[7.3/10] There’s some cool stuff in here, but at base, this feels like a cheap excuse to have all the women in the Justice League fight one another. I want to say it was Kevin Smith who noted the weird trend of making heroes fight one another in comic book stories, with writers bending over backwards to make it happen. There’s not a great reason to have everyone throw down here.
Still, the actual fights are good. There’s something at stake when Huntress has to face an increasingly tough array of adversaries, and avoid hurting them since they’re her erstwhile allies. There’s a nice sense of escalation with her facing Black Canary at first -- a mostly normal fighter with one super ability, to going against Shayera and Vixen who are straight up metahumans, to the four of them facing off against Wonder Woman, strong enough to all of them on at once.
But I just kind of roll my eyes at the Metabrawl conceit. I didn’t really enjoy the episode the first time we did this, and returning to Roulette and her goons doesn’t improve things this time around. There’s at least some plausible connection to the larger goins on with Lex both funding her fights and skimming off the receipts, but the whole “brainwash the belles using Justice League communications” notion is pretty thin.
That said, the fights aren’t bad, albeit a little too anime in their styling for my tastes. There’s at least a decent throughline with Huntress trying to get through to Canary, but a lot of the dialogue is pretty rough and there’s a touch of tiresome “go girl” feminism. (Not to mention more teasing of the almost-as-tiresome rivalry between Shayera and Vixen.) That said, there’s some fun stuff at the margins, like Question hunting down Baskin Robbins’s 32nd flavor and being bad at flirting, or a fleeting glimpse of Nightwing when the crew rides into Bludhaven.
Overall though, this is one big dust-up, and the thinness of the excuse to do it makes this one less than the sum of its fights.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2020-10-28T04:56:05Z
[7.3/10] There’s some cool stuff in here, but at base, this feels like a cheap excuse to have all the women in the Justice League fight one another. I want to say it was Kevin Smith who noted the weird trend of making heroes fight one another in comic book stories, with writers bending over backwards to make it happen. There’s not a great reason to have everyone throw down here.
Still, the actual fights are good. There’s something at stake when Huntress has to face an increasingly tough array of adversaries, and avoid hurting them since they’re her erstwhile allies. There’s a nice sense of escalation with her facing Black Canary at first -- a mostly normal fighter with one super ability, to going against Shayera and Vixen who are straight up metahumans, to the four of them facing off against Wonder Woman, strong enough to all of them on at once.
But I just kind of roll my eyes at the Metabrawl conceit. I didn’t really enjoy the episode the first time we did this, and returning to Roulette and her goons doesn’t improve things this time around. There’s at least some plausible connection to the larger goins on with Lex both funding her fights and skimming off the receipts, but the whole “brainwash the belles using Justice League communications” notion is pretty thin.
That said, the fights aren’t bad, albeit a little too anime in their styling for my tastes. There’s at least a decent throughline with Huntress trying to get through to Canary, but a lot of the dialogue is pretty rough and there’s a touch of tiresome “go girl” feminism. (Not to mention more teasing of the almost-as-tiresome rivalry between Shayera and Vixen.) That said, there’s some fun stuff at the margins, like Question hunting down Baskin Robbins’s 32nd flavor and being bad at flirting, or a fleeting glimpse of Nightwing when the crew rides into Bludhaven.
Overall though, this is one big dust-up, and the thinness of the excuse to do it makes this one less than the sum of its fights.