The Dinosaur Justice League Misses The Best Part of Marvel's Ape-vengers
Warning: contains spoilers for Jurassic League #1!
DC's new Jurassic League is their greatest chance to the Justice League yet, as the entire team is transformed into dinosaurs — but the story misses what made Marvel's similar Marvel Apes stand out. Alternate-universe and multiverse variant stories are often used by both companies as a way to comment on a character's growth, mix and match certain heroes, or to simply have fun in a new universe without any restrictions. DC's Jurassic League #1 falls squarely into the third category, but the debut issue misses the mark.
An infinite multiverse means infinite possibilities to tell stories, and both Marvel and DC frequently capitalize on the idea in the form of miniseries that take place entirely in new realms of existence. Marvel's 1602 recreates the Marvel Universe by debuting their famous superheroes almost 400 years before the present day, and the infamous Marvels Zombies universe imagines a world almost completely conquered by a zombie plague. DC's multiverse is represented by a number of «Earths»: Earth-1 is the prime DC Universe, Earth-96 is home to the Kingdom Come universe, and an as-yet unknown Earth contains the world of Jurassic League.
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In Jurassic League #1, written by Juan Gedeon and Daniel Warren Johnson with art by Juan Gedeon, the DC Universe is reduced to a prehistoric state as famous members of the Justice League are now dinosaur variants of their human selves. The Bat-Walker fights his nemesis Jokerzard, Wonder Woman leaves her island as Wonderdon, and Supersaur protects the innocent proto-humans in the village of 'Metraaaghpolis'. Unfortunately, the world is entirely
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