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[Comic Review] “Justice League” #41 Begins The Darkseid War

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“Justice League” #41 sees the league in a state of repair after the Amazo-virus tore a hole through the pages of the book. Unfortunately, they don’t have much time to recuperate as trouble brews on Apoklips and Darkseid begins to wage his war against the league. If this first issue of the arc is any indication – there is a lot of death on the horizon for DC’s flagship team.

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WRITTEN BY: Geoff Johns

ART BY: Jason Fabok

PUBLISHER: DC Comics

PRICE: $4.99

RELEASE: June 3rd, 2015

Geoff Johns’ run on “Justice League” has seen a continuous stream of iconic stories that never cease to push the team in new directions. Now, as the roster has swollen to larger levels than ever before – it seems time to thin it out. Johns seems to bring his whole run full circle with tying everything back to Darkseid in this new chapter, but surprisingly the titular baddie is largely in the back seat this month.

Wonder Woman drives the heart of this story, and from what we learned on FCBD this year this new arc will belong to her. Johns finds an interesting way to tie this new threat to one of the core three’s mythology without it ever feeling forced. Although the new arc does admittedly stumble thanks to some awkward pacing issues.

Aside from some slow pacing at the onset, the Darkseid War does indeed heat up in the back quarter. The result is a blistering mix of action and staggering death brought to life flawlessly by Jason Fabok’s large and sweeping style. There is no shortage of scope in the first conflict of this war, and there are very clearly casualties by the final page.

However, the introduction of the primary conflict feels jarring. The transition to introduction, the main villain is confusing and poorly handled in a way that doesn’t make much sense. And some of the art feels misappropriated to feel more epic than it actually is. There are two examples of large two-page spreads that don’t feel organic and waste otherwise good space in a great looking book. Although it’s not quite the shakeup going on in the other flagship titles at DC, “Justice League” #41 does a pretty good job at setting a new status quo.

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‘The Last Stop in Yuma County’: Barbara Crampton Answers a Tense Call in Exclusive Clip

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Writer-director Francis Galluppi will soon face off Kandarian demons by helming the next Evil Dead film. This week sees the release of his star-studded feature debut, The Last Stop in Yuma County. An original Western thriller in the vein of early Coen Brothers, the film arrives this Friday, May 10 from Well Go USA in select theaters and VOD.

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In her glowing review, our head critic Meagan Navarro says The Last Stop in Yuma County is “bustling with life and boisterous personalities, reflective on screen in every facet.” She adds, “Galluppi makes it so effortlessly easy to get sucked into this slick, singular world and invest in its characters, only for the filmmaker to revel in dispatching them.”

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