To raise the specter of Justice League: Cry for Justice is certainly to besmirch Saladin Ahmed’s Justice League Red more than it deserves.
Rest assured that Red is not nearly so dark or ill-conceived as Cry for Justice. It is only that, in the positing of a new Justice League sub-team right at the cusp of a major crossover event — and in my sense that Red’s team, like the team in James Robinson’s Cry, will ultimately come to nothing — we see a similar struggle for traction.
DC All In/DC Next Level, especially as building on Dawn of DC before it, has been a curious exercise. This phase has pulled away from the serial sub-crossovers of Dawn of DC, Knight Terrors and Beast World and such, though the pervading narrative has still been ongoing — in Superman, in Aquaman, and so on.
