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The End League caught me by surprise.  I stumbled upon the first issue in my local comics shop (Big shout out to Coliseum of Comics) only because they put a little sign on the shelf that said “Something about superheroes and the end of the world”. 

I love this book.  The heroes are basically pastiches or DC and Marvel characters, but darkened versions brought about by a single disastrous moment forty years past.  Nobody is safe in this book.  Thor has been lobotomized, brainwashed, & killed.  Astonishman (the stand-in for Superman), inadvertently caused massive world-wide destruction & has been killed.  Goddess (Wonder Woman) has some dark history and major guilt.  Soldier American (Captain America) was mind controlled into killing the End League’s version of Bucky. 

All that in the first three issues.

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