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This was just okay. I felt the stories could have been a bit more entertaining, and felt flat at times. Love this series, but didn't love this collection.

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Second to Wonder Woman, the Justice League rebirth just doesn't seem to be hitting the story right, dragging their heels still when we're four volumes in.

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ARC from Netgalley.
This collection features several short tales. Seems a little like filler before something epic...
In "Endless", Flash is being forced to relive time (i.e. Groundhog Day) over and over, but a little bit earlier each time. There is a mystery unraveling that involves a zero-point energy device, alien tech, a JL battleground, Speed Force energy, and a nuclear explosion.
For "A Thousand Little Things", the Green Lantern mistakingly bring a contagion onto the Watchtower after doing some asteroid control, putting Jess to the test as the swarm seems to lock on to her.
With "Fear Itself", Jessica must overcome great fear when she is the only one that can stop a terrorist's missles.
In "Fury", an aquatic threat sends massive waves towards the Eastern Coast of the US. Steming from Atlantis, it turns out to be a temper tantrum from Mera, who is trying to rescue Aquaman (from events in his own title). She then joins the Justice League.
Finally, with "Reborn", a ancient Green Lantern threat, Shirak, awakes on Earth only to find the Justice League standing against him.
Overall, the Volume was okay. They keep alluding to there being a bigger threat coming... possibly the Dark Multiverse from the upcoming "Metal" series? Or maybe something else? I'll keep reading Justice League, but I'm not nearly as impressed with Rebirth as I was with New52. Recommend.

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'Justice League Vol. 4: Endless' from DC collects issues 20-25 of the series. Rather than a longer story arc, it's a bunch of shorter issues with different creative teams.

The title story Endless is a sort of Groundhog's Day type story with the Flash reliving an incident over and over again, while trying to stop the death of a team member. It's the best story in the collection. In the second story, the Watchtower gets quarantined when Lois Lane and Jon come for a visit with Superman. The third story has new Green Lantern learning a lesson on controlling fear from Wonder Woman. This was my second favorite story in the book. The final story involves Aquaman's wife and the return to Earth of a godly villain.

The story quality wasn't terrible, but the last story wasn't able to keep me very interested. The art, like the writing quality, varies quite a bit. Some stories were illustrated better than others.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

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It all starts with Flash. Looped events, more death, and a crazed individual blaming the Justice League. After that is worked out, the Green Lantern members manage to infect the LJ HQ with microscopic invaders. Then there is the tale of evil rogue vigilantes making their own war on terror. And the last tale involves the rebirth of an evil from the far past in Detroit of all places. But the creepy part is Batman's discussion with a prisoner about rebirth, history cycles, and opposing forces all converging on Earth. And then the cliffhanger comes to close out the book.

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Okay. I think that the first story in this TPB may have broken my brain...... (for the record, I haven't seen Memento and don't plan to). It's a story with the flash sorta doing time traveling/memento/groundhog day sorta jumps through time and the Justice League has to figure out why it's happening and how to stop it. There's then a bug infestation on the Watchtower, while Lois and Jonathan are there. Then the League sorta goes up against a pissed off Mera. And I guess she's now part of the League too? Oh, and one of the intense stories was with a guy named Black Shield.

And then there was the final story that's going to lead into bigger things I assume. A talk a villain is having with Batman, while the rest of the League fights what seems like a magic bad guy that makes people into Zombies.

It seemed like a sort of bridge TPB, with a lot of little stories while waiting for a big event. That said, I enjoyed all the stories, and three women on the Justice League team. Can we keep replacing all of the heroes on the team with analogous ladies. I'd be all for that!! Heh.

I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment.

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Back in the day, most comics were standalone issues, like short stories. Since arcs are now designed to be told over enough enough pages to be compiled into a trade, like novels, I think the art of telling a self-contained story in 22 pages is a bit of a lost art these days.

Instead of a single story arc spanning 5 or 6 issues like many current volumes, this book contains one two-parter and several standalone issues. In theory, it's nice to see a little variation in the story-telling model, but these disposable issues just feel like we are marking time until the next big crossover event.

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Meh... This starts out OK with the title two-parter, but that proves to be bluster and bombast over real narrative intelligence. Then we get a series of one-shots that are of the standard of those introductory specials that are designed to give us clues as to what to expect of someone we've never seen - except these are people we already know well. So we see Jessica and DOUBT, and a new baddy who - get this, it's so new - has to be told killing people to save lives is a bad thing. Aquawoman turns up, except she's called Mera, and it's all SHOUTY SHOUTY BANG CRASH BANG WAVE BANG and then it isn't, because that's how they roll at DC these days. It didn't help I'd seen two of the episodes in single issue form, but this is very much filler.

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Bryan Hitch's Rebirth Justice League Vol. 4: Endless is a two-part sci-fi story reminiscent of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and it's an enjoyable use of the Justice League framework that still ties in to the book's ongoing story in the end. I really love that Bryan Hitch brings the League together in every story; see the last page of Justice League Vol. 4: Endless with the League standing tall (and Cyborg pricelessly still in his sweater vest), reconfirming their commitment to one another. Hitch has at least written one of the least angst-ridden and most convivial Leagues we've seen in a while (see also the League sitting down for a meal together at the end of "Endless") and that's eminently refreshing. There's plenty notes the next Justice League writer can take from Hitch's run.

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A bunch of shorter stories, mostly with guest creative teams. Most of these stories are just boring. I didn't think it was possible to make the Justice League boring until now. Bryan Hitch's storytelling is terrible. In the Endless story, The Flash is travelling backwards in time but it's told in this obtuse way that is confusing. Hitch comes back and writes #25. The whole thing is just one large info dump. I literally nodded off and had to force myself to finish. The only story that stood out was the one by Dan Abnett and Ian Churchill featuring Mera. I loved how she was pissed off and took down the Justice League before getting chummy with them. Great storytelling and art in that one.

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With the film coming soon this is a great release featuring all the characters you would expect. Well drawn great story nice panel layout. Recommended

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Though certainly not anything special, this volume did feel like a marked improvement over the previous volumes of the Rebirth Justice League title. The Endless story arc that this volume is named after was a half-decent story, one of those time-loop mysteries, though I was a bit unclear on why there was a time-loop involved. The rest of the volume focused a lot on the team's Green Lanterns, which is never my favorite but was still tolerable to read.

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Great read.
I wasn't exactly up to speed with Justice League 2016 series. I think I only read the first 2 or 3 stories. But there were no difficulties getting into this one.
I liked the flash story best out of these stories. Also makes me wonder what happened to Wally after I last read the series. Will be checking out the previous installments soon!
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC!

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