Well, Justice League #75 certainly started off Joshua Williamson's Dark Crisis with a bang. I can't think of a more effective way to catch the attention of readers than killing off the DCU's biggest legends in one fell swoop. And by taking them off the board, it provides an opportunity for other characters to come to forefront. And by starting his story with such a bold move, Williamson is showing readers that he's not messing around. This is going to be a story of true import. Read Full Review

Williamson had a few jobs here. He had to get us excited for Dark Crisis. He had to get us invested in these characters and make us care when they fell. He did both perfectly, and his choice of the sole survivor is a curve ball to be sure. It's an excellent kick-off to the bold next era of DC Comics. Read Full Review

The book is a triumph and well worth your time. Read Full Review

"Death of the Justice League" may not have been able to solve all its sizing dilemmas on its own, but it makes up for any shortcomings more than enough with its larger-than-life depictions of the heroes and their brawls. Read Full Review

This is a noteworthy moment in the DC Universe as we march towards the Dark Crisis. The issue showcases why they are the World's Greatest Heroes, but Williamson comes up with a significant threat to take them down. Now wrap that up in Sandoval's art, and you will be entertained! Read Full Review

This volume of Justice League will surely go down as a mixed bag in future evaluations, though with issue #75 it ends on a strong note. Williamson kicks a story he began in Justice League Incarnate into gear as he delivers the Death of the Justice League in this monumental comic. It is worth noting that Justice League Incarnate will certainly be required reading to understand the happenings of Justice League #75 and the upcoming Dark Crisis series. This chapter in that wider tale suggests that catching up will be well worth it in the end. Read Full Review

Rafa Sandoval delivers some great art in the issue. There is some beautifully detailed action throughout and enough emotional moments to capture the depth and humanity of the characters. Read Full Review

Death of the Justice League succeeds on the strength of fast-paced storytelling and knockout visuals. Read Full Review

Justice League #75 is a good prelude to Dark Crisis. It does exactly what it advertises and does it in an entertaining fashion. Williamson supplies an action-packed script, and the art team knocks it out of the park. Its not a perfect comic, but its entertaining, which is really all that matters in the end. Read Full Review

To paraphrase Wolverine "just because I've died before, doesn't mean death doesn't hurt; and with that being the standard, Joshua Williamson brings the type of pain that puts smile's on faces, like a trip to Suplex City only can. Read Full Review

Entertaining? Yep. Good art? Yep. Interesting new direction? Yep. Good intro to a huge crossover? Yep. And yet, it never quite had that epic feel you wanted. Read Full Review

With great art throughout, this issue will for the most part, in the context of the story deliver what it promised...... even more for a certain character and it acts as a great prologue to what's to come, even if it is bogged down a bit with the recap. I look forward to Dark Crisis and with our main players incapacitated, for the time being, I can't wait to see how the rest of the DC Universe answers the threat when they're called upon.  Read Full Review

Pompous characterization mixed with narrative hand-holding led this reviewer to feel like the story was forced and convoluted simply to get us to DARK CRISIS. Read Full Review

Joshua Williamson and Rafa Sandoval lived up to what was promised by Justice League #75 for months. Though certain aspects about "The Death Of The Justice League were rushed the mission was accomplished in building interest for the upcoming Dark Crisis event. I am invested in where Williamson is planning to take the DC Universe next with all the major heroes taken out of the equation. If you are intrigued by the upcoming Dark Crisis event this is a comic book you'll want to pick up and read. Read Full Review

Still, the creative team does their best with a limited concept. Maybe Dark Crisis will be a surprising event, but Death of the Justice League doesnt get things off to a start suggesting this will be a memorable storyline. Read Full Review

The solicitations have been pushing this one hard, but even knowing how it ends, Williamson and company build the tension of the story well. If only this wasn't the last issue AND the opening salvo of another massive crossover. Read Full Review

Click on the image above to view the full-size page in another tab.Justice League #75 may be the most anticlimactic first issue of any new creative team in recent memory. This is largely because this issue has nothing to say beyond "Read this book that is coming out later. The sad thing is that despite its many flaws, I still found this more enjoyable than any issue of Brian Michael Bendis' Justice League. Read Full Review

The issue offers exactly what the cover promises in the death of major DC heroes (although I'm not sure how this will impact those with their own monthly titles). We also get cameos from heroes from other worlds, including Captain Carrot, as well an army of villains under the control of the Great Darkness. Read Full Review

The members of the Justice League do indeed all die in this issue. But it's uncreative, uninteresting and without any real hook to sell this story as something more than just a marketing stunt. Read Full Review

I definitely would not recommend spending $5.99 for such a shallow story that lacks any creativity or passion. Keep your money in your wallet for something far more worth it. I mean, for just $4.00 more you can get an entire month of HBOMax! That is a way better bang for your entertainment dollar! Read Full Review

It is a creatively bankrupt piece of garbage, and the only thing of any relative value inside it is a level of competent art that may entertain a casual reader, or perhaps even a goldfish. Read Full Review

Solid art and nice action.

