If you're looking for epic comics, there is nothing bigger on the shelf this week than Justice League Incarnate #4. This book serves as a nice recap of the multiverse in DC Comics with some wickedly cool art from cover to cover. Justice League Incarnate is breathtakingly epic and all about the spectacle. Read Full Review

It sets the stage for a memorable final issue that hardly seems predictable. Read Full Review

All the artists deliver some great visuals throughout the issue, and I like how the different styles complement each other as the story progresses. Im usually not a huge fan of multiple artists on one story, but this works because the styles dont clash with each other and take me away from the story. Read Full Review

While Justice League Incarnate #4 recaps a whole lot of DC Comics at the start, once we get to the actual story, you know what hits the fan!  Seriously, this issue has at least two moments bigger than anything in over a year!  Maybe Joshua Williamson finally realized that he might have to shock everyone to take notice, and hopefully, they do.  I am looking forward to seeing how he tops this in the next issue. Read Full Review

Run, don't walk! Justice League Incarnate is the comic you shouldn't be sleeping on, and issue four is no exception! Read Full Review

One of the chaotic books to come out of DC in a long time, this comic has delivered whiplash with every issue. Coming off a multiverse-hopping issue, though, this one is surprisingly laid back"even as it delivers some massive exposition about the future of the DCU. Read Full Review

Reading Justice League Incarnate #4 felt a lot like reading old comics from the '70s and '80s. Just incredibly fantastical images coupled with a thick, magical language. It's the type of storytelling that set comics apart back in the day from other mediums, and it was cool to see Williamson and the artists try to tap into that for this issue. Read Full Review

Justice League Incarnate #4 revisits the past and present of the DC Universe to set up its finale, which very well could affect the future of DC's heroes. With one issue left in the series, I look forward to how the second part of Williamson's "Infinite" saga wraps up. Read Full Review

Final Verdict: I could have been better, but it's by no means the worst. Read Full Review

After a strong start, ‘Justice League Incarnate' #4 marks a decline in this five-issue series. It's another DC comic book series that relies too much on Darkseid who I feel is becoming too overused across the DCU whenever a crisis of this magnitude occurs. Read Full Review

Remixes many of the previous Crises into one ongoing storyline, but doesn't quite pull it off, and while I'm not that upset about the loss of a team member, I'm worried how this is all going to pan out. Read Full Review

It's fine if you don't mind the massive exposition dump. Read Full Review

Great issue. First couple issues, I enjoyed the ride even though I thought the plot didn’t make a whole lot of sense. This issue manages to tie it all together.

I liked this. While the narration was at times a bit stiff, it all made sense. We all know Thomas Wayne isn't really dead since we'll have Geoff Johns' and Jeremy Adams' Flashpoint Beyond book (which I'm pretty excited about) so there's that. Unfortunately I don't care all that much about the JL Incarnate characters, they're pretty bland, except for Thomas. But the story is a decent one.

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DiegoLDUganda - Feb 2, 2022

Glad to see how you eliminate Tim Sheridan of Flashpoint lmao.

Merlyn - Feb 2, 2022

He's on that, too? Ugh. I just can't stand the guy's writing.

Weird Science Jim - Feb 2, 2022

Flashpoint book is more of a prequel

Merlyn - Feb 2, 2022

You mean it's a prequel to the big stuff Williamson is planning? That may be so but I'm still pretty excited about it. I like Thomas Wayne, I like Johns as a writer, he created the character, I also like Adams on The Flash. I really hope it will be good.

Weird Science Jim - Feb 5, 2022

I think it may be a prequel to show how the Flashpoint timeline survived before the Button story in Rebirth - might explain the Tom King stuff better than he explained it which was pretty much not really explaining it at all

Weird Science Jim - Feb 5, 2022

It seems to be telling the story of Flashpoint timeline continuing after Barry seemed to erase it at the end of Flashpoint

Merlyn - Feb 5, 2022

Yeah, I've seen the solicits. I hope Johns will do Thomas justice since he created the character. The sooner we put all that villain stuff from King behind the character, the better.

Weird Science Jim - Feb 5, 2022

I think it might just set that up so it makes sense retroactively

Merlyn - Feb 5, 2022

Or he could pull a "it was actually Parallax all along and not Hal's fault" but for Thomas. As in, he was brainwashed/controlled by some evil entity. Though I'm not sure I would like to see that, if I'm honest. What's done is done, Thomas needs to redeem himself/move on but not giving up on what's making him different from Bruce.

Bats20832 - Feb 7, 2022

I agree Merelyn, and the Tom King writing was such a disaster, which of course, DC Comics published. But at the end of the day, Alfred Pennyworth is the elephant in the room. Everything else can be resolved.. but. And not the first time he died (Detective #328-1964). Until Alfred is resolved, Flashpoint Thomas Wayne will remain a tragic figure, which I am sure many find to be an awful situation. We have multiple realities, surely Alfred could be restored. Maybe not.

Bats20832 - Feb 7, 2022

I wish there was an "edit" button on these comments. Sorry Merlyn for typo on your name.

Merlyn - Feb 7, 2022

No problem. I think Alfred will surely come back after Williamson does his big event,

Bats20832 - Feb 9, 2022

I hope you are right, but honestly skeptical. I think DC views Alfred a 20th century character that does not fit into its New World Order. I am still bitter with Superman Clark Kent after Injustice Issue #23. I don't care if it is an "Elseworld" or whatever. I have always been skeptical about the Superman Übermensch transcending good or evil. Without values, our human identities are reduced to animals. Sorry for rambling.

