Source: dccomics.com
8. “Just” Desserts
(Multiversity: The Just #1)
Next up, we have a fascinating concept for a comic that seems like it wouldn’t make for a good comic in execution, but it does.
The Just takes place on the nicknamed Earth-Me, a world where all of Earth’s heroes wiped out crime some time ago, and now spend their days playing around in re-enactments of their greatest battles. At the same time, their kids live hedonistic party lifestyles, dressed in their parents’ outfits as their supposed successors.
If this issue can be said to have main characters, I guess they’d be Damien Wayne, aka Batman, and Chris Kent, aka Superman. The duo spend the issue investigating the suicide of Megamorpho, and looking for the meaning behind it. Of course, it turns out that Batman’s girlfriend Lexie Luthor is behind it all, having poisoned Megamorpho’s mind with a virus from a multi-dimensional comic book (hint, hint).
Eventually, the Superman robots protecting everybody turn tail and start destroying the earth, with no real heroes left to stop them. Weird, interesting, and perfectly Morrison.