I loked this issie even kf it was spoiled by the cover. Very hyped to read this event. Judgement day and dark crisis are gonna be interesting

This issue was as advertised. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you weren't reading Williamson's previous lead-in titles to this, Justice League #75 summarizes all of that, shoehorns the Justice League into the plot (because they weren't involved much in Infinite Frontier and Justice League Incarnate)... and then "kills" them.

Again, it didn't knock my socks off, but I will take Williamson over Taylor or Snyder anytime. I feel like he has a better grasp of DC overall right now, he's consistent and he's not overly preachy.

It was more so a whatever issue. It was such a shame that they had all these villains controlled by the darkness just to have the pariah wipe out the remainder. Not to mention, they should of have Black Canary survive along with Black Adam. It would’ve made for a better story especially considering Adam wasn’t really ever apart of the League until recent years.

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hesfkshgf - Apr 28, 2022

She did survive - she didn't get zapped away

Red Hood - Apr 29, 2022

I thought so too but her body was taken away by the light

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Interesting

It was cool, the dark army looks sick

Super solid and super fun, great art, not giving a higher grade because its not special, only a great prelude to Dark Crisis

This was absolutely ridiculous and could have been executed much better, but it was enjoyable nonetheless and did leave me wanting more

Wow they really did it!

It's not terrible, but nothing special

This was a pretty good issue. I think a lot of the issue suffers from playing catch up. For those of us that had read Infinite Frontier and Justice League Incarnate, there's not much going on here that we didn't already know about. This issue promises the Death of the Justice League and... it delivers, and that's pretty much it. I wish there was more meat to this issue, as it's basically a glorified recap with deaths at the end of it that we knew were coming because it's in the solicitation and it's plastered on the cover. The only thing that keeps me from giving this a lower score is that I thought the art was nice and I am somewhat interested in where things go from here. Also, I'm slightly concerned this spoils how Action Comics wraps up its Warworld saga, but that's besides the point. Still better than anything Bendis could have done with a final issue. more

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maljoss - Apr 27, 2022

Never fear. DC has already said this event happens 'at some future time". Kennedy's wa world storyline is safe.

Amazing Psycamorean - Apr 27, 2022

Well, what I meant was, the issue plucks each hero from across the universe. And it must be current, because John Stewart is the Emerald Knight. So when we see Superman plucked from Warworld's orbit, with his powers seemingly fully restored, it makes me wonder if that's given away how the Warworld saga goes.

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Kind of shocked to see such high praise for this issue. I'm still excited for Dark Crisis, but this issue was pretty disappointing. It was all so fast and seemingly out of nowhere.

Williamson has a good grasp of DC characters but his stories are some of the most boring shit imaginable.

Remember Greta Van Fleet? Talented kids, for sure, but it's not the band itself I'd like to compare this comic to, but rather remind us all of one quote regarding their debut album, which was labeled "boomer fetishism". Whether it was an accurate criticism, or just a journalist hackery, I'll leave for personal interpretation, but either way it got stuck in my mind, and came back when I was reading this book. You know why? Because I felt like it actually commits similar "crime", but instead of fetishizing boomerisms, it fetishizes Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Now, there's nothing wrong with referencing classic comics nor trying to take what's there and tell your own continuation. But if you decide to do so, you should focus on YOUR story first and foremost, and there's very little of it to be found here. Granted, it's just the prologue to a bigger event, so I can't be too critical of it, but when I think about it, there's nothing outside the Dark Army itself that seems like something new. And even then, it's not something that would feel... inspiring and complelling, you know? Oldest trick in the book - when enemies get strong enough you can't think of anyone stronger, just make them unite and strike the heroes together. Dark Nights Metal worked, because it gave us good antagonists, even though most of them ended up being wasted. Crisis on Infinite Earths got a big memorable baddie too. Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night? You bet there was something more than just armies of endless cannon fodder.

But that's not really the worst part. What hurts me the most here is that I felt little to nothing while reading this book. Characters die, and that's it. It's not as terrible executed as, let's say, Superman's laughable death in Batman v Superman dumpsterfi... movie, I mean, but still, I cynically smirk thinking that they're going to come back to us very soon. It's comics, after all. We've seen Death of Superman, so no publicity stunt like this will work again, I guess. And even if they're dead for good in the main continuity, there's countless elseworlds that sales-wise perform better than main-line DC series.

