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Justice League #10

By Hervé St-Louis
December 25, 2016 - 13:40

It’s the Justice League versus Siri as the artificial intelligence created by a child put a bounty on the heroes for the villains of the world. And here they come in a suburban home, trying to destroy the Justice League and get the money siphoned off Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor’s companies. Can the Justice League defeat this foe who lurches behind every online search?

I had t read a few issues to get up to speed on this series. While the idea of an artificial intelligence running amok is fun and is a familiar trope of super hero comics, the execution here was rudimentary. Bryan Hitch wrote about an algorithm that can do anything. I still have problems with how it easily affected a Green Lantern ring as if it were some USB key. How this AI became so powerful is also a bit ludicrous.

The bit with the kids playing a game was fun though. However, the point of this comic is to have Siri defeat the Justice League. The premise is rather weak. This is a problem when writers who barely have a grasp of technology start writing fiction based on what surrounds us. There far more interesting questions related to how this AI interacted with a child that could have been explored that were left off. The whole point is to get as may villains around so that they can fight the justice League.

It feels like Hitch is in a hurry to depict a good old brawl after having spent months on abstract villains like that fear creature and the Kindred. It’s as if there were many complaints about his previous stories and he’s trying to cram in as many villains as possible. At the very least, there is a sense of continuity here. It feels that the creatures that the Justice League fought in Rebirth, the Kindred and the fear creature are all part of a larger threat. I wonder if Hitch will be able to wrap this up after he’s done with the Siri silliness.

I don’t know Neil Edwards but he had some difficult material to work with. Most of the issue was a bunch of talking heads in the suburbs. Only towards the end when the villains showed up did he finally let lose. Hitch overburden his scripts with dialogue, something one would expect a comic book artist to be weary of. He is not.

Rating: 6.5 /10

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