An alien society divided into two warring factions - can the Justice League unite them? Also, alien space parasite devouring the Justice League’s bodies while psychically giving them their hearts’ desires. This is Star Trek with superheroes aka Justice League: Galaxy of Terrors!
Justice League books are always the suck and this one is no exception. The only reason I picked it up though is because Jeff Loveness wrote the second story and I’m a big fan of that guy’s work.
The first chunky three-parter, called The Rule by Simon Spurrier, is awful, like all of Spurrier’s comics are. When the League aren’t doing repetitive action, they’re repeatedly learning they don’t know anything about the aliens’ customs and jibber-jabbering about whether or not it’s moral or something to rule them. Tedious, boring - hated it.
Loveness’ two parter, The Garden of Mercy, is miles better but isn’t among his best comics. It’s essentially a Batman story that looks at the character’s motivations, as well as underlining the importance of change and pondering weighty topics like the nature of existence, who we are vs who we want to be, where we are vs where we want to be.
It’s a little pointless because these characters are too popular to ever fundamentally change but it was nice to see Loveness addressing the subject of change and the characters acknowledging it. It felt like a breath of fresh air in a series that’s been stale for so long. And Robson Rocha’s art is excellent too.
Justice League, Volume 7: Galaxy of Terrors is only worth checking out if you’re a Jeff Loveness fan, but even then I wouldn’t expect much from this one. Still, if his story is an indication of where he might take this title, hopefully future Justice League books - featuring only his writing and not sharing the space with bog-standard writers - might actually be good!
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