Justice League Odyssey (2018-) Vol. 3: The Final Frontier

This is the third of the Justice League Odyssey continuing story and although having read all three it is the first that I have left a review for. The reason for this is that I feel the plot has blossomed into possibly the most interesting so far of the DC Universe in its current form. The interaction between the characters, led by Jessica Cruz, the Green lantern has become increasingly interesting and I hope that this level of quality is maintained in future volumes. My only complaint would be the time lapse between their publication.

“Justice League Odyssey – Final Frontier” collects issues #13-18 of this sideshow title that has increased its star-rating with each volume.This is an excellently-written and illustrated story, with a ‘new’ team of characters following the temporary death of the previous ones (though most of them are still mostly ‘dead’ here), who are so well-written that they demonstrate the old adage I frequently quote that “there are no bad characters, only bad writers” (from Steve Englehart or Gerber).The art is outstanding, despite there being six artists credited, and this is a cosmic story that looks cosmic. The plot/story is excellent, and we are hip-deep in continuity, which is carefully integrated into the writing that it all flows seamlessly together. It is also a cosmicy plot that could actually ‘fix’ everything if it were allowed to go to term; but we know that DC wouldn’t let that happen ‘off-stage’ as it were, without making a song and dance about it, so it is undoubtedly not going to be the Time-Lord who saves the multiverse in the next volume.I just remembered while typing the above that it was this writer in his recent Titans run who actually shocked me when I turned a page and found a completely unannounced reappearance of a major character, stepping out of a warp under a red sky, and thought to myself “is this the Crisis arriving?”.Unfortunately, it wasn’t, but considering that the character had been ‘removed’ in the original Crisis, it was still a shock that she took back her continuity.We live in hope; we die in vain (though after waiting 40 years for him, they did bring Bucky back, though that was the other guys).