DC Comics & War For Earth 3 #2 Spoilers & Review: A New Justice League Emerges For Dark Crisis?!

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DC Comics and War For Earth 3 #2 Spoilers and Review follows.

A New Justice League Emerges…

…For Dark Crisis?!

Here’s how the five part War for Earth 3 has shaken out so far and will shake out.

  • War for Earth 3 #1 spoilers War for Earth 3 Part 1 here.
  • Suicide Squad #13 spoilers with War for Earth 3 Part 2 here.
  • The Flash #780 spoilers with War for Earth 3 Part 3 here.
  • Teen Titans Academy #13 spoilers with War for Earth 3 Part 4 here.
  • War for Earth 3 #2 spoilers for War for War For Earth 3 Part 5 here.

The promise of this event finale issue in War for Earth Earth 3 #2 can be discerned from its solicitation.

WAR FOR EARTH-3 #2
Written by ROBBIE THOMPSON and DENNIS HOPELESS
Art by DEXTER SOY
Cover by RAFA SANDOVAL
Variant cover by GLEB MELNIKOV
$5.99 US | 48 pages | 2 of 2
Variant $6.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 3/29/22

The War for Earth-3 comes to a close as the Crime Syndicate, Teen Titans, the Flash, and Suicide Squad all battle in one final conflict that decides who lives, who dies, who makes it back home, and who’s left stranded on Earth-3. With the Justice Squad’s plan to take over the alternate Earth and claim it as their own, the heroes of the Teen Titans and conscripted members of Rick Flag’s Suicide Squad must finally work together…but have they waited too long to stop Amanda Waller?

The Teen Titans Academy stowaways have confronted Amanda Waller and she not intimidated; she’s also targeted by the Suicide Squad’s Bloodsport, but she uses his teleported family as a shield as she wants to talk to him.

Looks like Waller’s brain bombs, to keep the Squad in check, work again and she works to prove that to Bloodsport by popping the one in Talon’s head; elsewhere Amanda Waller collects Match and Nocturna from hell?!

Rick Flash insurgent Suicide Squad, who are opposed to Amanda Waller’s Earth 3 designs, reveal to Ultraman that he’s been duped by her and he is enraged.

Waller decides to diffuse a confrontation with the Wally West Flash and the Titans by showing she has the Teen Titans Academy students captive.

An enraged Ultraman attacks leaving Waller to offer up the kids back to their mentors as…

As Mirror Master and Ambush Bug find a creative way of slowing Ultraman down.

Power Ring is able to conjure a Phantom Zone projector and trap Ultraman with Superwoman happy to see him go.

Rick Flag wants to take Amanda Waller into custody, but she sends him and his Suicide Squad back to Earth Zero.

Waller then appears to hide or pull or something in those veins Earth 3 from the visible multiverse as…

…she unveils her new Justice League with remnants of her Suicide Squad and the Crime Syndicate…

…a Justice Squad of sorts.

The Pulse:

The Flash is the only series that was part of this cross over that will continue being published. Suicide Squad and Teen Titans Academy are cancelled. What the future holds for Amanda Waller’s Justice League remains to be seen, but considering the upcoming Dark Crisis event appears to involve the multiverse it is a good bet we’ll see them again there. Possibly Earth 3 too. This issue felt like several disjointed story beats and scenes slapped together for an over-sized event climax issue. While I’m a sucker for legacy super-heroes, doppelgängers, the villains-doing-good-or-else Suicide Squad concept, and the multiverse, this issue felt hollow for me. Yes, the end appears consequential, but I didn’t feel invested or entertained. The art was ok, but the story, getting that important ending, was bereft of entertainment. 3 out of 10.

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