Book: Justice League 3000 volume #2: The Camelot War (issues #8-15) by Keith Griffen and J.M. DeMatteis
Illustration by Howard Porter (issues #8-13 and 15) and Andy Kuhn (issue #14) and color by HI-FI
Edition: Single Print Issues
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
What a vast improvement in writing this was compared to that pitiful first volume but the artwork continues to be awful. There are still a lot of problems with this series however what made this a much better read was that most of the stupid infighting that plagued the first volume was drastically reduced. They were still arguing but not like they were before.
In the previous volume, Teri was killed by her twin brother Terry who also revealed that he was the leader of The Five. Terry then proceeded to take over Cadmus and imprison the Justice League and scientist Ariel Masters. Firestorm already pledged his allegiance to The Five and took off for a mission for them.
Terry's main reason for capturing Ariel instead of killing her was for her to perfect the process that created the Justice League but instead of doing what he wanted Ariel brought back Teri. She infused Teri's DNA with Barry Allen's making her the new Flash. All while that was going on Green Lantern figured out a way to trick the surveillance system so the team could come up with a way to escape without The Five finding out. To further the teams escape, they had Teri distract her brother to keep him from detonating the cellular bomb inside the members of the Justice League.
Meanwhile, Green Lantern sent the team away prior to squaring off against Locus. With the Justice League which now includes Teri all finally safe and sound, they plan to lay low on another planet, Camelot Nine which is a King Arthur type world.
While the League waits for The Five to make their way to Camelot Nine they set up a trap to finally help them stop the villains. The inevitable fight ensued between the Justice League and The Five leaving the most powerful members of The Five held in stasis but for reasons I still don't understand Terry was allowed to return back to Cadmus. An once there, he proceeded on to his next step for revenge against the Justice League by creating an Injustice League bringing back some of JL's biggest enemies and one that never was. The Injustice League members are Bane, Mirror Master, Captain Cold, Sinestro, Zeus and Lois Lane. Why was Lois made to be a villain? I really don't get it but since I can't stand this version of Superman and the rest of the Justice League it might be more fun to root for this version of Lois especially if she gets to take down the entire team.
The story sort of jumps track a little bit with Blue Beetle and Booster Gold woken up from the cryogenic chambers they were found in. The original heroes are now in the 31st century and are stuck on the prison planet Takron-Galtos (formerly known as Earth) but they had no desire to stay there. Besides exploring the area, the duo decided to find one of Beetle's hidden lairs to find his airship and perhaps get off that miserable planet. The plan didn't quite work out because they were ambushed by the 31st century's lame version of the Blue Beetle. After Booster was saved from mutated rats, the duo was then eventually tricked into traveling to Cadmus where Terry awaited their appearance.
Meanwhile back on Camelot Nine, Wonder Woman was working with King Arthur's knights to stop Etrigan the Demon's army. There is only one area that neither King Arthur or Etrigan can invade and that is the frozen area belonging surprisingly to former Justice League International member Ice.
After Ice encountered Wonder Woman, Superman and the new Flash, she then joins the Flash and Superman to head back to the Justice League's new headquarter where she proceeds to tell her story of how she survived the long years and how she as well as Etrigan wound up on Camelot Nine. She also informed them of how Fire (another member of the JLI) is now working for Etrigan.
With all of that out of the way it was now time for Etrigan and his army to invade the now empty castle that Ice was residing in. If they take the land then it will lead to King Arthur's downfall, but standing in Etrigan's way is the Justice League with Ice accompanying them. A battle breaks out but somewhere in the middle of it all, Fire and Ice somehow become friends again.
However, a surprise comes when Ariel at the Justice League headquarters was ambushed by the Injustice League leaving a cliffhanger to this cancelled series. But despite being cancelled this series returned with a slight title change, Justice League 3001.
I was really surprised that this turned out to be a somewhat good read. I guess sooner or later I'll start reading JL 3001 hopefully it will still be worth reading.
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