manhunter, then feeling glad he wasn't involved felt like something straight out of the cartoon show.
Oh and they had to do 'Batman inside Superman' joke, didn't they? I can't say anything, it brought me a small chuckle. I would have wondered how they would have slid that kind of joke past the cartoon show.
The story is moving along and now we're going to have an evil John Stewart to deal with, as long as whatever lies beyond the Totality. I can't wait for next issue.
For eons a comet has been headed towards the Earth, and with it the secret knowledge needed to either save or destroy the world. The Justice League thwarted a global attack by Vandal Savage not knowing he actually meant to move the Earth out of the way. Savage was attacked by the new Legion of Doom, led by Lex Luthor, who now want the knowledge for themselves.
The comic starts 3 months back when Lex went to visit a little shack called the Legionnaire's Club in Kansas, to which his father would abandon his family to go drink. He is there to buy the bar and fill it with explosives. The place is supposed to explode in 30 seconds, and his suit is bomb proof. The men in the bar run out and Lex sees a glowing door with a strange symbol on the doorknob. This started his quest for the truth.
John Stewart is in space, taking the criminal Greelok with him. Greelok can sense the source wall being destroyed and ancient energies being released. John has a plant with him called the Blue Moebius, used to block out bad thoughts.
The planet suddenly turns into Swamp Thing saying he brings a message. The plants turn from Swamp Thing to Batman to tells John to join the Justice League. Batman explains an energy source containing all the power of the Source Wall landed in the Nevada desert and it created a protective shell around itself. Batman says it broadcasts a code that Jon might be able to help out with. John is unsure but Batman tells him Hal Jordan is busy with his own missions. The Justice League Dark has done their best to keep the Totality a secret but word is getting out. The other day, Killer Croc of the Suicide Squad went into the energy shell and was warped near Belle Reve Prison and was transformed.
Croc has turned into a giant monster, keeping the Justice League at bay. He is able to exhale oxidized Kryptonite to keep Superman back, and he can tamper with the Speed Force to mess up The Flash. Batman tells Jon he needs to step up and stop being a soldier. He also says Martian Manhunter has forgiven him for the past events at Xanshi.
Martian Manhunter turns into a giant ape and smashes into the Godzilla sized Croc while Wonder Woman and Hawkwoman pull him down with the Lasso of Truth. Croc is knocked out. Manhunter asks Batman how things went and Batman says Jon might be thinking about it.
Lex leads Cheetah, Black Manta and Gorilla Grod to a hidden underwater base that not even Black Manta knew about. Lex shows them the doorknob with the strange symbol on it. He says the Totality is the key to everything, and to control it they need to find the seven hidden forces of the universe. He tells them that each one is something they've been looking for their entire life, even if they never knew about it.
Lex shows them the first source, which will help Grodd defeat The Flash. He shows him a baby, and Lex tells him that when he connects mentally to him to find out who he is. Lex says Siniestro is out in space looking for the second source. Lex says the stars are fireflies to them and the wall was built to protect them from humanity.
At the Hall of Justice, Flash is fixing up a car that can ride on the Speed Force so that the Titans can use it to stop an enemy of his called Turtle that uses the Still Force to stop the Speed Force. Manhunter and Superman arrive and they can't wait any longer, they have to enter the Totality now. Batman explains that Flash has to stay behind since his powers might fail at a critical moment, but also anything that enters the Totality will get twisted and mutated. The only ones that can withstand this are Martian Manhunter and Superman.
Currently Batman is in a miniaturized vehicle injected into Superman. Manhunter also has such a vehicle to be inject inside himself which he wants Kendra to pilot. Kendra says she is too busy trying to discover her own body as Hawkwoman to be trusted with this. Flash says she can have that mission. Manhunter says when it comes to the Totality, they can't wait any longer.
John is still in space when he finds Siniestro. Siniestro has now unlocked the Invisible Emotional Spectrum and he wishes to recruit him.
Superman and Manhunter arrive at the Totality and the rest of the League can see though cameras in their special suits. They found the protective shell and it has markings that Wonder Woman and Aquaman can recognize from their culture. As Supes and Manhunter enter the structure, they lose contact. Suddenly John Stewart smashed into the Hall of Justice, saying he now belongs to the Ultraviolet Corps, and is ready to kill them.
Gorilla Grodd is still trying to gain knowledge from the baby. Cheetah thinks Lex is lying about his quest for the truth and hacks his face off. Lex turned out to be a robot. Lex is actually within his own miniaturized vehicle, injected into Superman, and now both him and Martian Manhunter force their way into the Totality!
My Opinions
Things are heating up as we get closer to discover exactly what the Totality is and what secret it hides. Will it help save the multiverses, or will destroy everything? There is obviously a lot of lore I missed out on here since I missed out on any event dealing with the source wall and dark multiverses and Omega Titans and whatever else, but it keeps me interested nonetheless.
I see Hawkwoman has a similar story to Archangel, when she had normal feathered wings and now has metallic wings and is dealing with it.
The line up is mostly following the classic WB cartoon, with Batman trying so hard to enlist John into the team without flat out saying 'We need you so we can resemble the 90's cartoon. We already have Hawkwoman on here!' This is interesting since at the same time the Legion of Doom is a callback to the 80's Super Friends cartoon. Similar enough, The Flash is also kind of a joke character here again, like the cartoon. The whole scene of him basically whining of why he couldn't come along, only to find out that Batman and Hawkwoman would be going by being injected into Superman and Martian Manhunter, then feeling glad he wasn't involved felt like something straight out of the cartoon show.
Oh and they had to do 'Batman inside Superman' joke, didn't they? I can't say anything, it brought me a small chuckle. I would have wondered how they would have slid that kind of joke past the cartoon show.
The story is moving along and now we're going to have an evil John Stewart to deal with, as long as whatever lies beyond the Totality. I can't wait for next issue.
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