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Originally Posted by KRX

Oh, really? I thought it looked cool.

Oh, well—it's difficult for me to be displeased.

I really want to pick it up.

World's End isn't objectively terrible or anything, but DC needs to let that brand move on from just being about heroes fighting Apokolips. We just finished that storyline in the main book with Steppenwolf and Bizarro being defeated, finally freeing Earth 2 from Darkseid's followers. It was a good story that had a solid, if somewhat rushed conclusion. And then it was immediately followed by another invasion from Apokolips. And it's not even using any established Apokolips characters. Desaad is there, yes, but no one else from Darkseid's inner circle is around. For fuck's sake, the Female Furies are playing a huge role in this story but there's no Granny Goodness, no Lashina, no Mad Harriet, none of the established Furies are present besides Barda. It's incredibly frustrating that the book can't seem to let go of telling Apokolips invasion stories, but can't bother to actually use Apokolips properly at the same time.

I will admit that it's nice to see more Earth 2 characters showing up (Brainwave Jr., Obsidian, Jonni Thunder, and finally Ted Grant), but it's not enough. Earth 2 was supposed to be about setting up a new world with new versions of the JSA characters, not month after month of New Gods stuff. I loved this book when it came out and I am deeply frustrated by what DC is squandering all of its potential on.

And don't even get me started on how useless the actual Earth 2 book is right now. It's not allowed to do anything important so it's just wasting paper on random villain backgrounds and spin-off adventures for side characters who shouldn't even be in this universe.