This issue collects Digital Firsts 17 & 18, “Assault on the Tower” and “Fight or Flight”.  When we last checked in, bother Wonder Woman and Superman had been awakened from their slumbers by Ares through a bargain with Hera (the particulars of which we don’t know at this point). Spectre has also discerned the location…

Today we welcome new writer Brian Buccellato to the Injustice team in an issue that also gives us the return of a long-absent Wonder Woman. This issue collects Digital Firsts 15 & 16, another “2-parter” titled “Awakenings” (1 & 2). The solicit for this book basically tells you everything that happens (which is kind of…

This week we say farewell to the incredible storytelling of Tom Taylor, who has been with this series since it kicked off with Year One. It’s fitting in so many ways, then that we revisit that kick-off in this issue which collects Digital Firsts 13 & 14. The story focuses on the dream of Superman,…

Print issue No. 6 collects Digital Firsts 11 & 12, “Raise the Demon” and “Secret Weapon”. Interestingly, the title of No. 11 telegraphs the weapon referred to in No. 12. The solicits have been totally goofy so we don’t have an actual image for the cover. If DC ever posts one, I’ll be sure to…

The killing spree continues here in print issue No. 5, which collects Digital Firsts 9 & 10, “Dead Man” and “Death of a Deadman”. But I asked for some light of hope in my last review and we get that too, so this is an issue you don’t want to miss! Superman threatens to kill…

I would like to take this moment today, dear Injustice, to say that you’re among friends. We care about you very very much and I feel like it’s time for an intervention. Something’s just not right and I’d like to try to understand what’s happening with you. There are some uneasy undercurrents in your plotting,…

Print issue No. 3 collects the Digital Firsts 5 & 6, “The Coin” and “Xanadu”. If you’re still fencing-sitting about Injustice, this isn’t the place to jump in (start with Year Three issue No. 1, or, better yet, pick up the four trades leading up to Year Three first). My short summary: Superman has become…

Print issue No. 2 collects the Digital Firsts 1 & 2, “Gathering Forces” and “Spirit of Vengeance”. Constantine has collected his world’s greatest detectives and the Resistance reconvenes at the home of Jason Blood as they try, with the added help of Klarion, to discern the nature of the malevolent psychic force that is bearing…

Print issue No. 1 collects the Digital Firsts 1 & 2, “Rose” and “Magic”. Enter John Constantine, without whom the whole landscape of comics might look very different today. I don’t think that’s overstating: when he emerged on the scene in 1985, he was a trailblazer, a revolution, a stiff middle finger to the Comics…

What I like best about annuals is that they are an opportunity to tell stories that can enhance, build on, or deviate completely from the current continuity. In a way you’re getting a little something extra outside of the norm, typically with more pages, and often self-contained. All of these things are true of Injustice:…

Print issue No. 12 collects the Digital Firsts 23 & 24, “Fall of the Gods” and “World’s End”, and wraps up the tortuous journey that has been Year Two. This time around I bought a pint of pistachio gelato well in advance of reading because the last couple of issues have been very hard to…

Print issue No. 11 collects the Digital Firsts 21 & 22, “Crashing to Earth” and “Canary’s Revenge”, and if you thought we might get a cool-down or some grieving space after last issue’s devastating turn of events, you’d be dead wrong. Because superhero comics are all about big drama and Injustice has been dealing out…

Print issue No. 10 collects the Digital Firsts 19 & 20, “Air Assault” and “Gordon”. And while I’m going to drop the spoilers under cuts, suffice it to say that if you have played the game, you probably either a.) have a fairly good idea of how things are going down in this prequel, or…

Print issue No. 9 collects the Digital Firsts 17 & 18, “Absolute Freaking Carnage” and “Ground Assault” all wrapped up in a gloriously simple, yet awesomely ominous cover by Stéphane Roux. Tom Taylor’s written a series you never want to see come to an end. Last month I felt a little eh about some minor…

Print issue No. 8 collects the Digital Firsts 15 & 16, “War is Coming” and “One Day More”. It’s seven months later: Black Canary has given birth to a boy she has named Connor (a nod, of course, to Connor Hawke), Sinestro flits about playing Big Yellow Boy Scout, Superman makes a speech, Batman makes…

Tell me again why you’re not reading this series? Last week Injustice vol. 2 was released, which now puts all of Year One at your disposal. Get it, read it, and catch the heck up because if you’ve been listening to the buzz, Year Three is on the horizon and things are about to go…

Print issue No. 6 collects the Digital Firsts 11 & 12, “Power Shift” and “Casualties of War”.  Hal Jordan and John Stewart race to Utah in a desperate attempt to prevent a massacre and it looks like Superman’s newly minted relationship with Sinestro might already be going sour. Meanwhile word of the start of all-out…

Print issue No. 5 collects the Digital Firsts 9 & 10, “The Road to War” and “The First Battle”. There’s been a lot of ramp up to this point with what has felt like a lot of exposition, but this is the moment in which the payoff starts pulling into the station and we get…