mantequilla's Justice League #8 - Outbreak Part One review

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    Just like the watchtower, this book is going down in flames

    Like many of the previous issues, there is not much to see here. The whole thing is practically 2 long action sequences, one were Cyborg gets hacked and the virus drops the watchtower out of orbit and on collision course to San Francisco, and the other where the Batcave gets hacked so Batman and Alfred are attacked by all their autonomous vehicles (this last part sounds a lot like what would happen in one of those silly Silver Age comics). The story has its ups but mostly its downs, like for example, the way Cyborg deals with the watchtower situation was good but it is immediately followed by Bruce coming up with the solution for his problem out from nowhere and over explain it to make it seem very complicated when in the end is very simple; this makes HItch look like he doesnt have an idea what is he writing about and is just throwing some fancy words around hoping he tricks us

    Hitch also makes some connections with his Kindred story by starting the issue having Cyborg being super sad because through the WHOLE "its the end of the world" story a grand total total of 1 person died and later we also get a brief scene with the family of the deceased woman but really it served for nothing. This connections or references to his previous story would have been good it they were done immediately after it ended, not after having some random story like State of Fear in the middle (which by the way it pointed to having some repercussion for the JL but SURPRISE SURPRISE it is dismissed here like nothing happened) thus making this connection feel out of place; it is like Hitch wants us not to forget the Kindred story happened inserting some random scene or dialogue here and there so all this feels like a very extended and interconnected story but so far he's being doing a poor job

    Art and colors also used to be good on this book but lately they have been just average

    Ultimately this seems to be another story worth of being skipped

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