The only glaring changes director Jay Oliva and writer Heath Corson made were a few minor tweaks to Cyborg’s origin, a drastic do-over of Wonder Woman’s outfit, a more flight-happy Darkseid with weaker omega beams, a character who gets an unnecessary death scene, and the swapping out of Aquaman for Shazam. What we have with Justice League: War is a rather faithful adaptation of Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s Justice League: Origin and that’s its biggest problem. Both kinds of comics can be great, but Justice League: Origin fell into the latter category but even then it wasn’t at the top of its class. When I originally reviewed those individual issues back in 2012 I explained that when it comes to superhero comics you have those that try and tell a rich story with complex themes and then you have those superhero comics that are the equivalent of being a kid bashing your action figures together real hard while making your own sound-effects.
Anyway, my point is that the source material for this movie wasn’t the sort of thing that warranted a film. And The Flash? He didn’t really do much except get a funny line at the very end of the 6th issue and then he went on to do pretty much nothing in every other Justice League adventure since then– I don’t know why, but Flash has been criminally underused in that comic. The characterization for the most part felt totally off and often times the heroes felt like obnoxious teenagers who became downright annoying as they quickly opted to fight one another with every introduction before getting in sarcastic conversations in which they compared powers while a city full of people died behind them. In fact, the emphasis on big, iconic imagery was the reason why “Origin” took 6 issues to wrap up. It was a story that was, well, light on story and heavy on action which was showcased by a surplus of splash pages and two-page spreads by artist Jim Lee. However, readers would still need to come into the story knowing full well who the rest of the cast was or else the comic just wouldn’t make any sense. The “origin” of its namesake was in regards to how the Justice League itself first formed but it also brought us an all-new origin for Cyborg. Justice League: Origin was essentially an arc intended to be a reboot of DC’s brightest stars for the newly launched New 52.
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