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by Geoff Johns (Author), Jim Lee (Illustrator, Artist), Scott Williams (Illustrator, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition

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The Justice League is the greatest force for good the world has ever seen. But not everyone sees them that way.

Their never-ending battle against evil results in casualties beyond its super-powered, costumed combatants. The League's attempts to safeguard innocent lives cannot save everybody. Unbeknownst to Earth's greatest champions, their greatest triumph may contain the seeds of their greatest defeat.

For heroes are not the only people who face tragedy and are reborn as something greater than they were before. Villains can take this journey, too.

And once they start out on this dark path, the road could lead straight to the destruction of the Justice League....

The New York Times bestselling team of Geoff Johns (Green Lantern) and Jim Lee (Batman: Hush) are joined by artists Gene Ha (Top 10) and Carlos D'Anda (Deathblow) for JUSTICE LEAGUE VOL. 2: THE VILLAIN'S JOURNEY, collecting issues #7-12 of the series. Can the world's greatest super heroes survive a voyage deep into the heart of darkness? It all ends with one of the most shocking ... and surprising moments in DC history!

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If the first volume of DC’s re-launched Justice League was a vast spectacle, the second narrows the scope of the action slightly and expands somewhat on the characters. Leaping forward five years in the team’s timeline finds a more established array of relationships and the roles of less-established characters, like Cyborg, solidified. This serves as backdrop to the origin of David Graves, who blames the league for the loss of his family and acquires powers that allow him to exploit each hero’s harrowing sense of his or her own personal loss. The pushiness of team wannabe Green Arrow and the plight of team liaison Steve Trevor add still more dramatic threads. The lion’s share of the art is handled by superstar Lee, who has a dynamic sense of action but tends to eschew subtlety and quietude when it comes to human drama. This is a blockbuster title that’s sharpened its focus on character dynamics here, as evidenced by the volume’s climax, the much-hyped romantic clinch between the Man of Steel and the Amazon Princess. --Jesse Karp

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“Johns and Lee are delivering what we wanted all along—our favorite characters in the same place, playing off one another and showing us how they compare and contrast.”—Newsarama

“Geoff Johns is crafting a new villain worthy of the great JLA villains of old. Lee still delivers some of the most sleek and powerful heroes in the industry.”—IGN

“Jim Lee is who he always is—the standard bearer of the industry's artwork. When one imagines in the abstract what a modern comic book should look like, the default setting is Jim Lee.”—Craveonline

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00B9OYOLM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC (October 8, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 8, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 657544 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 164 pages

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Jim Lee
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Comic book illustrator Jim Lee is the editorial director of WildStorm Studios (which he founded in 1992) and the artist for many of DC Comics' bestselling comic book and graphic novels, including All Star Batman and Robin, Batman: Hush, and Superman: For Tomorrow. He also serves as the creative director for the upcoming DC Universe Online videogame. Prior to DC, he was one of the founding fathers of Image Comics and best known for his run on the X-Men for Marvel Comics during which he co-created such characters as Gambit and Agent Zero. In his spare time, Jim enjoys a good laugh or two.
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Geoff Johns is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling writer, film and television producer, showrunner, and entrepreneur known for re-imagining superheroes and other iconic mythologies, past and present. Johns is best known for his work on properties such as Green Lantern, Aquaman, The Flash, Superman, Batman, Justice Society of America, and most recently, the creator-owned hit series Geiger, currently being adapted for television at Paramount.
Since the beginning of his creative career, Johns' hallmark has been writing heroic and inclusive characters, including teenage hero Courtney Whitmore aka Stargirl, inspired by his real-life late sister; the Shazam Family, which he re-imagined into a diverse modern family of today; and the first Arab-American Green Lantern, Simon Baz, as well as the explosive multi-colored Lantern mythology that defined his decade-long bestselling Green Lantern run, among many, many others.
Johns’ most recognized work in television is the critically acclaimed Stargirl series which he created and ran. Some of his film credits include Wonder Woman (executive producer), Wonder Woman 1984 (also co-writer), Aquaman (also story) and Shazam! (executive producer), based on his graphic novel with longtime collaborator and modern legendary artist Gary Frank.
In 2023, Johns co-founded Ghost Machine, the first-of-its-kind creator-owned company. This groundbreaking collective includes some of the industry’s most legendary writers and artists, disrupting the old industry model by giving ownership to its creators, and paving the way for them to retain creative control and financial participation.
Born in Detroit to a Lebanese father, Johns was honored with his own permanent section at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Wally West

