I’m hoping refocusing the story around Jess will give it a burst of energy as it enters its second year. It feels more like a Jessica Cruz comic than it has in a while, and the other three leads never quite clicked as protagonists in a space story. A lot going on here as we’re introduced to several new characters – who may or may not be on the side of the angels – and a Para-Angel army invades and hits the spaceship as Darkseid makes his move.īig reveals about Jessica’s new powers round out the issue, which is probably the most entertaining one of the series. Will Cyborg, Starfire, Azrael and Jessica Cruz. Her ring is gone, but it may have been absorbed by her somehow. DEATH OF THE DARKThe trouble on Tamaran becomes a fight to the death as the team slugs it out with Blackfire. Then, as the squad is debating their next move, Jessica Cruz suddenly resurrects and seems to be almost fully healed thanks to the infusion of Omega Energy she got.

It’s definitely a morbid way to begin the issue, but Blackfire’s bickering with Dex-Star is highly entertaining. They pick up what they think are heroes from the Ghost Sector – and get Blackfire, a mysterious black cube, and Jessica Cruz’s still-smoking body. The trouble on Tamaran becomes a fight to the death as the team slugs it out with Blackfire. At the start of this issue, we pick up not with any of the heroes but with an oddball team consisting of a masked space warrior, an alien scientist – and Dex-Starr, making the rounds and being a little ball of rage like always. When we last left off, Cyborg, Azrael, and Starfire had been fully converted into thralls of Darkseid, the villain sealed off the Ghost Sector from the rest of the universe in an attempt to become its God and survive the coming doom, and Jessica Cruz made a last-ditch attempt to stop him only to be killed by the Omega Effect.įandom was not pleased at her apparent death, but given that the next issue was titled “Afterlife”, it seemed unlikely to stick. Ray: After a year of playing Hide and Seek with Darkseid, it turns out what this Justice League Odyssey, a troubled series, actually needed was to upend everything and drop three of the four main characters, as done in Justice League Odyssey #13. Justice League Odyssey #13 – Dan Abnett, Writer Will Conrad, Cliff Richards, Artists Rain Beredo, Colorist Ratings: Ray – 8/10 As Jessica Cruz and her team try to figure out if hes a genius, or crazy-or both-time is running out. The Lord of Time has a great plan to solve everything, but it might be the single most dangerous thing anyone has ever done. Justice League Odyssey #13 variant cover, via DC Comics. But first they must contend with the Ghost Sectors formidable obstaclesincluding the Tamaranean forces commanded by Starfires tyrannical sister Blackfire, Raptures fanatical army of Azrael-worshippers, and the dizzying array of cybernetic sentries specifically programmed to thwart them. Lost beyond the edge of the universe, the misfit team of Justice League Odyssey crosses paths with Epoch.

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