SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t read Justice League #1, be warned that an in-depth summary is included in this review.

The scene opens with men armed to the teeth with high-powered firearms, the G.C.P.D. logo featured prominently on their personal body armor. A tell-tale sign for those in-the-know which city this particular S.W.A.T. team hails from. Further down the page, a small caption signals to the reader that this occurs 5 years in the past, as we get a glimpse of the cityscape and see the advanced helicopter units these bad boys in black use to follow their quarry. We then see the individuals being given chase. The one at the lead remains unidentified; but the one after him is one the police have a history with. As the spotlight shines upon the creature of the night called “The Batman”, revealing his grim visage, the words “…BRING THEM BOTH DOWN” sends the message clear to the police… and to the reader…

This isn’t your dad’s “JUSTICE LEAGUE”.

The relaunch of the entire line of DC Comics titles has been the hottest topic across the face of the comic book industry since it was announced in May. And it would not be a simple re-numbering, as first thought; the entire continuity of the DC Universe since “Crisis on Infinite Earths” would grind to a halt and a new timeline would be established where things are both familiar but different at the same time. In this brave new world, the idea of the “super-hero” is in its relative infancy. And while the individual origins would be fleshed out in other books, the first story that would herald this new DC Universe would be its flagship title, JUSTICE LEAGUE.