This is not what I ordered
If Flashpoint has taught me anything is that Geoff Johns will sometimes write comics that aren't great. I was really disappointed with how Flashpoint worked as a whole and especially how Johns writes Batman (Thomas/Bruce). This leads into my review of Justice League #1. I still don't like the way Johns writes Batman (to me it's seems too Frank Millar) and although he's written all of the other members of the League separately in varying amounts I'm not confident that he's a good fit for a book that kicks off the relaunch.
My other problem is that I don't know if this book is a great way to start the relaunch. While I agree that Justice League is an important DC staple I wonder if some of the characters should have been introduced in their own books before meeting up. That way we would already know about Batman's revamped character and we could focus more on the actual meeting of the characters instead of introducing them and showing how they interact (that Cyborg scene was out of no where and didn't seem necessarily). I also found it dumb when I wanted a preview of how my favourite characters would appear after the relaunch and was given a story set five years before current continuity so it's almost moot.
I had a lot of friends tell me they bought this issue and they hadn't bought comics for a very long time which I suppose is good but on the other hand I thought this is a farcry from what we were advertised. It seems like this issue tried to please everyone and as a result ended up being average. Flashpoint did a bad job of answering questions and Justice League doesn't try and help it any. Ultimately this is less than 2% of the relaunch so this book could have been terrible (which although it isn't great it's not bad) and it wouldn't have been indicative of the stories to follow.
This a definitely a book to read regardless of how good it is. This is building block of the DCU relaunch... despite is being not very good.
