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Geek Dad
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Dad
Review – Justice League Unlimited #7: The Omega Gambit
Justice League Unlimited #7 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: 'We Are Yesterday' is reaching its final act, and it's not looking good for the good guys. Inferno, better known as the Legion of Doom of yesterday, has invaded the present and used their time guns to scatter the Justice League across the timestream. With only Elongated Man left to oppose them, the stretchy hero is quickly overwhelmed and tortured in a pretty disturbing sequence before Grodd gets to his real plan – the Omega Rift, the hole ripped in time and space by Darkseid's death. It contains all the power in the Multiverse, and the plan is to divide it among the villains. Of course, that assumes everyone is willing to play fair and equal – something that lasts exactly as long as it takes for Luthor to get suspicious. All hell breaks loose, and when the smoke clears, one villain is left standing as the biggest threat he's ever been. And the heroes are nowhere to be seen – but they're about to get an unlikely assist. Battle for the Watchtower. Via DC Comics. There are some great segments of the heroes being stranded in time – both in the distant past, and in the far future – cut off from every possible way to get home and with their powers rapidly draining in some cases. And the one to blame for this is Air Wave, who was coerced into betraying the team by the lies and psychic influence of Grodd, and was then seemingly killed off right before the invasion began. But not all is what it seems, and the reveal of exactly what's happened to him is surprisingly clever and sets up a big showdown between the heroes and villains next month. But which heroes, exactly? The final page brings forward a group of characters I never thought I would see gracing a Justice League title, and that kind of unpredictability is what's making this book so much fun. Mark Waid has the entirety of the DCU to play with here, and he's making the most of it. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
Geek Dad
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Dad
Review – Absolute Flash #3: Man or Monkey
Absolute Flash #3 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: One of the best things this series has done is put us inside Wally West's head for the duration of the first arc. We're not following a big, sweeping story – we're following a traumatized kid as he runs away from the worst day of his life, leaving behind his dead mentor, his enraged father, and an army of bounty hunters out for his blood. As he struggles to keep his mind straight and understand his new powers, the hunt for him escalates – and it becomes clear that while his father wants to bring him back alive, the Rogues may not have the same plan, especially once he lands some good hits on them. And now they have a secret weapon – Grodd. The reveal last issue that Grodd wasn't a super-sized evil psychic gorilla in this world but rather a small, genetically mutated monkey with a superpowered brain was a great twist – and this little critter winds up becoming one of Wally's closest allies out there. Speed rush. Via DC Comics. The segment when Wally encounters Grodd for the first time is the kind of thing Lemire excels at – a segment involving only a few words, but incredibly powerful images. The two form an immediate psychic bond, and see each other as they are – motherless children, alone in the world. That's all it takes for Grodd to turn his back on his masters and start a new path as Wally's companion – and I can tell these two are going to become an incredibly popular duo as they escape together. The final part of this issue sees Wally finally ready to turn his back on his old life and embrace his new legacy as the Flash – as we see him in costume for the first time. This book is so different from the rest of the line, but it's a great coming-of-age story for the universe's youngest hero. I'm very curious to see how this young Flash will interact with the rest of the line, but right now this is yet another phenomenal book in it. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
