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A review by crookedtreehouse
Forever Evil by Geoff Johns
2.0
A lot of DC fans love this book, and I understand why. Geoff Johns retells every crossover and every crisis event that DC has put out in the last thirty years. There isn't a fresh idea within ten miles of it but it feels like the events that people already love, so why not love it?
Remember when Earth 2's Anti-Justice League came and attacked "this world's" Justice League and Lex Luthor turned out to be the bad guy who turned to good to save the world? Well this time it's Earth 3's Anti-Justice League who came and attacked "thie world's" Justice League, and this time Lex Luthor turns out to be the bad guy who turns good to save the world. A totally original and daring idea.
I just couldn't get into it. Every time it seemed like the story was going to have an interesting tangent: the involvement of the Teen Titans, the death of Dick Grayson, the story either abandoned the premise completely or else swerved to the familiar "it was a fake sacrifice because we couldn't possibly kill this character even though killing the character was supposed to be the only solution".
Also in this volume, Lex creates Bizarro, a totally new character that hasn't been a staple of the DC Universe for decades.
I imagine this is comfort food for DC addicts during the age of the New 52 when there were all sorts of new ideas, like Jeff Lemire rewriting Grant Morrison's "Animal Man" or Scott Snyder rewriting Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing". For me, I found this a boring rehash of better stories. I read it specifically because it was the source of the switch from Nightwing to Grayson, and while that was an important plot point, it took up maybe five pages of this whole collection.
Remember when Earth 2's Anti-Justice League came and attacked "this world's" Justice League and Lex Luthor turned out to be the bad guy who turned to good to save the world? Well this time it's Earth 3's Anti-Justice League who came and attacked "thie world's" Justice League, and this time Lex Luthor turns out to be the bad guy who turns good to save the world. A totally original and daring idea.
I just couldn't get into it. Every time it seemed like the story was going to have an interesting tangent: the involvement of the Teen Titans, the death of Dick Grayson, the story either abandoned the premise completely or else swerved to the familiar "it was a fake sacrifice because we couldn't possibly kill this character even though killing the character was supposed to be the only solution".
Also in this volume, Lex creates Bizarro, a totally new character that hasn't been a staple of the DC Universe for decades.
I imagine this is comfort food for DC addicts during the age of the New 52 when there were all sorts of new ideas, like Jeff Lemire rewriting Grant Morrison's "Animal Man" or Scott Snyder rewriting Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing". For me, I found this a boring rehash of better stories. I read it specifically because it was the source of the switch from Nightwing to Grayson, and while that was an important plot point, it took up maybe five pages of this whole collection.