Finally, considering the scale and "stakes" of this event, I dare to say its art left me pretty disappointed. Sandoval is a good artist, but he clearly needed more time to properly detail all the panels here, because overall, they look pretty rushed. Surely, glory days of DC's big events with Perez or Reis really doing some insanely intricate work are over.

Overall a meh/10. Nothing that would blow my mind either story or art-wise. It works as a semi decent prologue and its value will be measured once the story unravels properly. For now, there's not much of it other than obsessive fascination with Crisis on Infinite Earths. more

"Saving the damn day!"

Is "killing" your best superheroes the thing you do when you're out of ideas and you want to get the "new and improved" heroes over with the readers?

Josh Williamson for the most part is a solid writer but I'm sorry to say he can't get a win with a premise like that.
Even Rafa Sandoval's art, which usually is nice to look at, seems rushed and just a bit off.

Well then, with the actual heroes out of the picture DC Universe is screwed now.

Great work.

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maljoss - Apr 26, 2022

Yes, killing heroes is what you do when you're out of ideas. So is cranking out another "Crisis",

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This book is well a comic book , I read a preview three weeks a go and remember nothing about it , not so bad that it deserves hate, not good enough that you can rave about it. Just kind of there in it’s own mediocre glory

can't they all just be friends

it's unbelievable how unimaginative and boring this is. sad

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daspidaboy - May 5, 2022

how is this issue unimaginative and boring?

Mout - May 5, 2022

how many times have we seen this before?

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To the surprise of many, a mediocre writer put out a mediocre issue.

Let's be honest with ourselves, I'm certain we all know that the Justice League is not dead and they will come back in some form or fashion. However, this bait concept could have been a great outlet for some meaningful and emotionally impacting moments as the Justice League fights for their lives on a world beyond the void.

Everything in this book is dull, the writing is static and the play by play is just boring. I did not feel anything seeing my heroes getting trashed. The dialogue is just horrid. I'm sure the idea of Pariah using the Anti-Matter chamber to bring back Multiverse-2 could lead to a lot o interesting things, but the execution sucks.

Rafa Sandoval's art has always been great, but the writing only seems to drag it down. They make an excuse for the Army of Darkness being evenly matched with the JLA by claiming they are shadows and the Darkness can't use their full power since Pariah is the conduit controlling them: which doesn't make sense since the Darkness one shotted the Quintessence, the Empty Hand was at full power during JLI, and Pariah wasn't even controlling him during the events of those miniseries. The Empty Hand brawling against a character like Hawkgirl is so lame. All of this plot is the equivalent of a wet fart. more

It does what it promises - taking the JL off the table - and that's it. There's no emotional impact so far.

Also, as a Wonder Woman here is my obligatory "Why the heck didn't Diana use the lasso?" comment. Srsly, dear creative team, don't just make her pose with a sword when the situation clearly requires the Leaguers to convince the villain and make the villain see the truth.

This is very meh.

Well... that was a snore.
The most dramatic part of this comic was the cover.

The art was fine, maybe a bit sketchy in places, but overall, pretty solid.

The story was a color by numbers set up for the next Final-Dark-Infinite-Metal-Crisis event.
Nothing much to see here that we haven't seen before. No thrills. No surprises. No heart. No twinge of the heartstrings as our greatest heroes are dispatched with barely an inconvenience.

I do have a couple questions, though:

1) How do any of these characters remember Pariah, or the original Crisis? The only characters who should still have that knowledge are Alexander Luthor, the Original Superman, and Superboy Prime.

2) If Pariah can disintegrate Superman, and Wonder Woman with a wave of his hand, why bother with the whole "Dark Army" shtick?

3) Pariah is the bad guy? Really? The dude who spent 12 issues of the first Crisis whimpering in the background. He's the dude with the Master Plan? Why do I feel like this will be resolved with a Hostess Cupcake?

A few final thoughts:
This comic contains the worst characterization of John Stewart I've seen in a while. "I'm bringing the God Storm", "They can't handle my light", %$#@ all the way off. While I appreciate the Emerald Knight making an appearance, the writer could have made more of an effort.

The absolute certainty that these characters will be back inside 5 months takes a lot of the wind out of this comic's sails (sales?).

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This book had no redeeming qualities. It could have been a panel long. It didn't even need that. It could have been the press release from January. Nothing happened, including even a single interesting character moment, that wasn't in that headline.

Williamson is not a bad writer, per se. He's just a very pedestrian, very unremarkable one. That he's now DC's "superstar" writer (their words) is absolutely baffling. He had the chance to kill the JL and this is what he came up with? Wow.

I've probably given out five 1-star reviews in my years here. This one deserves it more than any of the others. How disappointing.