Warning : SPOILERS forJustice League # 35

The days of Lex Luthor being known as just aSupermanvillain are over , now that he has evolve to his solar apex predator form , taken his place as worldwide servingDC ’s groovy cosmic creator , and forgather an army theJustice Leaguecan’t trust to stand against .

It ’s quite an acclivity for ' Apex Lex , ' and a well - deserved one . While sub worry about small challenges , Lex was hard at work over the preceding yr building his new Legion of Doom , and unlocking the dingy , unknown origins of DC ’s Multiverse . It was his uncovering and freeing of Perpetua , molder and master of the Multiverse , that Lex chance on her honest program for humankind . Byconsuming the Martian Manhunterto ' evolve ' into his true phase , Lex ascended to his true shape . And now he ’s being placed at the head of an United States Army … fill up with soldiers possess that very same power .

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That ’s the up-to-the-minute developing omit inJustice League # 35 , following Lex and Perpetua’svictory over the Justice League . Having tipped the psychic and worked up scales of care so that Doom has won out over Justice in DC ’s Universe , Lex looks to the next step . As Perpetua explains , getting the US Army he needs to kill DC ’s heroes once and for all … is only the tip of the crisphead lettuce . Have a spirit at Perpetua’strueplan :

First total destruction . I will eliminate every universe in the Multiverse that side in favor of Justice over Doom … Only the truehearted man with day of reckoning in their hearts will live on . With the psychic Libra of realness eternally tip in my favour , I will make over those who hold me in their Black Maria into apex vulture . And you , Luthor , will lead them . You will be my great full general , ruling at my side . As my son the Anti - Monitor creates raw worlds at the smithy at the heart of the Multiverse , you will pass the US Army to put down these mankind one after the other . And so will begin the interminable engagement , where Doom triumphs over Justice over and over again . You will go and press forever . For me . And if the judges of the Source are ever foolish enough to add up arrest me … You and my great army will rise up and eliminate them … Until there is nothing left in the firmament but us .

So yes , things are about to geta flock more iniquity for Lex Luthor . And Earth . on the spur of the moment making theYear of the Villainseem like a saturnine prognostication , as oppose to a selling full term . And showing just what will be at stakewhenYear of the Villain : Hell Arisenarrives in December .

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It ’s a good thing thatDC ’s heroes need dark to smooth , because their future tense has never looked more unsure . All things considered , it may be time for lover to get used to the musical theme of visualize the Justice League misplace this state of war . Because the official allurement for the next issue does n’t face beneficial , either :

Justice League # 35is available now from your local comic Holy Writ workshop . The state of war begin whenJustice League # 36arrives on November 20th .

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