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Justice League Generation Lost #14

By Hervé St-Louis
December 29, 2010 - 12:58

Captain Atom has been sent to the future where he witnesses a world where super humans fight super humans, where super humans fight humans and where humans fight other humans. It’s chaos and the Justice League of the future wants to stop the Omac central on the moon. Can a powerless Captain Atom help?

This series is becoming one of the best from DC Comics with real changes, real suspense every issue. Given that this series is written by Judd Winick, a writer I once wrote off and kept dismissing, I’m impressed. In this series, he pulls no punches and shows why he has what it takes to become a fan favourite. Of course, writing an apocalypse tale where he can kill off characters every second page is not an issue and he doesn’t seem constrained at all. The apocalyptic world he creates is not detailed and not much different from others like the Days of the Future past stories from the X-Men where giant robots are trying to kill humanity. It’s the same premise here, but it’s actually interesting and engaging. What does put me off is that Winick links everything to Maxwell Lord. It’s all his fault. So many of the imagined futures seen in other stories don’t  matter anymore. All the matters is what is linked to Maxwell Lord. In a sense, Marvel Comics does the same with the doom future revisited often with the Avengers and the future Hulk which has nothing to do with the X-Men’s apocalyptic future.

I liked Lopresti’s work, but Ryan is not the right inker for Captain Atom. I liked all the other characters and the grit added, but the reflections on Captain Atom looked more like crosshatching. Everything else was fine with clear action and storytelling. My criticisms about this story are quite minor and do not take away from enjoying the comic book. It’s really personal pet peeves, so I’d definitely suggest this book to any super hero story fan.

Rating: 9.5 /10

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