Merlyn - Feb 9, 2022

DC does view Alfred a 20th century character that does not fit into its New World Order. You can tell that by how almost all writers sneer at the idea that Bruce has a butler, it's that marxist rhetoric in full swing, "oh you're so rich you have someone keeping your house". This reminds me of the stupid shit Peter Dinklage pulled with the dwarfs from the future Disney movie (not that I give one damn about it, Disney is slowly ruining all its movies with their progressive agenda).

Merlyn - Feb 9, 2022

In his effort to be more progressive he could take those jobs from people LIKE HIM but much, much poorer who could only dream otherwise at a job like that. That's the problem when you're guided by ideology and not reason, you end up hurting the people you're supposedly trying to help. Not that these people truly want to help other people, it's all about virtue signaling for them. The same could be said of the writers who think that it's a sin to have a butler.

Merlyn - Feb 9, 2022

Well, tell that to the people who are doing these jobs and are payed handsomely for them. There, now we both rambled. :)

Merlyn - Feb 9, 2022

As per the Injustice Superman, people hate me here for criticizing Tom Taylor but I really loved Injustice, not gonna lie. I can't remember what he did in that particular issue and you are right, without values we are turning into animals. It's just that I could get that A Superman out of, say a multiverse of them, could snap when he's killed the pregnant love of his life and could after that try to prevent that from happening to someone else.

Merlyn - Feb 9, 2022

And, as we know all too well sadly, a lot of men who were initially "saviors" or "heroes" to their people turned into dictators and genocidal maniacs believing they are doing what they're doing for the greater good, for a better tomorrow.

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This was pretty good, but... it's slowly morphing into the mush that DC cosmic events have been lately. Please don't be Metal 3.

Really enjoyed the first half even if the retcon was a bit unnecessary

However, the second half just got too boring and silly for me

The beginning of this issue was kinda boring, just remembering all Crisis until now, but after that I liked very much. I love JL Incarnate, and if the team's limited series is not epic and great in it's totality, at least is very fun to read.

É legal ver os conceitos na pagina, não sei se estão sendo bem usados.

I facepalmed through this entire issue.

They recycled the stupid perpetua whisper from Death metal and now apparently The Great Darkness is the Machiavellian Man Behind The Curtain puppeteering every single cosmic villain in the DCU since Crisis. At this point I'm surprised they didn't include Convergence Brainiac or Telos in the lineup!

The utter ignorance on all of the subtext from Multiversity breaks my heart. The Oblivion Machine, the Empty Hand, and even Final Crisis are all stripped of narrative power to prop up Alan Moore's giant fuck you to apocalypse stories. And they made Doctor Manhattan a pawn of The Great Darkness. I'm fucking done.

Chris Burnham's art is magnificent and I will buy anything with his name on it. I think I'm due for a Nameless reread. more

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Bats20832 - Feb 5, 2022

I agree. I am also done. It's not creative, it's just lame, and a safe "all evil" solution... to replace the old boring "all evil" Darkseid. As you say, there are a lot of other great comics out there. No need to keep throwing $ away. In terms of anything "cosmic," unless it is The Spectre kicking all of them, hey, I am glad a lot of others are enjoying it.

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$20 too much to get this far - I am done. Unpopular opinion: Darkseid is one-dimensional, lame, and boring character: "all evil," (which is never described) meaning DC writers never have to actually take a stand on ANYTHING, let alone something "heroic" on Earth. "Darkseid is:"... "Safe (dull) Sci-Fi solution to write about 'heroism.'" The point of this series for was to read about the actual Justice League Incarnate from multiple dimensions. But now.. $20 later... on this very short series... all we have is Darkseid as a "hero" (gag), who is now mercifully squashed (by a worse, more nonsensical alien "villain".)

I mean, i honestly don't care about the latest "all evil" alien god-thing. It is just lame, one-dimensional, non-creative, and boring... Just like Marvel's Thanos. And if ALL of the Marvel universe was once again based on such nonsense I wouldn't care about those stories either. At least Galactus (thankfully who appeared RARELY and was not "used to death") actually had somewhat of a story.

Should I keep throwing money at this? I'm not. So Dennis Culver and Joshua Williamson have convinced me, honestly, this issue #4 is enough already. The idea in Infinite Frontier... and the one redeeming value of the endless Dark Metal fandango - was the idea that all realities would exist. From a story-telling perspective, that seemed to offer possibilities for variety and interesting stories. That was interesting. The idea of bringing Batman Thomas Wayne back was interesting. The idea seemed like it might offer interesting stories with Justice League Incarnate.

But after Justice League Incarnate Issue #1, what we do have? The endless focus on pathetic (wishful evil god) Darkseid.

So I said previously wrote that when they killed Thomas Wayne I would be done with this story. I know there is something in April. Honestly? We'll see.

Clearly there are a lot of people who like this. I don't know. There is a point when you are throwing too much good money after bad, and I was there two issues ago. So best of luck Dennis Culver and Joshua Williamson.

The constant "events" and lack of characters with any values or purpose may be working for DC Comics management and editors, but seems like it has just been turning a lot of readers away for too long. Maybe it is just me. After Infinite Frontier, I was hopeful that Justice League Incarnate could be an issue that would reignite some consistent support for new DC Comics. Guess not. more

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Weird Science Jim - Feb 5, 2022

Seeing all the crisis shows that all the realities exist though - that may not be enough at the moment, but a timeline that includes crisis on infinite earth with the current post new 52/rebirth/infinite frontier timeline means all realities do exist now

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