Blast Review: Justice League Dark #32- Oh crap, this one is usually quite good.

Writer: J.M. DeMatteis
Artist: Andres Guinaldo
Publisher: DC
Released 25th June 2014

So, here we go again. Can anybody in contemporary superhero comics write a satisfying conclusion to an arc these days? Okay, so this one wasn’t as soul destroying as some of the Jeff Lemire duds he’s lazily dumped onto the comic book reading public recently, but this conclusion to the recent JLD story arc was very damp and very squibby.

 I’ll do spoilers here by the way, not that this book deserves kid glove treatment, because it doesn’t. In the past few issues Nightmare Nurse got a little bit interesting. Was she good, or was she bad? Turns out she was some kind of soul sucking parasitic demon, but that’s okay apparently, because she’s a good soul sucking parasitic demon, even though that very concept makes absolutely zero sense to me. Since when did a creature that possesses your body and traps your soul in limbo become a bloody hero?

I’m not being stupid here am I? Perhaps Nightmare ‘Soul Sucking Parasitic Demon’ Nurse can get back into nursing and be put in charge of one of the New World Order’s eugenics, ooooops, sorry I meant 'vaccination’ programs? That’s the only way that this could make any sense, but no way is any mainstream comic book writer going to go anywhere near that one, are they?  The corporate career bloody cowards.

This book is stupid. People die, but don’t die and kisses happen, but they don’t mean what kisses mean. And it’s all a waste of time, and why the Hell am I talking about it? And why does Constantine have to call every single magic trick ever used by a villain a ‘cheap parlour trick?’ Hasn’t he got anything else to say? He’s supposed to be a witty man, isn’t he? Not somebody who just goes through the same old rubbish time after time after time until you remember that he is 1980’s character and everything about him, including his look screams late 1970’s, not 2014.

Oh crap, reality has busted the bubble again. What a shame, this book is usually okay, but this month it was awful, barely readable. I didn’t see the point in any of this. It offered nothing, and I’m surprised that I’ve managed to say so much about it. What a waste of my bloody time that was. Rating: 3/10