Lex Luthor Is Going to Be Evil Again

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Justice League and its sequel/continuation Justice League Unlimited are criminally underrated cartoons. And maybe the best episodes were wrapped up in the Justice Lords, the show's own earth-dominating, totalitarian version of the Justice League.

The villainous team was introduced as a Justice League from an alternate dimension where an Evil Superman had used his light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation vision to lobotomize President Lex Luthor and the Justice League had seized control of the human race from there. But over the course of a flavor-long arc — yeah, Justice League Unlimited had flavor-long arcs — the show revealed that the Justice Lords weren't from another reality. They were from a potential time to come that appeared to be creeping closer every day.

Now, thanks to DC Comics' new Justice League Infinity series, set in the continuity of the drawing show, we're getting some other story about the villains whose every appearance reminds the Justice League of the real potential that they're headed down a dark path.

What else is happening in the pages of our favorite comics? We'll tell you. Welcome to Mon Funnies, Polygon'due south weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It's part social club pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, role "expect at this cool fine art." There may be some spoilers. At that place may not be plenty context. But there will be swell comics. (And if you missed the terminal edition, read this.)

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Justice League Infinity #one

Prototype: J.Yard. DeMatteis, James Tucker, Ethen Beavers/DC Comics

Justice League Infinity #ane is a smorgasbord of Justice League Unlimited favorites. Amazo? Check. Elongated Human being and Booster Gold? Check. That subplot where the Martian Manhunter quit the League to alive secretly as various man identities in order to acquire to dearest humanity? Check!

X-Men #ane

Image: Gerry Duggan, Adam Gorham, Tom Muller/Marvel Comics

Yeah yeah yeah, the X-Men moved to a treehouse in New York and built a mech to fight a kaiju in some proficient old superhero hijinks but the real highlight of X-Men #1 is that Gerry Duggan is continuing his quest to put Murd Blurdock, alien space lawyer and parody of Daredevil, in everything he perhaps can.

Mamo #ane

Image: Sas Milledge/Boom Studios

I had never read a Sas Milledge-fatigued book before, but I can't say no to "teen hedge witchery with a calorie-free fantasy setting." Mamo #1 rewarded me with beautiful art and this absolute hook of a double character introduction.

Trounce & Lobo #two

Image: Mariko Tamaki, Amancay Nahuelpan/DC Comics

Beat & Lobo is absolutely about Beat out distracting herself from how her girlfriend broke upwardly with her by taking a galactic route trip to meet her deadbeat dad — just information technology'south too got that adept old Lobo space absurdism, which I think is a nice bear upon. To me, Lobo volition ever exist the space pope of a fish faith.

Avengers #46

Image: Jason Aaron, Javier Garrón/Marvel Comics

With the close of the Heroes Reborn arc, Avengers is boot off "World State of war She-Hulk" — you know, like World War Blob only with Jennifer Walters. The Globe War here seems to mean something a bit dissimilar, with Russian federation kidnapping Jennifer Walters and tossing her into the Ruddy Room for brainwashing, transforming her into — what else — Cherry-red She-Hulk.

Wonder Girl #2

Prototype: Joëlle Jones/DC Comics

It's difficult to pick one console from Wonder Girl #two. The book starts Yara off with a beautifully rendered origin signal — and Jones is bringing in so much from the wider (DC Comics) Amazon world while as well inventing new pieces. How to immediately earn my loyalty for a Wonder Woman book: use the Amazons.

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Source: https://www.polygon.com/comics/2021/7/12/22570569/evil-superman-comic-justice-league-dc-justice-lords