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By Bob Harras, Tom Derenick & Dan Green (DC Comics)
ISBN 1-84576-335-1
A somewhat lacklustre end to what was a fine series of super-hero adventures as, in the throes of the Infinite Crisis and still reeling from the Identity Crisis storyline, the remnants of the splintered super-hero team and a few former members more or less reunite to stop old foe the Key, who has evolved into a psionic mass-murderer.
Further complicating the mess is the escape of Envy, the demonic incarnation of one of the Original Seven Deadly Sins from its eternal captivity. Bob Harras, Tom Derenick and Dan Green do their best, but the heavy-handed shoehorning of the overweening Crisis segments destroy the narrative flow, and any casual reader who just picks this book is just inviting a migraine if they haven’t read the other books too.
An inauspicious end to a great run, and poor use of some talented people and great characters but the “automatic rewind/reset†of Infinite Crisis and the ‘One Year Later’ relaunches should soon make this a distant memory.
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