Some thoughts about Forever Evil #1

The Justice League is dead, the world belongs to the Crime Syndicate.

The villains from the DCU are running rampant now that the world's greatest superheroes are nowhere to be found. The Crime Syndicate lead by Ultraman is threatening every being in earth to follow their rules if they want to survive, some agree with their vision, others are completely against it and to make his argument stronger Ultraman is going to unmask one of the most prominent heroes on the world. What does Lex Luthor has to say about this? He clearly doesn't like it.

This is the main event that DC has been planning for a while, does it delivers?

I would say that, writing-wise at least, it does. Geoff Johns implements a varied amount of characters to tell their different perspectives about the current events, the best aspect of this story is that Johns makes each villain express themselves in a few lines of dialogue and that's sufficient to understand their personalities and motivations, this is a perfect way to make new readers invested into the antagonists from the DCU without needing to research much about continuity. That's a pretty well done job.

Another point i need to comment is Lex Luthor's portrayal. I think Johns made Luthor's point of view pretty understandable just based on his opening narration, not to mention that he made him pretty terrifying and incredibly threatening. I also have to mention how Ultraman's powers and weaknesses work, we knew his past incarnation was powered by Kryptonite but know he actually has to inhale it to get his powers, that's a pretty interesting twist and his weakness is also perfectely logical too.

The weakest factor here I would say is David Finch's art, "inconsistent" is the word I would use to describe it. At some points it looked pretty good and quite fitting for the plot, in some pages however, it looked rushed and lacking polish, plus he got some characters really wrong.

So what do I think? It pretty much delivers everything what I was expecting from a Johns' event and it even adds some surprises, Finch's art is a mixed bag but fortunately it doesn't ruin the experience.