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DC vs AEW Issue 2
Writer: Steve Orlando
Artist Travis Mercer
The conclusion of the DC/All Elite Wrestling Team up comic is out today, and for those who didn’t read last issue, and why didn’t you, a magic MacGuffin was put into a Universal Championship belt that the Justice League and AEW were fighting DC Villains over, only to have Mercedes Mone turn heel and team with Lex Luther to take possession of the belt.
As we start the issue, Lex and Mone are using the belt to remake the world, and everyone has to wrap up their fight and come together for a title match to see who gets the Universal Championship. Much like the first issue, we get one to two-page vignettes of each pairing of a DC hero and and AEW wrestler wrapping up their fights, and we have commentary by Excalibur and Booster Gold.
So, we get these teams again:
Nightwing and Will Opreay
Jon Moxley and Guy Gardner
Orange Cassidy and Harley Quinn
Hangman Adam Page and Hawkgirl
Jon Stewart and Swerve Strickland
Zatanna and Toni Storm
Wonder Woman and Willow Nightingale
Batman and Darby Allin - A surprise appearance by Sting at the end of their fight with the Joker.
As everyone is brought back together, the heroes challenge for the belt in a mixed gender tag team match, which may as well have been refereed by Rick Knox since no one does any tagging in or out, and the big fight is Lex Luthor and Mercedes Mone vs. Wonder Woman and Kenny Omega, with Kenny Omega charged with the power of the New Gods (the DC group that fights Darkseid).
It’s a short fight with Lex Luthor taking the pin and everything restored back to the way it was.
Is it a good, deep story?
No.
There are way too many characters to fit in to get any sort of dramatic tension, the “Lex Luthor is changing reality” is forgotten after the opening sequence, and each sequence is the textbook definition of the word Superficial. But that’s not what this is for. This is a way to introduce AEW fans to buying comics and DC Comics fans to know about AEW. The art by Mercer does a solid job of making each page exciting with lots of action and the wrestlers are easily recognizable. Orlando has little character bits and catchphrases to every character so that the reader gets a taste of what they are like.
These types of stories often follow a formula (the heroes separate to fight villains, all hope is lost but the teaming up of both groups gives the heroes what they need to overcome the odds) and this isn’t any different. The only attraction is the team ups, so you get a lot of them. If AEW was smart, they would get a larger size reprint of both issues combined to sell at merch tables and for wrestlers to sign the pages they appear on.
There’s always been a demand for this sort of thing, like Alien vs Predator, Superman vs Spider-Man, Freddy Krueger vs Jason Voorhees, etc… If you go into this comic for the team ups, you’ll be happy.
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