>>104491571Dude, it's a shitty story.
I get what they wanted to do. It was a criticism of the 90's trend of edgy anti-heroes and downfall of traditional heroes. The problem is that while all the new edgy heroes are a bunch of shit-heads and everyone of the old guard went crazy, Superman's biggest crime in the book was simple turning his back on the world, with the added implication that everyone lost their moral compass with the world going to shit because he wasn't there anymore to lead them. The idea was to show the Justice League also being "broken", including Superman, but they did it in a way that devalued the entire goddamn Justice League, but Superman, all so he could be wanked even if he's also somewhat wrong. Then the lesson of the story, that heroes shouldn't be about in-fighting and general edginess of violence and death, but rather about saving people, thus being less about power-level bullshit but proper heroism,, like the good old days, with the old guard coming back to their old ways and teaching the newer generation to be better ends up being invalidated by the goddamn epilogue where the they make a big spectacle over Superman and Wonder Woman having a super-powered baby, which just adds to the overall previous problem, specially when the couple's big idea is to have the crazy authoritarian to be the baby's godfather so it won't grow up without that much lacked human connection, because of course Batman knows all about that stuff. This just because Superman needed his happy ending with his Lois 2.0 and a super, duper, important baby. A comic completely lost in character wank to its own detriment.
That's why i said this comic is as bad as JLA: Act of God. which is a real Batwank. At least in Tower of Babel Batman is at least shown as being in the absolute wrong, but Act of God... God, give it a read of pain.
