DC Comics and Justice League #75 Spoilers & Review follows.
Death Of The Justice League As Dark Crisis Prelude! Who Lives and Who Dies?
The book’s main cover above is acetate cover that revealed the below image.
It is complemented by a few variant covers.
The dark promise of the issue can be gleaned from its solicitation.
JUSTICE LEAGUE #75
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Art by RAFA SANDOVAL
Cover by DANIEL SAMPERE and ALEJANDRO SÁNCHEZ
Variant covers by ALEX MALEEV, DAN JURGENS and
NORM RAPMUND, MIKEL JANÍN, and WILL JACK
1:25 variant cover by SIMONE DI MEO
1:50 variant cover by TONY HARRIS
Team variant cover by TODD NAUCK
$6.99 US | 48 pages | (All on card stock)
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A new Dark Army made up of the DCU’s greatest villains has formed on the edges of the Multiverse! The DCU’s best and most powerful heroes are pulled together in an epic war to push the darkness back! But in the end, they are no match for it! That’s right, you heard it here first: the Justice League are killed by the Dark Army, with only one survivor to warn the remaining heroes of Earth about what is coming for them!FINAL ISSUE!
The issue opens with Black Adam, then Black Canary with Green Arrow crashing, and the rest of the Justice League being summoned by the Justice League Incarnate to their healing Hall of Heroes in the Bleed between multiverses.
They’ve been summoned to learn about the threats to the multiverse that were chronicled in the Infinite Frontier mini-series that concluded in September 2021 (full spoilers here) and the Justice League Incarnate limited series that ended in March 2022 on cliffhanger (full spoilers here) that directly leads into this issue of Death of the Justice League #75.
The Great Darkness remains a big threat to the multiverse despite the Justice League Dark seemingly tangling with this Force before, that is neither good nor evil. The Justice League also learn that another Force, the Justice Society of America (JSA)’s Spectre has died, but they don’t have time to mourn as the Great Darkness attacks the Hall of heroes forcing the hand of Doctor Multiverse who sends the Justice League and JLI elsewhere.
That elsewhere is a dead infinite multiverse, the one that perished in 1985’s Crisis on Infinite Earths maxi-series.
Therefore, no surprise that the Pariah, a Force that is forced to travel to cataclysms as a witness, who was a big part of the original Crisis is a big part of the upcoming Dark Crisis 37 years later in league with the Great Darkness.
Looks like Pariah is watcher no more, but the captor and ring general for a Dark Army of DC’s biggest threats who are literally enslaved by the Great Darkness.
The Justice League attack and get an assist from…
…a former Green Lantern in John Stewart aka the Emerald Knight (full spoilers here).
Readers also learn that Pariah and Great Darkness seem to have turned the Spectre to their cause and they don’t even require the dark chains to compel him?!
Green Arrow dies at the hands of the being that killed Superman once upon a time in Doomsday.
Followed by the trinity in Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman who die at the hands of Pariah similar to the Barry Allen Flash’s death in Crisis on Infinite Earths #8.
Black Adam attempts to stop the rest of the Justice League and Justice League Incarnate from dying, but Pariah proves more formidable than expected…
…forcing Black Adam to do something drastic to save his own life.
The book ends back on Earth-0 at the Hall of Justice with the Wally West Flash, and other who may become the new Justice League wondering why the Justice League is MIA.
They hear a loud explosion and run to see…
…a wounded Black Adam is back and learning that the Justice League is dead!
The book ends with the revelation that this issue a Dark Crisis prelude.
The Pulse:
An energetic and frenetic end to this series, but the story goes on in DC’s big summer event Dark Crisis. An emotional and action-packed issue, beautifully rendered. I am intrigued for what’s next. This end is not THE end. 8.5 out of 10.
