Brian Michael Bendis has created an interesting and focused adventure for DC's premier team book. The Justice League is in a new Universe and facing a new threat. And their powers are all out of whack. Read Full Review

It's fresh. It's fun. It's worth your time. Read Full Review

Both stories have beautiful art that showcases the characters with wonderful detail and great action. Read Full Review

Overall, it's quintessentially Bendis on a team book"you like all the characters, but you're not sure if they gel as a team. Read Full Review

Justice League #61 has two brilliant stories contained within it. Both are very different in their tone, pacing, and art style, but the strengths of the respective creators are clear. The Justice League half is energetic and action-packed with comedic elements to the dialogue. The Justice League Dark tale still has abstract quantities and mystical battles but is slower. But to truly shine, the two stories should be placed in different books instead of fighting for space within the same one. Read Full Review

Black Adam shows up and off screen he is also dispatched by Brutus. Hmmm .. Superman AND Black Adam knocked out! Can these others take down Brutus? Read Full Review

Overall, the main story is okay, but not spectacular. I'd give Justice League #61 a score of 3 out of 5 if it weren't for the Ram V's impeccable backup story. I'd give his story a 5/5. Hopefully, Bendis will get his story back on track next issue, but who knows when it come to a Bendis story? Anyway, I have no doubt that Ram V and Xermanico's Justice League Dark story on its own is worth the price of the book. So, if Bendis' main story is good too, then that's just gravy. Read Full Review

In the Justice League Dark short at the end of the book, our magical heroes fight literature (literally) in a possessed library.  Read Full Review

Justice League #61 continues the strong themes and plot begun last issue, but stumbles a bit with nondescript villains whose motives aren't spelled out clearly. But the JLD backup story is a thing of absolute beauty - this comic's purchase could easily be justified by these ten pages alone! Read Full Review

I haven't been giving Justice League outrageously high scores, nor have I given it low ones - overall, I've been pretty favourable towards them, even if I haven't been particularly blown away by what I've read. There's a value to that consistency, though " and sometimes, a book that has good issues from start-to-finish can be a lot better to a read than a book that fluxuates in quality with every chapter. I'm holding out hope for this to be a fun run, at the very least - and the creators haven't given me reason to doubt me yet. Read Full Review

Bendis' scripts are making Justice League basically unreadable, but it's still work seeing Marquez's art and the Justice League Dark story more than holds up its end on the entertainment front even if the chasm in writing quality widens. Read Full Review

While I'm continuing to enjoy where we're going in the JLD backup, the main Justice League story never really felt like it started as we were transported to a strange and different world where some people felt weird, while others felt fine........ and that's all we did over and over again. The art was great all around but I seriously need more out of Naomi's homeworld and our Justice League characters than what we got here. Read Full Review

The 'super-powered event' element that has caused the surge in the abilities of meta beings is interesting and adds to the lore of Naomi's origins. I was a bit disappointed that we get to see Black Adam in a bit of a badass scene, but the fight is taken off-panel and we don't get to see how he was dispatched. He seemed to be in full control of his heightened abilities, and it seems a missed opportunity to showcase how his style would have differed from Superman's. The backup of this issue is still interesting, but didn't really advance the story all that much. I was hoping to see Rory use his souls during the confrontation, seeing as how the title was 'Enter the Ragman', but he offered little to the arc here. Read Full Review

Overall, this is not a great showing by one of DC's tentpole books. Read Full Review

I was a huge fan of Bendis back at Marvel but it really feels like he's totally lost his touch since coming to DC and the overuse of banter takes away from when it could be good. The Justice League Dark backup has been more interesting and telling more of a story in half the pages.

Justice league by Bendis - 4.5/10

I really don't know why DC allowed Bendis to write these big titles, especially after his horrendous Marvel events.


Justice league dark by Ram V - 9.5/10

Such a great story, exactly what i'd expect from Ram V tbh.

While many argue that this run feels like filler, I find it enjoyable regardless. It's written in a rather light, easily digestible way even if it's has some weird moments and ends a bit to soon. Art is amazing too and definetly the issue's VIP.

The JusticeLeagueDark backup is A-OK. I find them to be too short to really get any momentum going but this one finally moves the plot-forward and (re-)introduces a character I'm particularly interested in seeing how their journey plays out.

One of the best stories DC is publishing...the Justice League Dark backups, that is. The headline story is a little better this month than it has been, but the only reason to plop down $5 a month for this series remains the Merlin story by Ram V and Xermanico. The library scene this issue contains an amazing concept both in story and its artistic presentation.

Thankfully not as bad as Bendis run on Superman, but its saved by good art. Dialogue feels like Avengers though.

The art is beautiful and so are the colors. But the dialogue needs improvement.

Uh... Bendis really needs to have some coherence in the power levels. I loved his last issue, but this was... meh.
Seriously, they really need to split this comic, i cant enjoy JLD because Bendis's JL just ruin everything

Why do they all talk like this. I hate it. I hate this.

I am really not enjoying the main story. The backup was boring this time around. Ducktales.

JLD is great, a solid 9/10, but Bendis' league is just boring, not as radioactive as what he was doing with Superman, but it needs to improve a lot to be ok, only David Marquez great art is worth something

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Bats20832 - May 19, 2021

But JLD is not the name of the issue. It is like buying old time Batman comics for the second story Martian Manhunter. JLD should have its own comic.

Stormwrath - May 19, 2021

That's why I gave a 3.5

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It is like JL stops in the middle of the story. And I also thought th...

That's how it reads.

JL ends up in Naomi's alternate world, and largely lays on the ground. A lot of panels of conversation, Black Canary screams, Green Arrow has bow taken away (electrocuting the thief), Superman is in atmosphere with powers not working then getting beaten up, Black Adam says "I'm here," Batman throws a flare... and IT'S OVER...

Is that worth $5?

I stopped my subscription. I will look for it on DC Universe next year or so. Maybe.

As I predicted, after one decent issue Bendis returned to his cringey dialogue and awful storytelling.

Talking heads and not much else. Basic Bendis trying too hard to be cool dialogue