Go ahead...I'll wait.
You're back already? Excellent!
Now that you have them, read them. That's right, go ahead. Nothing I have to say could top this type of storytelling.
Are you finished? Awesome, right?
Now I have a question: Does Geoff Johns EVER run out of good ideas?
Frankly, his writing, and the superb artistry of Francis Manapul, have given me hope that we are heading back to the old days of comic book writing. You remember those days, right? When the story telling was so powerful that the anticipation of upcoming issues was enough to give you a brain aneurysm?
For those who haven't read it, it can be summed up in a couple of DC Universe shattering sentences:
Darkseid dukes it out with the Anti-Monitor. Darkseid loses. Heroes become Gods. Flash becomes death. We find out Wonder Woman is a man. (OK, so I lied on the last one, but how do you follow up a sentence like "Flash becomes death?").
For those of you without a scorecard here is the current state of things:
The Flash is now the "God of Death" (with an insanely cool costume)
Batman is now the "God of Knowledge" (he's also the new owner of the Mobius Chair much to Metron's dismay)
Superman is the "God of Strength"
Shazam is now the "God of Gods"
Green Lantern is now the "God of Light"
and Lex Luthor is the "God of Apokolips"
Wonder Woman remains a woman
Mr. Miracle is on more covers than when he had his own series
and Big Barda reminds us how she is a one woman wrecking squad.
And it all started with an Amazon no one seems to have heard of having Darkseid's child.
If all of this doesn't intrigue you, you should really be on an anti-depressant.
In the most recent issue Geoff and Francis leave us with Darkseid's child, Grail, who has taken possession of the Anti-Life equation and becomes, "Grail, Goddess of Anti-Life".
This is what comic books are all about...legendary storytelling that MAKES you want to talk about it.
I'm not talking about the Joker escaping Arkham for the 750th time or Thanos gaining complete control over every molecule in the universe at least once a quarter, I'm talking real storytelling.
This is the two most powerful villains in the DC Universe duking it out with one of them getting killed (even if the death may only be temporary)!
This is the Flash combining with the Black Racer to become Death!
This is Lex Luthor pretending to be Superman and becoming the God of Apokolips!
This is Batman in the Mobius Chair telling his unflinching version of the truth and almost coming to blows with Green Lantern who is the new God of Light!
This series also has spin-offs, as one would suspect, and each character is going to have a mini-series about what happens with them. My guess would be that the unmatchable storytelling will continue throughout all of them.
It's fascinating, man/woman has been telling stories since time began and it hasn't changed much. Stories on cave walls depict the great hunts and drawings on scrolls depict the efforts of people trying to capture what the gods look like. And here we are in 2015, still telling stories of hunts, kills, and trying to capture the look of the gods. The only difference is that no one thought of spin-off caves or variant cover papyrus.
This series is well worth picking up and I highly recommend its purchase. The reason, however, is not that it will skyrocket in worth or that it's a #1 or that it has great variant covers. It's because this is storytelling at its finest. You not only WANT to read the story, you CAN'T WAIT for the next issues to come out!
Now go to your local comic books shop, put these on your pull list, and tell them The Comic Whisperer sent you!
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