The struggles of the Justice League

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2016

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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS: I found this to be an interesting and worthwhile read. It was an excellent way to tell the story of a newer Justice League just learning about the inevitable consequences of their actions. The story also does a good job of explaining the outlook of the team by tye people of the world. The general public believe the Justice League should overthrow the government, and the government is naturally afraid of the power and influence they have. Paired with this theme, we get the bridge between all of these people and the league in Steve Trevor. I found the way he was handled to be exceptional. He cared very much about protecting the league, but was also very troubled due to his love for Wonder Woman.

Now let's get into the stuff we all will buy this trade for: the Justice League themselves. The League has always been my favorite comic book team, and this book only furthers my admiration for them. You see all the personal connections a lot of the members have, and it proves to be a lot of fun. One of my favorite examples was between the Flash and Green Lantern. They go off together to interrogate an enemy, and the Flash asks to be bad cop. Hal reluctantly ends up agreeing, and Barry proves why Hal was so reluctant.

Eventually though, we learn they're not all as close to each other. This all comes to play due to the villain of this story; David Graves. David Graves was formally an author who wrote a book praising the League, even calling them gods. After he and his family get stricken with an unknown disease, of which ends up killing his family, he comes to the conclusion that everything he once believed about them was wrong. He ends up becoming bent on humanizing the League, eventually finding out everything he can about them. He reveals Batman's distrust of the team, (which we find out excludes Superman) and that Superman is a reporter. He ends up kidnapping Steve Trevor after a fight with the League, and the we're brought to an ancient temple with what seems to be souls of people close to each member of the League. Graves believes these to be the souls of the people who the inhabitants of earth. The League ends up finding this to be untrue, due to Steve Trevor revealing he wasn't killed, despite Wonder Woman apparently seeing his ghost. This leads to the League releasing Graves from the souls he believed to be his family.

The story concludes with Hal deciding to quit the League, after a discussion of how the League has failed Graves, ending the trade on a bit of a cliffhanger.

All and all, I'd say this was a very enjoyable read, and I'd recommend it to any DC fan who has already read the first volume.

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Henry Antoine

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Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2024

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I'm a big comic fan, I really enjoyed the book

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2023

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Nice story and amazing art, not much to say.

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Jeff

Justice League Vol. 2: The Villain's Journey (The New 52)

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2013

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I picked up Justice League Vol.1 at my local comic shop and really enjoyed it, so I had to check out Vol. 2.

I'll try not to spoil anything.
This story takes place five years after the first Volume and their battle with Darkseid. Early in this story, Green Arrow shows up trying to impress the League and become a member. I like Green Arrow, so I was glad to see him used in this story. And I have to say I've never been a Steve Trevor fan, but in this story, I was interested in his character for the first time ever. Whether you like or hate his character, at least for the first time I had a feeling about it, so great job by Geoff Johns.
The new villain was interesting and I liked how they used the first Volume story to create him. I liked each heroes personalities were and how they worked with one another.

If you liked the first volume of the Justice League, you won't regret checking out volume 2. I recommend it and I can't wait to check out the next volume.

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Erik

Not an absurd amount of infighting

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023

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My big problem with a lot of "supergroup" type comics is that the characters spend every moment of the story fighting each other and never working together. Here, there's a logical amount of internal tension while still some great collaboration.

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2022

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Amazing art and equally awesome storyline in this book, A suspenseful and compelling ending. Can't wait to see more of the Justice League series.

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2023

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I love the way the super heroes work together. They are family and that is what keeps them together in any situation they get into. Batman takes his role as the leader and the others work well in their roles. I love Wonder Woman she is not afraid of a fight. She is beautiful but yet tough.

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MereChristian

Better Than the First Volume, But With Serious Flaws in the Story

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2013

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Sometimes a person's life seems to have so much promise, and then things go awry. Sometimes horrifically so. They can not seem to grasp why so many bad things are happening to them, so they lash out at others. A special target can be those people that were formerly viewed as friends or heroes.

