J'onn has a story to tell to Lex, a story that could put them both in trouble not only because of the creatures they have to face but also because of what could happen in the future.
Oh God, I really hate this.
And believe me, I'm not saying this lightly. Scott Snyder's whole Justice League work (Starting from Metal through No Justice and beyond) hasn't been my favorite since his tendency to create stories that are not really "stories" as much as set-ups for "the next big story" is really tiring and his overexposition just makes things worse but even then, I could still call it passable because of the decent worldbuilding and scale.
Everything changes now though.
This issue is centered around both Martian Manhunter and Lex Luthor whose relationship has been hinted at for a while now and Snyder finally gives an answer to their connection and is answer that retcons a lot and sometimes for the worst. You see, it turns out that J'onn was abducted to Earth earlier than everyone thought, pretty much when he was a child and served as an experiment for an organization who tested kids and the only way he escaped was thanks to his only friend in that place, a kid named Albie.
And Albie turned out to be Lex.
You see, there's a lot to digest from this. The implications is that not only Lex but also his father were test subjects since their childhood and they even developed superpowers including the ability to fly, telepathy and I guess you understand why this is so wrong already right? Lex Luthor is supposed to be, despite of his miguiden behavior, the ultimate human in terms of what the race can believable achieve (at least to comic standards) so adding superpowers to the mix completely denigrates that premise and the character as a whole. Not to mention that this also completely changes his whole history and puts a lot of things in the past in question and not in a good way. This is exactly what you call an unnecessary retcon.
Plus, Snyder's overexposition is simply not getting any better, all the contrary in fact since there are scenes where Lex was using telepathy to depict words at one point and yet Snyder felt the urgency to still tell everything that happened in his mind and in the whole place. This would have worked much better by only letting those abilities speak by themselves.
Jim Cheung's artwork is really good though thanks to his imposing characters and clear storytelling.
Aside from that, good Lord things are going downhill from here.
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