Review – Justice League Unlimited #7: The Omega Gambit
Ray: 'We Are Yesterday' is reaching its final act, and it's not looking good for the good guys. Inferno, better known as the Legion of Doom of yesterday, has invaded the present and used their time guns to scatter the Justice League across the timestream. With only Elongated Man left to oppose them, the stretchy hero is quickly overwhelmed and tortured in a pretty disturbing sequence before Grodd gets to his real plan – the Omega Rift, the hole ripped in time and space by Darkseid's death. It contains all the power in the Multiverse, and the plan is to divide it among the villains. Of course, that assumes everyone is willing to play fair and equal – something that lasts exactly as long as it takes for Luthor to get suspicious. All hell breaks loose, and when the smoke clears, one villain is left standing as the biggest threat he's ever been. And the heroes are nowhere to be seen – but they're about to get an unlikely assist. Battle for the Watchtower. Via DC Comics.
There are some great segments of the heroes being stranded in time – both in the distant past, and in the far future – cut off from every possible way to get home and with their powers rapidly draining in some cases. And the one to blame for this is Air Wave, who was coerced into betraying the team by the lies and psychic influence of Grodd, and was then seemingly killed off right before the invasion began. But not all is what it seems, and the reveal of exactly what's happened to him is surprisingly clever and sets up a big showdown between the heroes and villains next month. But which heroes, exactly? The final page brings forward a group of characters I never thought I would see gracing a Justice League title, and that kind of unpredictability is what's making this book so much fun. Mark Waid has the entirety of the DCU to play with here, and he's making the most of it.
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