So what’s Geoff Johns’s big insight into relaunching the DC Universe? Make it a lot like Marvels. A super-lot.

And there’s another difference. It’s not superheroes in the new DC Universe. It’s super-heroes.

What other big changes? Jim Lee draws Superman like a teenager and everyone’s costume now has small, unbelievable (and nonfunctional) bulky little patches. Maybe Lee likes to draw egg shapes or something.

I’m trying to think of what else is so special. Batman talks about Green Lantern like his fights with the Air Force are the Hulk fighting Ross… Oh, wait, there’s a “special” moment. When it becomes clear Johns’s “Year One” Batman talks exactly like Rorschach out of Watchmen. Better than Frank Miller, I guess.

Pre-Cyborg Vic Stone shows up for a useless scene. Johns should’ve told the comic through him.

Lee gets lazy immediately after the pages DC released as preview ones.

CREDITS

Justice League, Part One; writer, Geoff Johns; penciller, Jim Lee; inker, Scott Williams; colorist, Alex Sinclair; letterer, Pat Brosseau; editors, Rex Ogle and Eddie Berganza; publisher, DC Comics.