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THE END LEAGUE is billed as this hybrid LORD OF THE RINGS / WATCHMEN epic. I found it pedantic and unoriginal, comprised through and through of all the usual "post-superhero" cliches: analogues for all your fave Marvel & DC characters, deconstructionism, etc etc. I don't know what Remender was trying to achieve here that you haven't already read in one of the thousands of post-superhero epics that have come before (RISING STARS is probably the closest comparison, and a good one at that since it kind of sucked too). It's not even a good character study, because I can forgive shitty plot for good characters. Nope, none of that here. Just tired old takes on the same Superman, Batman, Captain America, blah blah blah, A shame really, because the concept I remember from the original solicitations looked pretty good, a true "end of the world" LOTR-type quest. None of that in END LEAGUE. Worse is Mat Broome's inconsistent artwork. From page to page, Broome's competency changes, and the varying degrees of color shading on the art don't help either. Broome, I remember, has a reputation of forgetting to draw backgrounds in his panels, and that's certainly carried over here.

2022-10-08 05:46