In Justice League, Vol. 2: The Villain's Journey, this is exactly what happened to the main "civilian observer" of the previous volume. In Volume One of the Justice League comic post-Flashpoint reboot, the assembled heroes save the world from an invasion by the evil god Darkseid. All seems to be going well for our heroes, but appearances can sometimes be deceiving. Indeed, the most ardent admirer they have, the young author and family man who praised them so effusively after they saved the lives of him and his family during said invasion, is about to become a deadly enemy. For he and his family are sick and dying due to something they were exposed to on Apokolips (Darkseid's world), and he blames the League for not finding this out and saving his family. Now, he wants revenge.

The story wasn't half-bad, and was a vast improvement over the mediocre tale in the first volume. It had character development, and moved the story forward quite a bit. But that is actually where the problem lies from the point of view of the DC Universe's internal logic.

The story begins five years after the end of the previous tale, Justice League, Vol. 1: Origins, and.... nothing has happened. Apparently the heroes can work together for about five years, and except for Batman and Superman's growing friendship, nothing changes. Nothing at all. I get that they wanted to tell the story of the Justice League forming in the past and then moving forward a few years to the "present day". That's a compelling narrative, but it is completely ruined and unbelievable when one is asked to accept the idea that the characters could know each other for five years and not change at all. They don't know that they are fictional characters waiting for the next story arc to have any development at all, so this makes no sense.

That is really the only problem I had other than the idiocy of the writers pairing off Wonder Woman and Superman at the expense of Lois Lane and Steve Trevor. Why bring back Steve Trevor from the dead post-reboot, in order to have him and Wondy be on the outs? And why ruin the iconic relationship of Superman and Lois Lane? It seems more like the authors' visions from their childhood are being shoved down our throats, and it really irks me. I hope they change this stupidity, and soon.

Overall, not a bad volume. It just has a major, glaring problem in it's internal logic.

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Waseem Ahmed

Excellent book!

Reviewed in India on March 9, 2016

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I love the DC universe. The story was very gripping and the art work was excellent. I just wish these graphic novels are not so expensive to buy.

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Nicola Mansfield

I'm hooked!

Reviewed in Canada on March 1, 2013

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Reason for Reading: Next in the series.

I'm hooked on this series! Thrilling storyline with plenty of character development getting readers up to speed on characters they may not know much about. There are lots of small flashbacks (sometimes just a frame) worked in throughout the book reminding us (or telling new readers) that Batman's parents were gunned down in front of him as a child and so on with the other heroes. This volume has two story arcs running back to back while both running under the main storyline of an evil force who wants to bring the JL down to size in the eyes of humanity. The first story arc has Green Arrow hot to trot and anxious to be a member of the team. With no welcome in sight he follows them around showing off his stuff but as to paraphrase Lantern. "We already got a guy with no superpowers and I'm the green one, change it to Blue Arrow and we might talk about it!" GL's tiny humorous nips at Batman's lack of any real superpowers continue as do everyone else's at each other. These are not a group of people who particularly like each other, though we do find out who has been seeing or helping who behind the other's backs. And this is the focus of the second story arc. The group's infighting, petty jealousies, major attitudes towards each other coupled with the personal human or relationship side of their lives leaves them vulnerable to the one who is trying to bring them down.

This is the only New 52 series, I am currently reading. However I am wanting to spread out from here. This volume references several: starting off immediately with complaints to have Justice League International disbanded even though Batman had joined in with them. Flashes are shown of various superheroes fighting "the owls" which refers to the New 52 Batman series. I also noticed a reference to Aquaman being the leader of "The Others" which refers to Aquaman Vol. 2. Also the end of this volume advertises the forthcoming of "Justice League of America" which is very exciting! I'm sure I may have missed others. I'm going to take note of this though to help guide my reading. At this time I'm going to pick up the Batman (my fav. of the biggies) and the JLI trades (there are only 2, it was cancelled after 12 issues) for more immersion in the new DC Universe. And I eagerly await the JL of A volume!

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Morpheus

TUTTO IN INGLESE

Reviewed in Italy on July 29, 2014

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Sarò duro io,ma credo che dovessero spiegare che i volumi sono scritti completamente in lingua inglese,per il resto cosa dire,spedizione veloce ecc

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