Brian Michael Bendis is writing the adventures of Earth's Mightiest Heroes again.
Previously, Bendis made a splash with Marvel's Avengers kicking off with the infamous "Avengers Disassembled" that saw Scarlet Witch go nuts (again) and destroy the Avengers including killing several members including Hawkeye.
Don't worry. He got better.
Now he's writing DC's Justice League which has not been plagued with such controversial drama. So far,
Bendis has taken the rather straightforward tact of writing story arcs involving threats with sufficient power and resources to be a problem for the collective heroes of the Justice League. He's also added some unique additions to the League roster such as Black Adam and Bendis's own creation, Naomi McDuffie.
The League travel to another dimension for a knock down drag out brawl with the super powered Brutus who is staging brutal attacks on Earth and the super evil Zumbado, the dude responsible for the death of Naomi's parents and her home world.
The cosmic powered bad guy from Bendis's last Superman arc,
Synmar Utopica, attacks the Hall of Justice and it takes all of the Justice League and the United Order, a consortium of intergalatic heroes to stop him.
On a less cosmic level, Leviathan is causing shit, members of the Justice League are being attacked by multiple Deathstrokes and the freaking Royal Flush Gang has powered up enough to steal the Fortress of Solitude!
Unlike the decompressed storytelling that plagued Bendis's run on the Avengers, here he is tearing through several ideas and adversaries worthy of challenging the Justice League.
I guess Bendis is playing beat the clock as it appears his time on Justice League has an end point, ending with issue #74 after only a year on the title.
And it appears the Justice League itself is running out of time.
With issue #75, Joshua Williamson who seems destined to write for every DC title is set to take over only to kill off the League in that issue, effectively ending the series.
Looks like Justice League will get it's "Disassembled" story but only after Bendis leaves.
When in doubt and you're out of ideas, kill everyone.
Well, thanks DC, for giving me a jumping off point for Justice League.
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