The powerful conclusion to this saga of the early DC universe lives up to its earlier promise. While the plot and characters are sometimes hard to follow without a scorecard, the various subplots eventually come together as an immense alien menace to the Earth reveals itself. More than anything else, the feeling evoked as Earth's heroes and defenders, previously hunted and maligned by an untrusting public and government, put their differences aside to join in a common fight for survival, reminds me of the concluding battle in "Independence Day". I enjoyed the retro feel to this book, in both the marvelous artwork by Darwyn Cooke, and the more innocent and naive outlook of the heroes themselves. The comic books of the Silver Age had a vigor and youth that is very convincingly replicated here. ( )

This just got better and better, after seeming to be perhaps not so interesting to start with. You look at the cartoony style and thing that this is going to be a cheerful, simplistic, Golden Age homage. That would be way off base and I am very happy I spent the time to go past that, into this excellent complex tale.

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